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Stefan Schubert

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The Rationality Gap

Why did so many expect the Millennium Bug to cause a disaster?

Why was the peak oil theory so widely believed?

Why is rent control so popular?

Because we suffer from the sleepwalking illusion: we keep missing how people adapt to changing...

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The tables have turned on AI sceptics

Could we have human-level AI within the next few decades? For a long time, many people have dismissed this idea as armchair speculation. In their view, we shouldn’t ground our beliefs about transformative technologies in vague hunches and f...

19 days ago
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Women don’t think 80 percent of men are below average, and the share of children with a secret dad is far below 10 percent

Welcome to The Update. Today, I’m covering research across the social and natural sciences, along with new releases from Works in Progress and Asterisk.

  • Women don’t think 80 percent of men are below average

  • The share of children w...

a month ago
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AI economics needs to be weird

Welcome to The Update. Today, I’m covering some of the most important recent debates about the future of AI.

  • Will there be relational jobs in the weird world of advanced AI?

  • Why AI propaganda hasn’t been as effective as feared...

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Will AI drive humans off social media?

  • Will AI drive humans off social media?

    • In Scandinavia, more intelligent men have more children

    • Most ChatGPT users are now women

    • OECD expects AI to increase productivity the most in the US and the UK

    • Offshore processing...

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