A bit older one but still insightful. “Food and fuel are generally the most crucial imports — people can do without the latest iPhone, or a new car, but they can’t really do without food and transportation. And since lots… Read More »Why Sri Lanka is having an economic crisis
It is not good for a lot.of stuff, but it is good if you want to build shit. “There isn’t a single answer to the question about why China can move fast and why we can’t, but Wang offers one… Read More »Why China can build so quickly and America can’t
How we got here after decades of stability. “Production workers in rich countries lost out big-time, but this was a price our country was willing to pay. America and our rich-world allies went from being the world’s workshop to being… Read More »The end of the system of the world
Why degrowth will not work. “the general principle here is that if we sacrifice much of our economy to decarbonize — as the degrowth movement would have us do — it will provide a negative example to the rest of… Read More »Decarbonization: Think globally, act locally
Why we actualy are making progress with poverty. “So China’s massive growth leap, which Hickel holds up as a successful example of non-capitalist poverty reduction, actually coincided with a radical shift in the direction of free markets, private property, private… Read More »Against Hickelism
History is wild. “Numerous medieval writers told tales of monks who ate too well, and consequently experienced a violent desire for sex, along with almost continuous emissions of semen.” https://aeon.co/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages
Seems to me it is. I see people changing because of AI overuse to the point, it is almost impossible talk with them. “From this morass, we are told, an “artificial general intelligence” will eventually emerge, turbo-charging the human race… Read More »AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
At least not rich in the modern sense. “Imperialism is very old — the Romans, the Persians, the Mongols, and many other empires all pillaged and plundered plenty of wealth. But despite all of that plunder, no country in the… Read More »Nations don’t get rich by plundering other nations
Great illustration of what currently LLMs are good for and what not. “I think we will be more distracted than ever. We can’t even have 2 seconds to think before Grammarly, Copilot, or Cursor suggests something. So instead of doing… Read More »Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Never heard of this. It is really crazy.