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Yudkowsky looks the part of the bearded, middle-aged computer nerd, and his vocabulary is shaped by years of arguing on the internet—his native tongue is Riverian, but his is a regional dialect thick with axioms and allusions and allegories. This particular one referred to a statement
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Mark Andreeson on Ricks podcast - the internet leads to village thinking at a global scale - narrow minded and always watching and very judgmental. This is compared to city thinking which is very open minded and accepting
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But today things are different. The open world of the Entrepreneurial Age is dominated by networks of individuals equipped with ever more powerful computing devices. Not only do people travel more, they’re also more connected with one another across the borders that still divide the physical world. It doesn’t mean that local communities or nation s
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Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and one of my favorite thinkers, has recently raised the point that the underpinnings of the economy have broken apart. Indeed, what happens when our measurements of the economy (inflation) are no longer accurate, and our tools for controlling the economy (interest rates) no longer work?
When measurements chang
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