Category: Link Library
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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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Flounder Mode
Very, very good. I resonated, and deeply.
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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.
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Would live
Want to sit and write a book here. Over 3-6 months with Sadie.
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Are Cultural Products Getting Longer?
The answer seems to be Yes. This is a great counterfactual to attention span narratives. It doesn’t speak to quality, but to attention span. Brain Rot seems to be a real thing (on the surface) but we don’t enjoy it. It seems like we’re immunizing by consuming longer content. I notice this with the kids.…
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The AGI Economy is Coming Faster Than You Think
From Rohit Krishnan in Freethink (new to me). If Pascal’s Wager can be applied the “when AGI”, and I think it certainly can be, it feels wiser to me to assume the kind of thinking below is more likely than not. What to do about that? I have no idea. I don’t see myself rapidly…
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Is now the best time to write a novel?
From this post, “The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction.” I think the most important conclusion is that all of this is actually good news for aspiring writers: it’s not that the philistine dopamine-addled masses will never be capable of giving you the praise you deserve, it’s just that (1) basically no one is writing literary…
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Feeling cautiously optimistic about American democracy
A clear eyed commentary on the question of this authoritarian moment and the movement between Collapse and Resistance. Maybe we’re always in between those two, but this indicates the pendulum is swinging back to the middle. A few excerpts: Essentially, Trump seems to be governing like…a President in his second term. Typically, two-term Presidents try…