Reading for August 6, 2020

I’ve been told I don’t provide enough commentary on the links I send…I’ll think about it.

• The World That Twitter Made (Scholar's Stage)

• SlateStarCodex and Silicon Valley's War Against the Media (The New Yorker)

• Covid-19 Swedish update, and which places need to fear second waves? (Marginal Revolution)

• Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences - Written in response to release of GPT-2, but still interesting (SRConstantin)

• A Land of Monopolists: From Portable Toilets to Mixed Martial Arts - How niche markets are dominated by Wall Street financiers (Matt Stoller)

• War Over Being Nice - an interesting model of workplace cultural norms (Joseph G)