Radical Life Extension and the Problem of Malthusian Hells
Is living longer in an overcrowded world better than the alternative?
Biotechnology
Bjorn Lomborg & The Copenhagen Consenus: What's The Best Way to Live With Global Warming?
Geo-engineering is most cost-effective; carbon taxes the least.
Transhumanism and the Limits of Democracy
A paper presented at the Workshop on Transhumanism and Democracy
Neanderthal Rights
The morality of resurrecting our closest evolutionary cousins
Partisan Politics and the Science-Industrial Complex
Measuring the Democratic and Republican Party platforms on science and technology policy
Will Humanity Survive the 21st Century?
Second dispatch from the Oxford Global Catastrophic Risks conference
TEOTWAWKI!
Or, the end of the world as we know it at the Global Catastrophic Risks conference
The State of Libertarianism, 2058
How the Rand Era gave way to the Surveillance Era-and what we can do about it. A speculative flight into the future.
'Technology Is at the Center'
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress
Neither Gods Nor Goo
Avoiding both utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology
Decrying the "Pursuit of Unnecessary Things"
Are we overconsuming our way to doomsday?
