Sublime

This curiosity is about models, frameworks, cultural understandings, disciplines, and methods of thought, the kinds of traits that made John Stuart Mill such a great thinker and writer. A more recent example is Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder of Stripe (and also an active writer). His content can draw from economics, science, history, Irish cu

“looking for the cross-sectional variation.” If you don’t understand when and where a particular claim is wrong, you probably don’t understand the claim in the first place,

Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

The untrained eye is not enough.

“The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

TESLA: 7 FOR 7

He has distanced himself from the faction known as “e/acc” or “effective accelerationism,” a term used by Beff Jezos, Marc Andreessen, and others as a winking dig at effective altruism. (Altman has tipped his hat to e/acc too, once replying “you cannot out accelerate me” to one of Jezos’s tweets—another sign that he serves at the pleasure of the ph

in practice both EAs and rationalists have a catholic appetite for involving themselves in all sorts of controversies. Effective altruism