Sublime

If economic activity is a language, trade a speech act, and prices the compressed signal of syntax, then entrepreneurship bears a remarkable resemblance to authorship.

So, optimizing utility changes over many parallel worlds actually also optimizes wealth itself over time. That’s sort of the message.

no more need to have them enforce our contracts.

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been documented in an Oxfam study that shows that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population.

Here’s the rub: even unselfish leaders are crunched for time and treasure.

Caroline sensed, rightly, that her departure alerted Jane Street to an alarming new threat. Jane Street and the other high-frequency trading firms had been fishing for traders in the same ponds as Will MacAskill and the other Oxford philosophers fished for effective altruists. People able to calculate the expected value of complicated financial gam

Our deepest reserves of resilience come from knowing that other people are counting on us.