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“The skill content of recent technological change: an empirical exploration” By David Autor, Frank Levy and Richard Murnane. Though published aeons ago (2003, to be precise) it still seems to me the wisest analysis of the likely impact of robotics on employment.
Dan Wang’s 2019 Letter Truly remarkable review of the year in technology, including an informed, detached perspective on the prospects for Chinese domination of new tech.
The Shadow Commander Long New Yorker profile of Qassem Suleimani , the Iranian general assassinated by the US last week. The interesting thing is that it was published in September 2013, and it explains how significant he was for Iranian strategy in the Middle East. So there was no excuse for the “Who he?” response in the West to the news of his death.
Our Neophobic, Conservative AI Overlords Want Everything to Stay the Same Lovely provocative essay by Cory Doctorow on the innate conservatism of machine-learning algorithms.