1: The city of Palo Alto’s 1B budget which is ~14.5K per resident
2: Tariffs and Retaliation: A Brief Macroeconomic Analysis | NBER — “We study both a unilateral 10pp tariff increase and a global trade war scenario with retalia- tory tariffs of a similar magnitude. In either case, tariffs are always sharply contractionary for US GDP, increasing inflation and widening the trade deficit. Measured in welfare terms a unilateral tariff generates gains for the US due to a large terms of trade appreciation, but these US welfare gains vanish with global retaliation.”
3: ClaudePlaysPokemon - Twitch — now on Claude Opus 4, which seems to be getting further.
4: The Seven-Year Rule - MacSparky — “But what if we truly internalized that the person who experienced those things no longer exists in a physical sense?” — this went viral and I strongly disagree with this conception of “personhood”, I want to write about it but haven’t gotten there yet. There is more to the body than just a given collection of atoms. Continuity through time is an irreplaceable part of personhood!
5: CRISPR in Agriculture: 2024 in Review - Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) — eventually we’ll have “better potatoes for chipping, seedless blackberries, and non-browning bananas and avocados!”
6: zellerfeld - printed shoes on every foot! — 3d printed shoes
7: Historical Tech Tree — a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois
8: The future is made of energy | Orca Notes — “Here’s a big secular trend that you’ve probably thought about, but maybe not as much as you should: over time our world is getting to be made more out of energy, and relatively less out of matter.”
9: The Dilbert Blog: Career Advice — “It sounds like generic advice, but you’d be hard pressed to find any successful person who didn’t have about three skills in the top 25%.” — even more in the future. Be comb-shaped!
10: Economic Lessons from the Screwtape Letters
11: More syllabi please!
A friend asked for the best non-fiction books with policy relevance. These were my suggestions. What did I miss? pic.twitter.com/xKEFdQaTlJ
— Pieter Garicano (@pietergaricano) May 12, 2025
12: Terence Tao - YouTube — formalizing proofs in Lean using LLMs… nothing to see here!
13: ngmi if you’re not firing off an o3 deep research request before getting in the shower.
Some things where I think o3 really shines above other LMs, including those from OpenAI:
— Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) May 26, 2025
1. Hyper-specific “newsletters” delivered at custom intervals on obscure topics (using scheduled tasks)
2. Policy design/throwing out lists of plausible statutory paths for achieving…
14: ARIA Summit 2025 — great playlist.
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