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Let's elect not to have elections
Achieving democratic goals when nobody runs for office
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The case for mediumtermism
Thinking a lifetime or three ahead is plenty
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Wicked problems of modernity
Why falling fertility is like climate change and what that means
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Should we make America move?
The promise and problems of Harberger taxation
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Saving the world by separating ought from is
Why we need better fact-value separation norms, and what those might look like.
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AI regulation wonkery
NIST, nukes, aircraft, and superintelligence
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Better living through job sharing
Most jobs-- especially most leadership jobs-- would be done better if shared
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Why we fail to fail better
Blameless postmortems and prerequisites for effective mistake response
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Imagining a more perfect democracy
Less personalism, more citizen review
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Education for a more perfect future: Intro
A high level system design sketch
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Narrowing the path to power
New-old eligibility rules for less bad politicians
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Helen DeWitt on futurist values
An appreciation of _The English Understand Wool_
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