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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 26/09/2026

Will AI mark the end of low quality arguments? • How AI will likely transform our discussions

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Will AI mark the end of low quality arguments?

How AI will likely transform our discussions

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 14/09/2026

Are universities on the brink of an Uber-like revolution? • A scenario for how AI could challenge universities’ dominance in higher education

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Are universities on the brink of an Uber-like revolution?

A scenario for how AI could challenge universities’ dominance in higher education

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 07/09/2026

Power to the laypeople! • How AI will reduce experts’ intellectual market power

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Power to the laypeople!

How AI will reduce experts’ intellectual market power

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 31/08/2026

How AI will revolutionise peer-reviewed research • Frontier models will change the way scientific papers are checked, selected and written

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How AI will revolutionise peer-reviewed research

Frontier models will change the way scientific papers are checked, selected and written

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 17/08/2026

Why has sociology become so politicised? • On the underlying reasons behind the ideological drift of the field

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Why has sociology become so politicised?

On the underlying reasons behind the ideological drift of the field

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 23/07/2026

Should robots be considered as slaves? • On whether AI agents should be granted moral status

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Should robots be considered as slaves?

On whether AI agents should be granted moral status

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 03/07/2026

AI self-awareness is not the real risk • The danger is not consciousness, but self-drive.

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AI self-awareness is not the real risk

The danger is not consciousness, but self-drive.

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 20/06/2026

So, what is morality? • Clear answers to some of moral philosophy’s deepest questions

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So, what is morality?

Clear answers to some of moral philosophy’s deepest questions

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 02/06/2026

The tide and the waves of social change • How social conceptions about justice change over time

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The tide and the waves of social change

How social conceptions about justice change over time

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 22/05/2026

The shocking truth about fairness • The deep origin of fairness norms is bargaining power

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The shocking truth about fairness

The deep origin of fairness norms is bargaining power

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 08/05/2026

What is a just society? • Part 2: everything you wanted to know about debates on social justice in society

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What is a just society?

Part 2: everything you wanted to know about debates on social justice in society

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 21/04/2026

What is a "just" society? • Part 1: simple answers to big questions

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What is a "just" society?

Part 1: simple answers to big questions

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 10/04/2026

How we decide what is fair in everyday life • Equality or total satisfaction?

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How we decide what is fair in everyday life

Equality or total satisfaction?

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 26/03/2026

What is fairness? • The invisible rules that pervade our social interactions

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What is fairness?

The invisible rules that pervade our social interactions

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 19/03/2026

The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers • From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions

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The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers

From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 09/03/2026

The game theory of cooperation • Explained simply

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The game theory of cooperation

Explained simply

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 18/02/2026

Cooperation is the scaffolding principle of life • From cells to humans, cooperation is a central principle of evolution

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Cooperation is the scaffolding principle of life

From cells to humans, cooperation is a central principle of evolution

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 06/02/2026

Dekanting moral philosophy • Unconditional moral duties do not follow from pure rationality

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Dekanting moral philosophy

Unconditional moral duties do not follow from pure rationality

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 06/01/2026

Is morality relative? • And if so to what extent

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Is morality relative?

And if so to what extent

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 22/12/2025

A defence of morality as respect for a social contract • The absence of absolute moral truths does not mean that "anything is permitted"

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A defence of morality as respect for a social contract

The absence of absolute moral truths does not mean that "anything is permitted"

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 09/12/2025

Morality works without absolute moral truths • Replacing theories of the Good and the Right with a theory of the Seemly

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Morality works without absolute moral truths

Replacing theories of the Good and the Right with a theory of the Seemly

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 21/11/2025

No, religion isn't required for morality • Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines

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No, religion isn't required for morality

Our moral sense precedes religious doctrines

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 10/11/2025

Morality without skyhooks • Shedding light on what morality is and how it works

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Morality without skyhooks

Shedding light on what morality is and how it works

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 27/10/2025

Does the arc of history bend towards democracy? • Why the world became more democratic, and whether it will continue

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Does the arc of history bend towards democracy?

Why the world became more democratic, and whether it will continue

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 10/10/2025

What are we really doing on social media? • The motives and strategies that shape our online presence

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What are we really doing on social media?

The motives and strategies that shape our online presence

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 06/10/2025

Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one? • AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment

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Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one?

AGI, LLMs and the challenge of alignment

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 26/09/2025

Power balance and ideology • Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing

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Power balance and ideology

Why the cultural hegemony of the left erodes its epistemic standing

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 11/09/2025

The truth about sport • Why we really care about it

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The truth about sport

Why we really care about it

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 26/08/2025

Friendship politics • Everything you have always wanted to know about friendship

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Friendship politics

Everything you have always wanted to know about friendship

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 15/08/2025

Why science is politically disruptive • With a few examples

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Why science is politically disruptive

With a few examples

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 01/08/2025

Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side • The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments

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Epstein files: how arguments really make people change political side

The not totally ineffective nature of political arguments

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 23/07/2025

What are the chances you’re right about everything? • The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles

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What are the chances you’re right about everything?

The somewhat (but not entirely) arbitrary nature of political ideological bundles

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 24/06/2025

Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters? • Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left

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Why has the right become more popular among low-income voters?

Explaining the growing defection of the working class from the left

Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 12/06/2025

Why has the left gentrified? • How shifting social realities and ideological crises reshaped the left

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Why has the left gentrified?

How shifting social realities and ideological crises reshaped the left

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 30/05/2025

The gentrification of the left • And the popularisation of the right in Western countries

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The gentrification of the left

And the popularisation of the right in Western countries

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 15/05/2025

Why and how political ideas matter • Political ideologies both reflect the world and help shape it

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Why and how political ideas matter

Political ideologies both reflect the world and help shape it

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 06/05/2025

Dystopia is closer than you think • We take our usual way of life too much for granted

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Dystopia is closer than you think

We take our usual way of life too much for granted

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 25/04/2025

Why Mearsheimer is wrong • A criticism of Mershmeier "great power politics": The misjudgement of too little realism

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Why Mearsheimer is wrong

A criticism of Mershmeier "great power politics": The misjudgement of too little realism

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 19/04/2025

The entropy of victory • Why empires crumble, why revolutions eat their own children, and why there will always be conflicts in office politics

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The entropy of victory

Why empires crumble, why revolutions eat their own children, and why there will always be conflicts in office politics

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Optimally Irrational @lionelpage.skystack.xyz · 11/04/2025

Why we so often fail to work together • The unescapable reality of intracoalitional entropy

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Why we so often fail to work together

The unescapable reality of intracoalitional entropy

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