Saturday assorted links

1. When is impulsive behavior adaptive?

2. Robert Colville on the morality of economic growth.

3. Do “fairy circles” come from plant competition and self-organization?

4. “YouTubers said they destroyed over 100 VHS tapes of an obscure 1987 movie to increase the value of their final copy. They sold it on eBay for $80,600.”  Link here.

5. Transcript of my St. Andrews talk on EA.  Recommended.  And Nietzsche on EA, as done by GPT.

6. Who self-identifies as Native American?

7. Alas Melvyn Krauss has passed away, RIP.  He was generous enough to let me sit in on his NYU class way back when.

8. Ross D. on euthanasia, more than just his prior column (NYT).