Saturday assorted links
1. One way to use screens less, will it catch on? 2. Roon as cultural critic. 3. The Greenland deal sounds pretty good for America? 4. The cultures that are…
1. One way to use screens less, will it catch on? 2. Roon as cultural critic. 3. The Greenland deal sounds pretty good for America? 4. The cultures that are…
1. “We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism. That relationship has been evident since 2008 and it decidedly is not a product of…
1. Shruti on Coltrane. 2. On the drop in Pisa scores. Quite exaggerated, it turns out. 3. Hope you all reoptimize your views accordingly, on AI agreements with China. 4.…
1. Diving northern gannets. 2. Guatemala update. 3. Tech-utopian project coming in Uruguay? 4. “Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16%…
1. Designing a FINRA for frontier AI. 2. Andrew Ng. 3. Some semi-skeptical notes on stablecoins, based on economic history. 4. Global views on fairness and redistribution. 5. Essays on…
1. Avi Loeb video on UAPs. 2. “[The Mises] library now has a permanent independent home: https://freecapitalists.org/. It holds 945 books, 3,374 journal issues and 2,732 recorded lectures, all free, in PDF, EPUB…
1. Nobel Laureates in support of the California billionaire wealth tax include Krugman, Acemoglu, Diamond, Stiglitz, Banerjee, and Duflo (FT). 2. Secretariat as GOAT. 3. Dead brains and the piano??…
1. Critique of Villaroel on UAPs. 2. Bergen County (Korean) fact of the day. 3. AIs cracking superforecasting. 4. Gregor Benko, RIP (NYT). 5. Joshua Saxe on the increase in…
1. Gender differences in financial information processing. 2. Urban harassment of women in India. 3. The making of Roger Scruton? 4. Astra vs. Enigma. 5. Coetzee on genocide. 6. Dan…
1. An American at Brazil’s largest rodeo. 2. Ingeborg Bachmann centenary. 3. “Huawei Technologies Co. predicted on Wednesday that global computing demand will surge 100,000-fold by 2035, with AI agents…