The article provided is extremely limited, consisting only of a brief introduction and metadata without substantive content or developed argumentation. It mentions a talk given by Paul Krugman at Oxford titled 'Is Europe Losing the Future?' but does not include any detailed analysis, examples, or reflections that connect to themes of personal agency, feedback loops, or creative work. The lack of developed ideas or specific examples means it does not yet fulfill the preference for thoughtful essays with intellectual substance or concrete mechanisms, making a neutral reaction appropriate based on the preview alone.
How this was scored
- Rule
- María’s reading compass · v2
- Provider / model
- openai / gpt-4.1-mini
- Scored
- 2026-10-17T18:44:15+00:00
- Source text
- Revision 117 · full
- Text selection
- All available text
- Prompt / schema
- reader-1 / reaction-1
- Settings
- {"max_output_tokens":800,"store":false}
- Tokens in / out
- 1019 / 171
- Estimated cost
- $0.000681
- Run
- #6
Exact rule used
This is an editable starter reading profile inferred from my existing subscriptions and a set of articles shared with me. Treat the examples as exploratory positive signals, not as confirmed favorite articles or evidence that I agree with their arguments.
Prioritize thoughtful essays about agency and how people build a life: learning, feedback loops, creative work, finding one's craft, relationships, friendship, conversation, and attention. Look for specific lived experience that develops into an interesting, useful idea. Make room for literary criticism, art, design, history, institutional analysis, and substantial book reviews.
Also consider AI, technology, startups, product strategy, and venture investing, reflecting my subscription mix. Favor explanations of mechanisms, concrete examples, original reporting or analysis, and arguments that acknowledge uncertainty. A piece should offer more than a headline, a trend summary, or a promotional pitch. Do not infer my political views or endorsement from the sources I follow.
Reward clear, distinctive prose and real intellectual substance. Both reflective personal writing and technically detailed analysis can fit. Length is fine when it earns its space. As an initial hypothesis, downrank repetitive advice, vague inspiration, generic hot takes, and hype unsupported by evidence. These style preferences are provisional and can be corrected with my feedback. Evaluate English and Spanish writing on substance without preferring one language.
When explaining a prediction, identify the specific connection to these themes and any mismatch. Do not give a high score solely because an author appears in my subscriptions or examples. Evaluate only the supplied article text; a title or paywall preview is not proof of the full argument.
Reference titles (sample signals; not actual ratings):
- For a long time, nothing. Then, suddenly one has the right eyes.
- Love is to be invested in someone’s continual expansion
- How to walk through walls
- Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House
- half the world's writing should remain unpublished
- We think better when our minds are entwined
- The Hacking Will Continue While Market Morale Improves
- the delight of specificity
- Why we ended up homeschooling
- Bangers from Gibbon
- searching for your life's work is a multi-turn endeavor
- Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk
- The hyperlocal
- The Specter Of Neuralese
- Your Book Review: Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs
- Agentic fragments
- Average moments of a long-term meditator
- a case for sharing your dreams with friends
- the best conversations help you hear yourself
- First we shape our feedback loops; then they shape us
- timing
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Is Europe Losing the Future?
My talk at Oxford
Paul Krugman
Oct 17, 2026
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I’m hoping to resume interviews with other people soon. But I’ve been running around Europe giving speeches, so here’s the lecture I gave in Oxford Thursday.
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