Links for February 25th

Here are some links I found interesting this week.

ETH Is Not Ultrasound Money: Part 1 - by Jon Charbonneau

Is the West escalating the Ukraine war? - UnHerd

How Rust went from a side project to the world's most-loved programming language | MIT Technology Review

The (3,3) Gods'Father | Medium

Peter Thiel “Stagnation or Progress” Syllabus, Stanford 2020 Course (German 277) | Hacker News

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Conditional Probabilities

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences | Otium

(1) How to Make Banana Lumpia | A Filipino Sweet Treat - YouTube

[2302.10360] Optical Transformers

The Crisis of Liberal Modernity and the Totalitarian Response

Planning for AGI and beyond