i'd be glad to get together with people to talk about it.

sure!

i guess its very common in conversations about electoral systems and comparative politics. most of the parliaments of Europe use some form of proportional representation, for example.

it's not a thing they're making up, it's a term in common usage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proport...

[new draft post] A pocketbook history of postwar US macro regimes https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/25/a-pocketbook-history-of-postwar-us-macro-regimes/index.html

the new york times will ask, how ever did they come to believe such things?

There are not, meaningfully. There are two. Yes there are minor parties, but structurally the American system elevates two parties and punishes anyone who deviates from supporting the closest of those two to their values. And that is a catastrophe for democracy. bsky.app/profile/inte...

do you feel like you are thriving? do you know or encounter people who are thriving?

he solved autism! what more do you want?!?

i guess i don’t think we’d want to include the agents’ welfare in our social welfare function. of course, a social welfare function is an expression of values, so YMMV!

what are the welfare economics of “agentic commerce”? www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbas...

"Proportional Representation Could Reduce the Risk of Political Violence in the U.S." by @farbodnagra.bsky.social and @jrdresden.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/103876/propo... // winner-take-all / first-past-the-post electoralism is killing us, increasingly literally. via @perfctlyGoodInk on X

"State capacity and technical expertise are absolutely vital for any kind of leftist project" @ryanlcooper.com on Greenland as an example, if not model. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/09/23/r...

first politician in a while with the courage to forthrightly but without ceremony just apologize for something.

it’s a very weird move to take the fact that both US political parties are detested as evidence there’s a real opportunity to capture the space between them, a hypothetical middle. it seems more likely that something they have in common, something an average wouldn’t escape, is detestable.

after the rapture, much is possible.

This is excellent.

now do this in absolute dollar, rather than percentage terms, if you really wanna be scandalized.