Sunday assorted links
1. Ken Opalo on the evolution of post-post-apartheid South Africa. 2. Reasonable recommendations for AI policy over at Noah’s. 3. JFV recommends some economics articles. 4. William Vollmann update. 5.…
1. Ken Opalo on the evolution of post-post-apartheid South Africa. 2. Reasonable recommendations for AI policy over at Noah’s. 3. JFV recommends some economics articles. 4. William Vollmann update. 5.…
1. Speculative Chinese claims about Alzheimer’s. 2. Very interesting Anthropic piece on why multi-agentic systems seem to show more herd behavior and collusion than human systems. And a comment from…
1. What sort of maths are LLMs good at? 2. “People think the superrich are unhappy,” she said. “They’re not.” (NYT) 3. Trailer for a Celibadache biopic. 4. Good Joshua…
1. Write a paper in six days with only AIs, then record all of that and write a second paper about writing the first. 2. Saloni on the future of…
1. The cheese collateral in Italian banks is melting. 2. Denmark fact of the day: “…half of Denmark’s growth has been due to essentially one company” 3. “Foreign travel now…
1. “The fraction of women who undergo this procedure who go on to bear a child with the frozen eggs is around 2%.” 2. Long Mark Zuckerberg/Meta piece on the…
1. Tax land more heavily than structures. 2. “Our findings suggest that equality-oriented governments adopt an approach that insures the middle, buffers the poor, but spares the rich. The result…
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. 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…
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…