"Now it is the wealthy child who is sent out to enjoy the freedom and adventure of camps and screenless schools, while working and underclass children are kept indoors and screened up." @JohannKurtz on how our kids lost the privilege of roaming freely https://t.co/6mXSpyjQyB
New episode of Wading Through AI is up! Demetri lays out the factors driving the seemingly relentless need for AI companies to scale up:
https://t.co/IwnsvTnlbz
If you are a marketing leader or a sales leader, you may want to consider sending this latest newsletter post to your product counterpart or to your product-focused founder. It explains what you’ve been trying to tell them for a while.
https://t.co/lUYkvZJ9U8
.@Zack_Fritz has the stats on pyrotechnic risks: "Firework safety has improved dramatically over the past 50 years. By weight, firework use is up more than 1,000% since the mid 1970s, while firework injuries have risen just 17%" https://t.co/b3hCnX1s8m
A memoir by a Hollywood superagent, a Wharton prof's secrets to stronger social connections, and a harrowing scenario of how global biological warfare could unfold: summer book picks from Charles Duhigg @cduhigg https://t.co/WpIn8m06aD
For centuries, scrolls burned to a crisp by Vesuvius seemed permanently sealed. Now AI is helping scholars recover books the ancient world thought lost forever, writes Spencer Klavan. https://t.co/pm9fuLG6IW
How do professional creatives sell their ideas to get an enthusiastic "yes"? Method Studio reveals how to craft an influential pitch, from three of the ad industry's top Chief Creative Officers https://t.co/hHWrF3Ylcx
This interview with Darializa Avila Chevalier by the New York Editorial Board is just so good. Proper, crunchy wonkish questions and follow-ups. I'm often quite down about the current state of the media but the fact this exists on Substack is so cheering:
https://t.co/jNYYWqjDNx
AI policy will be national defense policy. We subsidize AND constrain it. What's that logic?
Few economists think more about national defense than @RebelEconProf.
This week's newsletter is where he starts to lay out how to think about the trade-offs
https://t.co/wR2f9oV5Ra
Wrote abt a problem with "heteropessimism discourse," which is really the problem with everything discourse: so much of it relies on a basic language that implies all our problems are new, unprecedented, and vaguely getting worse
https://t.co/cZkeZhwmGI