[mr_mitm]

For those who don't know, Quanta Magazine is financed by Jim Simons (from Chern-Simons theory) who became known as a very successful hedge fund manager. I just love the idea that he's using a portion of his billions to fund a little non-profit math magazine.

[kwant_kiddo]

it is a shame they don't do physical print through

[cout]

I agree. Quanta is the sort of material I like to read during my morning coffee ritual before I start a day of screen time.

Are there any quality print magazines like it? I used to get Physics World a long time ago and have been looking for something in print to scratch that same itch.

[sn9]

They actually kinda do have print collections of some of their articles, but in the form of books and not well marketed [0].

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/gift-store

[ketanmaheshwari]

Communication of ACM (CACM) still prints magazines. They are reasonably good quality.

[uptownfunk]

A physical magazine would be nice. I just print papers out on my printer these days and mark em up with my pen of choice :)

[PartiallyTyped]

The world could always use more people like that.

Something something effective altruism.

It doesn't even need to be altruistic. One would expect that out of sheer self-interest, one would look into propelling humanity forward by elevating and liberating as many people as possible, enabling the brightest of our species to solve the hardest problems and elevate humanity. Though accepting that one needs others to solve problems one does not understand, that they play a supporting role, takes a great deal of humility.

[throw_pm23]

Yeah, Jeffrey Eppstein was also one that funded a lot of science and science journalism. Fuck effective altruism.

[PartiallyTyped]

I don't associate myself with that particular group of people, nor did I in any way condone such behaviour, nor do I support long-termists and so on.

My comment was mostly calling out the hypocrisy of some EAs, Long-termists, and the likes. It points out the myopic, self-centered, irrational, and too self-important view, the often exhibited messiah complex, and of course the absence of humility.

[throw_pm23]

Yes, apologies, and I didn't mean to sound negative. Unfortunately a lot of nuance gets lost in writing..

[bmitc]

The issue is that we've setup the system to require people like this, which more often than not exposes us to people the opposite of Jim Simons, like Robert Mercer, Peter Thiel, etc. Instead having a proper tax structure, we rely on altruistic wealthy individuals, which are rare, and mainly get people who want to drive us into libertarian hellscapes.