The Red Queen race or parable describes how, “Species have to ‘run’ or evolve in order to stay in the same place, or else go extinct as the Red Queen said to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass in her explanation of the nature of Looking-Glass Land: Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.'”| Grey Enlightenment
Looks like I was right yet again about the tariffs. On April 9th I wrote:| Grey Enlightenment
From a comment on Scott’s blog post, Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know:| Grey Enlightenment
I saw this post by Moldbug, “Harvard to the Finland Station.”| Grey Enlightenment
I saw this article by Auron MacIntyre defending the tariffs, “‘I, Pencil’ defined free trade — Trump’s tariffs are writing the sequel.” Even though I broadly agree with the author’s politics, this article is pretty bad.| Grey Enlightenment
It has been a little over 2 weeks since ‘liberation day’, when Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against many countries. I wrote a 3-part series about this (here, here, and here) in which I predicted the tariffs would not be as bad as forecasted. | Grey Enlightenment
I saw this tweet going viral:| Grey Enlightenment
I saw this going viral, How University Students Use Claude. As to be expected, the main issue is cheating: | Grey Enlightenment
Item #1. Trump announces 90-day pause on tariffs; stocks surge. | Grey Enlightenment