Tuesday assorted links
The article presents a collection of assorted links covering various topics. It discusses the implications of a Papal encyclical on AI and mentions a potential one-time treatment for bad cholesterol. Additionally, it touches on the decline in book reading and highlights new service sector jobs.
- ▪The article includes a discussion on how the United States has managed health care costs.
- ▪It features an interpretation of a Papal encyclical that suggests AI is a permanent fixture in society.
- ▪There is mention of a potential one-time treatment for bad cholesterol.
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Tuesday assorted links by Tyler Cowen May 26, 2026 at 11:48 am 1. How did the United States bend the health care cost curve? 2. Why are you reading fewer books? 3. Dean Ball on the Papal encyclical. My interpretation is a little different, and I suppose more Straussian. The Pope is basically telling us that AI is here to stay. If the detailed analysis seems thin to you, there is no need to distract from that more important and more essential message. That the Pope presented this with Anthropic, and for that matter quoted Tolkien/Gandalf, and allowed the use of em dashes, does not harm my interpretation. And here is what Perplexity thought I would say. 4. Mennonite fact of the day. 5. A one-time treatment for bad cholesterol? (NYT) And a Twitter thread. 6.
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