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Tuesday assorted links

1. Autistic 27-year-old Canadian now allowed to end her life.  It’s time to end the Canadian suicide regime as it currently exists: “…the province [Alberta] operates a system where there is no appeal process and no means of reviewing a person’s MAID approval.”

2. Highlights from SF CWT listener meet-up event.

3. “More than 60 percent of Ohio’s driver’s license suspensions do not stem from bad driving; instead, they arise because the driver owes an unpaid debt.

4. Bears take a ride on swan pedalo at Woburn Safari Park.

5. Economics round-up from Zvi.

6. Finding excessive sentencers in the judicial system.

7. On the Bach cello suites.

Saturday assorted links

1. 101 things Leila would tell her past self.

2. “The colonel was then carried to the Dotonbori river and tossed into the murky water.

3. Leadership lessons from Shakespeare’s Henriad.

4. Good thread on the Apple case.

5. Where do the major African economies stand? And fellowship in Tanzania.

6. U.S. life expectancy is rising again.

7. First flight of the Boom Supersonic jet.

Friday assorted links

1. How to recruit Iraqi weapons scientists.

2. The Zvi with a bunch of things, including commentary on some recent economic models of AI.

3. Dean Ball on how to regulate AI.  And Dean’s Substack on related issues.

4. Did Easter Island invent writing independently?

5. The new Thiel winners.

6. “I’m not sure I have a full model of how this works, but the situation where nearly 100% of credentialed experts are Democrats seems to me to have made both parties’ epistemics worse than they were 20 years ago.” — from Matt Yglesias.

Wednesday assorted links

1. Are more stable rock bands more likely to be successful?

2. Harvard will not proceed with its geoengineering experiment.  I think you can guess why not.

3. The Zvi on Devin.

4. Is there ever a labor market motherhood premium?

5. Mysteries of the Gardner Museum theft (NYT).

6. “Police Scotland’s officers are being told they should target actors and comedians under Scotland’s new hate crime laws.” (mostly gated, you can read a bit of it)

7. Regulatory arbitrage, tech no-mergers edition.

8. Noah on various matters, including the Canadian economy (I think he is putting too much weight on the last two years, no doubt they are in a downturn).

Tuesday assorted links

1. Long paper on how the grid is regulated, co-authored by an uncle of Matt Yglesias.

2. Sam Altman on Lex, transcript (it’s happening).  They will be doing amazing things over the course of 2024 (and beyond).  And a ChatGPT billing joke.

3. Are college extracurriculars replacing studying and reading?

4. Toyota building a smart city.

5. PEPFAR will be extended.

6. How to run a CIA base in Afghanistan.

7. Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security.

Sunday assorted links

1. A YIMBY victory in Wellington, New Zealand.  And boarding houses are underrated.

2. Eric Lombardi on an abundance agenda for Canada.

3. Christopher Beam and Catarina Saraiva at Bloomberg cover EJMR.

4. Luis Garicano thoughts on the Levitt podcast with Hartley.

5. John Nye on the political economy of Dune.

6. Against a TikTok ban.

7. William Nordhaus on whether we are approaching a singularity.

8. Frans de Waal, RIP, and more here.

Wednesday assorted links

1. The largest worms on earth.

2. AI safety is not a model property.

3. Dan Schulz podcast with Nabeel Qureshi, with transcript.

4. African influencers who make it big in Brazil.

5. “Films that promote risk-taking sell more in entrepreneurial societies today, rooted in traditions where characters pursue dangerous tasks successfully.

6. Prompt library for Claude.

7. Be careful what you wish for: “The proposed legislation may force app stores to remove TikTok. But restricting access through web browsers or already-installed apps—which would be necessary to really limit the platform’s reach—would represent another level of intrusive regulation.” (WSJ)