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It’s much harder for a doctor to get the information they need to diagnose conditions from them than it is for adult patients.

When my brother and I were little kids, we were sitting around our grandparents' house on the Cape one sunny summer day doing absolutely nothing, waiting for something to entertain us. One of us made the mistake of telling our grandmother that we were bored. She wasted absolutely no time lighting us up, all but physically kicking us out of the

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But education hasn’t kept pace with innovation in the labor market: today’s education systems aren’t teaching the right skills to tomorrow’s workers. This results in the skills gap, a mismatch in supply and demand for jobs.

7. The metaverse is driving aesthetics for a new era.

Tyler Cowen:  I think sheer writing will be less important, even if the AI can't quite copy Paul Krugman or Joe Stiglitz. But charisma will be more important.

Either originality, or pretense to originality, will be more important.

Standing out from the crowd, extraversion, a certain kind of flare, willingness to engage with one’s own celebrity

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In theory, we crave authoritative information, but authoritative information can be dry and boring. It reads more like a government form or a textbook than a novel. The internet that many people know and love is the opposite—it is messy, chaotic, unpredictable. It is exhausting, unending, and always a little bit dangerous. It is profoundly human.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.