A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books
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A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books
I'm generally in the first camp; I am concerned about the prospect of both the West and China settling into a kind of low-growth conservatism, I love how imperfect coordination between nation states limits the enforceability of things like global copyright law, and I'm concerned about the possibility that, with future surveillance technology, the w... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
This scale transformation from the particular to the general is behind my skepticism about unfettered globalization and large centralized multiethnic states. The physicist and complexity researcher Yaneer Bar-Yam showed quite convincingly that “better fences make better neighbors”—something
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
fleet/re: Metaverse; or How can you colonize the intangible?
Companies have been successfully working on this for two decades but when the prospect of "owning" land in the Metaverse surfaced— and was subsequently swallowed up by the few, it became immediately obvious what the playbook was:
You'll own nothing out here, and nothing in there.
It wa
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