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Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.

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  It is worthwhile to pause and think critically about what other people tell you before accepting it

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  Second, it is never a bad idea to stop and think for a moment about what other people tell you.

  Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believedtimharford.com

Co-founder of Ethereum. Publishes long essays on mechanism design, governance and what cryptography is for, and returns to earlier positions to say which parts they no longer hold.

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  NixOS

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  The way that I use this daemon is that I run it on NixOS as a service, accepting requests on port 6000.

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Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  When politicians or executives offer a choice between two bad options, refuse the frame: reframe the question instead of accepting responsibility for either.

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  I believe this is the right answer. We're often being manipulated by politicians, by corporate leaders to make a choice from two suboptimal options. And then when we are forced to make this choice and we make this choice, it's almost as if it's something that we have to assume responsibility for. I don't think we should be buying into that.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

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  Working on how good the long-run future is does not require accepting consequentialism or believing that you should always maximise the good.

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  But I don’t claim you should always maximize the good, no matter the self-sacrifice, and no matter what means are involved.

  Introducing Better Futuresforethought.org

Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  Handing out cheques during Covid and accepting the inflation was less damaging than price controls and rationing would have been.

  inflation

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  We got inflation, but we did not get the devastation that would have been caused by price controls and rationing.

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Effective altruism demands hard evidence of effectiveness in some of its causes while accepting abstract conjecture in others, and never justifies the split.

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  While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com

Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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  The right response to lacking the ideal tool is to improvise a solution from what's on hand rather than accept you can't proceed.

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  It's important to look around you for solutions instead of accepting the current unavailability of options.

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