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The Survival Lottery: In a society facing a severe shortage of organs for transplantation, a lottery system is proposed where individuals are randomly selected to be killed for their organs to save multiple lives. Would you support such a system? This experiment, proposed by philosopher John Harris, pushes the logic of utilitarianism to its limits... See more

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Ada Lovelace

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Bertrand Russell

Brad DeLong

Buckminster Fuller

Calestous Juma

Clayton Christensen

Dambisa Moyo

David Deutsch

David Friedman

David Ricardo

Deirdre McCloskey

Doug Engelbart

Elting Morison

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Frederic Bastiat

Frederick Jackson Turner

Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Marc Andreessen • The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (New Atlantis Books)

Robert Zubrin

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Enlightenment 2.0: We need another Age of Reason to save our civilization

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Challenging Bryan Johnson On His “Never Die” Biohacking Protocol

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Once brain porting technology has been refined and fully developed, will this enable us to live forever? The answer depends on what we mean by living and dying. However, if we are diligent in maintaining our mind file, keeping current backups, and porting to current formats and mediums, then a form of immortality can be attained, at least for... See more

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

What does the rise of Donald Trump signify? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news? Why is liberal democracy in crisis? Is God back? Is a new world war coming?