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Affected Altruism
On Michael Lewis's portrait of Sam Bankman-Fried in “Going Infinite.”
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Dmitry Fadeyev
September 2023
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
August 2023
April 2023
Thought Examinations, Indoctrination Meetings and Struggle Sessions
On the mechanics of totalitarian terror in Mao's China.
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Dmitry Fadeyev
The Star
An Eastern Tale. By Vikenty Veresaev, 1903.
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Dmitry Fadeyev
The Mystery of Progress
By Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, 1897.
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Dmitry Fadeyev
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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Dmitry Fadeyev
March 2023
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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Dmitry Fadeyev
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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Dmitry Fadeyev
February 2023
February 2022
At the Pharmacy
By Anton Chekhov. First published in The Petersburg Gazette, 1885, subtitled “A little scene.”
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Dmitry Fadeyev
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