Things I've Been Reading #8

Welcome to the weekly link post for paid subscribers! This is a collection of things which I found interesting this week. Note that these are not a ton of things — I think the Scott Alexander type linkposts, with 40-or-so links, discourages reading anything seriously and so is more akin to flipping through a picture book. Rather, I think each of these things is worth reading, and so I keep the light-entertainment element of the links to a minimum. Subscribe to see it, if that is what you want. (I note, as a personal appeal, that I am trying to make a living doing research with no institutional support, and so your support is greatly appreciated.)