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Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.
USAID has been slashed, and it is unclear what shape its predecessor will take. How might American foreign assistance be restructured to maintain critical functions? And how should we think about its future?
Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
A conversation about neuroscience, meditation, and the many paths to insight.
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