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What the Data Gives Away

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July 13, 2026

Thinking in Decades

Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.

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April 13, 2026

Underrated Ways to Change the World

Experimental History on overlooked paths to impact, Dario Amodei's five-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, and Ethan Mollick on what just happened in AI.

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Scott Alexander

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The Intrinsic Perspective

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Cold Takes

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AI Snake Oil

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Simon Willison

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One First

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Money Stuff

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Noahpinion

Noah Smith

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4.3
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Experimental History

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One Useful Thing

Ethan Mollick

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Doomberg

Doomberg

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Letters from an American

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Silver Bulletin

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Construction Physics

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Roots of Progress

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The Honest Broker

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Platformer

Casey Newton

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4.3
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The Generalist

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4.3
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The Diff

Byrne Hobart

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4.3
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Molly White — Citation Needed

Molly White

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4.3
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The Overshoot

Matthew Klein

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Musings on Markets

Aswath Damodaran

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Interconnects

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Gradient Flow

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Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans

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Rob Henderson's Newsletter

Rob Henderson

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The Zvi

Zvi Mowshowitz

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Applied Divinity Studies

Anonymous

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Maximum Progress

Étienne Fortier-Dubois

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Dynomight

Dynomight

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Persuasion

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Heatmap News

Heatmap

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FiveThirtyEight

Various / ABC News

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Things I Won't Work With

Derek Lowe

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In the Pipeline

Derek Lowe

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4.3
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Unreasonable Doubt

John Pfaff

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The Garden of Forking Paths

Erik Hoel et al.

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Richard Hanania

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ProPublica Newsletter

ProPublica

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Rest of World Newsletter

Rest of World

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404 Media Newsletter

404 Media

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Invest Like the Best Newsletter

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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The Information (Newsletter)

The Information

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The Upshot Newsletter

New York Times

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MIT Technology Review Newsletter

MIT

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4.3
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Brain Pickings Newsletter

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4.4
8/10ModerateApr 2024

Nautilus Newsletter

NautilusThink

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4.3
8/10DeepFeb 2024

Farnam Street Newsletter

Shane Parrish

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4.4
8/10ModerateSep 2024

Works in Progress Newsletter

Various

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4.3
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Noema Newsletter

Berggruen Institute

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4.2
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The Algorithmic Bridge

Alberto Romero

technologyai
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4.2
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The Sequence

Jesus Rodriguez

technologyai
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4.1
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Chain of Thought

Dan Shipper

technologyai
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4.3
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AlphaSignal

Lior

technologyai
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4.1
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Capital Gains

Byrne Hobart

economics
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4.4
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The Free Press

Bari Weiss et al.

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4
7/10ModerateOct 2024

Culture Study

Anne Helen Petersen

psychologypolitics
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4.3
7/10ModerateNov 2024

Garbage Day

Ryan Broderick

technologysociety
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4.3
7/10LiteFeb 2024

Not Boring

Packy McCormick

technologyeconomics
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4.3
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Lenny's Newsletter

Lenny Rachitsky

technologyai
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4.4
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The Profile

Polina Marinova Pompliano

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4.3
7/10ModerateOct 2024

Heated

Emily Atkin

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4.1
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Popular Information

Judd Legum

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4.2
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The Dispatch

Various

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4.1
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Newcomer

Eric Newcomer

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4.2
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The Bulwark

Various

politicssociety
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4
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The Ankler

Richard Rushfield

economics
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4.1
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Big Technology

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.2
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Normcore Tech

Vicki Boykis

technologysociety
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4.2
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ParentData

Emily Oster

psychologyscience
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4.4
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The Pull Request

Antonio García Martínez

technologysociety
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4
7/10ModerateAug 2024

Ben's Bites

Ben Tossell

technologyai
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4.1
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Data Elixir

Lon Riesberg

technologymathematics
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4.1
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The Liberal Patriot

Ruy Teixeira

politics
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4
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Defector

Defector Staff

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4.3
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The Flywheel

Various

technologyeconomics
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4.1
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O'Reilly Radar

O'Reilly Media

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4.1
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Davis on AI

Rob Davis

technologyeconomics
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4
7/10ModerateNov 2024

The AI Exchange

Various

technologyai
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4
7/10ModerateFeb 2024

Puck

Various

politicseconomics
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4.1
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Grid

Grid

politics
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4
7/10ModerateMay 2024

The Atlantic Daily

The Atlantic

politicsliterature
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4.2
7/10ModerateDec 2024

The Ringer

The Ringer

literaturesociety
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4.2
7/10LiteJun 2024

Singularity Hub

Singularity Group

technologyscience
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4.1
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Wired Newsletter

Wired

technologysociety
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4.1
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Longreads Weekly

Automattic

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4.3
7/10ModerateAug 2024

Last Week in AI

Andrey Kurenkov

technologyai
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4.2
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AI Supremacy

Michael Spencer

technologyai
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4
7/10ModerateFeb 2025

Kyla's Newsletter

Kyla Scanlon

economicssociety
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4.2
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Original Jurisdiction

David Lat

law
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4.3
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The Rundown AI

Rowan Cheung

technologyai
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6/10LiteFeb 2025