In their public comments over the past few weeks, the authors of the study have been careful not to overhype their results. But the neuroscience cliché is that neurons that fire together wire together. That’s the key implication here. Thinking hard strengthens your mental capacity. Using a bot to think for you or even just massaging what the bot gives you is empty calories for the mind. You’re robbing yourself of an education and diminishing your intellectual potential.

 

Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

Hayek called the assumption that central authority can gather and use all relevant knowledge “the fatal conceit.” Just as Soviet planners couldn’t capture the distributed knowledge embedded in economic decisions, today’s AI systems can’t aggregate and optimize all relevant social knowledge. Human behavior is too complex. Cultural context is too important and can’t be formalized.

 

What Would Hayek Think of AI?

The ‘fatal conceit’ that central planning can solve complex social problems arises in a new form.

By 

Gary Saul Morson

 and 

Julio M. Ottino

June 30, 2025 2:37 pm ET

How can this Bold Idea to Raise The Birthrate not mention France?

 

A Bold Idea to Raise the Birthrate: Make Parenting Less Torturous

By Anna Louie Sussman

Ms. Sussman writes about gender, economics and reproduction. She is working on a book about family building in an age of uncertainty.

Far from celebrating Gay Rights victory, defending the gains, staying vigilant, but winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives — including the end of H.I.V. in the United States as an unstoppable plague — gay and lesbian rights groups did the opposite. Swayed by the broader liberal shift to the “social justice” left, they radicalized.

 

How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way

By Andrew Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan, an early advocate for gay marriage, writes The Weekly Dish on Substack.

Because of the crisis of the national debt I predict a disconnect over home mortgage rates which will stay high as the Fed lowers the discount rate.

 

The National Debt Is Already Causing Bigger Problems Than People Realize

By The New York Times Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

On generous assumptions, Tesla’s core EV business, generating 75% of gross profit but with falling sales, might be worth roughly $50 per share, only 15% of the current price. 1Much of the remainder relates to expectations around self driving. RBC Capital, for example, ascribes 59% of its price target, or $181 per share, to robotaxis and a further $53 to monetizing Full Self Driving technology. Combined, that is a cool $815 billion based on double-digit multiples ascribed to modeled revenue — not earnings — 10 to 15 years from now because, after all, it relates to businesses that barely make money today.

 

Tesla’s $800 Billion Robotaxi Dream Is Finally Facing Reality

By Liam Denning

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

Europe should drop the F-35 and support their own fighter programs but also look at how Ukraine is showing that unmanned drones are the future

 

European Allies Wary of Buying American as They Plan Defense Buildup