Stories by paulorlando

Anything at Scale is different

Learning and writing about unintended consequences

Food Follows Function, or why your avocados are probably Hass

Under a Spell – The Armistice at 100

Categories of Unintended Consequences

Food from Thought

What I Call the Kudzu Effect

Self-Defeating Prophecies

Unintended Consequences from Messing with and Trying to Protect the Environment

Does this work as a thought exercise?

When is Biodiversity Bad?

University funding and ethics

Did the Temperance Movement cause people to die from drinking ether? No

Uncertainty in driving and the Peltzman Effect

Voice AIs will not identify themselves

Scale Transformations in Housing, Wealth, Transport, and Rhino Horn

The Cobra Effect, but with an antidote

Predicting Outcomes of China's One Child Policy

What Are Unexpected Benefits?

Did Egypt's Aswan Dam Really Make Farming Worse?

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