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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The most recent ANES shows White Americans with zero ingroup bias.

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  Everyone likes to share that chart about White Americans having negative ingroup bias, but the most recent ANES shows Whites with zero ingroup bias.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Meditation is more powerful than psychedelic drugs, not milder as commonly assumed.

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  The moment when you realize that you thought drugs were powerful and meditation was mild, but you now realize the opposite is true.

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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.

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  When someone gets the same negative reaction from many different people, the more likely explanation is their own behavior, not everyone else's.

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  If you consistently get the same particular negative reaction from people, it's best to model your own affect/behavior as the cause.

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  Transcendental Meditation

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  Transcendental meditation has helped me make that transition since 1969.

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  Making dramatic claims about contemplative experience helps sustain interest in a topic that is otherwise fairly dull.

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  Additionally, making bold declarations about the extremity of contemplative experience is a decent way to keep people talking about meditation, which can be a fairly boring subject.

  Biting the no-self bulletsashachapin.substack.com

Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  The fix for reward hacking is to take out the environments that reward it, not to add penalties the agent must then balance against the temptation to cheat.

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  Like it's a more fragile and scary situation to have agents on the one hand be reinforced to desperately find cheats and hacks and on the other hand try to balance that against desperately trying to avoid negative penalties for like being caught doing these things. You ideally want their training to just not push them in the direction of cheating and hacking in the first place.

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  Social media may really be harming teenagers even though the studies find almost nothing, because everyone is exposed and the studies compare harmed children with harmed children.

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  I think it’s entirely plausible that screens have a real negative effect on teenagers, but studies can’t find them because (a) the effects need not be dose-dependent (maybe two hours on your phone isn’t worse than one hour), and (b) given that everyone else is on social media, giving it up can have a negative effect.

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Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  Graphics have stopped selling games: most of the market by revenue no longer cares how a game looks, so new games now compete with the entire back catalogue.

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  But a large portion of the gaming market by revenue doesn't really care what the game looked like all that much uh in a sense that whatever we're doing today is good enough. So 10 years from now if the games look much better for some reason no one will really think of that as a huge differentiation differentiator in terms of sales.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  10% Happier

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  Nice and entertaining introduction to the ideas of mindfulness and meditation.

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Business had become politics without anyone noticing, which is why almost everything said about a company a decade ago was negative.

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  the media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.

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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Organisations say they want disagreement but charge social capital for it, until people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

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  we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

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Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.

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  Crosswords and sudoku are closer to meditation than to cognitive training, because they keep you focused without ever making you struggle.

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  Even if you're doing hard ones, if you look at the work of people like uh Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing, right? So you're focused but not challenged really.

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  Fear of others' negative judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.

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  And this fear of judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.

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Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.

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  Practices marketed as transformative, such as therapy, meditation, and psychedelics, often produce little real progress despite years of use.

  psychedelicsPsychotherapy

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  There are many practices that promise to transform and improve us-therapy, meditation, psychedelics-, but that branding doesn't mean that they actually do much for us: it is common to see people use these techniques for years without any obvious progress on their problems.

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  The maritime order goes unappreciated because its objectives are negative: you can never prove you prevented anything.

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  But the maritime world is about negative objectives. It's preventing things from bad things from happening. And um you can never prove that you prevented anything.

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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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  Every hyped business attracts negative sentiment nobody has an incentive to correct — and inference makes sense as a business long-term, whatever the training costs are.

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  There's always negative sentiment that exists for any business that's getting hyped. They have no incentive to correct it. Um so again it's complicated because I know the training costs are a big part of it. Uh the R&D department is is hugely expensive but long-term inference makes sense as a business and I think it it always will.

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From one piece Practice method, not results. METHOD NOT RESULTS. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Damaging experiences from meditation usually happen because practitioners chase results instead of following the method.

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  Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.

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  Practicing meditation for methods rather than for results is one of the most important principles in contemplative practice.

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  I think it's one of the most important warnings in contemplative practice, a warning sticker that should go on every single meditation book.

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  A sustained 'do nothing' meditation practice surfaces unresolved psychological material in an order the practitioner cannot control.

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  Nothing practice is psychologically thorough: all of your stuff will come up, in an order not determined by you.

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  Nearly every widely distributed technology produces negative second-order effects.

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  There will be negative second-order effects of almost every widely distributed technology.

  What has technology done to us?justinjackson.ca

Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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  Ultra-processed foods have epidemiological evidence of harm comparable to what existed for smoking.

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  There's strong epidemiological evidence associating ultra-processed foods with a range of negative health outcomes, at least on par with the evidence we had for smoking.

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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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  Green Soul Monster Ultimate

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  A very comfortable gaming/working chair that I use for long hours

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  Dell G15 7588

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  Never buying a gaming laptop again, use it for hosting home media server

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  Sony PlayStation 5

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  Perfect for my casual gaming, expanded with 2 TB SSD

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  Edifier R1855DB

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  Amazing sounding bookshelf speakers that I use while gaming and watching content

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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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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

From one piece Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Small studios are the future of gaming: the genuinely new ideas come out of them, and the big studios acquire rather than generate them.

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  Small studios are the future of gaming. The big studios basically acquire the small studios for new IP and ideas, and the small studios grow in. The really compelling, new, innovative ideas are gonna come out of small studios.

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  Social media is built so that maximum hyperbole wins, and the negative direction pays better than the positive.

