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A few days ago I encountered the title of a new paper: Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus.
Well, that certainly gets your attention.
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I was reading an article by Idrees Kahloon in The Atlantic about Democrats being confronted with some of the positions they took during the progressive politics of 2020, and it struck me that we have arrived at an interesting moment. We are...
One of the more curious features of social change is that the visible event is often not the beginning of the process. Like tectonic stress accumulating along a fault line, social pressures can develop gradually until a moment of release ma...
What’s a Quick Take? Not everything needs 2,000 words. Quick Takes are pointed dispatches from the intersections of money, culture, and democracy—when the moment deserves attention, but not a full essay.
On a gray stretch of North Atlantic...
Author’s Note: After sitting with this essay for several days, I realized I was making the same point in multiple places. The version below has been substantially tightened to better reflect the argument I was trying to make. If you read th...
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