2025-01-28
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Dwarkesh Podcast with Sarah Paine on WW2 Japan. I’m not sure how far I buy these cultural determinism explanations for things, but now I understand the background and mindset why LKY said that rearming Japan was akin to giving a drink to a recovering alcoholic.
Asimov Press on the past and future of influenza vaccines.
Byrne Hobart with an observation about tech surveillance, which I don’t totally agree with, but gets lost in rhetoric of tech companies “selling” your data like in this Utopian Dreams article on surveillance.
Nathan Young on Ceroc dance. Notably I think the representation of people who dance with their head are overrepresented in internet writing, despite there not being a lot of it. For hobbies as big as this one, you would expect there to be a lot of meta information online, for example which dances are popular in which reasons and where to find classes and socials. But no, everything is informal and word of mouth.
Sam Matey interviews Yaw. Someone once told me that to make it as a commentator you have to focus on a niche and slowly expand out from there. It’s surprising that someone can claim the entirety of African development for himself. Anyways, the part about the best form of support being knowledge transfer that leads to local self-sufficiency matches my own thoughts, based on articles like this one by Nicholas Decker.
