Author: Andrew
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Priced out of marriage
This post in the Free Press seems true in a way that’s undervalued, and will never be fully appreciated, by the politicians in Washington. I think Wendell Berry and E.B. White would understand this man’s concerns. Berry from lived experience and White from a more theoretical standpoint. Berry lives and farms in rural Kentucky, and…
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AI and the Detection of Gravity Waves
“It takes a lot to think this far outside of the accepted solution,” Adhikari said. “We really needed the AI.” From a Wired article via an Alex Tabarrok summary. Really incredible stuff. Move 37 by AlphaGO might still be the most impressive thing to me in AI and this is now there with it. Not…
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The Danger from Japan
As I’ve tended, recently, to find liberalism a useful model for my politics, posts like this resonate. My message to Americans is to double down on America. Double down on immigration, entrepreneurship, innovation, building for tomorrow, free markets, free speech and individualism and America will take all new competitors as it has taken all comers…
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How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the American Economy
From Kyla Scanlon. More good things on memes and the economy. Always feels very “ear to the ground”. Something that troubles me is the idea that maybe everything is becoming financialized because financial markets are the last remaining system capable of aggregating distributed information and enabling coordination at scale. Like obviously the above example8 is wild…
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Dirt Track Racing
For years, we’ve driven past the Travelers Rest Speedway in Travelers Rest, SC, on the way to Michael and Emily’s. Curious is the perfect word for what it’s felt like to drive past something for years and wonder what it would be like to go to that place. It was incredible. We met Michael at…
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Flounder Mode
Very, very good. I resonated, and deeply.
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Interesting enough. Got just over half way through and sort of became uninterested, or perhaps I felt like I had a sense of what it was saying/about. Core things that stood out:
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Liked the book. Definitely gives useful frameworks by naming desire and then trying to move away from bad models of it or transform it into good desire. I want what I want because I want it. Intrinsic vs. extrinsic. Don’t feel the need to do a full write out of my thoughts. I think the…
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From Dollar Dominance to Slop Machine
Pt. 2 on attention and a bunch of topics that are funneling through it these days. I say topics, but really they are the things that impact the every day: trust, social safety, integrity, etc. Very good.