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Max Read has a recent sharp piece in the New York Times Magazine, "Gambling Is the Culture," that I want to pass on, along with some thoughts it set off in me. His argument is that gambling money no longer just pays for our culture....

I pass on this view of our future by Benjamin Bratton, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, and James Manyika in its entirety. It deserves a careful reading, and I'm not tempted to summarize it (or have AI do the summary for me):

Artificial symbiotic...

I want to pass on the following edited Claude 4.8 reduction of a Colin Lewis article which I recommend you read through in its full form:

No one is future-proof. The better ambition is to become futu...

 I can't resist passing this on,  from Ethan Mollick's Substack "One Useful Thing':

...I thought that getting agents to work effectively as a group would take careful construction, akin to building a company, and that this would take time t...

A framework for a more positive view of the aging brain is offered by Fernandez et al., in an article in the "Perspectives on Psychological Science" journal. Here is their abstract: