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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a government uses a panda, a scholar, or a student exchange as a tool of diplomacy, does the goodwill feel real to you or borrowed?”
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The U.S. Trade Deficit: Tariffs vs. Borrowing Less
When people talk about America’s trade deficit, tariffs often come up as the “solution.” Put a tax on imports, make them more expensive, and the deficit will shrink, right? The problem is that tariffs do not actually fix the underlying imbalance.... Left Media Bias bigger than i realized
No matter how you measure (print media, online, page views, paid subscribers, followers, etc) US media leans heavily left, to an extent that surprised me.... - marcello...
A Plausible Oncoming Financial Storm
So, the economic situation might end up pretty dire if the following is correct. I'm posting this line-of-thought in case someone wants to sanity check it.... Reminds me there’s a Michael Meade quote I found recently, "Abuse is the wrong thing done to the wrong person by the wrong person at the wrong time. Regardless how wrong it is, the soul experiences abuse as an initiatory experience.... - david...
Absolutely it is ethical. In fact, I’d argue that voting when one knows they are actually voting against another candidate is the less ethical behavior.... - Philip...
Learn about Bitcoin. Your future self will very likely be grateful you did.
I think understanding Bitcoin is in everyone’s best interest. Although everyone’s heard about Bitcoin at this point, I think it’s still mostly misunderstood (and misrepresented).... - SuziQ...
What if Tariffs Are a Good Thing?
I was surprised to find that this podcast made me wonder whether tariffs would actually be really good for the US economy and, more importantly, for midd-class American people.... - johnky...
I underestimated tariffs. Here is what I've learnt.
I used to quietly feel smug watching others underestimate the power of tariffs in the hands of the United States, especially in discussions about the balance of power between China and the U.S., only to realise I had been underestimating them myself. 1.... The Open Question Sept 9: Who is a country for? Who decides?
Hey y'all, Let’s bring rigor and reciprocity into a conversation about immigration, trusting that healthy disagreement can be creative in a way sticking to the middle or polarization can’t: Who is a country for? Who decides?... It’s very strange. Has me wonder who aspires to be a journalist these days? Is it mostly young adults who are left-leaning because of the state of the industry they’re entering into? Are journalism schools teaching with a left-leaning bias?... - xander...
i get the sense from your text that over the course of generations, the general population lost track of what it was like to live in a world where the public wasn't dedicated to certain ideals.... Yeah I think my favorite way of framing "governance" is the social meta structure we use to solve coordination problems. I think the most basic use case is outsourcing violence so that we don't have to really think about it on the object level any more.... - aharoni...
- curiousdwk...
To me, there is a difference between stating facts about the State of Israel and generalizations about Jews. I am against Zionism as displayed in the Israeli government, but I am not against Jews.... - annabeth...
Politics self-assessment quiz from an integral perspective
I’m obsessively working on a course I’ve been trying to build for 4 years and have recently made big breakthroughs with. I’ve just completed the first draft of questions in the topic of politics.... - johnky...
Resolution or Revenge? Rethinking Sanctions in the Israel–Palestinian Conflict
One of the biggest problems with the way the Israel–Palestinian conflict is handled is the complete lack of coordination and structure. As it stands, there is no serious international framework in place to bring Israel to the negotiating table with a proposal it would actually... Second Coming <--> Positive Singularity <--> Steel-UpTrust? pt 1
Note: Originally written for the participants of the AI alignment X spirituality/metaphysics retreats I’ve co-hosted with Jordan and Anna Salamon, so there may be some references to ideas or people you don’t know.... Seeing ourselves and our culture in Charlie Kirk
When I first heard about the murder I didn't know how big of a lightning rod it was going to be. Then my friend Kageni challenged me to write about the Charlie Kirk event “from an integral perspective,”* and I’ve learned to listen to her challenges, even when I'm feeling scared... Dynamic Reponses vs Fixed Beliefs
I saw this tweet this AM and was kind of floored by it on so many layers. Most responders were dunking on the obvious backwards justifying. Here's a belief I already hold irrationally, let me find evidence for it....