Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
With a little high-status prodding, the typical person is ready and willing – though not eager – to do great evil.
Simply Psychology
Milgram Experiment | Summary | Results | Ethics
The Milgram Shock Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, tested obedience to authority. Participants were instructed to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to another person, who was actually an actor, as they answered questions…
“These questions are all really the same question and the central anxiety of our time: Have I actually chosen who I am, or is my identity being shaped by sinister forces I can barely understand?”
source: https://open.substack.com/pub/theargument/p/obsession-and-the-horror-of-losing
My notes:
in fact, there is evidence to suggest that AI may help to reduce social polarization on political issues because it tends to adopt balanced views and present arguments from both sides
On external influence: i suspect that there are lots of things I’m concerned about that do not really bother me and more importantly I do not get any pleasure from thinking about them. Yet for some reason I read and think about them every day.
source: https://open.substack.com/pub/theargument/p/obsession-and-the-horror-of-losing
My notes:
in fact, there is evidence to suggest that AI may help to reduce social polarization on political issues because it tends to adopt balanced views and present arguments from both sides
On external influence: i suspect that there are lots of things I’m concerned about that do not really bother me and more importantly I do not get any pleasure from thinking about them. Yet for some reason I read and think about them every day.
Who is John Galt?
s: https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/tyler-cowen-how-socialism-hurts-the-young-healthcare
support a lot of capitalism, and much less socialism, in your healthcare institutions. More than ever before, especially if you are young, your life may depend on it
s: https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/tyler-cowen-how-socialism-hurts-the-young-healthcare
/ cybersecurity
/ superintelligence
/ implications
/ interesting
source: https://stratechery.com/2026/openai-hacks-hugging-face-what-happened-alignment-and-paper-clips/
/ superintelligence
/ implications
/ interesting
source: https://stratechery.com/2026/openai-hacks-hugging-face-what-happened-alignment-and-paper-clips/