Optimally Irrational

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A defence of morality as respect for a social contract

Morality works without absolute moral truths

There are no moral laws out there

No, religion isn't required for morality

Morality without skyhooks

Does the arc of history bend towards democracy?

What are we really doing on social media?

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

Power balance and ideology

The delusion of political violence

The truth about sport

Friendship politics

Why science is politically disruptive

Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side

What are the chances you’re right about everything?

Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters?

Why has the left gentrified?

The gentrification of the left

Why and how political ideas matter

Dystopia is closer than you think

Why Mearsheimer is wrong

The entropy of victory

Why we so often fail to work together

Democracy without illusions: a realist view

The game theory of political power

The deep roots of our egalitarian psychology

The paradox of power

Why elections have surprised us in recent years

Coalitions are everywhere

Thanks and Q&A

No, evolutionary theory does not justify your worst political nightmares

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