This year, I’m doing another list of one-shot predictions. This time, with a slight difference since Astral Codex Ten is running a 2023 Prediction Contest with 50 questions. I will show these questions with my predictions in this list and I will also add some additional questions that I find interesting to forecast. As in …
Link to Google Doc A concept that has been growing increasingly popular, and which is now becoming a reality, the past years is charter cities. (See for example: Próspera, Orchidéa, and more) Charter cities are semi-autonomous cities, which often are built to attract tech-entrepreneurs and digital nomads. As such, part of the reason for wanting …
Link to Google Doc Recently, I have been thinking about social status. In this post I want to propose a framework about how to think about status in peer groups and cultures. The epistemic status of the framework is loose, but it is a start. Status is intuitively understood by almost anyone. Most people can …
Link to Google Doc I have been reading Baudrillard for some time now, as a part of a broader interest in contemporary philosophy. This passage, below, in particular made an impression on me. I am going to try to explain why in this post. The great event of this period, the great trauma, is this …
Link to Google Doc I listened to an interesting podcast the other day, EconTalk with Martin Gurri. The topic they explored was digitalization and the effects on the public’s view of institutions and politics. Martin Gurri has written the book The Revolt of the Public, a book about the tsunami of information that has become …