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Last week the European Commission’s foreign aid department hosted a party in the metaverse to get young people excited about the EU. Only five people showed up.
Kathleen Lubey: “Those of us who want to think in a more sophisticated way about pornography won’t get there simply by adopting a pro-pornography position, an argument that, say, sex is inherently good, that everyone has a right to it, that we should rid sex of shame. Such a position advances its own kind of dogma, imposing the view that sexual pleasure is essential to full human potential, and thus potentially alienates those who – for any variety of religious, cultural, gendered or physical reasons – have a more reserved or alienated relationship to sexual activity.”
Ezra Klein on EA and “earning to give”: “Balzac famously suggested that there was usually a great crime behind great fortunes, particularly those that appear suddenly. That’s true often enough that giving people more motivation to amass as much wealth as they can needs to be balanced against the psychological and historical truism that money is a corrupting force and few who pursue it relentlessly do so without damage or compromise.”
