Greetings from Taipei! Enjoy this weeks reads.
#1 Inter-Intellect: Anna Gat argues there is an emerging niche on the twitter web that is defined by an underlying optimist narrative: "The I.I. believes people are many-layered and full of promise — creatures who strive to do good, to be useful and to help their fellow humans."
Interested to see where this goes...
#2 Economics: These three videos form Russ Roberts giving a more nuanced and honest explanation of income, income inequality and assessing whether "only the rich get richer" is true.
#3 Scavenger: This man that eats people’s leftover food was fascinating because I think everyone has at least thought about it or done it in their life.
#4 Advice: Agnes Callard is skeptical of advice in our modern context:
It’s a great time to be a public intellectual, except for one thing: the part of the interview known as the “advice segment.”
Her series of articles are worth reading, especially her argument against hate.
#5 UFOs: Don't call me a conspiracy theorist or anything, but this article was at least fun to read and interesting to contemplate:
During the Cold War, the government actively lied about UFOs and perpetuated UFO hysteria to cover up its secret aircraft programs. They literally spread disinformation to the public in order to create a wonderfully convenient cover for the myriad clandestine weapon systems in development or operational at the time
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