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Nonprofit Boards are Weird
2022/06/23
With great power comes, er, unclear responsibility and zero accountability.
https://www.cold-takes.com/nonprofit-boards-are-weird-2/
AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined
2022/06/07
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/
Useful Vices for Wicked Problems
2022/04/12
Investigating important topics with laziness, impatience, hubris and self-preservation.
https://www.cold-takes.com/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems/
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
2022/04/05
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/
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Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”
2022/03/29
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/
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The Wicked Problem Experience
2022/03/02
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/
Learning By Writing
2022/02/22
Defending One-Dimensional Ethics
2022/02/15
First in a series of dialogues on utilitarianism and "future-proof ethics."
https://www.cold-takes.com/defending-one-dimensional-ethics/
Future-Proof Ethics
2022/02/02
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/
Stakeholder Management and Cost Disease
2022/01/27
Reader reactions and update on "Where's Today's Beethoven"
2022/01/25
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/
Why it matters if "ideas get harder to find"
2022/01/11
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/