Aswath Damodaran on AI stock valuations; Christopher Mims on world models; Hollis Robbins on AI and privacy; Peter Diamandis on the models’ bad public relations
Rod Dreher on Cluster B; Lorenzo Warby on women in organizations; Stefanie Stantcheva on anger in politics; Steve Stewart-Williams on environmental mismatch
Charles Jones on AI and the economy; Hollis Robbins on higher ed not leading AI; Peter Diamandis on lower ed not leading AI; Erik Brynjolfsson and others on AI displacing some young workers
Lyman Stone and Peter Foreshaw Brooks on social contagion; Simon Maass on the Beat Generation; Moses Sternstein on status competition; Patrick Collison on sources of Silicon Valley ideas
Andrew Hartz and Eric Kaufmann on research funding; Austin Scholar on writing; Matt Continetti on Michigan's pass-fail semester; Ashley Rubin on sociology
Leighton Woodhouse on substack and journalism; Richard Audoly and others on labor's income share; Scott Sumner on monetarism; The Urban Institute on young adults living with parents
Dan Williams on collective delusions; Ilana Redstone on disputes we cannot resolve; Virginia Postrel on America nurturing ambition; Helen Andrews on our race problem
Aaron Renn on populism receding; Robin Hanson on support for world government; Bo Winegard on political beliefs as tribal signals; Daron Acemoglu on economic equality and democracy
Veera M. Rajagopal on using AI to pick content; Jerry Kaplan vs. doomerism; John Cochrane on the AI letter; Timor Kosters and others on an experiment with agents and humans
Arvind Narayanan on gradual diffusion; Andrey Mir on the digital world vs. the real world; Kai Williams on the Tokyo coding tournament; Hollis Robbins on shape rotators
Nils Gilman on AI and the university; Austin Scholar on status as a motivator; Howard Husock and Tao Tan on foundation money; Gad Levanon on the job recession in higher ed
Peter Diamandis on disaffected young men; Luke Burgis on close-knit groups; Gabe Fleisher on the unserved majority; Matt Goodwin on control over narrative
Kyle Saunders on fraud in public programs; Jacob T. Levy on holism vs. liberalism; Joe Lonsdale and Judge Glock on privatizing construction permitting; Hahrie Han on civic associations
Allison Schrager on risk aversion and jobs; and Schrager on the Fed's balance sheet and independence; Matt Yglesias on spectacular stock market wealth; Nicolai J. Foss on the firm/market boundary
Greg Lukianoff on faculty ideology; Austin Scholar on Alpha's core commitments; Gad Levanon on AI used in business learning; Jacob Howland on anti-logic; The Wash U/Vanderbilt report on the humanities
Michael Lind on billionaires funding NGOs; Allison Schrager on people hating billionaires; Bill Galston on a multi-party configuration; Frannie Block on the evil teachers' unions
Rob Kurzban on how we form beliefs; Gad Saad talks his new book; Jeffrey Bilbro on AI and the loss of agency; Dan Williams on leftwing intellectuals and AI
