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The other day, Silicon Valley Bank ran into some problems of the bank-run sort; Peter Thiel told all of the people who listen to him about things to pull their money out, and the way banks work is if even a surprisingly small amount of people do that, they run out of money to…
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The most troublesome arguments to try to make are those that are both very specific and limited (and are by nature of that more or less non-controversial) but are roommates with much bigger and more contentious targets. You say one thing, but the entire topic is so incredibly…
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Hidden Articles are not sent out as newsletters. They are usually “different” in some way - either they aren’t big enough topics to sustain an entire article, retreads of older thinking, or just something weird I wanted to try. In a very particular sense, I don’t know how to…
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Fair warning: I'm pretty sure this stuff is boring to most people
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Open Discussion It’s hard to do off-topic comments in articles that are specifically about something. If you want to ask me something or talk about…
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Author’s note: I do not really write fiction. With the exception of a few video scripts I wrote years ago, I haven’t really written any fiction at all…
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Like pet cats, there are some articles you choose, while others choose you. This is one of the examples of an article that was foisted on me…
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The other day Scott Alexander wrote a piece focusing on a few of the various jhana states of meditation. This falls pretty firmly into the category of…
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