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Substack essays on technology, culture, economics and history, with posts on interest rates, the internet, and the social effects of modernity.
What HN saysHN links it for essays like the 2022 interest-rate piece; the one comment cited discusses inflation and AI hype, giving no opinion of the blog itself.
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coldtea · 2023-03-20
>Maybe when the inflation starts dying down faster + the AI craze will continue to even greater heights then we'll see it coming back in full swing.
We might never see it "back in full swing", the same way cobblers never did came back in full swing...
https://novum.substack.com/p/what-if-worldview-zero-interest-rates