Max More's Strategic Philosophy

The combined six blog posts are now available in a single essay, with notes, on my main website: http://www.maxmore.com/perils.htm

Fatal to the Future The precautionary principle is ultra-conservative. “Conservative” here does not mean “right-wing”, nor does it refer to ...

Failures of the Precautionary Principle Having seen the precautionary principle in action, we can identify its shortcomings quickly. Before ...

The Tyranny of Safety The precautionary principle rides atop the wild horse that is our fundamental drive to avoid harm. I readily grant tha...

The rotavirus case illustrates what I call the paradox of the precautionary principle : The principle endangers us by trying too hard to saf...

Pervasive Precaution The precautionary principle, as defined by Soren Holm and John Harris in Nature magazine in 1999, asserts: When an acti...

This is the first in a series of entries of what is chapter 2 of my book-in-progress, The Proactionary Principle. I will post a new section ...

The philosopher Bernard Williams once wrote a piece on “The Tedium of Immortality”. Although I have long thought his view reeked of sour gra...

Why Catholics Should Support the Transhumanist Goal of Extended Life (A talk being translated to Italian and delivered to a Catholic confere...

(This is a slightly edited version of a post I made to the WTA-Talk email list on July 31, 2009.) James Hughes posted [on the WTA-Talk email...