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1. Indicators of British stagnation.

2. The geopolitics of Godzilla.

3. On the effectiveness of different mental health interventions.

4. New documentary about North Korea.

5. History of the Venezuela-Guyana dispute.

6. How are global poverty stats revised if we consider the value of public goods?  Do consider Amory Gethins on the job market from Paris School of Economics.

7. Milei on social justice.

p.s. Do note the correction on today’s insider trading post, the main result probably is not correct.

1. Will 48 volts end up the standard for cars?

2. Is “Mom dread” a cultural problem?

3. Joshua Gans model on whether social governance can control harms from AGI.  And economists model optimal liability for AI.  Whether or not you agree with these particular arguments, it is amazing how the economists suddenly are cleaning up in this field.

4. “We also present new estimates that show that assortative mating was much stronger than previously estimated for the US.” (pre-1940)

5. “South Korea’s high-rise housing and low birthrates are closely related.”  True or not?

6. A Nicaraguan beauty queen coup?

1. Recalibrating respect.  Fertility issues again.

2. Breakthroughs of 2023, an important thread.

3. Arnold Kling has built a GPT to grade your Op-Eds (requires ChatGPT plus, paid version).  Here is explanation and a chance to offer feedback.

4. Why is this Fiat missing a wheel?

5. Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books (the polity that is Porto Alegre).  A likely improvement?

6. Way back when, before SCOTUS, William Rehnquist proposed marriage to Sandra Day O’Connor.  She said no.

7. The live touring of Kiss will be replaced by digital avatars.

1. Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue.

2. Is the gender confidence gap contagious to evaluators?

3. What Tom Whitwell learned this year, always good stuff.

4. Should you offer to tip your GPT?

5. Claims from Jonah Goldberg.

6. Women fare better than men on the economics job market when they specialized in “high-male” fields.

p.s. they are doxxing anons using voice samples matched against text.  Just fyi.

1. Rasheed Griffith on reparations for the Caribbean.

2. Millions of new materials discovered by deep learning.

3. You can now pre-order Henry Oliver’s excellent Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life.

4. Chinese semi-clone of a GPT model.  It’s not bad.

5. Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas.

6. You can pre-order Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics.

7. “Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country.“

1. Alexandria, Virginia ends single family only residential zoning.

2. Predictions about Seoul yikes.

3. Profile of Tamara Winter.

4. Background on the pending Guyana conflict.

5. Camera obscura, AI, and art.

6. Is AI easy to control? Speculative, but a good example of how the discourse runs, this time from the optimist side. And claims about Chinese open source AI, speculative too but important if true.  And more.

1. Anti-Piketty on r > g, once you put entrepreneurs into the model.

2. From Loyal, potential gains in canine life extension.  And more from the NYT.

3. The economics of globalized fashion.  And Emily Oster moonlights as fashion model.

4. Please donate to Conversations with Tyler.

5. Joe Walker podcasts with Shruti Rajagopalan on India and also talent.  With transcript, there is also quite a bit of discussion of me in there.

6. Scott Alexander on Effective Altruism.

7. Niskanen symposium on Milton Friedman and the negative income tax.

8. Naming and necessity, Young Thug edition.

1. “Hence at the macroevolutionary scale, there can be said to have been a “ten-million-year explosion” in primate G leading up to modern humans.”

2. Vitalik on techno-optimism, recommended.

3. Time inconsistent Korean canine threats.

4. Profile of Jensen Huang of Nvidia (New Yorker).

5. Samo Burla reports from Bismarck Brief.

6. Two Koreas ho hum edition.

7. How the NYT picks its “Best Books” list (NYT).  This account is from the Times itself, and it illustrates so many nightmarish features of our contemporary world.  And I’m not even talking about “Woke” issues here, just the procedure of how they do it.

1. Big changes in energy and climate policy over the last five years, a list.

2. My 2014 post on immigration, and cosmopolitanism at the margin.  And my 2005 post “Tyler Cowen pretends he is a Democrat.”

3. Dustin Sebell reviews the BAP dissertation (persist and you can get to the actual review).

4. WaPo runs a front page story about the first freed American hostage, so I am linking to it.

5. New prize fund for mathematically intelligent AI.

6. Would your cat eat your corpse?

1. Good review of BAP’s dissertation.

2. Methods for catching cheating in on-line chess.

3. Milei on partial equilibrium vs. intertemporal general equilibrium theory.

4. No Coase theorem for Hall and Oates.

5. Why Sondheim refuses to go away (NYT).

6. Wouldn’t YIMBY be easier and cheaper than this?

7. Thread on some very beautiful religious buildings.

1. “The World Bank estimates that crime costs South Africa 10% of GDP annually.”  Link here.

2. An analysis of Geert Wilders.  People don’t like deductibles!

3. An unreasonable and offensive rant against Millennials.

4. Advance raves for Godzilla Minus One.  And AARP now sponsoring the Rolling Stones.

5. Consider Before Discarding, by Marti Leimbach.

6. Menger mackerel money SBF.

7. AGI and excess backwards induction.  Knowing when to apply backwards induction should be a skill we teach in school.  And speculation about Q*.

8. “The $VIX has fallen 41% over the last 4 weeks (from 21.27 to 12.46), the 9th largest 4-week decline in history.”  Link here.  Lowest in about four years.

9. John Cochrane on dollarization.

1. MonadGPT.  Chat with the 17th century, why not?

2. Joyce Carol Oates profile (New Yorker).

3. ChatGPT > advice columnists.

4. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, RIP.  And his NYT obit.

5. US nuke reactor lab hit by ‘gay furry hackers’ demanding cat-human mutants.

6. Beliefs that kill birth rates.

7. A charter city for El Salvador?  And struggles in Honduras.

8. Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence.

9. FT on possible hitches with Argentina dollarization, and here is a different perspective from La Nacion.

1. John Cochrane on Cass Sunstein on liberalism.

2. Frau plus Auto gleich Sexismus.

3. Ben Sasse for free speech.  So far he has been a very good university president.

4. Singapore fact of the day.

5. Can a computer outfake a human on a personality test?

6. Five curious India-Mexico connections.

7. UK is starting up a meta-science unit.

8. Hall and Oates Bayesian update of the day.

9. More on Japanese performance.

10. That was then, this is now: Taylor Swift edition.

11. Claims about the Dutch.

1. Explaining Q learning, ho hum.

2. And here is more.  Worth a ponder.

3. And from LessWrong.

1. Gelman on Seth Roberts.

2. “Using unique class-level data containing chronological variables and institutional, instructor, and student characteristics, spanning Fall 2010 to Spring 2021 of 7,852 undergraduate classes, it is shown class average grade point averages (GPAs) in the College of Agriculture at Texas A&M University increased for the three semesters most impacted by COVID-19.”  Link here, my hypothesis is that instructors graded by easier standards during that time.

3. Ukrainian used markets in totaled EVs.  And claims about Ukraine.

4. Those new service sector jobs.

5. Axel Kaiser on Milei.

6. Scott Sumner on Japan.

7. Greaney replies to Hsieh.

8. Douthat on Milei (NYT).