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Shouldn’t productivity improvements reduce GDP?

[Estimated time: 10 mins] I was chatting the other day with a friend about AI and economic growth. In the middle of […]

In Deep Utopia, Nick Bostrom explores the question of what utopia could look like and what problems might be left. The book […]

My latest summary is for The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin, which explains how changes […]

This summary of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker offers practical advice on how […]

This summary of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by security expert Bruce […]

If, like me, you’ve been watching US politics recently and wondering how it got to be the way it is, you might […]

[Estimated time: 3 mins] The Monty Hall problem is a famous probability puzzle based on the game show Let’s Make a Deal. […]

[Estimated time: 5 mins] Simpson’s paradox appears when a trend that appears in aggregated data disappears or reverses when the groups are […]

This summary of The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl and Dana McKenzie explains how […]

Joshua Waitzkin was a chess prodigy who won 8 National Championships before the age of 20. He later took up Tai Chi […]