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As promised, I have published my review of the Lifeboat Foundation book Prospects for Human Survival (Willard Wells, 2015). It is more critical than the review of Visions of the Future (also 2015). I think it is harder to predict existential risks than the equations put forward by Wells, as I argue in the opening…

When understanding things to come, one must first master the past. Will you make history? Maybe history is just too big, too impersonal, too unwieldy, to be made by you at all. Rather, history has made you. In my view, the landscape of history is like a mountain. Although the origins of life and humanity are disparate, geographically scattered,…

A borderless world, a human nation, a global patria*, a world government. These terms will attract you either fervent supporters or legions of enemies, but they are part of the steamroller of history. There is an inevitability to them. Zoltan Istvan predicts, in an essay I recently reviewed, that non-invasive “brainwave headsets” could allow people…

Who are your influences? This is a question I have decided to think about recently, and I encourage you to do the same. Our ideas aren’t purely credited to us. We are all part of an almost infinite continuum of people, mentoring and influencing one another, to have the philosophy and beliefs we presently hold.…
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