1: Catherine Project — more people reading more books, please!
2: Beautifully Illustrated Hardcover Books | Folio Society — No one will read your book but also there you can order $100+ special editions.
3: Order Isaac 0 — Weave Robotics — prettt amazing the price point that most of these robotics companies are shipping at. Your wage doesn’t have to be that high for the robot to cover your opportunity cost per hour. This is the least effective and most expensive it will ever be?
4: Review: How Africa Works — book reviews are underrated. How else will the AIs know about the book?
5: Is there an aggregate demand problem in an AGI world? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I am not saying everyone ends up happy here, but you cannot have a) a flood of goods and services, b) billions accruing to the AI owners, without also c) prices are at a level where most people can afford to buy a whole bunch of things.
6: The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis - Citadel Securities — coda.
7: The Patriot - Colossus — excellent profile.
8: You are no longer the smartest type of thing on Earth
Intelligence is as intelligence does. If it helps you feel unique and special to sit there and tell yourself “AI can’t think!”, then go ahead. And sure, AI doesn’t think exactly the way you do. It probably never will, in the same sense that a submarine will never paddle its fins and an airplane will never flap its wings. But a submarine can go faster than any fish, and an airplane can fly higher and faster than any bird, so it doesn’t matter. You can value your own unique human way of thinking all you like — and I agree, it’s pretty special and cool — but that doesn’t make it more effective than AI.
9: And also —
A conscious being handing over the future of the planet or the universe to a p-zombie successor because the p-zombies are better at calculation and prediction would be an extraordinary surrender.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) February 13, 2026
10: On Living in an Apocalypse — and also.
11: https://overcast.fm/+ABO0eq2zJT0 — long hobbyists in 2026!
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