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on the atlas · 9

• Heroin liberals and cocaine conservatives1 savers
• February 16, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson1 savers
• Tech Strikes Back — The New Atlantis4 savers
• Decline Without Fall: Tolkien and the Long Defeat1 savers
• HFT Does Not Make Sense Anymore - by Henrique Bucher1 savers
• Note by Maya C. Popa on Substack: "In for 2024: Mindful scrolling Out for 2024: Doomscrolling I’ll never forget the day I learned we get a dopamine hit from negative stimulus. So, after a burst of anger, there’s a “post-tirade glow,” making anger addictive. Your neurochemical response literally incentivizes mor…"1 savers
• January 17, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson1 savers
• Chapter 1: Inadequacy and Modesty | Inadequate Equilibria3 savers
• A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning | Lil'Log12 savers

highlights · 8

• The core difference between the American conservative fundraising narrative and the American liberal fundraising narrative is best described in this pharmaceutical language: liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine.

  Heroin liberals and cocaine conservatives

• Carlson replied by equating Russia and the U.S., saying: “Every leader kills people…. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.

  February 16, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

• Among a wider set of technologists, the appeal of AI safety might reflect a cognitive tendency to overly formalize social problems.

  Tech Strikes Back — The New Atlantis

• Plato once remarked that secretly in his heart, every man longs for the end of the world. Whether or not this is true, there is something remarkably unsatisfying about experiencing all of the symptoms of impending collapse but never seeing the end.

  Decline Without Fall: Tolkien and the Long Defeat

• From 2010-2020, there was a commoditization of the HFT industry, which has become increasingly competitive, leading to market saturation. As more firms entered the space and adopted similar strategies, profit margins widely narrowed.

  HFT Does Not Make Sense Anymore - by Henrique Bucher

• I’ll never forget the day I learned we get a dopamine hit from negative stimulus. So, after a burst of anger, there’s a “post-tirade glow,” making anger addictive. Your neurochemical response literally incentivizes more anger.

  Note by Maya C. Popa on Substack: "In for 2024: Mindful scrolling Out for 2024: Doomscrolling I’ll never forget the day I learned we get a dopamine hit from negative stimulus. So, after a burst of anger, there’s a “post-tirade glow,” making anger addictive. Your neurochemical response literally incentivizes mor…"

• He noted that one of his colleagues had provided statistics showing that President Barack Obama deported more people in each term than Trump did, so “if the border wasn’t a problem until President Biden was elected, then how are we deporting all of these people in administrations before Trump was elected? It’s because this situation has been going on for decades. So stop lying to the American people that none of this happened until President Biden was elected

  January 17, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson

• Though interest in the alignment problem has since increased quite a bit, it still makes sense to ask whether at the time I should have inferred from the lack of academic activity that there was no productive work to be done here; since if there were reachable fruits, wouldn’t academics be taking them?

  Chapter 1: Inadequacy and Modesty | Inadequate Equilibria