wellnessfitpro1. New London play about Keynes. 2. Aphantasia, and looking at buildings. 3. AI and job growth in Africa. 4. On Nussbaum, opera, and liberalism. 5. Congress seeks to speed…
wellnessfitpro1. AI-related efforts in higher education in Morocco (ChatGPT). 2. Intelligence explosions are social. 3. The speech-processing skills of dogs. 4. Kalshi market in economics Nobel. 5. Why are Indian weddings…
wellnessfitpro1. 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??…
wellnessfitpro1. 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.…
wellnessfitpro1. 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…
wellnessfitpro1. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth. 2. A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident. And from Ciaran Martin in The Economist. And Elie. And Jacob Bruggeman. 3. Chandhana visits Egypt.…
wellnessfitpro1. “Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have a funny accent in your native language (and…
wellnessfitproThere is always something slightly bittersweet about the final day of Bloodstock. After several days of loud guitars, pounding drums, huge crowds and an atmosphere that seems almost impossible to…
wellnessfitpro1. 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.…
wellnessfitpro1. 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.…
