How do we stop them?
And no, not talking about the southern border; that one’s easy to stop. They just don’t want to.
How do we stop them?
And no, not talking about the southern border; that one’s easy to stop. They just don’t want to.
A history of one of the roads to tyranny.
An interesting post from Gaia Dempsey, CEO of Metaculus. Very interesting woman; I had lunch with her in Marina Del Rey a few months ago.
An interview with Bob Zubrin.
…to cure Earthly poverty. A long research paper, that I haven’t read yet, but she appears (unsurprisingly) to take a Lockean approach.
A long and depressing compendium of the forces that continue to be arrayed against liberty.
What does it say about human consciousness?
That is the question at this Oxford debate this evening (in a couple hours, sorry about the short notice).
[Update toward the end of the debate]
As I’ve noted in the past, debates like this are pointless, because they are a false choice based on a false premise. We don’t have to choose between populating Mars and saving the planet; we have abundant resources for both. The false premise is that this is going to be a collective decision whose outcome will be determined by an Oxford debate. People who go to Mars will be doing so with their own money, so people on Earth who oppose it are going to have to make it illegal to prevent it. There is a word for people like that: jailers.
People are not “basically good.”