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A good read. It’s an accurate treatment of what the second law of thermodynamics means and how it relates to how life itself functions and what that means for humans. Entropy is not really disorder

This lib article bemoans that it’s only founders who get liquidity at startups, but it is still worth reading to have another datapoint on how the “risks” capitalists take to found their businesses are elaborate illusions: tech startup founders take millions behind closed doors, even at very early stages.

Comrades, I thought you might enjoy this Douyin of our Chinese comrades mourning the void the USSR's collapse left in its wake.

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I thought it was an interesting read. It's a very Pollyannish piece about the future where AI is somehow able to enable a workforce productivity revolution to save the American economy from its declining labor force.

But in the meantime they make the argument based on some quantitative economic work that in the last few years, growth in employment has slowed because automation is displacing many more workers than new jobs are being created from the automation. They even admit that this is mostly achieved by shoveling costs onto the consumer. The self-awareness is wild.

I was surprised to see this on the front page of NYT today. It sounds like an interesting discourse at the intersection between Communism and climate change. Also sorry if this is the wrong community for this post.

Side note - it's doubly interesting that this book was apparently a hit in Japan. Quite some hopium

I would like to better understand this guy’s life and thinking. Does anyone have recommendations for the best books Kissinger himself wrote as well as books about him?