Wednesday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen February 25, 2026 at 12:14 pm

1. Will human enhancement win without thinking?

2. February issue of Works in Progress.

3. Proximity bias.

4. “With such controls, social media accounted for effectively 0% of the variance in youth depression, anxiety, social phobia, mental wellness, quality of life, self-esteem and friendships.”

5. New paper on AI and task automation. And John Cochrane is wowed by Refine.

6. Largest survey dataset on human sexuality in the world.

7. The Anthropic-DOD situation.

8. “Measurability is the new fault line.” Important work, worth a ponder.