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1. Andy Hall (another must read) reports on a fascinating experiment in AI governance where AI tries to learn students’ preferences and then represent them in a virtual legislature. How do you get an AI to understand your worldview? Training AI to Govern for Us — Andy Hall

2. Henry Farrell persuasively argues that the harms from social media don’t stem from disinformation, but rather from internalizing incorrect assumptions about the prevalence of certain views. Like for instance you might think that racist beliefs are much more common than they really are based on social media alone. We’re getting the social media crisis wrong — Henry Farrell

3. The Countess Caroline von Keyserlingk was Kant’s closest friend for thirty years, probably his lover, and the likely source of the French turn in his work around 1760. I loved this essay - it totally blew up my assumptions about Kant’s boring conventional life. The Most Important Woman in Kant’s Life — Daniel Andreas