Sunday assorted links

1. Mr. Greedy produced 230 descendants in an era of population collapse, RIP.  And there are two Shakers left (NYT).

2. The Beatles’ deepest song.

3. Joe Reid once made a point like this, though not in the context of AI: “advanced artificial intelligence makes the return of secret guild society likely, because the only way of preventing models from learning a skill and automating labor will be a meticulous effort to keep know-how undocumented, closely held, and obscure”

4. Casey Handmer on how entrepreneurship changed how he thinks.

5. Noah on taxing unrealized capital gains.

6. Update on 70B?

7. New Cass Sunstein book on campus free speech.