The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Our Future: Trading Reliability for Power

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I've often heard people 40+ grumble in the following way about modern communication technology: "Yeah email and text and voicemail...

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Business Using Government to Stifle Competition

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A smartphone app in New York that would let people find and hail cabs is being profoundly retarded by the city . No doubt such an app would...

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Ridiculous Moral Arguments in Business

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Sometimes, a business with a government-backed monopoly on an activity thought to be morally dubious will make funny arguments against the s...

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

How Do We Decide When a Good or Service Is Too Dangerous For a Free Market?

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There are areas of commerce where markets can be perceived as maintaining a tension with moral values. These areas include but are not limi...

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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Future Corporate Personhood: Union Pacific Meets Skynet

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This is cross-posted at my hard science and science fiction blog Speculative Nonfiction . In 1886, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a legal d...

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