Asterisk

Paolo Beghini

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We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides

Elizabeth Van Nostrand

For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.

Risk-Adjusted Return

The Editors

What are we afraid of?

Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything?

Dan Schwarz

We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth.

Rust in Numbers

Dan Bouk

Why do manure spreaders have life cycles?

Selling Abstraction

Leah Libresco Sargeant

What global financial markets have in common with necromancers.

Shall We Play a Game?

Jon Peterson

Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet

Dynomight

Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors probably want you to know.

These Wild Young People

Tessa Augsberger

Elan Kluger

Rufus Knuppel

Gen Z are a bunch of cowards…or are they risking it all on crypto? The editors of The New Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist.

Boarding China’s Last Bus

Zilan Qian

China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside.

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Engineering Peace

Josh Martin

interview

How Long Until AI Doesn’t Need Humans?

Ajeya Cotra<br>Timothy B. Lee

In Praise of Observational Evidence

Lennart Finke

The Doomers Are All Right

Ozy Brennan

14: Risk

Degenerate gamblers. Drinking the good wine. Innovations in observational trial methodology. Lines go up. Apocalypse soon? The youth. The life of white oak railroad ties. The meta-analysis to end all wars. Prussians. Painkillers. Would you write your own pancreas? Investment banking is basically necromancy.

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