The Benefits of Corruption
PhilosophyA philosophy of economics take on why greasing a functionary's palms might be more efficient than regulatory oversight.
Mind over Mechanism
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Did dogs advance civilisation?
SciencePerhaps we only shaped dogs after they had shaped us. After all, they have been our neighbours for 300,000 years.
Stop Doom-Scrolling. Watch Tarkovsky
PhilosophyIf ever there was a time when we needed an alternative to instant gratification and serotonin overload, it is now.
Lord, protect us from the benevolent
PhilosophyRapid action feels like virtue. Restraint rarely does. Yet such action comes with unintended consequences.
Is there Time?
ScienceMany physicists agree that time is not real yet why is it so hard to let go of time as a sensation?
Proximal God: Excursion - Behind the novel
ProseHumanity faces extinction, a sentient AI offers survival through artificial evolution, but the cost is lethal.