AI won’t save us. “As companies grow, they all end up with more and more layers of collaboration, review, and management. Why? Because otherwise mistakes get made, and mistakes are increasingly expensive at scale. The average value added by a… Read More »Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
What’s the difference? “And it failed. The proletariat did not revolt. The workers bought cars and televisions and became, in their modest way, bourgeois. The prediction did not come true. History did not end as promised.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/debugging-the-confusion-liberalism
It is good to define what we are talking about. “The conservative said: society is not a machine to be redesigned but an organism that has evolved. Its customs, hierarchies, and prejudices—yes, even its prejudices—encode wisdom we cannot fully articulate.… Read More »The New Lords
The short version.
Dictating to people how to do stuff is counterproductive in many cases.
If you thought the military spending is high. “Google, $185 billion. Microsoft, $114 billion. Meta, $135 billion. Combined: $650 billion. [Not including OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX/XAI.] That is like buying the US Navy every year. “ https://asymco.com/2026/03/10/the-most-brilliant-move-in-corporate-history/
Institutions matter.
Institutions and rules matter. “By binding the Crown to honor commitments that Parliament had sanctioned, England created what modern economists would recognize as a credible commitment mechanism. The sovereign could no longer expropriate creditors through inflation, default, or arbitrary taxation… Read More »Financial Power And Imperial Rule
Something crucial is missing. “The language model “knows” that balls fall when dropped — this is a robust statistical regularity across millions of texts. But it has never seen a ball. It has never felt gravity. It has never experienced… Read More »Meaning at the Boundary
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