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1. Robots learn from puffins?
2. Claims about cats (NYT). I guess they have no Coase theorem after all.
3. Iran and the Strait (WSJ).
4. “I used to be one of these people.” And Timothy Lee. As for this exchange, in the 2040 scenario strong AI is a power magnet in a way that milk or eggs or electricity are not. I do understand the claim that one might prefer this extreme governmental power to a greater role for the private sector, but extreme governmental power it is going to be, again at least under the 2040 scenario assumptions about the spread and efficacy of AI.
5. Scott Sumner engages with Fable on market monetarism.
6. “The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15 percent from the previous year, according to data from over 50 top research universities…” (NYT) Partial data suggest that the year before the decline may have been eleven percent.
7. Inequality does not seem to erode democracy.
8. Kip Thorne on Villarroel.
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