Atlas Pragmatica

Books are great, and non-fiction books definitely have a pivotal role in the transmission of human knowledge, but I have to admit that many of them are unnecessary.

In April this year, William MacAskill published an article describing Saturationism – a proposed modification to Utilitarianism that resolves most of its more unintuitive or unacceptable inferences, including the famous “repugnant conclusion”.

[Note: in between writing this essay and getting around to publishing it, the UK and Norway have signed a defence treaty that significantly deepens our cooperation on naval operations and procurement.

Despite its designers’ hopes that it might beckon in a new era of more nuanced political discourse, the political compass has largely been reduced to meme-fodder: The least offensive and most “safe for work” example of a Political Compass Meme that I could

Introduction It has been some time since I posted on this blog.

Conventional wisdom is that dividends are great – for many people they are the main reason why people invest in companies in the first place.

In my last post, I discussed why I think that Capitalism can be a net positive for the world, along with why it shouldn’t be used as a bogeyman that stands synonymous with all of the ills and excesses of modern society.

Even many proponents of capitalism seem to view investments as fundamentally selfish.

Allow me to juxtapose two viewpoints for a moment.

This post is part of a series of posts on Voting Systems.

This post is part of a series of posts on Voting Systems.

This post is part of a series of posts on Voting Systems.