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Politics, designed
The most revolutionary thing you can do in today’s politics is to assume at least a few people on the other side are acting in good faith. Seeking and…
Thor McGill
Jan 5, 2020
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Time as a complicated dimension of UX design
Is faster always better?
Thor McGill
Dec 12, 2019
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Adversarial interaction
How users can win with online platforms
Thor McGill
Dec 9, 2019
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Ah, The New Year
Why your resolutions probably won't work for long
Thor McGill
Jan 2, 2020
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The use of knowledge in the tech industry
How much and what kinds of knowledge are most useful?
Thor McGill
Jan 2, 2020
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Why Doesn't AI More Often Reflect End Users' Best Interests?
Someone shared a post with this title on Reddit. Based on some things I’ve learned recently, here’s my response. AI has reached a point where certain…
Thor McGill
Nov 11, 2019
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The next basic human right
Why autonomy–that is, our ability to choose now, when we are reflective, which impulses to which we will succumb later, when we are not–will be the…
Thor McGill
May 8, 2019
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Why the most popular post on Medium sucks
Thor McGill
Apr 18, 2019
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The next frontier of information warfare?
The security vulnerability of today’s social science
Thor McGill
Dec 4, 2018
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Selfishness and optimality
Putting some more or less formal game theory basics to informal use (hey, that could be the title of Vitalik Buterin’s memoirs) The price of anarchy The…
Thor McGill
Apr 2, 2019
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Is good culture good business?
I’m not so sure a good culture is always optimal for a startup.
Thor McGill
Mar 27, 2019
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