Benjamin Reinhardt
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if bureaucracy and management are so terrible, why were they adopted in the first place? Why did Americans who understood and were themselves shaped by the virtues of the old order nevertheless build the new one?
Lessons from the 19th Century – The Scholar's StageCentralization, not hierarchy, caused the demise of local dynamism.
Lessons from the 19th Century – The Scholar's Stage“publick usefuleness,”
Lessons from the 19th Century – The Scholar's StageI am a bit distressed each time I read an account of a person “arguing himself” or “arguing herself” into existential risk from AI being a major concern. No one can foresee those futures! Once you keep up the arguing, you also are talking yourself into an illusion of predictability. Since it is easier to destroy than create, once you start considering the future in a tabula rasa way, the longer you talk about it, the more pessimistic you will become.
Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history - Marginal REVOLUTIONhe can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
Curius / Onboarding