Tuesday assorted links

1. “Hence at the macroevolutionary scale, there can be said to have been a “ten-million-year explosion” in primate G leading up to modern humans.”

2. Vitalik on techno-optimism, recommended.

3. Time inconsistent Korean canine threats.

4. Profile of Jensen Huang of Nvidia (New Yorker).

5. Samo Burla reports from Bismarck Brief.

6. Two Koreas ho hum edition.

7. How the NYT picks its “Best Books” list (NYT).  This account is from the Times itself, and it illustrates so many nightmarish features of our contemporary world.  And I’m not even talking about “Woke” issues here, just the procedure of how they do it.