Optimally Irrational

What if the US seizes Greenland?

Looking into what would be a massive political and geopolitical blunder

Jan 20 • Lionel Page

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Is morality relative?

And if so to what extent

Jan 6

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December 2025

A defence of morality as respect for a social contract

The absence of objective moral truths does not mean that "anything is permitted"

Dec 22, 2025

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Morality works without absolute moral truths

Replacing theories of the Good and the Right with a theory of the Seemly

Dec 9, 2025 • Lionel Page

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November 2025

There are no moral laws out there

A criticism of moral realism

Nov 28, 2025 • Lionel Page

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No, religion isn't required for morality

Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines

Nov 21, 2025 • Lionel Page

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Morality without skyhooks

Shedding light on what morality is and how it works

Nov 10, 2025 • Lionel Page

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October 2025

Does the arc of history bend towards democracy?

Why the world became more democratic, and whether it will continue

Oct 27, 2025

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What are we really doing on social media?

The motives and strategies that shape our online presence

Oct 10, 2025 • Lionel Page

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Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one?

AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment

Oct 6, 2025 • Lionel Page

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September 2025

Power balance and ideology

Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing

Sep 26, 2025 • Lionel Page

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The delusion of political violence

Our fantasies about violence are an evolutionary mismatch

Sep 18, 2025 • Lionel Page

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