Jon

Corporate welfare is absurd. | Freedom is undervalued. | The best ideas come from the internet.

[Jon @jonboguth]

What kind of world do we want to make?

[Hans G. Schantz @AetherCzar]

I'm still waiting for the Great War to end so we can get rid of this temporary tax on incomes.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@lex_node 60 not sixty (60)
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[Jon @jonboguth]

@OldKnavey @RichardHanania Looks like his intuition on chess (which is obviously just one example of the broader point) was right

[Jon @jonboguth]

@OldKnavey @RichardHanania Like Richard says, that’s exactly why so few people are making money in chess ever since IBM beat Kasparov all those years ago….

[Jon @jonboguth]

@arram Reminds me of something Scott Adams said years ago, that our phones were increasingly telling us what to do along multiple dimensions, and that mostly we don’t even recognize it

[Jon @jonboguth]

@patio11 Your penchant for understatement will make most people not get what you’re really saying

[Jon @jonboguth]

@roxannequest @HAHazony I don’t remember if I read that or if Matt Ridley wrote so much about it that I might as well have

[Jon @jonboguth]

@realEstateTrent Leisure is always the tradeoff! 100 years ago people thought that we’d only work 10 hours/week in the future with the technological improvements that they saw then.

Largely didn’t work out like that. We seem to want to stay productive.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@aaronsibarium @razibkhan Not the voters though.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@aaronsibarium @razibkhan This agreement made many of us loathe the Republican elite in Michigan during our efforts to ban racial preferences in the early 2000s.

Some people had principles, but most were cowards siding with the left.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@xwanyex What do you have in mind? If they were right, I’m thinking they wouldn’t be the bad guys.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@pegobry_en Yours has a fairly clear answer, but I do want more discussion of American interests more broadly

[Jon @jonboguth]

There are people in congress who don’t even understand the *concept* of American interests

[Jon @jonboguth]

@kamens @andy_matuschak I wonder who besides mathematicians says ‘this is just our weird hobby’ while not realizing there are real-world impacts of their work. There must be other examples.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@CharlieWalsham_ @mattwridley There must be a lot of people throwing the Chomsky quote (from a BBC interview no less!) his way right now

[Jon @jonboguth]

“Natural talents” look like that because they’ve put in the reps. Goes for athletes and communicators and others.

[Jon @jonboguth]

Enjoying the spelling bee/hard work discourse lately, and people turning to sports for examples.

We love winners, we love talent, we love hard work, we love to make fun of people who put in work on odd things… but if a person loves their odd thing, we can appreciate it too.

[Jon @jonboguth]

@The_PK_Guy @NathanJRobinson “Negligently” is an intent element, most commonly associated with tort law, but sometimes with crimes. My point is that we typically say that the user commits the crime, not the tool.