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Anna Gát 🧭 Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 Kate Raworth William MacAskill Sam Altman Paul Graham Ezra Klein Jonathan Haidt tylercowen Ross Douthat David Wengrow Mathematical chaos. The best living practitioner is Doyne Farmer:

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You guys always need to listen to me = good life

🥰 Thank you and right back at ya!

The time when I was trying to send gesztenyés bejgli to Agnes Callard in Chicago but nobody in the entire United States is able to bake it

Horrible

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Gus ☀ Anna Gát 🧭 I mean I'd expect the large majority of SSC readers are familiar with collective action problems. What's unique about Scott's formulation is where he transforms the technical collective action formulation into a sort of original sin

Again: there will be a bull market in the humanities.

Network State

I'm going into politics. I'm starting the Interested Party.

We will listen, and give equity.

I wonder what kind of messed up subculture my son will join one day

What was the last Big Idea? Was it Piketty? Bullshit jobs?

I mean Big Idea like truly big. Like God is dead big. Like origin of totalitarianism big.

Like will to power / John Galt / banality of evil / reasons and persons big.

Where will it come from? Where are the SCENES where

Proposed so far:
- applied effective altruism
- free energy principle
- attention is all you need
- against decadence >< for degrowth
- accelerationism / time to build
- cliodynamics
- great polarisation
- Simulation / AGI / transhumanism

Excellent thread, taking notes!

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