https://youtu.be/HrhuivuZb74 Killer robots are in the news, with tech celebrities including Elon Musk recently calling for a ban. So are robots in war good or bad? First things first, an actual ban probably isn’t happening.…
https://youtu.be/J5boSf8E1Ic In the 1970's we heard the earth was going to get so crowded we'd be falling off. Now the panickers have flipped to population decline. They were wrong in the 70's, so are they…
Free-marketers are often ridiculed for suggesting the welfare state can be substantially replaced by free enterprise: that we’re smoking funny weed to even suggest that able-bodied adults would be better off with more invigorating freedom…
One take on the "jobs of the future," looking at 2025. There's a pretty heavy dose of artistic license here; "sex worker trainers" is a fairly unconventional choice. Still, overall a decent list: more personal…
Robin Hanson, the closest we have today to an economist of science fiction -- he might prefer “economist of the singularity” -- has a new book out this week. Called “Age of Em: Work, Love…
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