Friday assorted links
1. How rich was Anglo-Saxon England? 2. New game theory paper on AI races. 3. Scott Sumner movie reviews, please note he is always correct and thus the greatest film…
1. How rich was Anglo-Saxon England? 2. New game theory paper on AI races. 3. Scott Sumner movie reviews, please note he is always correct and thus the greatest film…
Morning opening: French protests continue to escalate with 400 schools closed on Friday Jakub Krupa Some 100 schools have been severely damaged during French high school protests that escalated this…
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. 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. Some Princeton philosophers are converting to Catholicism. 2. New Ada Palmer podcast. 3. Nice statement of how intelligence is overrated in the AI debates. 4. Joshua Rothman on the…
1. “After work, we’ll have each other.” 2. Gloria Steinem, RIP (NYT). 3. Henry Oliver on Finding Emily. 4. Solve for the Russian family squabble equilibrium (short video). 5. New…
1. “With homicides up 50% since 2020—putting the country’s murder rate on par with Mexico’s—Costa Rican President Laura Fernández and her ruling party are blaming the independent judiciary.” (WSJ) 2.…
This study examines how Americans’ time with friends has changed over the week, focusing not on how much social interaction has declined but on when it has. Using American Time…
1. Profile of Julian Gough and his evolutionary cosmology. And the Substack version. 2. New Spanish-language edition of Bioy Casares on Borges coming out. The older edition was, among other…
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…