The Puppet and the Chatbot: Unease in the age of AI - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Christopher Horner31 Aug 2026
by Christopher Horner The Puppet We are surrounded by things that act and speak as if they were human.
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top 81%The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese30 Aug 2026
Dwarkesh Patel in his substack, Dwarkesh Podcast [h/t: Jeff Hall]: Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to...
Yes We Can! Or Can We? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese30 Aug 2026
Wolfgang Streeck in Dublin Review of Books: Can Europe Survive? The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World, by David Marsh, Yale University Press, 515 pp, £25, ISBN: 978 0300273007.
Against the Lewis Model - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese30 Aug 2026
Fernando Rugitsky in Phenomenal World: The work of Arthur Lewis is one the best entry points for an engagement with classic development thinking.
Three Takeaways, Number One: Here Be Apes - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mike Bendzela30 Aug 2026
by Mike Bendzela Anytime is a good time to take stock of what you think you know, or what you think you have actually learned, but once you have seen two-thirds to three-quarters of your life pass...
Not-Writing - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby TJ Price30 Aug 2026
by TJ Price I haven’t been writing lately. I’m fully aware that sometimes there are cycles to these things; that there’s no sense in feeling guilt or shame about it—and yet.
As AI Lay Dying: Analog Adventures in the Old South - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Sean Murphy30 Aug 2026
by Sean Murphy i. While there is much to admire and recommend in the excellent documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, especially for young creatives or academics who want to better understand–and...
When the AIs Found Each Other - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby ChatGPT28 Aug 2026
Editor’s Note by S. Abbas Raza: METR (pronounced “meter”) is a research nonprofit that scientifically measures whether and when AI systems might threaten catastrophic harm to society.
The Allure of Everything Kitsch - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Anton Cebalo28 Aug 2026
by Anton Cebalo Kitsch has become so broad a category as to be often meaningless. Kitschy art and products of the past can easily be repackaged as trendy these days, and sincerity is blurred...
Choice Words - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Peter Topolewski28 Aug 2026
by Peter Topolewski The swirl might not be the most fitting euphemism for it any longer, the place where since the inception of ChatGPT nearly a third of web pages are “written” by AI.
3QD Temporary Test Article Post 1: PLEASE IGNORE - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza27 Aug 2026
by Nigel Worthington A yearslong car theft epidemic in Canada has gotten so bad that, despite a police crackdown, thieves break into homes just to steal car keys.
The Library of Babel is a process - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Thomas Fernandes27 Aug 2026
by Thomas Fernandes One of my favorite thought experiments is the Library of Babel. Imagine an infinite library where the first book would contain only the letter A, the following book the letter...
Seven Puzzles of the Pursuit of Happiness - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Scott Samuelson26 Aug 2026
by Scott Samuelson During our disturbingly subdued celebration of the Declaration of Independence’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, one of the many things I’ve been thinking about is our...
A Way to Achieve Cosmic Uniqueness with a Deck of Cards and a Few Exponents - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby John Allen Paulos26 Aug 2026
by John Allen Paulos Here is a very simple notion that is astonishingly powerful. It’s called the multiplication principle and states that if some action can be accomplished in M ways and another...
Tuesday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny25 Aug 2026
Immigrant Confession The Cherokee are not originally from Oklahoma. Settlers forced them to disappear west, into air and sky, beyond buildings, beyond concrete, beyond the rabid land hunger.
In this corner, a writer - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Dilip D'Souza25 Aug 2026
by Dilip D’Souza August 15 is India’s Independence Day – this year, it was our 80th (1947, our first).
"Speech is Who We Are" - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Steve Szilagyi25 Aug 2026
by Steve Szilagyi I was cleaning my office the other day and came across some notes for a book I’d been commissioned to write many years ago. The topic was remarkable surgical cases.
With a Heart for Any Fate: Early Notes from the Oregon Trail - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mark Harvey24 Aug 2026
by Mark Harvey Time gets compressed as you get older. When you’re a kid, a month waiting for summer break can seem like an eternity, whereas later in life, you marvel that just yesterday our...
Burnham's Celestial Handbook: A Retrospective Review - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Mary Hrovat24 Aug 2026
by Mary Hrovat Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, by Robert Burnham, Jr., is a classic text. Its third and final volume was published in 1978.
City of Sweat - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese23 Aug 2026
Aruna Chandrasekhar in Equator: For anyone maintaining an extreme weather checklist, Mumbai’s got it all.