Top MR Posts of 2023
This was the year of AI; including the top post from Tyler, Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history but also highly ranked were my posts AGI is Coming and AI Worship and Tyler’s GPT and my own career trajectory. Also our paper, How to Learn and Teach Economics with Large Language Models, Including GPT has now been downloaded more than ten thousand times.
2. Second most popular post was The Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers
5. *GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?*
6. Matt Yglesias on depression and political ideology which pairs well with another highly-ranked Tyler post, So what is the right-wing pathology then? and also Classical liberals are increasingly religious.
7. Can the SVB crisis be solved in the longer run?
8. Substitutes Are Everywhere: The Great German Gas Debate in Retrospect
9. My paean to Costco.
10. Is Bach the greatest achiever of all time?
11. The Real Secret of Blue Zones
12. SpaceX Versus the Department of Justice
13. What does it mean to understand how a scientific literature is put together?
14. In Praise of the Danish Mortgage System
15. Great News for Female Academics!
Finally, don’t forget Tyler’s posts Best non-fiction books of 2023, Favorite fiction books of 2023, and Favorite non-classical music.
What were your favorite posts/articles/books/music/movies of 2023?