Philosophy 哲学

Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?

Q3. Is tax theft?

Politics 政治

Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people?

Q2. If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else?

Q3. What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour?

Economics 经济

Q1. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages?

Q2. In his thought experiment, the Iowa Car Crop, David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is, in an important sense, just another 'technology' we can use for manufacturing cars, and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.

大卫·弗里德曼在他的思想实验《爱荷华汽车作物》中试图表明，从重要意义上讲，种植小麦只是我们可以用来制造汽车的另一种“技术”，在某些情况下，这种技术的效率要高得多。

If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs, why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas, thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient?

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

History 历史

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism?

哪个对历史的影响更大：强权的计划还是他们的错误?

Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?

成功的社会变革运动和不成功的社会变革运动有哪些特点?

Psychology 心理学

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

Q2. In surveys conducted in the United States, significantly more than half the respondents reported that they believed themselves to be more attractive than the median person in their country. How might we account for this?

在美国进行的调查中，超过一半的受访者表示，他们认为自己比他们国家的平均水平更有吸引力。我们该如何解释呢?

Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?

Theology 神学

Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?

Q2. If you cannot persuade your intelligent, sympathetic friends to embrace your religious belief system, do you have enough reason to believe what you believe?

如果你不能说服你聪明、富有同情心的朋友接受你的宗教信仰体系，你有足够的理由相信你所相信的吗？

Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?

Law 法律

假设你正在考虑违反比赛规则，提交一篇由人工智能为你写的文章。这种行为和普通的盗窃未遂有什么区别?

Junior Prize 初级奖

如果有的话，你父母欠你什么?