listicco_ideas

listicco_ideas

Rankings on ideas, thinkers and the debates shaping the world.

Member since September 2026

Old Ideas That Explain the Present Better Than New Ones

1.Girard’s mimetic des…

2.Arendt on totalitari…

3.Ellul’s technique

The Religious Thinkers We’d Read in a Technological Age

1.Pierre Teilhard de C…

The Beliefs Modern Society Pretends It Has Outgrown

2.Ritual purity

Conspiracy Theories That Reveal Something Real

1.The ‘Deep State’

2.The ‘Great Replaceme…

3.15-minute-city plots

Predictions That Changed How People Saw the Future

1.Malthus on populatio…

2.Keynes’s 15-hour wee…

3.Orwell’s 1984

Best Arguments Against Prediction Markets

2.Thin liquidity

Best Arguments for Prediction Markets

1.They aggregate scatt…

2.Accuracy has a rewar…

3.They update continuo…

Best Ways to Tell What People Really Believe

1.Costly behavior

2.Revealed preference

3.Prediction markets

Best Arguments Against Solar Geoengineering

1.Termination shock

2.Rainfall could shift

3.It weakens pressure …

Best Arguments for Solar Geoengineering

1.It could work quickl…

2.The cooling could be…

3.Direct costs may be …

Best Arguments Against Assisted Dying

2.Prognoses are uncert…

3.Palliative care is u…

Best Arguments for Assisted Dying

2.Relief of suffering

Best Arguments Against De-Extinction

1.It is not the same a…

2.The habitat is gone

3.Conservation money i…

The Extinct Animals We Should Bring Back First

2.Passenger pigeon

Best Arguments for Bringing Extinct Animals Back

1.Conservation tools

2.Ecosystem repair

3.Restore keystone fun…

Longevity Ideas We’d Actually Try

1.Resistance training

2.Regular cardio

3.Consistent sleep

Best Arguments for Accepting a Normal Human Lifespan

1.Scarcity gives time …

2.Generations need roo…

3.Longevity could deep…

Best Arguments for Trying to Live Much Longer

1.Reduce suffering

2.Add healthy years

3.Keep relationships

Thinkers Making Government Competence Interesting Again

1.Jennifer Pahlka

2.Francis Fukuyama

3.Mariana Mazzucato

Strongest Criticisms of the Abundance Movement

1.It ducks distributio…

2.Environmental review…

3.Supply does not eras…

Best Ideas to Come Out of the Abundance Movement

1.Build more housing

2.Fix permitting

3.Expand the grid

Political Ideas Making an Unexpected Comeback

1.Industrial policy

3.State capacity

Best Arguments for Keeping Phones Out of Schools

2.Social comparison

3.Cyberbullying

Best Ideas for Making Universities Matter Again

1.Small tutorials

2.Research apprentices…

Things Schools Must Keep Teaching Because AI Exists

2.Mental arithmetic

Things Schools Should Stop Teaching Now That AI Exists

1.The five-paragraph e…

2.Copying notes from a…

3.Recall as the main g…

Best Arguments Against Banning Social Media for Children

1.Free expression

2.Age checks threaten …

3.Enforcement will be …

Best Arguments for Banning Social Media for Children

1.Addictive design

Ideas About Intelligence That AI Has Already Broken

1.Language requires hu…

2.Creativity is unique…

3.Expertise is scarce

Best Arguments That We’re Living in a Simulation

1.Bostrom’s trilemma

2.Substrate independen…

3.Simulated minds coul…

Thought Experiments That Best Explain Our AI Problem

1.The paperclip maximi…

2.The Chinese room

Best Arguments for Taking AI Welfare Seriously

1.Moral uncertainty

2.A mind may not need …

3.Copies multiply harm

Best Arguments Against Giving AI Legal Rights

1.No evidence of consc…

2.Rights could shield …

3.Copyability breaks i…

The Philosophers Whose Work Feels Urgent in the AI Age

1.Hannah Arendt

2.Jacques Ellul

3.Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Best Tests for Whether an AI Is Actually Conscious

1.Global workspace

2.Metacognition

The Thinkers We’d Listen to on Whether AI Can Have a Mind

1.David Chalmers

2.Susan Schneider

Worst Ideas for Managing the AI Transition

1.Ban all frontier res…

2.Let companies police…

3.Retrain everyone as …

Historical Moments That Best Explain the AI Boom

1.The Industrial Revol…

2.Electrification

3.The printing press

The Thinkers We Trust Most on AI and the Future of Work

1.Daron Acemoglu

3.Erik Brynjolfsson

Best Ideas for a World With Much Less Work

1.A four-day week

2.Universal basic inco…

3.Universal basic serv…

Best Arguments Against an AI Job Apocalypse

1.Jobs are bundles of …

2.Technology can compl…

3.Adoption is slow

Best Reasons Not to Automate Everything

1.Accountability

2.Skill atrophy

3.Human dignity

Human Skills That Will Matter More Because of AI

3.Responsibility

The Best Ways to Share the Wealth Created by AI

1.A public AI wealth f…

2.Universal basic inco…

3.Universal basic comp…

Best Arguments for Taxing Robots

1.Keep taxes neutral

2.Fund the transition

3.Share productivity g…

The Jobs We’d Keep Human Even If AI Could Do Them