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Netherlands and Belgium notes
My itinerary: Amsterdam, Maastricht, Cologne day trip, quick stop in Brussels, Antwerp, then Gent (all too briefly). Buildings If you love gentle…
Jun 27
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Fergus McCullough
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Moving my blog to substack
And reviving this email list
Jun 25
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Fergus McCullough
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November 2021
Peter Thiel and Life Extension: O death, where is thy sting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYSnVR7d4VE The above debate between Peter Thiel and William Hurlbut on technology and death has knocked around in my…
Nov 2, 2021
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September 2021
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…
Sep 3, 2021
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Fergus McCullough
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August 2021
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…
Aug 26, 2021
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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…
Aug 6, 2021
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Fergus McCullough
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July 2021
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…
Jul 23, 2021
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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…
Jul 2, 2021
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Fergus McCullough
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June 2021
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…
Jun 25, 2021
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Fergus McCullough
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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…
Jun 18, 2021
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Fergus McCullough
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Do you know how weird the gospels are?
You might have forgotten, because Western/WEIRD culture is so saturated in Christianity. Or maybe you're from another part of the world and have never…
Jun 11, 2021
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May 2021
How not to run a village in the Sahel
A review of Dietrich Dörner, The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations (UK) [Via the Diff’s reading list.] ‘Between a…
May 31, 2021
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