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Thursday, April 2, 2026

More this and that from March

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AI and Human Happiness

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Tyler Cowen interviews Arthur Brooks: Arthur Brooks reckons he’s on the fourth leg of a spiral-shaped career: French horn player, econo...

Anaconda (2025) is absurd and hilarious [Media Notes 177]

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Two scenes had me laughing as hard as I’ve laughed in a year or three. Wikipedia : Anaconda is a 2025 American action-adventure c...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

AI Optimism, AI Pessimism

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This is a thoughtful discussion about AI. One discussant, Mike Feinberg, is deeply skeptical. The other, Ben Wittes, is less skeptical, b...

Whale ropes to the sky [Adam Roberts]

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So, after doing a bit of work this morning, I checked Facebook and saw that my buddy Adam Roberts had posted this: Off dream: I had an...

Some things I saw in March

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Claude: On the (late) discovery of the chess tree and things one can infer around and about that tree [MR-3c]

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Late in his fourth chapter, Cowen introduces chess as an example of what contemporary AI can do. As you may know, chess has been a central ...

Potatos

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Holy crap, Batman! Anthopic just showed its a$$ to the world.

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You can’t make this stuff up. Since, however, it is April 1st, I thought maybe this is a prank, it’s just so outrageous. But no, it’s real...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

English muffin

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The Paradox of Contemporary AI @3QD

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I’ve got another article at 3 Quarks Daily : The Paradox of Contemporary AI: Engineering Success and Institutional Failure The titl...
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How about some light on the subject

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Nasdaq Rule Change: Monkey business among the techbros

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Nasdaq Rule Change Would Speed Index Entry for SpaceX IPO By Theo Wayt Source: The Information Nasdaq will change a rule for its...

Can OpenAI survive the results of its technical success? Is the AI startup era already over?

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Is OpenAI running out of money? In this deep dive, we break down OpenAI's projected $14 billion annual losses, the Microsoft cloud c...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

After the protest I went to Mickey D's

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Claude: On the origins and history of chess, plus a Straussian reading of DeepBlue vs. Kasparov [MR-3b]

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My examination of Tyler Cowen, The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution (2026), continues. While Tyler doe...