Submissions by robertwiblin

Is every action secretly selfish? (2011)

Sam Altman on the need for regulation of machine intelligence (2015)

New pharmaceutical drugs are saving years of healthy life for under $3k each

Getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world

Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?

Oil Spills

Debunking the Myth of Small Business Job Creation (2019)

For the climate, focus on what foods you eat, not whether your food is local

Fraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcher

The straw man effect: Partisan misrepresentation in natural language

The Death Toll of Delay

Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

What would Saddam Hussein do?

Smallholders grow 33% of the world’s food, less than half what's often claimed

Vaccines for the Next Pandemic

Perceptual Illusions (2018)

Spain's feminist secret: the backlash against religious authoritarianism

The Afghanistan War Is Over. We Lost. (2018)

The Conscience of a Human Being by Michael Huemer (2020)

One Cheer for Social Conformity

US proof-of-vaccination cards are the wrong size to fit in wallets

Fighting Like Taliban

The Opportunity Cost of War (2015)

Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?

Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review

It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder