Articles by paulpauper
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Institutions Forget How to Move (seeingthesystem.com)

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Tacit Knowledge and the SaaSpocalypse (cpwalker.substack.com)

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The Best Potato Chips (nytimes.com)

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Bitcoin investor's helped draft law to enable libertarian Caribbean development (ft.com)

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Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Why We just can't stop eating (cam.ac.uk)

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One Weight-Loss Approach Fits All? No, Not Even Close (nytimes.com)

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The Economist as Reporter (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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The Limits and Consequences of Population Policy: Evidence from China's Campaign (direct.mit.edu)

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Trump's Greenland Threats Spill into Another Danish Territory (nytimes.com)

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Bitcoin company helped draft law to enable libertarian Caribbean development (ft.com)

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Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests (medpagetoday.com)

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Sebastian Galiani on the Marginal Revolution (marginalrevolution.com)

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Binance Gives Trump Family's Crypto Firm a Leg Up (nytimes.com)

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Why the 'Strivers' Are Right (greyenlightenment.com)

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The Economics of Noncompete Clauses (aeaweb.org)

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China's Disappearing Generals (nytimes.com)

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Kimi K2.5 (thezvi.substack.com)

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Against the Orthogonality Thesis (jonasmoman.substack.com)

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Making Sense of Madness: Stress-Induced Hallucinogenesis (science.blog)

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Forgone Innovation: Regulation as Pruning of the Adjacent Possible (sciencedirect.com)

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The Economics of Hip Hop (marginalrevolution.com)

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Google terminated my YouTube channel even thought I made no videos or used it

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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a satellite constellation to power (arstechnica.com)

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Morton Feldman's Music of Stillness (newyorker.com)

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The case for optimism in South Africa (economist.com)

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Moltbook: After the First Weekend (astralcodexten.com)

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Welcome to Moltbook (thezvi.substack.com)

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The Dadaism of "All Theories Are False" (betonit.ai)

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First Contact with America (novum.substack.com)

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The Dot-Com Optimists Got a Lot Right (bloomberg.com)

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My Free Press Column on Moltbook (marginalrevolution.com)

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Average Is over with AI (arnoldkling.substack.com)

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Scientists engineer unsinkable metal tubes (rochester.edu)

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We should be talking about zombie reasoning (thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com)

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Polymarket, 'privileged' users made millions betting on war strikes (theguardian.com)

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Time to Say Goodbye (nytimes.com)

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The Enlightened Absolutists (freesystems.substack.com)

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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks (publishersweekly.com)

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Do markets make us moral? (ft.com)

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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors (science.org)

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Bitcoin 2-Month Low as Gold and Stocks Give Up Gains, Crypto Liquidations $800M (decrypt.co)

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Sly Dunbar, Whose Drumming Brought Complex Beats to Reggae, Dies at 73 (nytimes.com)

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Is school worse for your kids than social media? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Semiconductors will see an end of history (eventually) (splittinginfinity.substack.com)

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Dark Triad: Explained (technotheoria.org)

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Open Problems with Claude's Constitution (thezvi.substack.com)

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How Do You Write About the Inexplicable? (newyorker.com)

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Wellington, New Zealand (marginalrevolution.com)

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Why A.I. Can't Make Thoughtful Decisions (nytimes.com)

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Let the Chinese Cars In (noahpinion.blog)

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Slim Chance for Permanent Weight Loss (2018) (apa.org)

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Fast food isn't only culprit in expanding waistlines – DNA is also to blame (uclahealth.org)

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Ultraprocessed Foods and Obesity Risk: A Critical Review of Reported Mechanisms (2023) (sciencedirect.com)

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Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply (2025) (cnn.com)

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Scientist studies ultra-processed foods. Here's what he eats in a day (2025) (washingtonpost.com)

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Hedge funds are tapping prediction markets and their data for an edge (businessinsider.com)

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Using Gemini to draft DOT regulations (propublica.org)

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Embrace Cultural Creative Destruction (betonit.ai)

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First Contact with America (novum.substack.com)

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Claude's Constitutional Structure (thezvi.substack.com)

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Stop blaming yourself for expanding waistline. Food supply working against you (cnn.com)

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Behavioral Biases in LLM Models (nber.org)

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U.S. marshals investigate claim of $40M crypto theft (coindesk.com)

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Almost a quarter of UK GPS are seeing obese children aged four and under (theguardian.com)

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The nostalgia factory that's made millions flipping old Polaroids (thehustle.co)

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Driving Around New Zealand (marginalrevolution.com)

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Suspect in the US $40M crypto asset theft case the son of CMDSS CEO (twitter.com/zachxbt)

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The Economics of Currency Values (marginalrevolution.com)

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Interest in Law School Is Surging. A.I. Makes the Payoff Less Certain (nytimes.com)

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Judge by the Policy, Not by the Tribe (thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com)

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The Math on AI Agents Doesn't Add Up (wired.com)

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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless (economist.com)

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Sloponomics: Who wins and loses in the AI-content flood? (economist.com)

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Action Potentials for January (neurobiology.substack.com)

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Math vs. Writing: difficulty and threshold effects (greyenlightenment.com)

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In Search of a Platonic Co-Parent (nytimes.com)

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AI #151: While Claude Coworks (thezvi.substack.com)

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Major crypto theft discovered by Zach XBT (twitter.com/zachxbt)

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The new Alex Honnold climb (nytimes.com)

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Silver Museum Emptied in Overnight Heist (vblgoldfix.substack.com)

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Elite overproduction, managerial feminism, and the death of mobility (radicallypragmatic.press)

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They quit their jobs to bet on current events: A look inside prediction markets (npr.org)

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AI #152: Brought to You by the Torment Nexus (thezvi.substack.com)

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Betting on Prediction Markets Is Their Job. They Make Millions (nytimes.com)

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Why Read Novels? (dynomight.substack.com)

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Slightly Against the "Other People's Money" Argument Against Aid (astralcodexten.com)

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The R^2 vs. R debate in IQ research (technotheoria.org)

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Why Eating Less Isn't Helping You Lose Weight Anymore, According to Experts (latimes.com)

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How Kids Get Good at Math in America (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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ChatGPT Self Portrait (thezvi.substack.com)

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Cultural Rationality (overcomingbias.com)

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Highlights from the Comments on Scott Adams (astralcodexten.com)

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Text Is King (experimental-history.com)

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Bryan Johnson may have faulty longevity methods (usatoday.com)

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A 23-year-old's $1.5B AI hedge fund shows how prophecy turns profits (fortune.com)

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Scandal: Various Organizations Leaked America's Biggest Math Test (lakesideschool.org)

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"It Only Lasts 3 Hours": The Anatomy of a Common ADHD Stimulant Complaint (psychofarm.substack.com)

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Trapped in the Hell of Social Comparison (noahpinion.blog)

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Monthly Roundup #38: January 2026 (thezvi.substack.com)