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The West Lives On in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

palladiummag.com

Rated 2023-03-03T14:56:36-0800

What I Learned Reading 1,000 Investor Reports · Collab Fund

collabfund.com

Rated 2023-03-05T17:59:18-0800

GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them

vgel.me

Rated 2023-03-06T20:06:22-0800

Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope

genmon.github.io

Rated 2023-03-08T23:32:14-0800

First-principles on AI scaling

DYNOMIGHT

Rated 2023-03-09T18:08:54-0800

March Madness betting: Gambling on expanding legal sports gambling was a bad idea

Vox

Rated 2023-03-16T19:20:17-0700

SVB Couldn’t Ignore Its Losses, But the Fed Can

Bloomberg

Rated 2023-03-16T20:00:11-0700

Banking in very uncertain times

Bits about Money

Rated 2023-03-16T21:15:39-0700

The effect of short-term high-caloric feeding and fasting on bone microarchitecture - ScienceDirect

sciencedirect.com

Rated 2023-03-18T20:43:34-0700

GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

aisnakeoil.substack.com

Rated 2023-03-21T08:26:54-0700

Juice

garden.bradwoods.io

Rated 2023-03-24T07:34:43-0700

50 years of silence

Eli Dourado

Rated 2023-03-25T10:12:12-0700

District of Columbia retrocession - Wikipedia

#DC Statehood

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

Rated 2023-03-25T21:28:20-0700

The Prospect of an AI Winter

erichgrunewald.com

Rated 2023-03-27T15:11:45-0700

Biden student loan plan: What’s fair for borrowers, taxpayers?

#Student Loan Forgiveness

The Christian Science Monitor

Rated 2023-03-30T16:23:27-0700

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

The New Yorker

Rated 2023-03-31T16:37:52-0700

A first-of-its-kind geoengineering experiment is about to take its first step

#Solar Geoengineering

MIT Technology Review

Rated 2023-04-04T23:33:02-0700

How Lex Fridman's Podcast Became a Safe Space for the Anti-Woke Elite

Insider

Rated 2023-04-07T18:12:45-0700

Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It

Techdirt

Rated 2023-04-10T21:16:58-0700

Gone to the Dogs

Hakai Magazine

Rated 2023-04-11T02:56:44-0700

As climate change worsens, some people might decide to DIY a solution

#Ocean Geoengineering

Vox

Rated 2023-04-11T16:59:57-0700

Poking around OpenAI.

Irrational Exuberance

Rated 2023-04-14T17:10:35-0700

90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck

tidyfirst.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-19T09:37:46-0700

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements

The Roots of Progress

Rated 2023-04-21T16:42:40-0700

Explosions Are Great, Actually. - by areoform - 1517 Fund

1517.substack.com

Rated 2023-04-22T15:36:20-0700

Kesha: Animal Album Review

Pitchfork

Rated 2023-04-24T22:44:45-0700

The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T00:03:53-0700

The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

WIRED

Rated 2023-04-26T07:28:14-0700

The Endless Battle to Remove Girls Do Porn Videos From Pornhub

vice.com

Rated 2023-04-26T23:07:40-0700

It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI

Intelligence requires the ability to explore "trains of thought" that are potentially never-ending. Most current approaches fail at this.

2023-04-05T21:06:49-0700 Life Is Computation 4,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:09:01-0700

Big Tech Sees Like a State

Plus! Pirate’s Treasure, Redux; Takedowns; Antitrust and Laggy Beliefs; Money, The High-Order Bit; More...

2020-11-06T08:32:26-0800 The Diff Byrne Hobart 4,000 words

Rated 2023-05-01T22:45:09-0700

Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved

Do larger incomes make people happier? Two authors of the present paper have published contradictory answers. Using dichotomous questions about the...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-04T23:56:49-0700

Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill

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2023-04-11T17:08:25-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 60,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T13:38:34-0700

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

Nuclear is expensive, but it should be cheap #Nuclear power

2021-04-16T02:18:28-0700 The Roots of Progress 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T14:06:16-0700

A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

...that were written in a military training camp and accidentally grew to 5k words

zverok.space 5,000 words

Rated 2023-05-05T14:45:30-0700

We’ve Had a Cheaper, More Potent Ozempic Alternative for Decades

New weight-loss drugs are getting all the hype, but bariatric surgery is still the “gold standard” for treating obesity. #Individual People #Obesity #Surgery

2023-04-25T14:21:00-0700 The Atlantic Yasmin Tayag ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-09T07:29:05-0700

The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”

ProPublica

Rated 2023-05-11T22:16:37-0700

Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug?

