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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.

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  Time spent on bureaucratic paperwork is a real economic cost even though it doesn't appear in government budgets.

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  it is simply ridiculous that a ruinously expensive policy can be budget-neutral if the expense consists of wasted time rather than wasted money. But that's still a cost!

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Economist specialising in global income inequality; formerly lead economist in the World Bank research department, now at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the Global Inequality and More newsletter.

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  Technologies are not neutral but political, and AI founders' views mix millennialism, eugenics, utopia-seeking, and spreading beyond Earth.

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  Technologies are not neutral, but political. Money is indeed one of the incentives, but not the only one. A mixture of millennialism, eugenics, search for utopia and for a spread of the specie beyond the confines of the Earth, are all elements we find among the founders’ views.

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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  Universities and their administrations should remain ideologically neutral toward faculty's political views

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  An institution must remain neutral with regard to the ideological beliefs of its faculty.

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Pseudonymous reviewer who publishes measured, standardised flashlight and knife reviews at zeroair.org, including runtime, output and tint measurements.

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  Skilhunt H150V4 5000K

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  The Skilhunt H150V4 5000K headlamp is an outstanding headlamp. It's great for being neutral white, high CRI, running an included 14500 cell or AA, and having a great user interface. The price is fairly reasonable because of all those reasons and the great build quality!

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  A coding-agent company should not train its own model: it has to stay neutral ground for models to compete on.

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  people ask us if we'll train our own model and the answer currently is no 1. we are too dumb to 2. there's plenty of other well funded efforts 3. we need to remain a neutral ground for models to battle

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Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.

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  Cesare Borgia's conquered cities loved him because an outsider with no local faction gave them the first neutral justice they had seen in generations.

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  And everyone says, "Why are they liking this man? He is a cruel murdering tyrant." And the answer is for the first time in generations, they have had something close to fair justice.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  Get the positioning right and the world keeps handing you wins you never predicted, because well-funded rivals will all use a neutral party to advance their own interests.

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  If you get your positioning right, the world just keeps handing you wins that you didn't even expect. So like we never predicted this exact scenario but like our fundamental understanding of the position was right. like if if there is a neutral party, all these companies with billions of dollars will kind of use a neutral party to advance their own like company's interests.

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Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

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  Truthear x Crinacle - ZERO:RED

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  Great neutral sound signature, perfect for gaming and listening EDMs

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Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.

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  Caps Lock

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  It's not neutral and very political, but it gave me a different perspective on how design serves people. Highly recommended.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Earning more does not make a woman less likely to have children, except at the very bottom of the income distribution.

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  the shift from 50th to 99th percentile earnings has no negative effect on women’s fertility, and unearned income for women has a neutral-to-positive effect

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

Labour politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 2024 to June 2026, and MP for Holborn and St Pancras from 2015 until standing down in 2026. Director of Public Prosecutions before entering Parliament.

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  Britain must be an AI maker rather than an AI taker, and a government should not stay neutral about who shapes the technology.

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  This is the global race of our lives. Now, some countries are going to make AI breakthroughs and export them… Others will end up buying those breakthroughs and importing them. The question is – which of those will Britain be? AI maker or AI taker?

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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  We do not control neural networks well enough to guarantee an AI will not harm humans, so we should be careful about what capabilities we give them.

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  The biggest issue is probably that we don’t control neutral networks enough to be able to ensure AI doesn’t harm humans. We can’t even control AI to not reveal internal prompts.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  The lower a country's neutral interest rate, the smaller the fiscal and welfare costs of public debt and the larger its welfare benefits.

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  The lower the neutral rate, the smaller the fiscal and welfare costs and the larger the welfare benefits of debt and deficits.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu

Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

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  A software foundation is little more than a tax status, and gets less public accountability than a company because everyone assumes its motives are good.

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  There is nothing about a foundation that is inherently good, neutral, or charitable, simply because they have a 501(c) status.

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Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995; designer of Vitsœ's 606 shelving system; author of the ten principles for good design.

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  Good design is unobtrusive: products that fulfil a purpose are tools, neither decorative objects nor works of art, and should leave room for the user's self-expression.

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  Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user’s self-expression.

  Dieter Rams: ten principles for good designvitsoe.com

American-Polish journalist and historian, staff writer at The Atlantic; author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc.

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  Memoir of Hungary

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  Sándor Márai is one of the great Hungarian novelists. He was in Hungary during the war, and left in 1948. This book is about a neutral intellectual's encounter with communism, and it records what he saw as it happened.

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