Friday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen January 30, 2026 at 11:20 am

1. The mass market paperback is going away.

2. How many people does the world have?

3. India’s first AI university is opening.

4. Bellman equations on ESPN.

5. Yup (cuss word behind this link).

6. Should women ask men out?

7. On the Claude constitution. And a Straussian reading?

8. The Chilean cabinet under Kast.

9. Moltbook, the new social network for AIs. And Astral Codex comments. And another view. And some more. And then some.

10. David Brooks is leaving the NYT (and moving full-time to Atlantic, podcast also, the first link is NYT).