Outrageous Fortune
We ask big questions about progress, growth, and human flourishing. Our writing explores how societies can build better futures through economic abundance, technological advancement, and clear-thinking politics. The world rocks, and we’d like to keep it that way.
Written by Tristan Greene and Nicholas Hash, Outrageous Fortune brings market liberalism, contrarian optimism, and aspirational humanism to economics, politics, philosophy, technology, literature, and culture.
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Begin with our conversation with Tyler Cowen, featuring Nick, Tristan, and Xavier Lauriault on aesthetics, longevity, food, Tolkien, and more. Or choose a question below.
What do we owe one another?
Climate Change Can’t Wrong Future People explores the nonidentity problem and our obligations to people alive today.
Our (Moral) Life After Death asks whether our interests and others’ obligations to us survive our deaths.
What makes markets work?
Give Us Prediction Markets makes the case for prices as tools for pooling knowledge and improving forecasts.
What should politics aim for?
A Vitalist Vision for Democrats sketches a politics of growth, ambition, and human flourishing.
What will technology change?
What If AI Never Gets Better? considers what existing AI could change even if progress stopped.
What can art and culture tell us?
Prospero is a Status-Seeking Bum reads The Tempest through status and the human uses of extraordinary power.
The World is Getting Less Weird asks what global connection does to cultural variety.
For more—including history, fiction, reviews, and collections of links—browse the full archive.
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