Nova

1. Dario Amodei: “I am struck by how meaningful activities can be even when they are not generating economic value. I am struck by how much I can enjoy things that I am not the best in the world at. If the requirement is you have to be the best in the world at something in order for it to be somehow spiritually meaningful for you, I feel you may taken a wrong turn and that there’s something wrong embedded in that assumption.”

2. “Apparently Carrion Crows and Eurasian Magpies are stealing and repurposing anti-bird spikes as a nest-building material.” HT: Tyler Cowen

3. “Cognitive security is now as important as basic literacy.”