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  And unfortunately, social media in general is designed in such a way where the maximum hyperbole works, and that’s how you get the most points is by being max hyperbolic.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.

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  The robot arm base case saves some hourly labor at the expense of adding more skilled labor, and can easily be negative if it needs reprogramming more than a few times per year.

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Author and journalist writing on food, plants and consciousness. Professor at UC Berkeley and co-founder of its Center for the Science of Psychedelics.

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  A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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  a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity.

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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  Xbox Elite Controller Series 2

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  For other games, I rely on xCloud (Xbox's cloud gaming platform) Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 is my controller.

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Writer on habits and decision-making; author of Atomic Habits and the 3-2-1 newsletter, and publisher of long-running book recommendation lists.

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  Intensity produces a good story while consistency produces progress, and only consistency belongs to how a person actually lives.

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  Intensity makes for a good story. You know, it's like, oh, I went to a silent meditation retreat for a week, you know, or I um I ran a marathon. Um you know, we launched this product faster than any other had been launched or what, you know, intensity makes for a good story, but consistency makes progress.

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

From one piece Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Cost 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Richer countries have fewer children than poor ones, but within a country a boom raises births and a bust lowers them.

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  Although the cross-sectional relationship between national income and fertility is negative, the longitudinal relationship between national income and fertility is positive: economic booms create baby booms, economic busts create baby busts.

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

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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

Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  Whatever the term, by 2030 AI progress will be so dramatic that the world will be dealing with its consequences, good and bad, in a big way.

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  I almost feel the term doesn't matter, what I know is by 2030 there'll be such dramatic progress. We'll be dealing with the consequences of that progress, both the positive externalities and the negative externalities that come with it in a big way by 2030. So that I strongly feel.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The metaverse does not require VR: VR is hardware that may or may not improve the experience, and it has a much smaller audience than social gaming already does.

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  VR has a much smaller audience. I don't think you need VR to have anything like this. VR is hardware that may or may not enhance the experience for some usage cases.

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  Humans together in a shared world are a naturally empathetic medium, while typing messages at each other is a self-reinforcing negative dynamic.

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  I think the lesson from all of that is that humans talking to humans and being together in the real world or a virtual world, is a naturally empathetic medium, which naturally leads to bonding, and though conflict sometimes occurs, it's just generally so much more promoting of our social norms and good interactions between people and positivity promoting.

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  A game is quadratically more valuable the larger the share of a player's real-world friends it can connect them to, and that is the number one trend in gaming today.

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  It is the number one trend for pervading the world of gaming today. And it says that your game is quadratically more valuable the more percentage of a user's real-world friends they can connect to.

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  The metaverse is a harder technical problem than a web page, so it needs a language more powerful, safer and more scalable than JavaScript.

  JavaScript

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  But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

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  Any given AI capability becomes cheap and widely available within a couple of years of first being reached, so nobody can be kept away from it for long.

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  But with AI, it’s different: it’s often only a couple of years between when you need a world-class computing cluster to do something and when you can run it on a high-end gaming chip on your laptop.

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Referral growth is driven by whales — single users who invite fifty or a hundred people — not by many users each inviting a few.

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  we've definitely found that there are whales to use the gaming terminology that one person is going to be responsible for inviting 25, 50, 100 people

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  American aid spending has been flat in real terms since 1945 even as the American economy grew tenfold.

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  Even as GDP has grown tenfold, US aid budgets have remained basically flat in real terms—the result (one might guess) of a delicate balancing act between bipartisan consensus among elites and a wariness of attracting too much negative attention.

  A World Without Aid?global-developments.org

Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  The Nobel Prize is probably a net good for the world and a net negative for science, because it makes scientists want to win a Nobel Prize.

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  I think that Nobel Prize has enormous problems. I think it’s probably a net good for the world because it brings attention to good science. I think it’s probably a net negative for science because it makes people want to win the Nobel Prize.

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Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.

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  Public hostility to immigration comes from fusing “who may work here” with “who becomes one of us”, and separating the two dissolves it.

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  When you separate those two questions in public dialogue, the negative attitudes disappear.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  The Vagabond’s Way

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  Best travel book I’ve ever read! Shook my soul many times. Tiny “daily meditation” format, with lots of quotes from others, but wow what wonderful insights. They make me yearn to travel again. Love love love these ideas and perspectives so much.

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  When safe interest rates are expected to remain below growth rates for a long time, rolling over public debt without later tax increases is feasible and public debt may carry no fiscal cost.

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  If the future is like the past, this implies that debt rollovers—that is, the issuance of debt without a subsequent increase in taxes—may well be feasible. Put bluntly, public debt may have no fiscal cost.

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  Across advanced economies, the celebrated ( r - g ), i.e., the difference between the interest rate and the growth rate, appears to have durably changed sign or, at a minimum, to have gone from a substantially negative number to a number closer to zero.

Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  A cultural focus on psychological health, meditation included, is one of the great obstacles to human progress.

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  I think meditation has been very good for me and that it would be very good for a lot of other people too.

Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  Steam Deck

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  The Steam Deck was my first taste of PC gaming in a handheld form factor and I love the snot out of my deck.

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  Relationship Handbook

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  Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.

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  Fiscal multipliers vary across time and place but are generally nonzero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and larger when monetary policy cannot offset them.

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  Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.

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