People on Twitter polls: just jump in the blender, it’s a simple coordination problem. People in the subway as a deranged guy hassles someone half a car down: *studiously engrossed in their phones.*

“When a [university] is well governed, poverty and obscurity are things to be ashamed of. When a [university] is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of."

I think they’re bad because of all the dying.

"The international rules-based order, which neither follows rules, nor is based, nor produces order."

Problem: we have one uncontrolled company pursuing unaligned AI Solution: now we have two

It is an open question how much of the economy is capitalism vs. custom. In 2022, gov't spending alone was 37% of U.S. GDP. Adding the guilds and cults, perhaps as low as only 10-20% of the U.S. economy is free markets. A very different economy from the one we are presented!

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Remarkable how much "what you want for your kids" has changed among wealthy parents. I went to school with some pretty rich kids and they had the same anxieties and strove for the same McKinsey/tech/academia careers as the rest of us. Starting over from square one.

On the other side of the fertility collapse, the assumption of a nuclear family structure for the Atreides will seem as charmingly antiquated as slide rules on spaceships.

A fake job is one which, once you start automating it, doesn’t go away.

Fake jobs don’t get tariffed.

It’s real jobs that are trade war casualties.