Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’ endogenous responses. This paper provides empirical evidence of the causal impact of relaxed academic standards on student effort...
dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Enter…
Drunk or sober, but especially drunk, Edgar Allan Poe acted against his own interests. He turned the mystery of why into…
"For most of their history... gardens have been more concerned with the power of plants than with their beauty — with th…
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
A TV character gave us a glimpse of what humanity might become.
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Notes Toward an Autopsy of Anti-Zionism
And likely, as traditionally conceived, non-existent
We humans all want AIs to be ‘aligned’ with us. But what does alignment mean, and who is the ‘us’? I asked Claude himsel…
Mark Solms on feelings, dreams, and the brainstem
There are no generalized solutions to the three-body problem. Say you have three planets orbiting each other: it’s impossible to calculate how they will move using Newton’s laws of motion and gravity. Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general closed-form analytic solution. T...
Read slowly. There is no hurry.