Tuesday assorted links
1. Easy to bioengineer a very dangerous virus? 2. The astrophysicists are getting antsy too. Princeton is also getting nervous. If nothing else, these are huge PR own goals. The…
1. Easy to bioengineer a very dangerous virus? 2. The astrophysicists are getting antsy too. Princeton is also getting nervous. If nothing else, these are huge PR own goals. The…
1. Will driverless cars increase or reduce urban density? 2. One decomposition approach to why interest rates have been going up. 3. New Guinness record holders. 4. Is there any…
1. Scott Sumner as regional thinker. 2. The economists who work on “Productivity and Innovation” are most likely to use AI for their writing. 3. Michael Levin defends neo-neo-Platonism? 4.…
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. On India’s new gdp statistics. 2. Reasons why robotics are hard. 3. On 20th century music. 4. Is the inflation picture shifting? (correct link) 5. The importance of nuclear…
1. Crime and drunkenness map of England and Wales (that was then, this is now). 2. Cesar Aira says he will stop writing. 3. Toward a post-cultural state? 4. Madrid has…
1. The Carob Prize, for scholars who tell the truth (WSJ). 2. Observations from watching Iranian social media. 3. The Emma McAleavy feminist vision. 4. Is the inflation picture shifting?…
1. How are age verification systems going? 2. Eliezer predictions. 3. Are humpback whales policing nature? 4. “Traces of nearly four million coins reveal how Rome achieved economic integration.” 5.…
1. Vishy now thinks Pragg is number one in the chess world. 2. Do children grow continuously, or grow in fits and starts? 3. It remains my view that Ferrante…
1. Joaquin Rodrigo’s Toccata. Rodrigo by the way was blind, 2. China word of the day. 3. “People Keep Sneaking Into New York City Sewers. No One Knows Why.” (NYT)…