A few weeks ago, Noah Smith reposted his essay, “Toward a Shallower Future.” I read it then for the first time; below is my attempt at a response.
After his friend Albert Camus died in a car crash, aged 46, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote: “Every life that is cut off — even the life of so young a man — is at one and the same time a phonograph record that is shattered and …
