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Put it into perspective: Back in the 1930s, you’d spend tens of thousands in today’s money crossing the Atlantic from New York to the UK. The whole thing

How S Group became Finland’s most dominant retailer

Why having children is a moral dilemma.

Book notes on "Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge" by John Willis

Authoritarian Republicans, ineffectual Democrats, and a clueless media

New maps show how much more crowded the sea is than previously known.

Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our world, revolutionize industries, and shape our…

The year in review.

I remember the first time I was ever scared in my life

The democratic world is sleepwalking once again towards military disaster

Substack Can Solve Its "Nazi Problem" by Not Being the Publisher of Nazis

Empiricism, algorithms and smartphones are out – astrology, art and a life lived fiercely offline are in

The jury got a taste of code review as they examined a falsified "insurance fund" and the infamous FTX → Alameda Research "backdoor".

Facial ID is being used to detain and ban sex workers from entering the country—and it’s a harbinger of a rapidly encroaching surveillance state fueled by artificial intelligence.

I’m not claiming all of these will work, but they’re worth a shot: Gap Year Internship There’s plenty of really bright high school students who you could hire pretty easily. They’d be really cheap to hire, scrappy, and if they’re looking for internships as a high schooler, they’re probably going to be better than a lot of college students. In fact, if you can keep them coming back every summer during college, by the time they graduate, they’ll be pretty damn impressive.

In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the "biological foundations that lie at the very center of the study of both communication and signification in the human animal". The term is usually translated as "self-centered world". Uexküll theorised that organisms can have different umwelten, even though they share the same environment. The term umwelt, together with companion terms Umgebung and Innenwelt , have special relevance for cognitive philosophers, roboticists and cyberneticians because they offer a potential solution to the conundrum of the infinite regress of the Cartesian Theater.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

The British Library’s head of digital publications on the urgency of preserving digital stories, from smartphone apps to interactive web narratives

In her new book, Jen Pahlka shows why we must stop trying to move the government we have today onto new technology and instead recode government from the ground up.

What generative AI tells us about human consciousness.

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Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it got a wi...