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With great power comes, er, unclear responsibility and zero accountability.  https://www.cold-takes.com/nonprofit-boards-are-weird-2/

How big a deal could AI misalignment be? About as big as it gets. https://www.cold-takes.com/ai-could-defeat-all-of-us-combined/

Investigating important topics with laziness, impatience, hubris and self-preservation. https://www.cold-takes.com/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems/

What kind of governance system should you set up, if you're starting from scratch and can do it however you want? https://www.cold-takes.com/ideal-governance-for-companies-countries-and-more/

Preventing extinction would be good - but "saving 8 billion lives" good or "saving a trillion trillion trillion lives" good? https://www.cold-takes.com/debating-myself-on-whether-extra-lives-lived-are-as-good-as-deaths-prevented/

A day in the life of trying to complete a self-assigned project with no clear spec or goal.  https://www.cold-takes.com/the-wicked-problem-experience/

First in a series of dialogues on utilitarianism and "future-proof ethics." https://www.cold-takes.com/defending-one-dimensional-ethics/

Ethics based on common sense seems to have a horrible historical track record. Can we do better? https://www.cold-takes.com/future-proof-ethics/

Lots of theories for why older science and art seem to have an easier time getting critical acclaim. https://www.cold-takes.com/reader-reactions-and-update-on-wheres-todays-beethoven/

Want more innovation? Think about population, not recapturing "golden age" culture. https://www.cold-takes.com/why-it-matters-if-ideas-get-harder-to-find/