Weekend Reading, Listening and Watching Recommendations (January 10, 2025)

How Japan Overhauled its Architecture for Earthquakes; We Don’t Need This Much Permitting; The Bitter Lesson in Robotics; How Smarter Machines Can Lead to Better Policy

1. Read: How Japan Overhauled its Architecture for Earthquakes—And What the Latest Disaster Reveals About Their Approach (via ArchitectureDigest, HT

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2. Read: We Don’t Need This Much Permitting: What matters is whether building projects actually follow the law, not whether they promise to in advance. (via The New Atlantis)

3. Listen: The Bitter Lesson in Robotics: AI for the Physical World will be hard! (via a16z)

4. Watch: Sendhil Mullainathan on How Smarter Machines Can Lead to Better Policy (via Stanford King Center on Global Development)