Who invented bad guys?
They are a modern invention.
Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
This is so true. “Given his personality, he strikes me as exactly the sort of very intelligent person whose assumes that their mastery of one field (effectively science-and-engineering, along with magic-and-persuasion, in this case) makes them equally able to perform… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
It is the same with management. “Kings and emperors need what Hannah Arendt terms power – the ability to coordinate voluntary collective action – because they cannot coerce everyone all at once. Indeed, modern states have far, far more coercive… Read More »Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Various ways to look at power. “vassals are also not vassals to a title but to a person; a duke with two ducal titles who is deprived of one loses no vassals because they do not belong to the title,… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
Diseases helped colonized Americas but saved Africa in a way. “Rates of disease mortality among European soldiers stationed at the relatively less malarial port-and-fort posts they maintained (which we’ve discussed in this series) in the period period to the Scramble… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
The disaster you don’t know can happen
World is scarier the more you know.
Professor Answers Robotics Questions
Some sober look at current state of the art of AI.
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
Power rules them all. “What is at work here is not the Congresses themselves and certainly not law (indeed, the individual Congresses could be startlingly inconsistent), but rather balance of power politics. The pressures of anarchy aren’t restrained, but instead… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
How We Keep Making Offices Worse
It is by design.
AI taking jobs
Is it working or just lowering wages artificially?