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1. More on Nigerian and African mega-cities, by the great David Pilling (FT). 2. Quantum gravity labor arbitrage. 3. New (non-AI) claims about consciousness. And more here. 4. “Stop Pink-Washing Patriarchy!” 5. How well do LLMs predict household behavior? 6. The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. And a numerical estimate. 7. Yup. 8. Companies are balking […] The post Monday assorted links appeared…

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