Competition vs coordination
If there is one consistent theme in the fallout of the financial meltdown it is the demand for more policy “coordination.” In the case of the sovereign debt problems in the European Union it seems inconceivable that the “low debt” countries that are negatively impacted by the “high debt” countries would respond by withdrawing from [...]
Libertarian centralism
“Centralization is ordinarily a sign of social decadence.” Russell Kirk From a “skeptical empiricist” perspective (to use Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s useful phrase) neither “rationalist” nor public policy approaches to libertarianism are particularly credible. But what is quite remarkable about current debates about “libertarian centralism” is that libertarians associated with rationalist schools of thought (Austrian economics, [...]
The positive external effects of stimulus
Some politicians have expressed great frustration over the fact that not all countries are doing their part in engaging in deficit spending and/or manipulating the money supply to stimulate “the economy.” It is not difficult to imagine how such a perspective will invariably culminate in complaints that countries that have not done enough to stimulate [...]
Depressed Metabolism- Buddhism and the scientific worldview
- Ken Hayworth on straight freezing in cryonics
- The low-hanging fruit of technological progress
- Free will versus determinism as it relates to cryonics
- How many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work?
- Chemical preservation and cryonics research
- The presumption of death
- Cryonics and fear of the future
- Hard determinism and the problem of evil
- Ocean power: a new era in energy