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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?

1. Terminator metal.

2. An RCT on the economic benefits of vision correction.

3. “Claude 3 Opus is roughly as persuasive as humans.“

4. Jon Haidt responds to the Nature review.  And Greg Lukianoff with his First Amendment concerns.

5. Interview with Nicholas Tabarrok, who works in the movies.

6. Samo Burja skeptical on nuclear.

7. Henry Oliver on smart phones.

8. Noah worries about WWIII.

1. Skepticism about the beauty premium?

2. “On a cellular level, younger generations seem to be aging faster than their forebears.” (speculative)

3. Interview with Merve Emre.

4. William Stanley Jevons and eclipses (NYT).  And an Amtrak train ride across the country is less carbon-efficient than flying (NYT).

5. The ascent of high school wrestlers.

6. A short video on how the Great Pyramids may have been built.

7. Was more spent on eclipse tourism than on the Taylor Swift tour?

1. NYT symposium on smart phones and childhood.  And when do young female suicide rates start rising?  Tweet here.  And “Gen Alpha (my kid’s generation) has already optimized out of it and have figured out how to do the social play they need to in the new medium.”

2. Prize money for prompts.

3. Bridgewater x Metaculus forecasting contest.

4. Louise Perry on Andrea Dworkin.

5. Chechenya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow.

6. Is Pakistan seeking normalization with India?

7. Eclipse songs.  And from India.

8. Levitt and Donohue defend their abortion-crime results.

1. Can the Left be happy? (Ross D. in the NYT)

2. Explosive growth from AI automation?  (This paper is economically literature, and uses some simple models)

3. James C. Scott, “Academic Diary of an Iconoclast” (academic gate).

4. Some more serious evidence that rising population density predicts lower fertility uh-oh.

5. Liberia fact of the day.

6. Soumaya Keynes FT column on government debt, with a focus on Jamaica.  She is flat out one of the best columnists period, time for more people to say that!

7. Oliver Kim on Albert Hirschman on development, including “development decisions” as the truly scarce factor.

1. Zvi annotates the CWT with Jon Haidt.

2. How is bird flu spreading in cows?

3. Not sure I believe in these kinds of correlations, but here are some results suggesting that automation leads to less religion.

4. Claims about GPTs.  Complicated but interesting.

5. Ezra Klein and Nilay Patel on AI and the future of media and the internet (NYT).

6. dataforindia.com

7. Janan Ganesh on peace and technological stagnation (FT).

1. Matt Lakeman on El Salvador, recommended.

2. Paxlovid not having a positive impact for the healthy and already-vaccinated.

3. Under what conditions will every Japanese person be named Sato by 2531?

4. Is “dark energy” weakening? And more from the NYT.

5. The Economist seeks a new economics writer.

6. How to lead coordinated research programs.  A  playbook.

7. A relatively positive view on how lenders are viewing Africa these days.

1. Percentage of women in C-Suite jobs is now declining in the U.S.

2. Short piece by my colleague Dan Klein on misinformation (WSJ).

3. A thread on new minimum wage results, noting that Dube has a response in there as well.  Paper here.

4. Can GPT-4 talk people out of conspiracy theories?  Maybe.

5. Mobile money for bitcoin, for Africa, and not requiring internet connections.

6. Peter Singer Substack.

7. Suno playlist on Spotify.

1. Interview with Michael Elowitz on synthetic biology.  Asimov Press again.

2. The brothers who collected Star Trek memorabilia (NYT).  A weird story, believe it or not.

3. The importance of foreign workers for national security.

4. What makes home building so expensive? (cost issues, not NIMBY issues)

5. The growing rate of NBA twins.

6. At what age should you be taught Algebra 2?