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> [...] suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. more
> The U.S. is often maligned as being customer-hostile compared to other… more
> What every South Korean man agrees on is that serving in the military is a… more
> Every time a new 3D printer startup graced the front page of Hacker News,… more
> The story of Swiss watchmaking began in Geneva in the 1540s. At the behest of… more
> Parody is protected by “fair use” copyright doctrine when it’s used for the… more
> So what's an old guy yelling at Claudes going to do? He's going to write his… more
> The clearest tragedy during the early desegregation process was the… more
Oliver Sacks was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.archive
> “I have some hard ‘confessing’ to do—if not in public, at least to… more
> We introduce SCONE-bench—the first benchmark that evaluates agents’ ability… more
> Among the age-related-hearing-loss set, getting into the Fortell beta test… more
> For Thomas and Turner, a mature writing style is defined by making a… more
> [R]efrigerators are not only appliances: they are also a key component in the… more
> A recent study from Harvard University caught my attention and provides… more
> While we can’t say that vaping carries zero risk, the evidence clearly… more
That's quite the headline. Is it justified? From the article: more
> Have you ever asked an AI model what’s on its mind? Or to explain how it came… more
> What the Brightline is best known for is not that it reflects the gleam of… more
Looks like Patrick McKenzie got a chance to give a talk to people at the Bank… more
> As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum… more
This is a crazy fever-dream of a post about alpha software and I recommend… more
> Talking to CaBot was both empowering and unnerving. I felt as though I could… more
> A man named Sean, who works as a military contractor—one of several Green… more
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> Bowditch: [...] A spy there under our very roof was our babysitter, Klaus… more
The comments are worth reading. One of the authors explains the resistance they… more
> Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for… more
Here's a rather verbose series of blog posts that's intended to introduce… more
In Bret Devereaux's Fourth of July post, he starts with a bit of history just… more
> PALMER: Yeah, so there's two things that protect Florence. One of them, the… more
> The way to understand these coins is this: these societies had already been… more
> Articles about Artemis often give the program’s tangled backstory. But I want… more
> […] when we look at history’s major censorious regimes, all of them—I want to… more
This blog post describes how attitudes towards money affect personal… more
> Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Is it fragile? Is it possible? Is it a… more
> [...] fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the… more
> There is one place above all that should be seen as the centre of this urban… more
> [...] “cuevas” (the word for “cave” in Spanish) [...] are a crucial part of… more
This article is interesting if you ever wondered why people people buy and sell… more
> I vividly remember the first story like that I ever met, it was a James… more
> The interesting thing is that for people who are wealthy, it is already… more
> [T]he [question] which I am always happiest to get, and which I get… more