anotherpanacea

Reading mode Short Full Short is the compressed argument.

The United States is in the grip of a charismatic strongman.

If there were a single concept from economics I’d like to see more widely understood, it would be adverse selection: the tendency for markets to sort participants into worse and worse pools when one side of a transaction knows more than the other.

I am no scholar of Elizabeth Anscombe, but I really enjoy her 1958 essay “Modern Moral Philosophy.”

A few months ago, I saw a Reddit post advertising some kind of AI development editor.

My friend Peter Levine wrote recently about how much of the public unease about AI consciousness comes from something surprisingly mundane: the interface says “I.”

Apparently context is scarce.

After getting the same Vera Institute of Justice messaging presentation twice on Friday, I’ve been thinking about what messaging consultants are actually trying to do.

Most people know the story: Tom and Joe are fishing on a boat in the middle of the river, when they spot a baby floating past.

Many people are fleeing social media, and my friend James Stanescu is trying to bring back blogging in response.