Longform links: crowds vs. community
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
8 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- Pablo Torre talks with David Epstein, author of “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better.” (podcasts.apple.com)
- A Q&A with Danny Funt, author of “Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling.” (awfulannouncing.com)
- An excerpt from “Lucky Devils: The True Story of Three Rebel Gamblers Who Beat the Odds and Changed the Game” by Kit Chellel. (bloomberg.com)
AI
- AI is already transforming mathematics. (quantamagazine.org)
- AI is a black box. In some areas that is not going to fly. (nytimes.com)
- Is AI going to threaten the job of art experts? (aeon.co)
Prediction markets
- How prediction markets are affecting news, and vice versa. (theguardian.com)
- What does it mean to bet on catastrophes? (aeon.co)
Transport
- Canada has an e-bike problem. (macleans.ca)
- Why Japan’s rail system rocks. (worksinprogress.co)
- How car crash scams work. (newyorker.com)
Health
- Our immune systems have been evolving since time immemorial. (quantamagazine.org)
- How technology will affect fertility in a good way. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
Longreads
- A profile of Jeffrey Yan, founder of Hyperliquid. (colossus.com)
- The death of American downtown was a policy choice. (thenewatlantis.com)
- The manosphere wins, because there is no real competition. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- Alamo Drafthouse used to be different. Not any more. (indiewire.com)
- The World Cup requires a lot of turf. (theglobeandmail.com)
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