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David Oks
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4d
4 days ago
Why kinship societies kill their old
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2w
2 weeks ago
Why China got rich and India didn't
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4w
4 weeks ago
AI is killing the cheap smartphone
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4w
4 weeks ago
Why Japanese companies do so many different things
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6w
6 weeks ago
Language models are weird for the same reason human cultures are weird
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6w
6 weeks ago
Why airlines are always going bankrupt
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10w
10 weeks ago
How funerals keep Africa poor
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11w
11 weeks ago
How citations ruined science
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12w
12 weeks ago
How the spreadsheet reshaped America
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14w
14 weeks ago
Why the ATM didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
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18w
18 weeks ago
Why I’m not worried about AI job loss
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19w
19 weeks ago
Oks notes #2: AI math, the Epstein emails, and why Steve Jobs wanted to buy General Motors
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20w
20 weeks ago
GDP numbers in poor countries are usually fake
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21w
21 weeks ago
Oks notes #1: DeepSeek, the WASPs, and the last Mossad station chief in Tehran
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20w
20 weeks ago
A Lot Of Population Numbers Are Fake
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19w
19 weeks ago
Why poor countries stopped catching up
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23w
23 weeks ago
The good luck of Nicolás Maduro
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28w
28 weeks ago
On getting robbed
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18w
18 weeks ago
The era of declining global poverty is over
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31w
31 weeks ago
Southern Italy is poor because of malaria
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