Dwarkesh

Maybe it has good ideas.

Yes.

I do think it's possible to unbundle liberalism in this sense.

Like the United States is so far a liberal country, and we do ban slavery and torture.

I think it is plausible to imagine a future society that works the same way.

This may be in some sense a surveillance state in the sense that there is some AI that knows what's going on everywhere, but that AI then keeps it private and doesn't interfere because that's what we've told it to do using our liberal values.

I don't think there are many hidden gems.

Like once a year is a crazy answer in some sense.

Like it ought to be more.

There are so many thousands of people on Substack.

But I do just think it's true that the blogging space is...

The good blogging space is undersupplied and there is a strong power law.

And partly this is subjective, like I only like certain bloggers.

There are many people who I'm sure are great that I don't like.

But it also seems like

Our community, in the sense of people who are thinking about the same ideas, people who care about AI economics, those kinds of things, discovers one new great blogger a year, something like that.

Everyone is still talking about applied divinity studies who hasn't written, unless I missed something, hasn't written much in a couple of years.

I don't know.

It seems undersupplied.

I don't have a great explanation.