EP 158: MalwareTech

Alberta separatism push roils Canada

SEO for AI: A Look at Generative Engine Optimization

The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection

Claude 4, I attempt a first prompt and receive this answer

Why Psychology Hasn't Had a Big New Idea in Decades

NIMBYism and How to Resolve It

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900

An Affectionate but Clear-Eyed Close-Up of Parfit

Rent Seeking for Four Generations

Obesity and Efforts to Lose Weight (1992)

Fat 'remembering' past obesity drives yo-yo diet effect, say experts

Has AI generated a new treatment for blindness?

A demographic projection of Spain's native-born population

Monks Behaving Badly: Explaining Buddhist Violence in Asia

NYC Restaurant Interior or Black and White Drawing?

Can You Fool the Audience?

Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?

The Codex of Ultimate Vibing

ChatGPT Helps Students Feign ADHD: An Analogue Study on AI-Assisted Coaching

Some Miami schools are embracing AI

Fingers Wrinkle in the Same Pattern Every Time After Long Exposure to Water

Key Gadget: Pro-Equilibria Norms

The Last Gold Rush: AI and the New Mercantilism

Tariffs and Manufacturing Jobs: Three Big Problems

Why did U.S. wages stagnate for 20 years?

Trump's Retreat Still Leaves Tariffs at 90-Year Highs

Girl Belongs to the World

UK overtakes China as second-largest US Treasury holder

What Desi Arnaz Could Teach Hollywood Today

Big U.S. cities grew in 2024, reversing Covid-era population declines

Why does advice work so poorly?

Science funding was already way too low

Mr. Secretary, Reclassify the Statin

Building Drones–For the Children?

Baumol's Cost Disease, AI and Economic Growth

Federal Reserve to slash staff by 10% over several years

Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Averse to Inequality If Personally Unfavourable

Sacred Hardware: Towards a Phenomenology of AI's Form Factor

The Anti-Tech Canon: 30 Books

Book Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Taurine Deficiency as a Driver of Aging

Researchers find connection between PFAS exposure and overweight

The stakes of the Trump administration's plans to end animal testing

A magical workshop where toys come to life

Apple to Support Brain-Implant Control of Its Devices

Predictions of AI progress hinge on two questions nobody has convincing answers

How to Make a Tribe

Nature vs. Nurture vs. Putting in the Work

AI #115: The Evil Applications Division

Silicon Valley Braces for Chaos

The Myth of the Poverty Trap

Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact (Ep. 242)

Econ 101 Is Underrated: Pharma Price Controls

No mass shootings so far this year in America

The Problem with Washout Periods

A Live Look at the Senate AI Hearing

New obesity drugs are coming

US-China Tariff Pause Spurs Stock Market Surge

What the hell are rare earth elements?

A Market Puke and Rally

Robotaxis: Rent or Own?

Orienting Toward Wizard Power

If Everyone Has Trauma, Everyone Has Trauma

At least five interesting things: Requiem for capitalism edition (#63)

We're sleeping on the most dangerous situation in the world

The game theory of India and Pakistan

Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Explaining the Failures of Obesity Therapy

Highlights from the Comments on AI GeoGuessr

Coffee shops ditch WiFi and laptops to limit remote work

Zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports

Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Adam Smith on Mercantilism

"Doubling-back aversion" is distinct from the sunk cost fallacy

Harvard offers free tuition for families making $200K or less: My thoughts

Why is AI not in your productivity statistics?

Advisory Futarchy

The New Romanticism Just Found an Unexpected Spokesperson

The crisis of the 21st century is here

The $200B Gamble: Bill Gates's Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

What Happens When There's No Job to Learn On?

The Four Horsemen of the Pop Culture Apocalypse