Tom Hyde
@tomhyde_
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Drunk on wonder ❤️🔥 @conjectureinst fellow
this other Eden
Joined August 2012
❤️🔥 WONDERISM ❤️🔥 — my rough-sketch philosophy of Enlightenment and Romanticism, reason and feeling, science and art.
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Ecological models like these are viewed with reverence by environmentalists. They represent only famine, poverty, and murder. “Exceeding ecological limits” is a euphemism for “refusing to be eaten alive and starving to death.” Not a bad niche if you ask me 🤷🏻♂️
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We Built The World Upstairs
Georgist myth. Creating land is easy. Just build a staircase. The overlying floor space is 100% new. Build a 100-story building. The football pitch above you fits on the footprint of a house. In a city-centre, 80-90% of the land is man-made. We built the world upstairs.
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The Enormous Fallacy “Large numbers, when they are used, should be used to inspire, not subdue.” NEW ESSAY LINKED BELOW 👇
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IQ… Wealth… School… Or… he just really loved thinking. From Teller: "Johnny Von Neumann enjoyed thinking. I have come to suspect that, to most people, thinking is painful. Johnny enjoyed it. I'd even have the suspicion that he enjoyed practically nothing else. This explains
"von," of course, is a title. He had governesses and advanced math tutors from a young age, and when he did finally go to regular school, they were some of the best schools of the time, ones that *coincidentally* produced a ton of other math geniuses.
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I don't think anyone has internalised just how large the opportunity is out there there are many orders of magnitude more wealth to be created, we will look at living conditions today the same way we pitifully look at the impoverished pesants of the middle ages.
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"The enormous fallacy is, in reality, a minor mistake. It is a simple miscalibration, a framing error resulting from a universal campaign to minimise our confidence. Large numbers, when they are used, should be used to inspire, not subdue." CI Fellow @tomhyde_ Link below 👇
The Enormous Fallacy “Large numbers, when they are used, should be used to inspire, not subdue.” NEW ESSAY LINKED BELOW 👇
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This is, in large part, a sequel to my billionaire piece published in @merionwest
My latest in @merionwest. A defence of billionaires in terms of Deutschian Optimism. https://t.co/SYAPS2q5ek
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The Enormous Fallacy “Large numbers, when they are used, should be used to inspire, not subdue.” NEW ESSAY LINKED BELOW 👇
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More wealth has been created in the last few hundred years than has ever existed. Yet whilst we remain trapped on this planet, in these aging bodies, mired in increasingly zero-sum politics... we are poor. Dirt poor, in the cosmic scheme of things. We have so far, still, to go.
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can you IMAGINE the trains we would have if Pangea was a thing ohhh my god
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Whoa. Even with current Maglev bullet trains a pole-to-pole Pangea journey would take 30-40 hours.
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