Progress is usually debated in terms of the big things like lifting the Third World out of poverty, eliminating child mortality, or science & tech:… Read More »“Dogs that do not bark”: Gwern Branwen on unseen progress since the 1990s
This long (long!) episode of the Tim Ferriss show is full of thought provoking stuff on all sorts of topics related to technology, cryptocurrency, online… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Balaji Srinivasan on the dystopian present and the decentralised future plus plus plus
This podcast is well worth listening too – Sandel and Harris frame the problems with meritocracy well even of they don’t quite get to a… Read More »Michael Sandel and Sam Harris on meritocracy
These two articles from The Atlantic are worth reading. On Social Trust The first is about politics in the broadest sense of “how we live… Read More »The Atlantic on trust and on the remote working revolution