The Economist published an article titled Is the Decline of Reading Making Politics Dumber? (4 Sept 2025). « The problem was less that these students of literature were not literary and more that they were barely even literate. » « YouGov, a pollster, found that 40% of Britons had not read or listened to any books … Continue reading Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?| Articles of Interest
Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).| Articles of Interest
Adam Tauman Kalai (Open AI), Ofir Nachum (Open AI), Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Tech), and Edwin Zhang (Open AI) wrote a paper titled Why Language Models Hallucinate (4 September 2025).| Articles of Interest
Robert P. Murphy wrote an article for the Mises Institute titled The Chicago School versus the Austrian School (26 May 2020). « On typical issues such as the minimum wage, tariffs, or government stimulus spending, Austrian and Chicago school economists can safely be lumped together as “free market.” However, in many other areas—particularly issues of … Continue reading Austrian Economics vs. Chicago Economics| Articles of Interest
Doug Garnett and JP Castlin wrote a blog post titled Complexity: The Dynamic Uncertainty of Emergence (1 August 2025).| Articles of Interest
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity: Small Giants and the Myths of Growth (July 11, 2025). « Many small, excellent companies thrive because they choose not to grow. » « Company owners should reject paths, no matter how possibly profitable, if those paths would change the inherent nature of what they value in the business. … Continue reading Myths of Growth| Articles of Interest
Thomas S. Bateman wrote an article for The Conversation titled Scientists tend to superspecialize – but there are ways they can change (December 8, 2015).| Articles of Interest
Steve Lohr wrote an article for the New York Times titled Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon (14 May 2025). « The predicted extinction of radiologists provides a telling case study. So far, A.I. is proving to be a powerful medical tool to increase efficiency and magnify human abilities, rather than take … Continue reading A.I. is not replacing radiologists| Articles of Interest
Attorney Cameron G. Shilling wrote an article for New Hampshire Tech Alliance Newsletter titled AI Notetakers: Do They Comply with the Law? (October 16, 2024). « Have you ever noticed during a videoconference that a participant is using an AI notetaker or that the meeting is being transcribed? … People who use these tools effectively … Continue reading AI notetakers: Legal Issues| Articles of Interest
Paul Rohan wrote an article titled LLMs Are Killing Your Writing Fingerprints (17 June 2025). « A hefty 206-page MIT paper’s findings are super concerning for the future of human creativity. “LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels” Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice … Continue reading Large language models ease surface workload but also mute the neural an...| Articles of Interest