A Digital Garden

Category: Link Library

  • The dawn of the post literate society

    This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…

  • Welcome to The Continental. We Do Hope You Enjoy Your Stay.

    But there is a way to live. We live as humans with an autonomy of mind. We step back in order to see the semantic system as puppeteer. And from that vantage point of critical distance, we reapply our disbelief to ALL constructed worlds of declared reality, no matter how appealing to our internal dialogs,…

  • An instagram account that makes me laugh

    This account really makes me laugh. It’s also brilliantly creative. It’s sort of unfortunate that you can’t *just* write music and share it with the world if you want attention. You have to get creative and this is a particularly special piece of creativity. Just want more stuff that makes me laugh.

  • This is the Great Ravine

    You are forced to respond in kind if the other side escalates the nar​rative 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.

  • Why Won’t Socialism Die?

    Great one from Tyler.