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Book Review: Deep Utopia
Scott Alexander reviews Nick Bostrom's 'Deep Utopia', which explores the concept of a technologically perfect utopia and discusses how to maintain meaning and purpose in such a world.
34 min read 5,137 words
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Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia
Scott Alexander argues strongly for basic income over basic jobs guarantees, citing numerous advantages of basic income and potential pitfalls of basic jobs programs.
89 min read 13,740 words
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Not Even A Real Links Post, Just A Link
Scott reflects on his hasty utopian science post, viewing it as a success for prompting Robin Hanson to expand on academic prediction markets.
1 min read 55 words
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A Thrive/Survive Theory Of The Political Spectrum
Scott Alexander proposes a 'Thrive/Survive Theory' explaining political ideologies as optimizations for different environments, with rightism for survival and leftism for thriving in safety.
24 min read 3,584 words