Going Infinite
And yet somehow Sam had committed his life to maximizing happiness on earth without feeling any of his own. Between the summer of 2014, when he started at Jane Street, and the summer of 2017, he’d taken no vacation. He’d actually worked ten days when US markets were closed—the action in foreign markets was especially great when US traders weren’t p
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He felt nothing in the presence of art. He found religion absurd. He thought both right-wing and left-wing political opinions kind of dumb, less a consequence of thought than of their holder’s tribal identity. He and his family ignored the rituals that punctuated most people’s existence. He didn’t even celebrate his own birthday. What gave pleasure
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Sam saw some merits in a certain kind of libertarianism. But he listened to actual libertarians argue why, for instance, they shouldn’t need to pay taxes. And he thought, Yeah, of course no one likes to pay taxes, but that’s not exactly a philosophy. “They blurred the line between libertarianism as a philosophy and selfishness as a philosophy,” he
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