Writing

My book, The World After Capital , has been available online and as hardcover for a couple of years now. I have had frequent requests for other editions and I am happy to report that they are now all available! [...]  Read more

I am unabashedly a technology optimist . For me, however, that means making choices for how we will get the best out of technology for the good of humanity, while limiting its negative effects. With technology becoming ever more powerful [...]  Read more

One tried and true tactic for suppressing opinions is to slap them with a disparaging label. This is currently happening in the Israel/Gaza conflict with the allegation of bothsidesism , which goes as follows: you have to pick a side, [...]  Read more

I have not personally commented in public on the Israel/Gaza conflict until now (USV signed on to a statement ). The suffering has been heartbreaking and the conflict is far from over. Beyond the carnage on the ground, the dialog [...]  Read more

I was at a conference earlier this year where one of the topics was the fear of a population implosion. Some people are concerned that with birth rates declining in many parts of the world we might suddenly find ourselves [...]  Read more

Silicon Valley’s tribal boosterism has been bad for tech and bad for the world. I recently criticized Reddit for clamping down on third party clients. I pointed out that having raised a lot of money at a high valuation required [...]  Read more

Silicon Valley’s tribal boosterism has been bad for tech and bad for the world. I recently criticized Reddit for clamping down on third party clients. I pointed out that having raised a lot of money at a high valuation required [...]  Read more

A few week backs I wrote a series of blog posts about the risks from progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) . I specifically addressed that I believe that we are facing not just structural risks , such as algorithmic bias, [...]  Read more