Articles by paulpauper
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The Return of the Weirdo (honest-broker.com)

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The Revolution of Rising Expectations (thezvi.substack.com)

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America Has to Feel Fair (noahpinion.blog)

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Eliezer's Unteachable Methods of Sanity (lesswrong.com)

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When Were Things the Best? (thezvi.substack.com)

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Cultural Variety Is Crazy Hard to Fix (overcomingbias.com)

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Can Claude teach me to make coffee? (lesswrong.com)

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Dervos 2025 Keynote: Solar Pill the World with Jesse Peltan (dertaskforce.com)

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Against Against Boomers (astralcodexten.com)

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Why lawyers buy so many billboards (thehustle.co)

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What I've Been Reading (marginalrevolution.com)

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Do the Swiss face an identity crisis? (ft.com)

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A middle-class family's only option: A $43,000 health insurance premium (washingtonpost.com)

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Why immigration research is probably biased (laurenzguenther.substack.com)

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Ex150creamsauce+ACV Review: Failure, but Why? (exfatloss.com)

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Culture hasn't stagnated; rather, it has become more niche (greyenlightenment.com)

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The $140K Question: Cost Changes over Time (thezvi.substack.com)

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GDP Still Wins (economicforces.xyz)

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The Economics of Jeffrey Epstein (nytimes.com)

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Norman Podhoretz, 1930-2025 (commentary.org)

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FDI is the missing piece of Japan's puzzle (noahpinion.blog)

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The $140K Question: Cost Changes over Time (highly-respected.com)

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Robert Samuelson, Award-Winning Economics Columnist, Dies at 79 (nytimes.com)

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There's a Wasp Nest in the Living Room. On Purpose (nytimes.com)

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YouTube Creators Find a New Consumer for AI Slop: Babies (bloomberg.com)

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Feeding the Machine (theverge.com)

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Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025 (pewresearch.org)

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Taiwan bans popular Chinese social media app amid growing number of fraud cases (cnn.com)

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Strong Public Support to Restrict Social Media for Children in Germany (afterbabel.com)

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The $140k Question (thezvi.substack.com)

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I'm Practicing Medicine the Way It Should Be Done (thefp.com)

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Monthly Roundup #37: December 2026 (thezvi.substack.com)

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GPT-5.2 Is Frontier Only for the Frontier (thezvi.substack.com)

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Why Ice Cream Should Make You Cry and the NIH Deserves All Your Money (jackonomics.substack.com)

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Growth Matters (marginalrevolution.com)

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The Psychic Conflicts of Oliver Sacks (newyorker.com)

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TV in America, Pt. 1 – Foundations (drmanhattan16.substack.com)

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Oliver Sacks fabricated key details in his books (boingboing.net)

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Teaching Quality (hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)

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The case for taking the giving what we can pledge (benthams.substack.com)

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A Governance Innovation Crisis (overcomingbias.com)

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The rise and fall of Subway: The $11 billion empire that crumbled (youtube.com)

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The Deadweight Loss of Entertainment (moultano.wordpress.com)

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How to Revive Biopharma Productivity (writingruxandrabio.com)

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Did humans make fire earlier than we had thought? (theguardian.com)

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Our Overfitted Century (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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Netflix's Reed Hastings on the Impact of AI on Schools (the74million.org)

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At least five interesting things: Debunking the Debunkers edition (#73) (noahpinion.blog)

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"Rising" American Maternal Mortality Rates: more than you wanted to know (hardlyworking1.substack.com)

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Why clinical trials are inefficient. And why it matters (learninghealthadam.substack.com)

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There are things that AIs understand and no human can (jovex.substack.com)

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Being a Writer in the Era of Influencer (robkhenderson.com)

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My Conversation with the Excellent Gaurav Kapadia (marginalrevolution.com)

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US mass killings drop to 20-year low. Some policy shifts might be helping (csmonitor.com)

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A Friendly Response to Alex and Tyler's Discussion About the Debt (theunseenandtheunsaid.com)

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Did industrial policy drive East Asian growth? (richardhanania.com)

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Childhood and Education #15: Got to Get Out (thezvi.substack.com)

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AI #146: Chipping In (thezvi.substack.com)

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Claude and Pokemon (lesswrong.com)

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Swiss Population Cap Proposal Gets Almost 50% Backing in Poll (bloomberg.com)

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Thinking About Growth (econforeverybody.com)

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How Stealth Works (linch.substack.com)

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Should We Ban Phones in the Classroom? (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Our Overfitted Century (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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The AI bust scenario that no one is talking about (noahpinion.blog)

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Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular (thezvi.substack.com)

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Bulking, Metabolism, and Selection Effects (greyenlightenment.com)

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Within the Context of No Context, Revisited (novum.substack.com)

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Hating Stranger Things During the Death Rattle of Criticism (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025) (dwarkesh.com)

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How Much Are US Firms Using AI Tools? (conversableeconomist.com)

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Pyramids to Columns (andrewyang.com)

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Generating knowledge with AI: Epistemic partnership? (andrey4mir.substack.com)

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Publishing Is Getting Smaller–and Maybe Better (honest-broker.com)

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Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect? (honest-broker.com)

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Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities (dynomight.substack.com)

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AI #145: You've Got Soul (thezvi.substack.com)

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The Rise and Fall of Abstraction (overcomingbias.com)

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How Federal Law Made Us All Disabled (richardhanania.com)

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DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay and Cheap but Slow (thezvi.substack.com)

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Stoppard's Liberalism: A Commitment to the Individual (thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com)

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Dwarkesh Patel's Second Interview with Ilya Sutskever (thezvi.substack.com)

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Friends Are Your Destiny (arnoldkling.substack.com)

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America's mayors are right to support small business (noahpinion.blog)

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America Is Flying Blind on Immigration (apricitas.io)

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Interpreting the Turnaway Study Correctly (betonit.ai)

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Let's Not Bring Back the Gatekeepers (conspicuouscognition.com)

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The Status Game (With Will Storr) (econtalk.org)

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Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other (Ep. 263) (conversationswithtyler.com)

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Innovations in Health Care (marginalrevolution.com)

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'Protestant Magic' Today (thefitzwilliam.com)

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The Myth of the $140k Poverty Line (thefp.com)

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How much of "Mississippi's education miracle" is an artifact of selection bias? (columbia.edu)

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Trump Accounts Are a Big Deal (marginalrevolution.com)

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An Introduction to the Empirics of Auctions (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Your Intelligence Isn't Making You Lonely (cognitivewonderland.substack.com)

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Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence (2025) (jorgevelez.substack.com)

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Podcast Recommendations (zappable.com)

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Why AI Safety Won't Make America Lose the Race with China (astralcodexten.com)

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You Can't Find a Cab in the Rain (nicholasdecker.substack.com)