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MOLOCH MARKET: a market where both parties can plausibly claim that they're only being terrible to each other because the other party started it. each side allegedly just wants peace and order, but it's the bad guys on the other side that just keep playing dirty...
Incidentally, there's a whole ATLA episode about this
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the more I read about golden ages the more I'm stunned that we're not obsessing about it all the time

during India's Gupta golden age, they invented zero

during Baghdad's, they translated Aristotle

the Dutch golden age gave us Descartes

"capitalism" is maybe half the picture
the real powerful force is a bunch of nerds trying to outdo each other. it's rivalry that drives innovation, IMO, more than prestige, accolades and even financial rewards. it's clapton looking at hendrix and going What The Fuck
i'm still in the early stages of digging thru a ton of material so there's a moderate chance i might change my mind about this stuff, but I broadly think that productive rivalries are underrated and undervalued
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saw someone use the phrase "the algorithmic goddesses gave this to us" and it's quite a vivid mental image
via sam madhu: instagram.com/sam_madhu
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you have to master engagement to get clout, but you have to master disengagement to not subsequently lose it.

this is very counterintuitive; like 1% of people make it through stage one and 1% of those then make it to stage 2
it should not be surprising that people who get to where they are by “caring too much” subsequently make the mistake of caring too much
past a certain point, the thing that made you powerful can become the thing that makes you weak

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