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The repugnant conclusion of never-ending well-being arbitrage: everyone ends up with a life that is just barely above the subsistence level. Effective altruism wants to arbitrage all the extra happiness away and fairly distribute it amongst the global population.

We’ve always had creators purchasing attention of consumers… it’s advertising! But much more rare to have the consumers now (the fans) purchasing the attention of the creators.

Here’s the hard thing about easy things: if everyone can do something, there’s no advantage to doing it, but you still have to do it anyway just to keep up.

- As the number of your stored notes increases linearly, the number of connections you can make between them increases exponentially