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A Civil Social Media Platform

How to Build a Civilizational Social Media Platform, Regain Trust, and Enable 21st Century Democracy

Space-Based Solar Power: Fool’s Gold

The United States would be foolish to pursue development of space-based solar power (SBSP)…

How Russia hacks our democracy

I. Introduction

Peak Stuff

I have a theory that we are entering the era of ‘Peak Stuff,’ which I define as a local maximum in the amount of goods which are being…

Should the United States government take a position on centralized vs. decentralized control systems for autonomous vehicle technology?

The greatest tragedy in life is…

The greatest tragedy in life isn’t death or impermanence or suffering. These are all ego-centric and…

The superintelligence we should be afraid of is us

Artificial Intelligence will be the end of humanity, but not for the reasons you think.