Good questions. I have been pretty impressed with:
Balaji, who tweets about the dismantling of the American Empire (e.g. here, here) are the best geopolitical analysis I’ve seen of what’s going wrong with the current Trump administration
Some of Samo Burja’s concepts (e.g. live vs dead players) have proven much more useful than I expected when I heard about them a few years ago.
I think there are probably a bunch of other frameworks that have as much or more explanatory power as my two-factor model (e.g. Henrich’s concept of WEIRDness, Scott Alexander’s various models of culture war + discourse dynamics, etc). It’s less like they’re alternatives though and more like different angles on the same elephant.
Anybody else in addition to Fukuyama, Friedman, and Cummings who you think is good at doing the kind of thinking you’re pointing to here?
Are there alternatives to your two factor model that seem particularly plausible to you?
Good questions. I have been pretty impressed with:
Balaji, who tweets about the dismantling of the American Empire (e.g. here, here) are the best geopolitical analysis I’ve seen of what’s going wrong with the current Trump administration
NS Lyons, e.g. here.
Some of Samo Burja’s concepts (e.g. live vs dead players) have proven much more useful than I expected when I heard about them a few years ago.
I think there are probably a bunch of other frameworks that have as much or more explanatory power as my two-factor model (e.g. Henrich’s concept of WEIRDness, Scott Alexander’s various models of culture war + discourse dynamics, etc). It’s less like they’re alternatives though and more like different angles on the same elephant.