Diseases helped colonized Americas but saved Africa in a way. “Rates of disease mortality among European soldiers stationed at the relatively less malarial port-and-fort posts they maintained (which we’ve discussed in this series) in the period period to the Scramble… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
World is scarier the more you know.
Some sober look at current state of the art of AI.
Power rules them all. “What is at work here is not the Congresses themselves and certainly not law (indeed, the individual Congresses could be startlingly inconsistent), but rather balance of power politics. The pressures of anarchy aren’t restrained, but instead… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
It is by design.
Is it working or just lowering wages artificially?
Science helps to solve issues but is not always needed.
Everything has costs and potential benefits (or harm). Giving a one hour talk to a company of 200 can cost you 30k just in terms of salaries. There is hidden costs in terms of work not being done. And the… Read More »Cost/Benefit
Engineers doing shit for millenia.
You can simulate history in many ways. “armies are recruited from pops; each regiment in your army is directly tied back to the pop that supports and reinforces it. If the pop is radicalized, so is the unit. If the… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears