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Adaptive Status Markers
As polls and asking LLMs didn’t give me much insight into which status markers are more adaptive, let me try to think the issue through myself.
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Status Marker Polls
In an attempt to learn more about status, I asked some polls comparing status markers.
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Efficiency Is Sacred
We all see some things as sacred.
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AI Is GPT, & GPTs Go Slow
Back in the dot-com boom of the late 90s, many said a new economy loomed that invalidated all the old rules, and would soon cause big fast change.
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Should I Be Clearly Conservative?
A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who…
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Might Makes The Best Right
Does “might make right”?
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Why Not Inquire Together More?
My podcast cohost Agnes Callard has been thinking lately about why we don’t have more deep conversations wherein we try to figure out important things…
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Seek What Outcomes Via Futarchy?
There’s an off chance that futarchy might solve cultural drift, if we could show that it works, then get some big place to adopt it, and also get them…
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Unleash Capitalism
Capitalism today is in chains, allowed to perform many social functions, but held back from realizing its full potential.
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Futarchy For Fundraising
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded…
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March 2025

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