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Light over darkness

Diwali is today, Sunday Nov 8, and for Sikhs it's Bandi Chhor Divas, so the gurdwara will likely be busy tonight. What it is: the five-day festival of lights, celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists....
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Open Question Nov 4: Now what? What are good political conversations to have with people who voted another way?

Most post-election talk is about who won, whoโ€™s to blame, what terrible thing is likely to happen next. Let's try to do it differently: what are the good conversations to have now, with the people in your life who voted differently? Then let's try to have them....
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Can the economy grow forever on a finite planet?

Four camps read the same facts four ways, and a test in Europe could settle it.

The meta problem of politics

Things are very complicated. But saying "Things are very complicated" doesn't sell half so well as saying "Things are quite simple actually." It's the same in sales and marketing. There's a principle in sales: "The confused mind says no." This is the source of a lot of problems....
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Developmental Scoring with different Automated Modalities

For the last few weeks I worked on an automated scorer for my model, Transcendental Pluralism (TP), built in turns with Claude and GPT. The program parses each sentence, cuts it into units, decides which are abstract and assigns a stage (1.4 to 3.4) and a quarter, the kind of...
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Who decides what counts as misinformation?

How the replies here build an answer, and how each one shows who wrote it.

World's Nicest Dentist

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Who has the right to the land in Israel-Palestine?

The replies here, ranked through UpTrust's house lens: the ones that help people understand each other rise.

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Insight can be learned.

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Behind the scenes on "The Open Question"

In dialogue with AI & Jordan's feedback How it's made Jordan wrote the first 30 or so Open Questions myself, then had AI feedback. Starting next week, we'll be experimenting with Claude drafts each one and jordan editing and choosing....
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How scared should we be of AI?

Four camps fear AI on four different clocks, and each says what would change its mind.

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It was on a springlike evening on the 27th of January 2025. I was walking in the Augarten Park in Graz (Austria) at the river Mur in Graz having my new iPhone 16 with me. I saw the shining city lights on the other side, which were reflected in the river....
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How do we construct a personal ethical framework that honors empathy, fairness, individual autonomy, and accountabilityโ€ฆ

How do we construct a personal ethical framework that honors empathy, fairness, individual autonomy, and accountability without allowing one principle to consume the others?

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What does governance need to become?

Four camps answer how we should decide together, and each names its own weak spot.

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Open Question Oct 28: How should immigration actually work?

Most immigration debate is about โ€œmore or less" which often cleaves nicely to left/right, but the tribes fall apart in the details: who gets in, on what basis, and for what reason? In the USA: Tech conservatives want more high-skill visas....
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Trust Is Earned. Integrity Is Revealed.

We live in a world where everyone wants to be trusted, but fewer people seem willing to do the work that makes them trustworthy. We talk about honesty, accountability, ethics, and integrity, yet we live in a time when people can lie to your face, manipulate the truth, break...
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What happens if China moves on Taiwan?

Four camps answer what happens if China moves, and each says where its own plan is weak.

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Can you prepare for pandemics without a surveillance state?

Four camps weigh speed against trust, and each says where it gives ground.

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Is climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?

Four camps read the same thermometer and split on what it means we should do.