I used to spend a lot of time on a blog called Slate Star Codex. The author, a young psychiatrist with a wide range of interests and an extraordinary level of intellectual energy posting under the name of Scott Alexander, produced a long series of well written, intelligent and interesting posts.
Your exchanges with Scott had a big influence on me, I found the ideas in Machinery very compelling and it reassured me a lot that someone as smart as Scott who initially seemed not to be convinced (see e.g. his Anti-Libertarian FAQ) and tries extremely hard to steelman the arguments against, would gradually become more convinced over time by your arguments.
Is that a correct observation?
Eventually these ideas + Scott's articles about Prospera led me to become professionally involved with all my time on realising them in practise, just like your son Patri.
Typo: astral codex ten, not astro
Your exchanges with Scott had a big influence on me, I found the ideas in Machinery very compelling and it reassured me a lot that someone as smart as Scott who initially seemed not to be convinced (see e.g. his Anti-Libertarian FAQ) and tries extremely hard to steelman the arguments against, would gradually become more convinced over time by your arguments.
Is that a correct observation?
Eventually these ideas + Scott's articles about Prospera led me to become professionally involved with all my time on realising them in practise, just like your son Patri.
So thank you for guiding me towards this path!