Friday assorted links
1. Curtis Yarvin on techno-optimism.
2. The economics of time travel.
3. Ken Regan on statistically detecting cheating.
4. India fact of the day: “Solar and wind were 92% of India’s generation additions in 2022. It deployed as much solar in 2022 as the UK has ever built. Coal also was down 78%.”
5. The Catalan gridlock. The role of (Catalonian) economists in encouraging and sometimes leading this movement remains an underreported story.
7. “I’m excited to share News Déjà Vu (newsdejavu.github.io), which uses a custom large language model to retrieve historical news articles that are the most similar to modern news articles.” From Melissa Dell.