Friday assorted links

1. “The largest office building in St. Louis has sold for $3.5 million, per WSJ. In 2006, it sold for $205 million.”

2. Robin Hanson on the world’s monoculture mistake.

3. An AI system to match silver medalists in geometry?

4. Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed.

5. Have we been overestimating the decline in religiosity?

6. What to do with your Harry Potter books, Gemini 1.5 edition?

7. Noah is right.  Twilight of the economists is the topic.

8. Worry about the Philippines first.