While I'm glad to see someone writing up critiques of markets and capitalism in language LW will understand, really really incredibly glad in fact, I do have one nit to pick:

Liberals see the free market as a kind of optimizer run amuck, a dangerous superintelligence with simple non-human values that must be checked and constrained by the government - the friendly SI. Conservatives just reverse the narrative roles.

Not only is politics spiders, this is a simplistic strawman of both positions at once. The article would be better for cutting out the meta-level mention of politics and sticking to its object-level claims of fact.

But overall, you have all my upvotes and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.