Really just go ahead and “yada yada” 2,000ish years of history. Not like anything important happened in Italy between Ancient Rome and today’s economy.

Pretty cool insight. Seems increasingly clear that alignment is really hard, esp when these complex systems also create externalities so rapidly.

You likely already know this one but jic:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Really sounds more like a 5yo

My first thought was “straw man Frankenstein” but this is better

Thank you!

OMG even after translating this I only have a vague idea of what it means

Oh, I truly pity the German dyslexics

What do you think Beinart did well and didn't do well? I'm intrigued by it but not sure if I have a good reason to read it. (I'm skeptical that it'll help clarify how I feel about the subject. I'm kind of fishing for a sense of which motivation for a reader would be best satisfied by the book.)

This shit is delightful