Instapaper Weekly – Jun 1, 2025

The week's most popular stories Top Highlight Thoughts on thinking • Dustin Curtis dcurt.is Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight but youll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding. Learning by reading LLM output is cheap. Real exercise for your mind comes from building the output yourself. Save Most Popular Friday May 30, 2025 Bayes For Everyone astralcodexten.com [Editor’s note: I accept guest posts from certain people, especially past Book Review Contest winners. Brandon Hendrickson, whose review of The Educated Mind won the 2023 contest, has taken me up on this and submitted... Save Thursday May 29, 2025 Why does Switzerland have more nuclear bunkers than any other country? theguardian.com At first, Zora Schelbert, the chief operating officer and tour guide at the Sonnenberg nuclear bunker in Lucerne, Switzerland, wasn’t sure whether the requests she was receiving were a joke. It was February 2022, and... Save Wednesday May 28, 2025 The New Dark Age theatlantic.com Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. Updated at 1:13 p.m. ET on May 27, 2025 The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe... Save Tuesday May 27, 2025 There’s a Very Simple Pattern to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises wired.com “My predictions about achieving full self-driving have been optimistic in the past,” Musk admitted to investors in 2023. “I’m the boy who cried FSD." He certainly has. Many times. Indeed, Musk has a long history... Save Monday May 26, 2025 At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work nytimes.com Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. Listen to this article · 11:09 min Learn more... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2025 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231