1. Not the kind of lottery winner you are looking for. “According to court records, Farthing strangled a girlfriend; sold cocaine to an undercover police informant; escaped from a prison work detail; bribed a corrections officer to deliver Xanax and Oxycodone into a state facility; possessed stolen firearms; and even …
This was a discussion topic at the recent and excellent Civic Future meet-up outside of London. These were my nominations of how new religious ideas might be most likely to emergen in the near future: 1. We don’t have good models for the evolution of religious thought. So bet on …
The sweeping Republican policy bill that awaits President Trump’s signature on Friday includes a little-noticed victory for the drug industry. The legislation allows more medications to be exempt from Medicare’s price negotiation program, which was created to lower the government’s drug spending. Now, manufacturers will be able to keep those …
1. One take on Alpha School. 2. An overview of BBB on energy policy. 3. Nabeel reviews Nadia on antimemes. 4. Daniel Gross joining Meta (Bloomberg). Congratulations! 5. The secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals. 6. Banana bag luxury markets in everything. 7. New Angela Hewitt Mozart recordings. 8. Footage …
In an excellent interview (YouTube; Apple Podcasts, Spotify) Dwarkesh asked legendary bio-researcher George Church for the most under-hyped bio-technologies. His answer was both surprising and compelling: What I would say is genetic counseling is underhyped. What Church means is that gene editing is sexy but for rare diseases carrier screening …
Online dating apps have transformed the dating market, yet their broader effects remain unclear. We study Tinder’s impact on college students using its initial marketing focus on Greek organizations for identification. We show that the full-scale launch of Tinder led to a sharp, persistent increase in sexual activity, but with …
1. Michael Kempe, The Best of all Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days. A good book, I had not realized the full import of Leibniz in the history of binary computation, his understanding of “novels as models,” his theory of social distancing during epidemics, or just …
It’s truly astonishing how fiscally irresponsible New York is. The state budget proposal calls for $254 billion in spending, which is 8.3 percent higher than last year. That comes despite New York’s population having peaked in 2020. It’s a spending increase far in excess of the rate of inflation to …
1. More uses for ChatGPT? 2. How the AI regulation moratorium fell apart (WSJ). 3. Good Noah Millman piece on BBB (NYT). 4. Puffin found in Hereford garden (Times of London). 5. Economic impacts of a united Ireland? 6. Sofie Channel, curated anonymous discussion of ideas. Not sure how good …
If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: “Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives.” That is from Ethan Mollick, and there is an underlying paper.
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