2026-02-26 13:51:04
Prabhdeep Singh, 18, Ontario, works on AI.
Jiratt Keeratipatarakarn, Hamburg, international prospects for drug approval reform.
Brandon Rutagamirwa, London, robots to repair satellites.
Eli Elster, UC Davis, anthropology, general career support.
Liam Aranda-Michel, MIT/San Francisco, a minimally invasive, injectable microvascular therapy.
Tanish Mantri, sophomore in high school, Jackson, Miss., AI for diagnosis.
Anrea Giuri, Stanford, developing closed-loop environments for high-throughput polymer discovery.
Clara Collier, Oakland, Asterisk magazine.
Simon Grimm, WDC/Germany, “what Germany should do.
Stephen Davies, UK, networks and mentoring.
Shani Zhang, San Francisco, to artistically capture SF.
Mia Albert, 17, Miami, an app for sharing events.
Rayne Wallace, 18, Ontario, the origins of life.
Jonathan Sheinman, London/Israel, AI and real estate regulation.
Louis Elton, London, The British Craeft Prize, to improve aesthetics.
Peter Mukovskiy, 19, Zurich, quantum computing, to visit MIT.
Rutger Nagel, Leiden, 17, AI and operating systems
Smrithi Sunil, Ann Arbor, Michigan, science and meta-science writing.
Honey Louise, London, to be a “defense influencer.”
Arhum Ahmed, Los Angeles area, quantum-protected systems.
Here are previous EV cohorts.
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2026-02-26 02:58:03
Prompt:
Can a parent limit a kid’s screen time simply by tweaking some of the settings on the smart phone? Are these services available?
GPT Thinking answer:
Yes. On both iPhone and Android, a parent can limit a kid’s screen time largely through built-in settings (no extra app required), and there are also optional third-party services.
There is much more detail at the link.
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2026-02-26 01:14:11
1. Will human enhancement win without thinking?
2. February issue of Works in Progress.
3. Proximity bias.
5. New paper on AI and task automation. And John Cochrane is wowed by Refine.
6. Largest survey dataset on human sexuality in the world.
7. The Anthropic-DOD situation.
8. “Measurability is the new fault line.” Important work, worth a ponder.
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2026-02-25 15:47:36
Transformative artificial intelligence (TAI) – machines capable of performing virtually all economically valuable work – may gradually erode the two main tax bases that underpin modern tax systems: labor income and human consumption. We examine optimal taxation across two stages of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven transformation. First, if AI displaces human labor, we find that consumption taxation may serve as a primary revenue instrument, with differential commodity taxation gaining renewed relevance as labor distortions lose their constraining role. In the second stage, as autonomous artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems both produce most economic value and absorb a growing share of resources, taxing human consumption may become an inadequate means of raising revenue. We show that the taxation of autonomous AGI systems can be framed as an optimal harvesting problem and find that the resulting tax rate on AGI depends on the rate at which humans discount the future. Our analysis provides a theoretically grounded approach to balancing efficiency and equity in the Age of AI. We also apply our insights to evaluate specific proposals such as taxes on robots, compute, and tokens, as well as sovereign wealth funds and windfall clauses.
That is from Anton Korinek and Lee Lockwood.
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2026-02-25 14:13:46
Using data from hundreds of closely contested partisan elections from 2010 to 2019 and a vote share regression discontinuity design, we find that narrow election of a Republican prosecutor reduces all-cause mortality rates among young men ages 20 to 29 by 6.6%. This decline is driven predominantly by reductions in firearm-related deaths, including a large reduction in firearm homicide among Black men and a smaller reduction in firearm suicides and accidents primarily among White men. Mechanism analyses indicate that increased prison-based incapactation explains about one third of the effect among Black men and none of the effect among White men. Instead, the primary channel appears to be substantial increases in criminal conviction rates across racial groups and crime types, which then reduce firearm access through legal restrictions on gun ownership for the convicted.
That is from a new paper by Panka Bencsik and Tyler Giles. Via M.
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2026-02-25 08:33:11
By Jesse M. Shapiro, just out from MIT Press.
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