Results for “Assorted Links”

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1. Works in Progress will be running an “Invisible College” in Cambridge, UK.

2. How much was Britain already industrializing in the 17th century?

3. Something, something, blah blah blah, but probably interesting? Research article is here.

4. “We find that once the sales of foreign exporters are taken into account, U.S. market concentration in manufacturing was stable between 1992 and 2012.”

5. Is the newly rediscovered Klimt portrait (NYT) a picture of Helene Lieser, a female Austrian economist who studied with Mises?

6. Shruti and Rasheed Griffith podcast on the Caribbean.

1. U.S. vs. Taiwanese work culture.

2. Albert Wensemius and the rise of Singapore.

3. Unusual questions answered by Megan McArdle.

4. Why Panama dollarized.

5. New open access book on prices and games by Michael Richter and Ariel Rubinstein.

6. Canada now limiting immigration.

7. “In the fiscal year 2023, more than half of the irregular arrivals at the US’s southern border were from countries outside Mexico and northern Central America for the first time…”  FT here, source here.

7. Helen Vendler, RIP.

8. A possible plateau in opioid and drug overdose deaths? (limited data, but possibly true)

9. A different way to deal with non-competes?

1. A literalist reading of Civil War.

2. Why it is so hard to get a reservation nowadays (New Yorker).

3. “There are currently 682 #AI-related bills (581 of them in the states) on the @MultiStateAssoc legislative tracker.”  Link here.

4. The econometrics of social media and mental health.  And more on the same.  A good piece.

5. Esther Duflo calls for $500 billion in climate reparations (FT).

1. Are Indian women stronger relative supporters of Modi?

2. Apple to build on-device AI?

3. The remarkable economic recovery of Sri Lanka?.

4. “UK alcohol-related deaths up one-third on pre-pandemic levels…” (FT)

5. New Cass Sunstein book on campus free speech.

6. The Straussian approach to the new Taylor Swift.

7. Macro Musings podcast from Mercatus is now powered by AI.

8. AI helping to identify potential Parkinson’s treatments.

1. Rasheed Griffith reggae playlist.

2. Poland got rid of compulsory homework for grade school.

3. Suicide rate trends for German teen females.

4. Important job ad for finding and cultivating talent in Brazil, no Portuguese required.

5. Plans for the REPO market?

6. Claims about microwave missiles, speculative.

7. Abundance Institute.

1. Ross Douthat on whether the internet is the enemy of progress (NYT).

2. “This year, Sara and Justin Ilse finished building a floor for their home’s 230-square-foot entryway out of 65,507 pennies.” (WSJ)

3. Commentary on Zuck and Dwarkesh.

4. New open access book on Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy.

5. The decline of inequality in Latin America.

6. Do not underestimate the elasticity of supply, chips edition.

7. Henry Dashwooc on Waterloo, no not Napoleon’s.

8. Guardian covers Nick Bostrom and The Future of Humanity of Institute, not necessarily the whole story.

1. Andrej Karpathy on Llama 3.

2. The PEN awards are on the brink of collapse.

3. These were my fiscal, political and other predictions from 2010.

4. AI is being integrated into social media — now.  Social media will change.

5. New Yorker Music critic Alex Ross cites Fischer Black on noise.

6. How to make grid data centers affordable.

7. Exposure to poor people reduces support for redistribution among the [Danish] rich.  Paper here.

8. Lyman Stone responds to Devin Pope.

9. Daniel Dennett, RIP.

1. Interview with Ulrike Malmendier, a regional thinker in the best sense of the term.

2. “Paying Off People’s Medical Debt Has Little Impact on Their Lives, Study Finds.” (NYT)  Model that.

3. Another look at suicide rates.

4. Should you have privacy rights to your brainwaves? (NYT)  And should you have the right to sell or give away those rights?

5. C. Thi Nguyen on Value Capture, an interesting philosophy paper about overreliance on metrics and external evaluations.

6. Alas, Robert Hessen has passed away, RIP.

7. Productivity problems and sometimes even declines in African agriculture.

8. The Milei incomes policy for health care?

1. Lyman Stone criticizes the Pope paper on church attendance.  Good criticisms, see also the points by Sure and others in the comment section.  This paper doesn’t seem to hold up?  I’ll gladly publish a response by the author, otherwise a withdrawal might be in order?

2. Good critique of the AGI concept.  And AI regulation is unsafe, by Max T.

3. Ruxandra on the anti-cavities thing.

4. Mass shootings are down considerably.

5. First chat between humans and whales?

6. Open access version of Ran Spiegler’s The Curious Culture of Economic Theory.

7. 14 years ago, Thomas Schelling session on Iran and nuclear weapons.  Let’s hope this does not very soon become more relevant.

1. Paul Christiano appointed to USG Head of AI Safety.

2. Further worries about the anti-cavity thing.  I don’t pretend to know the answers here, but this has not been thought through well enough.  And SSC update.

3. Fritz Peterson, RIP, MIE.  Very 1970s.

4. The economic research policymakers actually need.

5. Doris Day: A Guy is a Guy.

6. African nations, ranked by current gdp.

1. Should we change species to save them? (NYT)

2. Mechanical watch.

3. Why is it called Martingale? And “With French under fire, Mali uses AI to bring local language to students.”

4. McDonald’s new marketing: Billboards that smell like its French fries.

5. Erwin Dekker on the history of economic thought.

6. Strawberries and the Green Revolution.

1. Austrian economist Walter Block is now a columnist for Israel Hayom.

2. Progress against dengue.

3. Faith Ringgold, RIP (NYT).

4. The world of competitive quizzing (NYT).  Good piece.

5. Post-fight interview, with profanity, and Mises.

6. U.S. homicide rates are plummeting (WSJ).

1. Sorry people, but I’m not convinced by the whole anti-cavities thing.  Stuart Richie also comments.

2. Thirty minute talk by the great Gašper Beguš. You need to remove timing between the clicks!

3. A recent paper on AI and labor markets.  I don’t quite follow the central intuitions, but possibly important?

4. Ukraine report.

5. The Budget Lab.

6. Bonobo revisionism?

7. “In its beta, gpt-vetting has already conducted 13,000 AI interviews, saving ~10k hours for software engineers who would otherwise be conducting technical interviews.”  Link here.

1. “The largest office building in St. Louis has sold for $3.5 million, per WSJ. In 2006, it sold for $205 million.”

2. Robin Hanson on the world’s monoculture mistake.

3. An AI system to match silver medalists in geometry?

4. Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed.

5. Have we been overestimating the decline in religiosity?

6. What to do with your Harry Potter books, Gemini 1.5 edition?

7. Noah is right.  Twilight of the economists is the topic.

8. Worry about the Philippines first.

1. Some progress on the Moderna cancer vaccine.

2. The culture that is New Zealand (excruciating, not recommended).

3. My podcast with Sean Speer and The Hub on GOAT.

4. Edward S.F. suggests:

K. Omodo reviews G O A T:

“It was amazing.  I took it in all at once!”

Here is the short video.

5. Jon Hartley podcast with Dani Rodrik.

6. Is coal on the upswing again?