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The 9 Questions I’m Obsessed With Right Now: AI, Politics, Movies, Drugs, and Western Civilization
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1. What’s behind the socialist groundswell in the Democratic Party?
Well, for starters: dissatisfaction with establishment Democrats’ inability to keep Trump from power, cost-of-living struggles, economic d...
The Four Horsemen of the AI Bubble Apocalypse
The smartest reasons to worry about the state of AI in an age of intense volatility—and my best attempt to explain why each of those worries might be wrong.
AI is doing so many things at once that it’s hard to follow the plot. Somehow, all...
The Next Miracle Drug Might Already Be in Your Medicine Cabinet
If we want AI to solve every disease in our lifetime, super-intelligence is not enough. We need an equally ingenious policy to guide the discovery of new drugs.
In 1991, Pfizer tested a new compound called sildenafil as a treatment for hea...
What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern
The Odyssey is everywhere right now. Christopher Nolan’s film is conquering the box office, spawning online memes, and dominating online discourse. If you rip your eyes away from your feeds, and turn your attention to another book or film,...
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird
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Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world:
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Why is the news media so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time?
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Why are so many...
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Abundance and other ideas to make the world a better place
Author of the New York Times best sellers RANGE, The Sports Gene, and (newly) Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
Contextualizing America's Housing Market using Data Visualization
Working in global health & development at Coefficient Giving (FKA Open Philanthropy)
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