https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
http://humaniterations.net/2018/10/18/the-continuing-obfuscation-of-nationalism
When you summon a monster to do a task it is your ethical responsibility to keep it from growing too powerful to be banished.
https://radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-01-14-j73qnz/
Glen Weyl makes the case that neoliberalism, even with social insurance, doesn’t offer a way to deal with increasing returns.
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2018/12/21/spaghetti-towers/
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NQgWL7tvAPgN2LTLn/spaghetti-towers#comments
Discovered via LessWrong. Introduces the concept of “Spaghetti Towers”: complex, difficult to refactor systems that are built out of repeated spaghetti tests (see what sticks). Similar to the Lava Layer Anti-Pattern. Colorful pictures.
I liked the comment by MakoYass: “Suddenly very inspired with the idea of a programming language where even the most carelessly constructed spaghetti towers are fairly easy to refactor.”