Gwern — Politics↗

Orson 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...

Can 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...

A 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 future of technology isn’t what it used to be—a discussion of the collapse of Japanese influence on technology & design.

Links on the circularity and mimetic desire basis of fashions in consumer goods, ideologies, politics, organizations like academia, religion etc.

[` The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’—ideas from the Apollo programme for a systems politics`` {=html}](https://dominiccummings.