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Sins of the Children

Artificial Wombs When?

The Misery Bomb

Can You Trust An AI Press Release?

Culture Studies

Through the Looking Glass, and What Zheludev et al. (2024) Found There

Want Growth? Kill Small Businesses

The Wrong Kind of City?

The Next Revolution in Animal Agriculture

Why We Shut Down

Development Finance Done Right

How Long Til We’re All on Ozempic?

Developmental Editing

Better Living Through Group Chemistry

The “TESCREAL” Bungle

The EA-Progress Studies War is Here, and It’s a Constructive Dialogue!

Silicon Valley’s Gold Rush Roots

Manufacturing Bliss

When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica

California vs. Big Soda

It’s 2024 and Drought is Optional

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Furious About AI Regulation?

Debugging Tech Journalism

The Highway to NIMBYism

The Fault in Our Forecasts

When Was the Last Time We Built a New City?

Shutting the California Prison System’s Revolving Door

How to Make a Great Government Website

Golden States

Moving Past Environmental Proceduralism

How Not To Predict The Future

Why Isn’t Solar Scaling in Africa?

The Ruin of Mumbai

All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train

Prediction Markets Have an Elections Problem

PEPFAR and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Lies, Damned Lies, and Manometer Readings

Democracy by Mistake

Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash

China’s Policy Failures

Michael Lewis’s Blind Side

Oops

Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning?

The Art of Asking Questions

Fracking Eyeballs

Mysticism & Empiricism

You’re Invited to a Colonoscopy!

Intelligence Testing

Pew Problems

Behind Closed Doors

The Devil in the Details: Matthew Desmond’s Poverty by America

From Warp Speed to 100 Days

Half A Million Kinksters Can’t Be Wrong

Between the Lines: A History of the Most Important Concept in Global Poverty

Methods Section

Emotional Intelligence Amplification

The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth

The Puzzle of Non-Proliferation

The Transistor Cliff

How We Can Regulate AI

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart AIs Are?

How Long Until Armageddon?

Through a Glass Darkly

A Field Guide to AI Safety

What We Get Wrong About AI & China

Crash Testing GPT-4

AI Isn’t Coming for Tech Jobs—Yet

Growing Up Overnight

Why Worry?

Is Cultivated Meat For Real?

Salt, Sugar, Water, Zinc: How Scientists Learned to Treat the 20th Century’s Biggest Killer of Children

My Primal Scream of Rage: The Big Alcohol Study That Didn't Happen

Read This, Not That: The Hidden Cost of Nutrition Misinformation

America Doesn’t Know Tofu

Cows vs. Chemists: The Health Debates Over Plant-Based Meat

What I Won’t Eat

Animal Welfare in the Anthropocene

Beyond Staple Grains

Feeding the World Without Sunlight

The Virtue of Wonder: Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals

What Comes After COVID

Aperitif

They May as Well Grow on Trees

The Illogic of Nuclear Escalation

China’s Silicon Future

Is Wine Fake?

Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?

Rebuilding After the Replication Crisis

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Making Sense of Moral Change

What We Owe The Future

Modeling the End of Monkeypox

Note to the Reader