Sublime

What appears to be one of the central, orienting questions for reading Smith in the twenty-first century is a new version of the old Adam Smith Problem: how do we reconcile Smith’s advocacy of the material benefits of the market society he envisioned with his worries about its heavy moral costs?

• dreaming of a better internet


• all that we cannot know


• lil sites doing cool things


• but are the machines really learning tho? (which I created when adding this highlight to my library)


• we laugh so we do not cry


• What is art for


• nice things people have said about m

You could tell that the Manifest conference was a rationalist rather than an EA event because of the presence of people who were either considered unwoke (like Hanson, who told me he’d basically been canceled from EA events since a 2018 blog post in which he wrote sympathetically about the idea of redistributing sex to incels),

I noticed this after spotting my favorite bloggers—including Paul Graham, Angela Jiang, and Derek Sivers—post erratically whereas the writers I often regret reading publish as much as they can.)

Taylor. He’s careful throughout to avoid asking about the truth of the ideas he discusses. That is appropriate as his task is descriptive and explanatory.