but someone has to manage the wealth you hope your money will eventually lay claim to.

nope. i don’t recall the US imprisoning Tibetan Buddhist monks for posting words of the Dalai Lama. we all of us have our sins, but they are not the same sins.

China is wonderful in many respects. It is not so wonderful in others. It is not so wonderful with respect to its view of how foreign affairs should be conducted, if judged by practice rather than words. Unfortunately neither are its rivals.

“My kingdom is not of this world.” ~Jesus (John 18:36) ht @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social (thanks claude.ai for the research assist)

(zohran seems like a fine example of simultaneously projecting clear values as well as a capacity to listen. is he an “ideologue”? in its bad connotations ideologue suggests dogmatism and arrogance. but people can have strong values, and still engage with others who disagree, and complex reality.)

always worth asking of any form of “investing”, is some meaningful social contribution getting compensated at a reasonable rate, or are returns at these levels some form of extraction laundered through complicated financial and regulatory machinery? (i think index funds have been a catastrophe.)

i think ppl “across the spectrum” are desperate for people who are ideological but not partisan. partisan is prima facie corrupt, implies looking after the interests of a particular group with particular beneficiaries. ideological means sincere and importantly predictable. you know where they stand.

i agree. i’m angry as fuck. i think that’s fine. i try not to hate.

i don’t know either. i’m willing to extend some benefit of the doubt, though. he’s one of very few of this famously “nonconformist” crowd to fail to conform with their herdlike nonconformism.

if AI does turn out to be massively labor replacing, we should should use the surplus to enable high-touch arts, liberal arts, care, and social gatherings.

maybe someday there will be a European Reunion that simultaneously brings back Great Britain and reorganizes the bloc into a more cohesive and capable polity. a kind of 1789 moment. at least Russia is helping.

conjecture: llm : friendship :: porn : love

conjecture: llm : friendship :: porn : love

all this western hemispheric adventurism just at a moment when putin and xi are making a play for a return to “great power” (ha!) spheres-of-influence. i’m sure it’s all coincidence.

#OutDamnedSpotify

it was.

for economicsey people of a certain age, this is kind of tragic: economistsview.typepad.com

you don’t have to hate anyone. not even the worst of them. you do have to hold them accountable, which means punishing them, sometimes severely. in sadness, not out of hatred or in anger. you can still wish the best for them, under the circumstances. love the humans, each and every.

it was a terrible own-goal not to invite Elon to some confab but putting out a video shitting on seven million of us doesn’t matter.