Side note: I’ve been published in Republic of Letters this week, with a review of Marathon D’Écriture. This is part of an ongoing series they have where they assign books that have gone under the radar to reviewers, and this is the one I was given. Writing it was a good experience and I believe they are still looking for more reviewers.
Karthik Tadepalli does a deep dive on how a measure of what people do at work called O-NET is both vital for understanding how we think about the future of AI and also a flawed way to measure that.
An argument for continental philosophy having some value.
Sometimes I think I’ve hit peak overlap between this Substack’s readers and Woman of Letters’ readers by including it in so many linkposts, so I shouldn’t link to it. And then Naomi comes out with yet another fascinating story, so it’s getting included in the linkpost anyways.
What Sam Atis believes. I agree with maybe 75% of this list? There are a few things that I can’t judge; he implies he eats meat, so I think our cuisine ratings are bound to be very different.
This argument for caring about whether you have good dreams or not is interesting although I wouldn’t necessarily endorse it. My personal experience of dreams is that, even in the rare occasions I remember them, I don’t really remember myself having emotional reactions to the events in them whatsoever.
There’s an EU consultation on animal welfare; seems like a good thing to fill out for EU citizens who care about animals even a little. Non-EU citizens can respond also — I did — but I’m assuming they will ignore our responses unfortunately.
Harjas Sandhu on Trump’s executive order on AI. I’m a bit more pessimistic than this because it’s the Trump administration and I don’t particularly trust them on AI, but it’s an interesting perspective.
Malengo, a Ugandan charity that helps students study in Germany, has some more estimates for how they help their beneficiaries (and some spillovers). It’s technical but interesting; I may dig into it more at some point, but my first impression is that it looks very good.
Astral Codex Ten discusses the vibecession. My two cents: I’m unconvinced that there’s a pre-COVID start to the vibecession, so I side with the commenters that a large portion of it is just the economy being temporarily downgraded by COVID, and people want to catch back up to where it would be if COVID had never happened.
Here’s a list of individual hippopotamids for all your hippopotamus-related needs.
Great link post. I liked the Republic of Letters review too.
For the record, I agree with you: my article was mostly about the fact that the EO probably would’ve been fine had it come from any other administration. Thanks for the mention!