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• A.I. and the Growth of the Chore Economy

  Carl Benedikt Frey, This Is Why You’re Drowning in Busywork, NYTimes, May 11, 2026. We have been told that A.I. will take people’s jobs. What no one mentions... Read more

  The 11 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Tyler Cowen is Imagining That AI Will Kill the Research Paper

  Here’s roughly the first half of his post: Imagine taking a macroeconomics paper and adding a little button at the end “Press this button to update this paper... Read more

  The 10 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• The Chinese Conceptualize A.I. Differently Than Americans and Are Deploying It...

  Jacob Dreyer, America’s A.I. Is Futuristic. China Is Just Making It Work. NYTimes, May 9, 2026. The reality is that China and the United States are racing in... Read more

  The 10 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Analogical Thinking: How to Succeed in “wicked” Environments

  A Hungarian psychologist raised three daughters to prove that any child could become a chess grandmaster through early specialization. He succeeded. Two of... Read more

  The 09 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Douthat, A.I., and Pope Leo

  Ross Douthat, The Atheist and the Machine God, NYTimes, May 9, 2026. Douthout is anticipating Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on A.I. For Douthat the crucial issue... Read more

  The 09 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Marginalism as a Tool for Rhetorical Analysis: Cognitive Effort in Intellectual...

  I’ve been thinking, and I think I’ve come up with a speculative way of applying marginalist thinking to intellectual production. Read more

  The 09 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• 11th Street Peeka-boo

  

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  The 09 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• The Populist Backlash Against A.I. is Accelerating

  David Wallace-Wells, A.I. Populism Is Here. And No One Is Ready. NYTimes, May 8, 2026. Americans still worry about the local impacts of data centers, storming t... Read more

  The 09 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• The Scramble in the Middle East: The Times They Are a Changin'

  

  The New Middle East | Robert Wright Annelle Sheline 0:00 Teaser 1:06 Annelle’s Middle East bona fides 2:55 The state of play in Iran 8:14 A deepening fissure... Read more

  The 08 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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• Hoboken Tenement Fires, 1979-1983

  Dylan Gottlieb, Hoboken Is Burning: Yuppies, Arson, and Displacement in the Postindustrial City, Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 2, September... Read more

  The 08 may 2026 by   Bbenzon
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