Jeux Sans Frontieres
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The Financial Times Among the wave of reality board games to have hit the
Argentine market in recent years, Eternal Debt has remained a niche
favourite amo...
World Government
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The scope and intensity of governments have clearly increased over the
centuries, as have the size of firms. We’ve had some near global empires in
the las...
A Master-Slave Model of Human Preferences
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Submitted by Wei_Dai 6 comments
[This post is an expansion of my previous open thread comment, and largely
inspired by Robin Hanson's writings.]
In this ...
The Teenies
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I’ve decided to christen the next decade the teenies.
Firstly, I’ve still heard no other suggestions; secondly, it’s phonetically
cons...
How Best to Encourage Concern for Wild Animals?
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by Alan Dawrst (Posted Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:52 am)
Dani, I'm glad you like the idea of an anti-speciesist SIAI research project
-- I obviously do as well. As ...
On Singer and radical life extension
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*Russell Blackford is a guest blogger for Sentient Developments.*
*Introduction*
The current (December 2009) issue of *The Journal of Medical Ethics *conta...
War Is Over
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I have really positive associations with Christmas, and as an atheist but a
cultural Christian I still really enjoy it. I self-perceived most of my
youth a...
Paradox genetics
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Irregular Webcomic! #2518 brings up the "my own grampa" paradox - if you go
back in the past and have a child, you can become your own grandparent.
There i...
Nothing to see here
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New posts on Meteuphoric are unlikely for two weeks. I’m staying at my
family’s new farm house in Tasmania, beyond Internet reach except for
flickers of ce...
Cryonics as something else
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At EconLog economist Bryan Caplan has posted a number of blog entries that
perfectly illustrate what happens when cryonics is not presented as a form
of ex...
Why and how should governments fund basic research?
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Yesterday I took part in a Policy Lab at the Royal Society, on the theme The
public nature of science – Why and how should governments fund basic
research?...
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