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Holden Karnofsky

Co-founded GiveWell and led Open Philanthropy; writes Cold Takes, on the most important century and how to think about it.

1 book on the record · 20 Jan 2022 – 20 Jan 2022

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

All of the reviews - plus this Twitter thread by Brad DeLong - echoed the theme that the book is thinly cited and that many of its claims seem overstated or unsupported. That makes it a tough sell for me, as I’m not excited to read 500 pages of claims that aren’t particularly likely to hold up once I dig in and check them out.

on cold-takes.com · 20 Jan 2022 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.