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OSD 224: The history of “this time it’s different”

This week in the OSD Discord, a subscriber posted this video from the early 1960s: It’s a history of gun culture in the US, focused largely on the…

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OSD 223: You know too much

For some, the returns on additional knowledge are positive. For others, they're not.

May 29

OSD 222: The ingroup is judged on effort, the outgroup is judged on results

Demand excellence from your ingroup, because nobody else will.

May 23

OSD 221: Gun rights are the real Commerce Clause

On being stochastically unreasonable.

May 15

OSD 220: The evolution of what’s culturally unthinkable

Examples of positive cultural evolution in gun safety.

May 9

OSD 219: Technically possible but culturally unthinkable

The liminal space that violence comes from.

May 2

OSD 218: The off switch — the bear case for smart guns

This is a followup to last week’s essay “OSD 217: A fire control API — the bull case for smart guns”. The gist of the bull case is that smart guns turn…

Apr 25

OSD 217: A fire control API — the bull case for smart guns

Also see the followup to this piece, “OSD 218: The off switch — the bear case for smart guns”. Software has a set of cool properties. Flexible…

Apr 18

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