Sunday assorted links


1. Nobel Laureates in support of the California billionaire wealth tax include Krugman, Acemoglu, Diamond, Stiglitz, Banerjee, and Duflo (FT).

2. Secretariat as GOAT.

3. Dead brains and the piano??

4. “A real contribution of AI is showing the critical weaknesses of humans and human structures.”  But can we take it?

5. When did the Chinese reach New Zealand? (speculative)

6. “Everyone needs to realize we are fighting the summation of the last 100 years of war that never got settled they just slowed down at times”

7. “you have no idea how fast the world will accelerate AI progress if a world war began” — no major war (in addition to the status quo) would be one excellent move in the direction of AI (and other) safety.

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