Friday assorted links
1. Was it emigration that ended the British empire?
3. A kind of Jevons Paradox for AI pricing and usage.
4. Redux of Patrick Collison interviewing me in 2017.
5. “Dynastic composers are between 14 and 21 percent less prominent than their non-dynastic peers…”
6. Not many top American researchers are moving to Europe, European schools cannot put together top offers (NYT, scroll down a bit).
7. GPT-5 summary from @sama. And GPT-5 on whether conscientiousness amongst the young is falling. And Nabeel’s review. And Noam Brown on hallucination rates.