Zoe

Like Sam Altman cracks me up, right? Because he wants to be Steve Jobs, but he is Steve Ballmer. He just kind of got the wrong Steve.

Ethics Gradient

Ethics Gradient

21h

For movies the argument is usually a combination of audience shifts (simpler, action-heavy, non-writing dependent plots play more easily overseas), lack of DVD sales meaning that the optimization pressures have to be specifically for tentpole releases that make their money in their theatrical runs, and extremely... See more

Sharty Sharty 8hMan experiencing whiteness-privilege through adjacent demography

Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran

6h

I want majority parties to either put up or shut up. The filibuster means that the majority party can pretend to be an opposition party, throwing out bills that please their base, but counting on the filibuster to shut it down. I want them to actually have to vote - either pass it and show us what you really believe,... See more

Kirby

9h

What if, instead of Bill Gates giving all his money to climate change and the global poor, we taxed his wealth at a punitive rate and used that money to overtreat seniors and increase profits for medical device companies?

C-man

C-man’s Substack

11h

Liked by Ben Krauss

I don’t have anything hugely insightful to add to this excellent piece, other than that in our thoroughly anti-elitist age there seems to be a notion that people have an inalienable right to low-quality slop for their mental and physical nourishment, and to say that maybe we should all aspire to something... See more

David Abbott

David’s Determinist Substack

1d

The “speech is violence” frame is a loaded gun pointed at everyone. If hateful speech is itself a form of violence, then Charlie Kirk — who spent years saying things like “the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake” and warning that Muslims were “conquering Europe” — was, by that definition, committing... See more

Neeraj Krishnan

Neeraj Krishnan

10h

There is a conspiracy against healthy eating.

How do you explain the fact that potatoes are so easy to grow. Having started out in South America and spread worldwide by the Spanish. How is it that they can be sliced into 1mm thickness while retaining shape and when fried create a crisp texture, deep rich flavor,... See more

avalancheGenesis

11h

Liked by Ben Krauss

Senator Schmitt thinks foreign nationals and their children (like me) aren't smarter and more talented? That Real Red-Blooded Americans deserve our hard-earned prosperity, but are cheated out because they insist on a living wage for non-conformists? Well, besides the obvious horseshoe implications, I just wanna... See more