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On Bill Gates and early Microsoft: Hard Drive
The Gates-Microsoft story is almost archetypal in tech: whizz kid is really good at programming (and pretty much everything), gets into a top college…
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Fergus McCullough
Was Jesus Straussian?
Peter Thiel seems to think so: …I think Christ is a very complex, very ambiguous figure in many ways, which makes the interpretation quite difficult. I…
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Fergus McCullough
Summer links and reading
Abroad Bruno Macaes on the game theory of government and covid travel in Tanzania. How true is this in other developing countries? Gorno-Badakhshan…
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Fergus McCullough
A Christian perspective on prediction markets
Prediction markets help give us as accurate a picture of the future as we can get. But if gambling is morally dubious from a Christian perspective, does…
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Fergus McCullough
Religion in a WEIRD world
Comparing Northern Ireland to the United States is an often-amusing and sometimes-insightful pastime of mine. The two countries have an awful lot of…
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Fergus McCullough
What would a truly open state look like?
Dominic Cummings recently appeared before MPs at a Commons Joint Select Committee investigating the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic…
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Fergus McCullough
Can you predict the future? A review of Tetlock's Superforecasting
Refugees in the Central African Republic. Oil prices. The role of polonium in the death of Yasser Arafat. Elections in Guinea. The extent of Arctic sea…
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Fergus McCullough
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