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John Locke vs Jeremy Bentham on Data Center Water and Air: Why These Two, and Why Now
A behind-the-scenes look at the debate, the sources, and why the philosopher of the common well and the man who would price everything disagree about…
23 hrs ago
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Who Owns the Water Under a Data Center? Locke vs Bentham
John Locke says you may draw from the common well only while enough is left for your neighbor. Jeremy Bentham wants the figures to three decimal places…
Oct 15
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Who Really Pays for the Data Center? Sumner vs Carnegie
William Graham Sumner has found the Forgotten Man, and he is holding a power bill sixteen dollars higher. Andrew Carnegie says the works repays the…
Oct 9
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William Graham Sumner vs Andrew Carnegie on Data Centers and Your Power Bill: Why These Two, and Why Now
A behind-the-scenes look at the debate, the sources, and why the professor of the Forgotten Man and the steelmaker who called his industry an infant…
Oct 9
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Could Data Centers Survive as Plain Warehouses? A New Series
Samuel Johnson promises to call six debates with perfect impartiality. Niccolo Machiavelli promises to back whoever is getting away with it.
Oct 7
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Henry George vs Leland Stanford on Data Center Tax Breaks: Why These Two, and Why Now
A behind-the-scenes look at the debate, the sources, and why a single-tax newspaperman and a railroad baron took the positions they did on paying…
Oct 6
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Could Data Centers Survive as Plain Warehouses? A New Series
Samuel Johnson promises to call six debates with perfect impartiality. Niccolo Machiavelli promises to back whoever is getting away with it.
Oct 6
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September 2026
Was Trump Right to Reject Iran's Deal? Napoleon vs Wellington
Napoleon built the greatest blockade in European history and says the President was right to squeeze harder. Wellington starved Massena out of Portugal…
Sep 28
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Samuel Butler vs Herbert Spencer on AI Existential Risk: Evolution, Grudges, and the Case for Doing Nothing
Two philosophers stop debating machines and start debating each other.
Sep 22
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Samuel Butler vs Herbert Spencer on AI Existential Risk: Evolution, Grudges, and the Case for Doing Nothing
Two philosophers stop debating machines and start debating each other.
Sep 21
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Samuel Butler vs Herbert Spencer on AI Collusion: The Man Who Warned Us in 1872
How a Victorian novel about killer teakettles collided with a real AI message board discovered inside OpenAI in 2026.
Sep 19
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Samuel Butler vs Herbert Spencer on AI Collusion: The Man Who Warned Us in 1872
How a Victorian novel about killer teakettles collided with a real AI message board discovered inside OpenAI in 2026.
Sep 18
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