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Village Global's Venture Stories - A Primer On Prediction Markets With Robin Hanson on Stitcher
stitcher.comcleverest observer. Consider
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
“Economic Consequences of Organized Violence,”
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Gwern may prove to be the most important intellectual of the era. Maybe Yud; not Scott.
Just on merit of like three well-written essays that were read by people of long will.
Probably:
The Scaling Hypothesis
Embryo Selection For Intelligence
Why Tool AIs Want to Be... See more
I think today the variance of weirdness is increasing. Conformists can conform like never before, due say to social media and the Girardian desire to mimic others. But unusual people can connect with other unusual people, and make each other much weirder and more "niche." For instance, every possible variant of political views seems to be "out... See more
Noah Smith • Interview: Tyler Cowen, economist and public intellectual
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netParfit and Cowen insisted that this leads to moral absurdities. “According to a social-discount rate of 5%, one statistical death next year counts for more than a billion deaths in 400 years,” they observed. They concluded by arguing that discount rates were not morally coherent. We should be equally concerned about the known consequences of our... See more