Gwern — Politics↗
by Gwern Branwen
Political analysis, terrorism, and social dynamics.
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Colder Wars
16 minOrson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game SF novel is famous, and its ending well-known: the protagonist Ender Wiggin is tricked into commanding a pre-emptive invasion fleet which destroys all the enemy...
Terrorism Is Not About Terror
29 minCan terrorist motives be taken at face-value? No. There is a commonly-believed “strategic model” of terrorism which we could describe as follows: ‘terrorists are people who are ideologically...
Terrorism Is Not Effective
25 minA few honest men are better than numbers. Oliver Cromwell , letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643 383ya ) If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist...
The Melancholy of Subculture Society
14 minThe future of technology isn’t what it used to be—a discussion of the collapse of Japanese influence on technology & design.
Fashion Cycles
1 minLinks on the circularity and mimetic desire basis of fashions in consumer goods, ideologies, politics, organizations like academia, religion etc.
‘small groups’ directory
1 min[` The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’—ideas from the Apollo programme for a systems politics`` {=html}](https://dominiccummings.