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Affected Altruism
On Michael Lewis's portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried in “Going Infinite.”
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Dmitry Fadeyev
A Simultaneous Recession of Both Freedom and Authority
Both the liberals and the conservatives claim that the other side is moving us towards totalitarianism. They are both right.
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Dmitry Fadeyev
A Kind of Organized Remembrance
“The way you treat history is the way history will end up treating you.”
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Dmitry Fadeyev
The Roots of Freedom and Prosperity
In just three decades, Lee Kuan Yew pulled Singapore out of the Third World and turned it into one of the most prosperous states in the world. On Lee…
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Dmitry Fadeyev
Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
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Friction, or, Why AI Will Not Replace White-Collar Jobs
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Revenge of the Craftsman
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How to Steal an Army
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The Star
An Eastern Tale. By Vikenty Veresaev, 1903.
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The Mystery of Progress
By Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, 1897.
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Revenge of the Craftsman
“You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.”
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Friction, or, Why AI Will Not Replace White-Collar Jobs
Thinking about AI adoption through the lens of Clausewitz’s concept of friction.
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How to Steal an Army
On the mechanics of Mao's rise to power in Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s “Mao: The Unknown Story.”
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Someone Set on Becoming a God
On the Discourses of Epictetus, the ancient framework for building mental fitness and becoming invulnerable to the vicissitudes of fate.
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At the Pharmacy
By Anton Chekhov. First published in The Petersburg Gazette, 1885, subtitled “A little scene.”
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