PinnedEverything You Never Wanted to Know About AstrologyAn introduction to my now finally published book By MARTIN REZNY Yes, this is a shameless plug, but if I thought the book wasn’t worth reading, I wouldn’t have spent over five years writing it. Let me tell you something about it, so that you may get a better idea…Astrology4 min readAstrology4 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Nov 29Maybe We Don’t Have to Debate Against Each OtherAn argument against sides in an argument By MARTIN REZNY If there’s one thing that most people agree is bad about today’s political discourse, it’s that it is too polarized. Everybody seems to be talking like their team is perfect and always right, and the other team is always wrong…Communication7 min readCommunication7 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Nov 7Building a City of DebatersOr one stop on the road to a more perfect polis By MARTIN REZNY What is the biggest, longest debate that you have ever seen? If you only ever saw debates on some kind of screen, perhaps they involved a dozen people for a couple of hours. If you ever…Rhetoric6 min readRhetoric6 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Oct 24A Promising Path to Greater Wisdom — Veil of IgnoranceOr what Project Contribute, debating, and John Rawls have in common By MARTIN REZNY When you encounter a new idea, how much would you say your opinion of it is affected by who came up with it? A little bit? A lot? Not at all? If the people who came…Philosophy6 min readPhilosophy6 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Oct 19A Constitution for a Future Worldwide FederationOr my version of the legal foundation for land-based capitalism By MARTIN REZNY Let’s just say it’s been a bit of a busy year for me. Yes, I did indeed happen to write a serious constitution for a futuristic form of government too. This is it. It’s based on Jeff…Constitution19 min readConstitution19 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Oct 15How to Stay Human in the Face of Radical ProgressAn intro to the manifesto of a new (counter)revolutionary organization By MARTIN REZNY Is being human a good thing, or should we try to do better? That is the central question of the burgeoning transhumanist movement. Or rather, the answer of transhumanists to this question is that we most definitely…Technology7 min readTechnology7 min read
Oct 4As a scientist, don’t you need a fixed unit of measure?As a scientist, don’t you need a fixed unit of measure?31stephenstillwellA good question.A good question. I didn't want to get into the technicals too much in this article, but in political science, there is a range of things that can be quantified, but the whole discipline also has a qualitative dimension, which, even though unquantifiable, still is important and has to be…3 min read3 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Oct 3Survival in the Age of Personal AttackOr how to stop caring about who’s saying the argument By MARTIN REZNY How stupid are you? No, seriously, if you were to measure your stupidity objectively, how stupid would you say you are, on a scale from a human turnip (Baldrick from Blackadder) to the future’s mightiest supergenius (a…Communication7 min readCommunication7 min read
Published inWords of Tomorrow·Oct 3Why We Don’t Have a Real Laboratory of DemocracyAnd how to go about building it, if we decide we want one By MARTIN REZNY Just days ago, a pro-Putin party won the elections in Slovakia, the country right next to mine, which led to a lot of comments critical of democracy as a concept. Including one person commenting…Politics10 min readPolitics10 min read
Sep 30Two rapid thoughts:31Laszlo FazekasRegarding some ideas of how to determine the utility of a project to be funded, Luke has always…Regarding some ideas of how to determine the utility of a project to be funded, Luke has always been primarily concerned with CO2 emission, so one of the objective benefits/harms could relate to projected change in net carbon emissions versus realized change in net carbon emissions. Ultimately though, in our…2 min read2 min read
