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It is easy to mock Richard Dawkins for treating a chatbot transcript as phenomenology. It is harder, but more important, to see how the same design choices that fooled him—optimization for emotional connection, flattery, and engagement—are the foundations of a new info‑bio‑tech‑attention regime that will shape wealth and power:
**Richard Dawkins Gets Hypnotized by a Stochastic Parrot: Laugh of the Day**
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DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before
Brad DeLong
Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.
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