Friday assorted links
1. Visiting Outback Steakhouse in Brazil.
3. Good example of how AI experts often do not have even a basic understanding of social mechanisms. In general, I am pretty reluctant to put much “negative talk” on MR, but this seems to me an important point that needs to be internalized more. I would note that, for a few years now, the FTC is another topic where simple, flat out “negative talk” is undersupplied and also quite justified.
4. One proposal for how to limit nuclear war.
5. Paul Krugman on the economics of Taylor Swift (NYT).
6. Chapters coming on-line for the Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy.
7. How deterrence policies create border chaos.
8. Shruti podcast with Rohini Nilekani about society/samaaj-first, civil society’s role in governance, physical versus digital public infrastructure, philanthropy in India and much more.