We Are Not Saved discusses religion (from a Christian/LDS perspective), politics, the end of the world, science fiction, artificial intelligence, and above all the limits of technology and progress.
Risk comes in lots of different forms. In Skin in the Game, Taleb's last, underrated book. He breaks risk down into ensemble probabilities and time pr...
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by: Carl R. Trueman Under a Wh...
As human beings we have a unique ability to recognize patterns, even when confronted events that are completely random. In fact sometimes it's easier ...
The US-backed regime in Afghanistan lasted 9 days from the taking of the first provincial capital to the taking of Kabul. After the withdrawal of the ...
Philip Tetlock has been arguing for awhile that experts are horrible at prediction, but that his superforecasters do much better. If that's the case h...
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by: Nicole Perlroth Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by: Mark Manson Neve...
In the ongoing discussion of dealing with an uncertain future I put forth the idea that believing in God and belonging to a religion represents "easy ...
When people consider the harms which might be caused by technology, they often point to the "precautionary principle" as a possible way to mitigate th...
My hot take on the situation in Afghanistan. Highlights: -Why couldn't we have maintained a presence at Bagram, even if we pulled out everywhere else...
Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Hum...