Friday assorted links


1. Is there too much free parking in NYC? (NYT)

2. New Malcolm Gladwell book forthcoming on violence in America.  Ready for pre-order.

3. Manufacturing requirements are killing gene and cell therapy.

4. “Long-term exposure to urban air pollution damages the heart even at the relatively low levels found in many developed countries, a cardiac imaging study in Canada has found.” (FT)

5. Scott Sumner defends the Boomers.

6. What went wrong with German trains? (FT)

7. Why do people wander in a counterclockwise direction? (NYT)

8. Seb Krier: “Over the past few months I’ve been working on a very exciting project: a new $10m fund for research on multi-agent multi-principal AGI safety! Instead of focusing on single agent alignment and centralized control, we’re looking to support research focusing on multi-agent settings, mechanism design, cooperative AI, and coordination problems.”

9. And the great David Hockney is gone…

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