Friday assorted links

1. How to recruit Iraqi weapons scientists.

2. The Zvi with a bunch of things, including commentary on some recent economic models of AI.

3. Dean Ball on how to regulate AI.  And Dean’s Substack on related issues.

4. Did Easter Island invent writing independently?

5. The new Thiel winners.

6. “I’m not sure I have a full model of how this works, but the situation where nearly 100% of credentialed experts are Democrats seems to me to have made both parties’ epistemics worse than they were 20 years ago.” — from Matt Yglesias.