Sunday assorted links

1. Claims about the evolution of chess.

2. The EU grew 1.4% last year.  Modestly underrated?

3. The “zombie reasoning” of AIs.

4. Taleb II.

5. Are the Fed’s functions being rethought? (FT)

6. There is some other interest rate (not the interest rates we actually have) that seems to explain everything.  How can that be?

7. Unsinkable metal tubes?

8. Arnold Kling on Average is Over.

9. Moltbook markets in everything?