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		<title>On Letting a Computer Help with the Work</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2012/11/on-letting-a-computer-help-with-the-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Thomas Schelling first worked out his game-theoretic models of segregation, he used coins on a grid to manually demonstrate how micromotives could lead to macrobehaviors — and he recommended against using the primitive computers of the time: I cannot too strongly urge you to get the nickels and pennies and do it yourself. I can show you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Positive Account of Rights</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/12/a-positive-account-of-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Friedman describes three kinds of rights — including his own idiosyncratic definition of positive rghts: If I have a normative right not to be killed, that means that if you kill me you have acted badly, are a bad person, and ought to feel guilty. If I have a legal right, that means that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Genesis of Dr. Strangelove</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Lindley provides a study guide to Kubrick&#8217;s Dr. Strangelove, which discusses the genesis of the film: Dr. Strangelove is based on Red Alert by Peter George (who used the pen name Peter Bryant). George was an RAF major in military intelligence. While serving at a U.S. airbase in the U.K, a B-47 roared overhead, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Both an Atheist and a Believer in Divine-Right Monarchy</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/11/both-an-atheist-and-a-believer-in-divine-right-monarchy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mencius Moldbug]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mencius Moldbug half-jokes that he is both an atheist and a believer in divine-right monarchy, citing Sir Robert Filmer&#8216;s Patriarcha. before explaining his own less-theocratic take: But an atheist, such as myself, has a simpler way of getting to the same result. Really, what Filmer is saying, is: if you want stable government, accept the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nukes of October</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2008/03/the-nukes-of-october/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nukes of October looks at Richard Nixon&#8217;s secret plan to bring peace to Vietnam: Codenamed Giant Lance, Nixon&#8217;s plan was the culmination of a strategy of premeditated madness he had developed with national security adviser Henry Kissinger. The details of this episode remained secret for 35 years and have never been fully told. Now, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Muller on Schumpeter</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/05/jerry-muller-on-schumpeter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 18:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Kling cites a number of a passages by Jerry Muller on Schumpeter: He argued that it was precisely the dynamism injected into capitalist society by the entrepreneur that made him an object of antipathy. For the rise of a new entrepreneur&#8230;necessarily meant the relative economic decline of those ensconced in the status quo&#8230; In [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Counterintuition</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2007/02/mr-counterintuition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Spence, who studied under Thomas Schelling, calls the Nobel-winning game theorist Mr. Counterintuition: He pointed out that it took the U.S. 15 years after World War II to learn to think seriously about the security of its weapons. Before that, weapons did not have combination locks, let alone complex electronic security codes. Now, most [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Usual Suspects</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/08/the-usual-suspects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wretchard looks at Thomas Schelling&#8217;s game theory and its implications for modern policy, using an illustrative example from The Usual Suspects: First described is the basic notion of commitment, which communicates to the enemy that you will do what you undertake. Commitment makes deterrence credible and credibility is the essential problem. &#8220;The most difficult part [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Nuke Would Be Suicide Bomb</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2006/02/iranian-nuke-would-be-suicide-bomb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Iranian Nuke Would Be Suicide Bomb, Nobel Prize-winning economist and game-theorist Thomas Schelling shares his thoughts: Hope for the future rests on the fact that, despite plenty of opportunities to use the bomb in these past few decades — whether the United States in Korea or Vietnam, or Israel when Egyptian troops crossed the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How an economic theory beat the atomic bomb</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2005/10/how-an-economic-theory-beat-the-atomic-bomb/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2005/10/how-an-economic-theory-beat-the-atomic-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Harford named his piece on Thomas Schelling How an economic theory beat the atomic bomb: If you want to win a Nobel prize without doing technical research, Mr Schelling&#8217;s winning formula is simple: find hidden patterns or puzzles of everyday life that nobody else can see, show how they illuminate the biggest questions of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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