"AI that only automates knowledge work will cause negative economic growth due to harsh political reactions." - @SamoBurja Samo's contrarian take: Automating white-collar jobs is more dangerous than blue-collar automation. The laptop class has organizational power. Prepare for chaos.

What a speech. I don’t agree with all of its specifics, but its general sentiment speaks to a deep truth. A country severed from the roots which built it cannot remain for long.

In fact, young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, completely erasing the graduate employment premium. Whereas a healthy premium remains for young women.

This is much likelier than economists would like to admit.

In the near future everyone using a smartphone will require you to live and thrive in extreme and strange ideological and epistemic environments.

We will eventually see ethnic Germans migration to Poland outpacing Polish migration to Germany.

What existing people or things are trying to serve not just founders, but "Great Founders" in the @SamoBurja sense? ("those who found the most functional institutions that contribute to the bedrock of their civilizations") I think Peter Thiel is/was trying this. Who else?

A reminder that as a technical matter global hunger is solved, not only that as a planet we make far more calories than humans can consume and stay healthy.

It's almost like the economics profession doesn't fully understand tariffs

I can’t pass a bookstore without picking something up, but mainstream book publishing is dominated by what I consider “female authorial voice” (sometimes even from the remaining male authors), and my tastes are a little out of step with it. Robert E. Howard’s pulp fiction of a century ago is quite a palate cleanser. Everyone knows Conan, and I have read some Solomon Kane, but I was completely unfamiliar with his westerns, a genre that I have read very little of. I enjoyed them more than I expected – “American Violence" is a vibe from a mostly lost culture. The stories are all in the public domain now, so you can find them free online or in very cheap editions, but this Passage Publishing collection is Folio Society level nice.