The Tenuous Relationship between Conflict and Tech

Or, Why we shouldn't be so eager to excuse war when it brings us new toys

Survivor’s bias is a real trip.

A couple of years ago, I was on a YouTube channel talking about global humanism, and I think I rattled the host with my answer to a question about how I handle the fact that many wonderful things exist in the world as an extension of religious history. (This was an atheist show, and one “gotcha” sometimes used against athe…