Sublime

An arresting plea for ‘small is beautiful’ in an economy increasingly oriented around breakneck growth, financialization, increasing monopolies, and industry consolidation.

Public Digital Innovation Space (PDIS)

today governments have played virtually no role in the breakthroughs in “foundation models” that are revolutionizing computer science.

Society-wide, we should: Like the Maya, invest our surplus in public works, which make us antifragile. Prototype, prototype, prototype. Move to a precautionary mindset, such that we can learn to regulate our industries effectively, minimizing any negative externalities that they create. Consider Chesterton’s fence in all of its guises—from health c

Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

Two great problems in Economics Allocation in the Economy Quantities: General equilibrium, international trade, game-theory outcomes . . . Formation in the Economy Processes: Of econ development, discovering novel technologies, structural change, arrival of new institutions, temporary phenomena like bubbles, crashes . . . The former is mathematizab