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Bojan Tunguz
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In general, if an organization needs to do something that uses computation, and that task is too expensive today, it probably won’t be too expensive in a couple of years.
“Absolutely nothing useful is realized when one person who holds that there is a 0 percent probability of something argues against another person who holds that the probability is 100 percent.”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“A basic conflict is thus arising over Europe between the interests of Atlantic sea-power, which demand the preservation of vigorous and independent political life on the European peninsula, and the interests of the jealous Eurasian land power, which must always seek to extend itself to the west and will never find a place, short of the Atlantic Ocean, where it can from its own standpoint safely stop.”
― World Order
― World Order
“Because in this view the domestic principles of an Islamic state were divinely ordained, non-Muslim political entities were illegitimate; they could never be accepted by Muslim states as truly equal counterparts. A peaceful world order depended on the ability to forge and expand a unitary Islamic entity, not on an equilibrium of competing parts.”
― World Order
― World Order
“Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.”
― Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
― Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
“Hence arises the belief that traditional culture, which is always based on particular connections, identities, and meanings, is intrinsically oppressive; that “essentialism,” the belief that things have a particular nature and significance, is ignorance and bigotry; and that “discrimination”, treating one connection as more fitting than another for any non-technological reason, is irrational and wrong.”
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
― Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It
Bojan’s 2025 Year in Books
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