Monday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen February 10, 2025 at 12:13 pm

1. One way the demand for donkeys and horses might rise (speculative).

2. Is France the anti-frontier?

3. “We found that extreme temperatures and added precipitation each independently amplified social-media activity, effects that persisted within individuals.” Big effects.

4. AI art at auction, at Christie’s. The Holly Herndon is a bargain, and will go for well over its estimate.

5. Cass Sunstein, What are We in the Midst Of? (All of those?)

6. “Marketers need to be writing for AI” (Bloomberg)

7. Times of London resurrects its “Best books of the year” Sunday feature, the best feature of an excellent newspaper.

8. I guess since the CDC deleted the information on cat to human avian flu transmission, it isn’t true? (NYT)

9. The Anthropic Economic Index. And the related research paper.