Sunday assorted links
1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT). 2. Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen. 3.…
1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT). 2. Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen. 3.…
From Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural: “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us…
One of the better pro-natalist Lieder – Marginal REVOLUTION Thank-you! You’ve been successfully added to the Marginal Revolution email subscription list. #pronatalist #Lieder
The Balkans may be the only region other than central Asia where fertility has increased from 2015 to 2026.* All of the highest fertility rates in Europe are in the…
As weapon systems increase in effectiveness, they will generally target one another rather than humans. Lower loss of life will ease conflict entry and hinder exit. Warfare will veer further…
1. Possibly AI-written pieces that have won literary awards. 2. HuggingFace co-founder on what happened, very good post. 3. What do private insurers want from a Hormuz agreement? 4. GPT…
That is the new book by Peter Gray, and it is very much a whole philosophy of child-rearing and also antidote to the current panic over social media. Excerpt: In…
1. Mike Jay, Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain. Much of this story is told through the lens of the accompanying science fiction and non-neuro trends in…
I only recently learned what it is really about, namely very rapid travel into space and time dilation mattering for the return voyage. I had never before listened carefully to…
1. Denmark fact of the day. 2. “Books that Tyler Cowen probably would like.” 3. The tenure dismissal of Sanjay Reddy (NYT). 4. Dell and Rambachan NBER video on the…