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Robin Hanson queries: Missing book: Glorious Committees of History, on great committees that accomplished great things as committees. GPT Pro has an impressive response, here is the start: 1. The King James Bible translation companies. This is maybe the purest literary example: 47 scholars organized into six companies at Westminster, Oxford, and Cambridge, with review […] The post Important committees in history appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsI would say . by AnttiI , too, sug...
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last month with a huge claim: it had solved a mathematical bottleneck…
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency on Saturday, granting broader powers to deploy the military and clear road blockades after nearly two months of protests paralysed the economy and fuelled demands for his resignation
After Andy Burnham took a giant leap toward becoming the UK’s next prime minister, focus is turning to how the team he’s assembling could shape the country’s economic policies
The seemingly distant war in Ukraine has arrived on Moscow residents’ doorsteps. Ukraine’s second drone strike this week on the
Russia's Defence Ministry says air defences shot down 555 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight
Venezuelan oil production is at risk of severe decline within weeks as storage tanks approach full capacity and many ships steer clear of Caribbean waters to avoid a US naval blockade, according to maritime intelligence firm Kpler Ltd