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Gil Milbauer
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Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter Simple Rules for a Complex World by Richard A. Epstein The Law by Frédéric Bastiat I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter Person, Polis, Planet by David Schmidtz The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Why Not Capitalism? by Jason Brennan
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Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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To modify an old aphorism: usually, when things suck, it’s because they suck in a way that’s a Nash equilibrium.
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
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