Saumya Choudhary
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- How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization2 savers
- The Abundance Doctrine : Democracy Journal1 savers
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- How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur in the American Vetocracy - Institute for Progress2 savers
- The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital12 savers
- The Study of Administration | Teaching American History1 savers
- On Cultures That Build – The Scholar's Stage3 savers
- The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League - Works in Progress1 savers
- Home | Substack1 savers
- The divine economy: how religions compete for wealth, power, and people | LSE Event - YouTube1 savers
- The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite: A Review of Musa al-Gharbi's We Have Never Been Woke - Front Porch Republic1 savers
- YOUR EYES ARE LEAKING CORPORATE CUM™ - Parakeet’s Substack1 savers
- Being Impressive - Quarter Mile1 savers
- How to Not Suck At Your Job - Quarter Mile1 savers
- Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA (Ep. 127) | Conversations with Tyler2 savers
- A Young Man Used AI to Build A Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep1 savers
- America's plan to control global AI - by Henry Farrell1 savers
- 🌻 tech right (disambiguation) - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmine1 savers
- Thoughts for Curious Rabbit-holers Like Me [Live Post]4 savers
- How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions25 savers
- siderea | [psych/anthro, Patreon] The Asshole Filter1 savers
- Becoming perceptive - by Henrik Karlsson12 savers
- This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Street36 savers
- Relationships are coevolutionary loops - by Henrik Karlsson40 savers
- Cozytech - by Venkatesh Rao - Ribbonfarm Studio2 savers
- Truth-Seeking Modes4 savers
- Taste is Eating Silicon Valley. - by Anu Atluru13 savers
- The Basics: Deference Politics - Freddie deBoer1 savers
- good conversations have emergent properties - by Nix 🕊1 savers
- valley of things unsaid - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜2 savers
- Good conversations have lots of doorknobs36 savers
- Curius / Onboarding2704 savers
- The Gap Map34 savers
- The New Internet9 savers
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highlights · 27
The reason science fiction is more strongly associated with technology is that technology tends to harness natural phenomena in new ways and throw us all unceremoniously into alien regimes, with no possibility of restoration of old states. Regimes that require us to invent strange new rules to survive. But also rules that apply to everybody equally. Rules that do not pick out anyone as special.
Home | SubstackWhether the story is about spaceships or dragons is irrelevant. If the protagonist is a Chosen One in some sense,﹣someone the universe recognizes individually, and treats as special,﹣you’re dealing with a fantasy story. On the other hand, if the protagonist deals with rules that might perhaps be strange, but apply to everyone in the fictional universe, you’ve got yourself a science fiction story.
Home | SubstackThey’re very tolerant because they have a vested interest in public image, and then compassion, one would think.
Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA (Ep. 127) | Conversations with Tylerit’s easy to forget that they’re still the new kids on the block
🌻 tech right (disambiguation) - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmineNo one is born with it, everyone can learn it, and it’s never too late.
How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsIt’s possible to cross the moat quietly, by not asking questions and not collaborating, but those tradeoffs really nerf learning.
How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictionsradical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant. These don’t always surface in awareness to the point one is actually choosing -- often they live in a cloud of aversion that strategically obscures the tradeoff.
How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful FictionsThere is an interesting tension between the yellows and the blues here
Becoming perceptive - by Henrik KarlssonIt is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: “This is water.”
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Streetin the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Streetpretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam StreetIt will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Streetthere is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute centre of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Streetwe also never end up talking about just where these individual templates and beliefs come from.
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Streetwe might actually have a muscular alternative to Silicon Valley that doesn’t feel like an insipid and quixotic political-resistance theater.
Cozytech - by Venkatesh Rao - Ribbonfarm Studiobut quite rational if you think of it as one piece of an emerging puzzle, where other pieces balance it out via various oppositions.
Cozytech - by Venkatesh Rao - Ribbonfarm Studioless deluded disposition from a bunch of more deluded ones. It’s building a reliable gestalt subjectivity out of unreliable component subjectivities. The self as complex engineered artifact.
Truth-Seeking ModesThe healthiest way to relate to a truth-seeking impulse is as an infinite game, where the goal is to continue playing, not arrive at a dispositive “winning” right answer.
Truth-Seeking ModesM frames his arguments with this statement for this to be true, you’d need to believe…, H frames her observations with I think the right question to ask yourself about this is…’ You have to find your own type, size, colloquiality of frame.
valley of things unsaid - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜enduring curiosity for another person.
valley of things unsaid - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜Everyone has this deep valley of the unsaid within them. In knowing another, in knowing yourself, it takes a long time to close that comprehension gap.
valley of things unsaid - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜Some of the most intuitive people I know remind me constantly that logic-mode is imprecise and faulty.
valley of things unsaid - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜Uncertainties occur when you live too much in the cerebral plane and less in the body. You tend to analyze and extrapolate behaviors in weird ways rather than trusting what you feel.
valley of things unsaid - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜Could he channel their popularity into electoral success without ceding internal control of the party to them?
The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew’s SingaporeSoviet agricultural collectivism, the Chinese Great Leap Forward, and the Le Corbusian projects in Brasilia and Chandigarh are haunting reminders of the limitations of the model.
The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singaporewhat are the philosophical assumptions that underlie the Singaporean approach to governance? What are the limitations of these assumptions? What has happened when foreigners have attempted to replicate the Singaporean model, or when Singaporeans try to export it?
The True Story of Lee Kuan Yew’s SingaporeStarting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
Curius / Onboarding