Trae Stephens
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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I would actually even put online dating in that category.
Um
And the then the other quadrant is the feels bad is good.
This is what I would like classify as duty and responsibility.
So going back to like the flock safety thing.
That's you know, not everyone agrees on law enforcement policy, but it turns out that like drugs are bad and uh uh crime is bad.
And as a society, we should be committed to leveraging the government's monopoly on violence to ensure that people aren't destroying themselves and society uh in the pursuit of some vain quest.
Um and and I think that
that not enough gets built in that category and that's both a positive because it's an opportunity to build something that's non competitive and it's also a curse because it means that we have too few people working on the most important things.
Yeah, I mean look, I I think.
Authoritarian governments are bad in a lot of ways, and we should not aspire to be an authoritarian government and yet.
They have a massive advantage against democratic governments because they can mandatorily conscript their most talented people into working on the society in on society's greatest problems.
Yep.
Um we don't have that ability.
I don't uh I don't want us to have that ability.
Um, but man, wouldn't it be great if we had some mechanism
To get our best and brightest, kind of in the way that Israel does, to do two years of civil service coming out of high school.
Um, I think that would do a couple of things.
First, it would actually like give us the people that we need to execute on national priorities.
Secondly, though, I think it would expose people to how hard the government is.
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