Articles by paulpauper
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Teaching the New Loop (freesystems.substack.com)

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Should DayQuil Be Legal? (theargumentmag.com)

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Will California's Wealth Tax Raise $100B or Lose $25B? (everywheremillionaire.substack.com)

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Another Reason the Labor Share Keeps Falling: Taxes (everywheremillionaire.substack.com)

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The Troubled History of Government Equity in Technology (rstreet.org)

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Heat deaths in Europe (from my email) (marginalrevolution.com)

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View from the Shifting Mound (thesolarprincess.github.io)

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Claude Played Me for a Fool (ramblingafter.substack.com)

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Prepare for Airplane Purgatory (theatlantic.com)

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Nutrition Science's Most Preposterous Result (theatlantic.com)

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Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline (nature.com)

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Is America Moving Left Economically? (hereticalinsights.substack.com)

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People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age (theatlantic.com)

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The Rise of Grocery Tourism (thefreemanmag.substack.com)

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The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup (wsj.com)

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Trees are mostly made of air and a generalizable lesson for AI safety (lesswrong.com)

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A Twist in This Year's Strangest Literary AI Scandal (theatlantic.com)

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What I Learned from ROTC (theatlantic.com)

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The Consequences of Caste in Village India (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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A damage accumulation model identifies distinct aging regimes across species (nature.com)

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We Love This Country (thefp.com)

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Films of 2026:Q2 (scottsumner.substack.com)

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Not Dark Yet (agoodhardstare.substack.com)

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Baby Busts and Growth Booms: Demographic Change and the Macroeconomy [pdf] (economics.mit.edu)

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The wine made by British monks that's making bank (thehustle.co)

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The $10k MacBook Pro Is Here (theatlantic.com)

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All Men Are Created Equal, but What Does Equal Mean? (theatlantic.com)

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What Would Mark Twain Think of America at 250? (theatlantic.com)

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Why Everyone Is Suddenly Talking About 'Universal Basic Capital' (theatlantic.com)

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How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States? (danielfetz.io)

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Safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: mechanistic and public health perspective (thelancet.com)

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A Silent Auction (ox.ac.uk)

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Rent Control: The Ceiling Trap (gmu.edu)

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AI #175: The Fable Continues (thezvi.substack.com)

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Blink If You're Human (dynomight.substack.com)

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When is it time to grow up? (infinitescroll.us)

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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier but Has Its Uses (thezvi.substack.com)

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The Joy of Being American (theatlantic.com)

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What I've Been Reading (marginalrevolution.com)

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The Once and Future Fable #5 (thezvi.substack.com)

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Chip Off The Old Block (astralcodexten.com)

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2026 Unslop Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)

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The New (and Slightly Smelly) Center of the AI Boom (theatlantic.com)

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I Went to the Great American State Fair and I May Never Sleep Again (theatlantic.com)

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How to ask for help from people who don't know you (pradyuprasad.com)

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The Oracle Problem (pilgrima.ge)

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Is Claude's Constitution Aligned with Planetary Flourishing? (cathalharte.ch)

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Why jet engines aren't made in China (aakash.substack.com)

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Scott Alexander as a modern-day Edmund Wilson (columbia.edu)

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Frame Error (linch.substack.com)

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AI is not going to make mathematicians obsolete (greyenlightenment.com)

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Why Does Everyone Hate AI? (digitalnative.tech)

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The Once and Future Fable #5 (twitter.com/thezvi)

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Insulin Resistance Is a Useless Construct (exfatloss.com)

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Recovered Memories Aren't Real (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Will AI make companies outsource more, or less? (noahpinion.blog)

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What AI Will Do to Art (theatlantic.com)

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The Freedom of Not Trying to Look Good (theatlantic.com)

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The Donk-Ing of a Truth Machine (nytimes.com)

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More on the depolarizing effects of current AI (ssrn.com)

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Alex Ross is stepping down as music critic for The New Yorker (therestisnoise.com)

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Korinek, Autor, and Gimbel on AI and Jobs (wsj.com)

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Inferring Living Standards from the Value of a Statistical Life (nber.org)

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Guide to Using Large Language Models and Generative AI in Economic History (nber.org)

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Scott Wheeler on Stephen Sondheim (thefp.com)

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The Humbling of the Once Almighty Dollar (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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The 'Two Ships' Theory of American History (theatlantic.com)

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France Is Too Hot for Shutters and Ceiling Fans (theatlantic.com)

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Higher Ed Is Sorry (theatlantic.com)

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The Memory Tax (bycig.substack.com)

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AI and the Crisis of 'Classical Liberalism' (compactmag.substack.com)

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Best Books of the 21st Century (nytimes.com)

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Alan Greenspan, RIP (scottsumner.substack.com)

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White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6 (thezvi.substack.com)

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Limbic Capitalism Has Been Driving Addiction for Hundreds of Years (afterbabel.com)

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Roundup #83: I told you so (noahpinion.blog)

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The Overlooked Reason Europe Doesn't Have AC (theatlantic.com)

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Action Potentials for June (neurobiology.substack.com)

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It might be kinder to kill your AI (conversation) (ramblingafter.substack.com)

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The Weight-Loss Revolution People Didn't Want (greyenlightenment.com)

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The Harm in Hate Speech Laws (wysr.substack.com)

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How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths (maartenboudry.substack.com)

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Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them (thedailyeconomy.org)

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The Supreme Court's Era of Meaningless Rights (theatlantic.com)

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The Duck Is Growing (gemenergyanalytics.substack.com)

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The State of the AI Economy (exponentialview.co)

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Why American data centers can't plug in (worksinprogress.co)

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The Metaculus Democracy Threat Index (astralcodexten.com)

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What if ideas aren't getting harder to find, after all? (ft.com)

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The FIFA World Cup, and Investor Attention in the U.S. Stock Market (ssrn.com)

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The View from 93: A Music Critic Reviews Himself (bernardholland.org)

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War by Other Means (palladiummag.com)

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Architectural Studies #02 (fashionablylatetakes.com)

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AI agents are sensitive to nudges (pnas.org)

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New Business Formation Is Surging–Again (marginalrevolution.com)

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Interview with Nick Bostrom (maxraskin.com)

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I Just Say Yes (anshulagx.substack.com)

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Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info? (astralcodexten.com)

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Burnham ally to unveil ambitious plan to reverse decades of privatisation (theguardian.com)

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Concerns over therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK's largest childrens prison (theguardian.com)