Wednesday Assorted Links
Author: Marginal Revolution·
Key Takeaways
- •The roundup includes a catalog of past AI predictions as one of the featured items.
- •Jasmine Sun’s writing is cited for framing data centers as a local land-use and community-siting issue, not only a technical or business topic.
- •The New York Times is referenced for a story about a bot running a retail boutique in San Francisco.
- •The list notes a new credit card that gives users tokens instead of miles.
- •It also points to discussion about whether AI may mark the end of math heroes and other types of heroes.
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A catalog of past AI predictions.
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Jasmine Sun on why people do not want data centers, and Jasmine Sun on Ezra Klein and data centers in The New York Times (link; NYT). The pairing is useful because data-center buildout is no longer just a technical or business story; it is also a local land-use and community-siting issue that shows up wherever new infrastructure meets neighborhood pushback.
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A bot running an SF retail boutique? (The New York Times).
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Elise Cawley, RIP.
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On the NYC grocery store plan.
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New credit card gives you tokens instead of miles.
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Does AI mean the end of math heroes? Some other heroes too? Nick Kokonas; Jen Zhu Scott; Noahpinion.
