Brian Gallagher

Everyone from Weber to Mokyr puts culture at the center of the rise of the West. But nobody has had a long-run cultural series you could drop into a growth model. So I built one: LLMs read 23,000 books from the Western canon, scoring what each endorses. Year 0–1920, one chart:

HBO Max is launching "HBO Max Shorts" a mobile feature designed for users to watch iconic and memorial scenes from the HBO library in a vertical and scrollable feed

I've noticed that women on the left increasingly insist that the men they date attend therapy. I think this is due to how thoroughly many left-wing women view nearly every interaction through a kind of "therapy ideology" with its own special language. Because of this, many find it difficult to communicate with men who have not been conditioned to see relationships through the same ideological lens. They therefore seek men who have either already adopted the language and worldview of therapy ideology or are (at least somewhat) willing to convert. "Do you go to therapy" is the left-wing female version of "Do you go to church?" on the right.

this sort of hysterics over seb posting a UN blue helmet meme is pretty representative of the aesthetics of the ⏸️ movement, who have thoroughly salted the semantic earth of slowdown. i think if the acausal basilisk from the future genuinely paid people to discredit the idea of ai safety it couldn’t have done a better job as far as I know the pause ai meme space inspired a guy to try and firebomb sam altman’s house - they have very few legs to stand on concern trolling about violent incitement. indeed all other cases of personal violence in this space have been targeted at technology executives or infrastructure

Five (ok, six) ways in which Nolan's Odyssey is Homeric. 1. Narrative structures: a thematic ring with multiple flashbacks and timelines that unfold and entwine. Hello Homer's Odyssey