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Why don’t we live in an Art Nouveau world?
This article originally appeared in Issue 16: Flourishing. Subscribe to the print magazine to get future issues delivered to your door.
A hundred years after the death of its architect and 144 years after the start of construction,...
Behind the scenes of those Claude slopcore music videos
If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter recently (oops), you’ll have noticed that the hottest new music video director is Claude Opus 5.5. You may also have noticed one account whose videos stand out against the tide of clay-orange-ac...
How Chinese companies talk about recursive self-improvement
“The United States is racing forward broadly, in part because it is worried about what happens if China gets to self-improving AI first ” — Ezra Klein, The New York Times
Recursive self-improvement, broadly understood as an AI system itera...
Ken Liu and Ada Palmer on constructive visions of the future
This article originally appeared in Issue 16: Flourishing. Subscribe to the print magazine to get future issues delivered to your door.
By Beatrice Erkers
Ada Palmer is a science fiction writer and historian. She teaches early mode...
Why there aren’t enough doctors
In September of 1900, Abraham Jacobi, a German emigre whose medical activism made him a prominent figure in the States, made note of a peculiarity of American medicine: The United States boasted far more practicing physicians than the count...
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A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.
Designer and writer from California. I write about literature, design, fashion, technology, phenomenology, perfume, and Proust
"Monsieur, I absolutely cannot tell you if it has been raining. I live so resolutely beyond physical contingencies that my senses do not bother to notify me of them." —ML engineer + hobbyist writer/interviewer, based in SF. Views are my own, etc
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Economics Ph.D. student at Yale, working on AI, Innovation, History, Growth.
Ahmed Ahmed is a freelance writer and University of Chicago alum.
Writing about US-China AI, to one day not write about US-China AI.
Executive Director, Good Science Project Senior Advisor, Social Science Research Council
Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Views my own.
Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine
I'm a journalist, editor at Asterisk, and author of Ace, but this is just my blog.
What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics
I write about the political economy of advanced AI.
Politics and the Internet. Chair of Computational Social Science at EUI in Florence.
Editor at Analogue Press; Fellow with the Good Science Project; Writing about the history of science, public health, R&D institutions, and books. Thinking about how aesthetic criteria drive our best ideas.
Former Census reference person
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