17 connected korrents · 16 moments from 14 Dec 2023 to 5 Oct 2026. Nearly all of them are about social media.
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Whether AI's gains are widely shared turns on whether it is like electricity, where the users captured the benefit, or like social media, where the platform did.
Last stated 4 Jun 2026 · 5 months ago
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Alex Imas
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Same subject: social media
A growing fraction of social media is AI slop influencers being replied to by bots — an echo of an echo of an echo.
Last stated 23 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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François Chollet
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Same subject: social media
A parental-consent exception defeats a social media age limit, because it drops each family straight back into the trap the law exists to break.
Last stated 17 Feb 2026 · 8 months ago
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Jon Haidt
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Same subject: social media
Advertising is what has degraded the quality of websites and social platforms like Instagram.
Last stated 28 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Dave Rupert
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Same subject: social media
AI design tools are starting at the low end and eating their way up: within ten years even the richest brands will rely heavily on them.
Last stated 8 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
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Jakob Nielsen
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Same subject: social media
AI is creating user surplus and capital deepening, even if it is not yet showing up in TFP data.
Last stated 5 Oct 2026 · 2 weeks ago
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Brad DeLong
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Same subject: social media
Algorithmic feeds seem to have nudged people into conforming to each other, a homogenised culture in which everyone accepts the average.
Last stated 17 Jan 2024 · 3 years ago
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Kyle Chayka
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Same subject: social media
America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech
Last stated 7 Jan 2025 · 2 years ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson
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Same subject: social media
An age limit on social media does not need perfect enforcement to work, because its job is to change the default rather than to stop every child.
Last stated 10 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
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Jon Haidt
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Same subject: energy
"Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.
Last stated 9 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Emily Atkin
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Same subject: energy
"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Chris Smaje
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Same subject: energy
A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.
Last stated 4 Jun 2026 · 5 months ago
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Alex Imas
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Same subject: solar
A future of constrained energy will need more people working the land, and that is not the same as going back to the past.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Chris Smaje
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Same subject: solar
A solar system holding a trillion humans is the right thing to aim at, because a population that size would have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins alive at once.
Last stated 14 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
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Jeff Bezos
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Same subject: solar
A solar-powered data centre can cut its power draw a great deal while giving up very little compute, which is how it survives a run of bad weather.
Last stated 15 Aug 2025 · a year ago
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Casey Handmer
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Same subject: nuclear power
American manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation.
Last stated 6 Apr 2025 · 2 years ago
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Molson Hart
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Same subject: nuclear power
Americans have repeatedly overreacted drastically to real problems like DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power, swept up in fear after one vivid incident.
Last stated 1 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Tyler Cowen
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Same subject: nuclear power
Being strong, sovereign, hard-working and deeply competent, ideally also finishing ambitious infrastructure on budget and on time, makes every other problem melt away.
Last stated 13 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Tobias Lütke