that the fate of the world turned, essentially, on an office kiss, and turned very badly, is a fact of the world that’s very hard to sit with.

Do you think there needs to be any kind of consideration of an argument that the Obama Administration was simultaneously the apotheosis of the vision you suggest and an object of great dissatisfaction? Is that all racism we should simply crush and suppress, or were we maybe missing something?

we may finally wise up!

China is the center. Everywhere else is the periphery.

only democracy can make the world safe for technocracy.

you have to admit, that constitutes a certain kind of virtuosity.

these things will become tractable when we have AGI.

expiation. lustration. ablution.

pretty dumb of the United States to abandon its (however notional) commitment to universalism in favor of chauvinism at precisely the moment when a chauvinistic world order would render it an also-ran.

almost 150 years ago we invented the phone. the latest innovation has been to uninvent it, by inventing the phone tree, customer service center, etc. i now drive miles to talk to people whom, thirty years ago, i’d have conveniently phoned. it’s increasingly the only way to talk to a capable human.

let’s prompt a GPT to structure the SPV!

I hope to hear more of yours!

no platform thus far invented can accommodate your kindness.

the present is different than the past, but that doesn’t render it superior. its shape derives from path dependence and lock-in much more than it is the result of some ill-defined collective “revealed preference”.

the nordics aren’t “left of liberalism”.

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was King Midas wealthy or poor?

this is a way of saying you can buy more “stuff” in some sense, but the stuff you can buy translates to less welfare. which means, in welfare terms, the only terms that ultimately matter, you are poorer for all your stuff.

i have literally given the difficult questions surrounding welfare economics maybe a bit more thought than you have. it is not about winning an argument among people who make a fetish of flawed measures.

a great example of a post that refutes its own measures. no reasonable observer could conclude the typical Mississippian is better off than the typical Norweigian (except maybe the weather). if your measures say this, you’d better rethink your measures.