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  • What Are Schools For?

    Agustina Paglayan

  • Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit?

    Ajeya Cotra Arvind Narayanan

  • Brain Freeze

    Aurelia Song

  • Can We Trust Social Science Yet?

    Ryan Briggs

  • The Georgist Roots of American Libertarianism

    Reed Schwartz

  • The Impossible Calculator

    Andre Popovitch

  • The Origin of the Research University

    Clara Collier

  • The Universal Tech Tree

    Étienne Fortier-Dubois

  • Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice

    Abi Olvera

  • Knockout Mouse

    Louis Evans

10: Origins

Is evidence real? The second best-attended funeral of the 19th century. Car deaths. Colon cancer. California has a commitment problem. When is it right to indoctrinate children? The undiscovere’d country. AI can’t beat us at rock, paper, scissors. Modernity was invented by German bureaucrats in 1737. A really, truly excessive amount of math.