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The latest from the Lincoln Project. This is extremely powerful.

People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ”you can just look it up“. This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet. But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:

Polish growth was more about removal of stupid communist policies than about any special policy. They had the human capital, social institutions, all the right inputs — when 50 years of repression stopped, they could go back to the predicted income level given their inputs.

And I was right: #MoscowTrump wants to block EU from imposing tighter 🇷🇺 oil price cap: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Genuinely something incredibly reassuring about how comically rubbish the US military looks on parade. They simply don't have the camp precision necessary for authoritarianism.

The British art of damning with faint praise. Everyone else: "Genius behind Pet Sounds dies". The Economist goes with death of “author of inimitable catalogue of breezy doo-wop.”

Sylvain Catherine Cc Olivier Blanchard Gabriel Zucman Jean Pisani-Ferry ce serait super utile d’avoir confirmation de cette erreur massive dans l’article du Monde et dans l’argumentation présentée à l’assemblée et au Sénat pour prétendre que le Français moyen paie deux fois + qu’un milliardaire?

The French will soon realize what Spaniards have realized thanks to the patient help of Jon González and Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: Not only are the middle class quite poor, but also the 1% are really not that rich given housing prices and taxes, including SS.

A generation of US, EU and Chinese policymakers who convinced themselves that there are no military solutions are not psychologically equipped to cope with leaders who think there are

En définitive, la discussion sur les taux de prélèvements obligatoires est le miroir méthodologique de celle sur les "aides aux entreprises" : Quand il s'agit des entreprises, seuls les transferts sont pris en compte. On affirme qu’on les aide plus qu’ailleurs. Le fait que les

Something like 43,000 die yearly in car crashes in the US and 2.38 million are injured. At what point does it become unethical to not to speed up driverless car adoption as a policy choice? (Waymo's reported safety numbers align with what we have seen from independent audits)

The anti-driverless cars crowd is focused on getting to 0% risk. It's another example of why we need to be more thoughtful about benchmarks here, in AI, etc. The benchmark is not "zero accidents"– it's a significant reduction in accidents compared to human drivers.

Trump told Zelenskyy to stop striking Russian energy facilities, refused to impose a price cap on Russian oil, and criticized Western leaders for expelling Russia from the G7. Meanwhile, Russia is targeting random civilian targets with drones. How can you defend this shit?

Seguro que no tiene nada que ver: el salario real del trabajador no aumenta, pero el coste para la empresa de un trabajador lo que la empresa paga en total, ha aumentado un 6% en 7 años.

Maybe China can show how this is done? I can think of a place where a war has been raging for 3 years with China's encouragement.

And it’s out! Our book hits the shelves today. To celebrate, here’s a podcast with John, Klaus, and me on what’s broken in the euro—and how to fix it. Have a listen, and if you enjoy it, you know what to do.

You never stop being surprised with the complete lack of empathy and humanity of this person.

One of the best parts of Stripe is working with the world's most interesting businesses. Taking advantage of this, we're launching a podcast where we host founders and leaders for a cheeky pint in our hastily-constructed office pub. Coming soon: episodes with Greg Brockman, Meta’s Susan