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Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)
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What is metaethics? Is moral objectivism the same thing as moral realism? When philosophers examine sentences lik…
3 years, 3 months ago
Do organizations have to get slower as they grow? (with Alex Komoroske)
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Why do organizations get slower as they grow? What can organizations learn from slime molds? What are the advanta…
3 years, 3 months ago
How can we un-break politics? (with Magnus Vinding)
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How can we as individuals and as societies un-break politics? What is the two-step ideal of reasoned politics? Ho…
3 years, 3 months ago
Why capitalism doesn't live up to its promises (with Martin Schmalz)
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Why doesn't capitalism seem to be living up to its promises of free and fair competition, low prices, and high qu…
3 years, 4 months ago
Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (with Cory Doctorow)
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What is interoperability? What counts as "unauthorized" access to computers or parts of computers? If the rendere…
3 years, 4 months ago
Separating the sinner from the sin (with Khomotso Moshikaro)
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What is a criminal label? What implications should criminal labels have (or not) for a person's future? To what e…
3 years, 4 months ago
The FTX catastrophe (with Byrne Hobart, Vipul Naik, Maomao Hu, Marcus Abramovich, and Ozzie Gooen)
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What the heck happened with FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried? Were there early warning signs that most people failed to …
3 years, 4 months ago
How to find out what people in rural communities really need (with Robert Chambers)
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What is the field of development? What are the differences between rapid and participatory rural appraisal? Under…
3 years, 4 months ago
Building healthy relationships (with Jayson Gaddis)
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What are the main categories of interpersonal relationship problems? What's really going on when most people say …
3 years, 5 months ago
Bringing rationality into politics (with Elizabeth Edwards-Appell)
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How do campaign and election dynamics affect the sorts of people that politicians court and the kinds of platform…
3 years, 5 months ago