People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. #Drugs

2023-05-19T07:37:59-0700 The Atlantic Sarah Zhang ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-05-19T16:53:16-0700

How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party

For the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price, Evan Osnos writes.

2023-05-29T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Evan Osnos 8,000 words

Rated 2023-05-30T08:55:27-0700

Nanoplastic Ingestion Causes Neurological Deficits

Small plastic particulates can induce inflammatory responses in the gut and brain, but removing them reverses this damage. #Nanoplastics

The Scientist Magazine 1,000 words

Rated 2023-06-08T07:40:41-0700

Harvey Karp Knows How to Make Babies Happy

The pediatrician and best-selling author on the perils of excessive individualism, the moralization of baby sleep, and why when it comes to newborns he’s “a little bit like a priest.” #Babies #Interview #Parenting

2023-04-09T12:25:06-0700 The New Yorker Helen Rosner 7,000 words

Rated 2023-06-09T16:54:30-0700

Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia

Worldwide, housing has become a nightmare of expense and speculation. What did Vienna do right? #Housing #Real Estate

2023-05-23T01:20:41-0700 The New York Times Francesca Mari, Luca Locatelli ($) 7,000 words

Rated 2023-06-13T11:07:14-0700

Burying Indiana Jones

Christopher Heaney on “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” and the titular character’s impact on the public’s perception of what it means to be an archeologist. #Movies

2023-06-18T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Christopher Heaney 2,000 words

Rated 2023-06-19T23:43:03-0700

Beyond the Yuck Factor: Cities Turn to ‘Extreme’ Water Recycling

San Francisco is at the forefront of a movement to recycle wastewater from commercial buildings, homes, and neighborhoods and use it for toilets and landscaping. This decentralized approach, proponents say, will drive down demand in an era of increasing water scarcity.

Yale E360 3,000 words

Rated 2023-06-20T07:12:37-0700

The Cancer-Drug Shortage Is Different

Fourteen crucial chemotherapies are currently in shortage. Why does this keep happening?

2023-06-26T04:00:00-0700 The Atlantic Ed Yong ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2023-06-27T23:27:11-0700

The Secret Gay History of Indie Rock

Is it truly possible to queer one of the straightest genres of music? From the closeted to the overexposed, this is a lineage of queer indie rock icons. #LGBTQ+

2023-07-05T08:58:46-0700 Pitchfork Emma Madden 4,000 words

Rated 2023-07-06T17:59:07-0700

Jawboning against Speech

Government officials use informal pressure — bullying, threatening, and cajoling — to sway the decisions of private platforms and limit the publication of disfavored speech. The use of this informal pressure, known as jawboning, is growing.

2022-09-12T00:00:00-0700 Cato Institute 15,000 words

Rated 2023-07-10T19:17:48-0700

After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox

In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO, Alex Barasch writes.

2023-07-02T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Alex Barasch 5,000 words

Rated 2023-07-12T08:01:23-0700

Why Match School And Student Rank?

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2023-07-10T22:39:09-0700 Astral Codex Ten Scott Alexander 45,000 words

Rated 2023-07-12T17:04:52-0700

Anchor Brewing Was San Francisco | Defector

Anchor Brewing was a cockroach. The San Francisco brewery survived the great earthquake of 1906, the subsequent fire that destroyed the city, its owner being run over by a cable car right after the fire, World War I, the Volstead Act, World War II, a series of midcentury closures and re-openings, and 127 years of ...

2023-07-12T13:11:23-0700 defector.com 2,000 words

Rated 2023-07-12T22:44:59-0700