Category: Link Library
-
This is the Great Ravine
You are forced to respond in kind if the other side escalates the narrative attacks, like using mustard gas in World War I, until eventually the entire game breaks because the anger you’ve created can’t be contained by the rules of the game. And that’s when you are well and truly in the Great Ravine.…
-
Trump Seizes the Means of Production at Intel
From Tyler Cowen in The Free Press. If you are a major CEO, the message could not be clearer: Tread very, very carefully. Think again before you criticize this president or this White House. And The sad reality is that we are marching down a very dangerous road, the discourse surrounding the issue is an…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Flounder Mode
Very, very good. I resonated, and deeply.
-
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.
-
Would live
Want to sit and write a book here. Over 3-6 months with Sadie.
-
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.…