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1. “I find that having an additional birth causally increases desired fertility by 0.15-0.30. Further, I find the result is unlikely to be driven by experiential learning but can be explained through either a model of reference-dependent preferences or ex-post rationalization.”  From Prankur Gupta, job market candidate from UT Austin.

2. Leave ChatGPT Voice on while reading a book.

3. Niall Ferguson on the economic impact of the Middle East war (Bloomberg).  And on non-economic issues Yarvin.

4. Can Microsoft use tech to accelerate progress in chemistry?

5. Elites in sub-Saharan Africa are also seeing low fertility.

6. Model these favorability ratings.

7. Ethan Mollick on “GPTs” [agents].

1. “Director of new Godzilla film pursuing ‘Japanese spirituality’ of 1954 original.”

2. Java jumps the queue?

3. “Additionally, WFH has the largest detrimental impact on mental health of individuals with lower social abilities relative to WP, and it confers the most substantial benefits on those with higher cognitive abilities compared to NW.”  From the job market paper of Jacqueline Nguyen, University of Maryland.

4. 300 Americans have been able to leave Gaza (NYT, it receives some coverage but just an ordinary story not at the top of the page.  Not dominating the news anywhere else that I can see).

5. Ian Leslie on the new song (NYT).  His book will be excellent.

6. Progress-related Substack from Michael Magoon.

7. Noah on how Ireland got so rich.

1. Rumors about Grōk AI.  And the announcement.  And new version of Twitter search.

2. Taylor Swift and BTS fans against Milei (NYT, is this the new politics of coordination?).

3. Are people especially impatient for information?

4. RLHF and Arrow’s theorem.

5. It does not seem that the more extensive welfare states do more to limit inequalities rooted in disabilities.

6. “Africa needs to think big.” (David Pilling, FT).

7. Robin Hanson on heterodox research, and methods.

8. Louise Perry lets loose.

1. A sympathetic psychological perspective on Thomas Sowell.

2. “To “help gamers keep the crunch to themselves,” Doritos is debuting what it calls “Doritos Silent.” Gamers download Doritos Crunch Cancellation software and when the technology is turned on, the software detects the crunching sounds and silences it while keeping the gamer’s voice intact.”  Link here.

3. Critique of Greg Clark on persistent status.

4. Do early morning classes change academic trajectories?

5. Top economists are not SES diverse, including compared to other academic fields.

6. “Projects developed in partnership with policymakers are 15 to 20 percentage points more likely to result in observed policy change.” (Alix Bonargent job market paper from LSE).

1. How did the railway affect the diffusion of ideas in 19th century Germany? (Caterina Chiopris is a job market candidate from Harvard).

2. Yiong Huang on “breaking the spiral of silence,” job market candidate from Harvard.

3. “Notably, at selective institutions, new [course] content focuses on societal issues, while at less selective institutions, new content emphasizes job-relevant skills.”  Jacob Light is a job market candidate from Stanford.

4. My 2015 MR post on the future coming first to Israel (and Singapore).

5. Survival improvements of marine mammals in zoological institutions mirror historical advances in human longevity.

6. Have preferences become more similar worldwide?

7. Appealing to GPT-4.

1. Maxims from Larry Gagosian.

2. How might California regulate AI?

3. Why has growth in medical knowledge been so stagnant?  Northwestern job market paper by Megumi Murakami.

4. My AI webinar for Macmillan.  And also from Macmillan here is an Eric Parsons profile video.

5. Are Singaporean couples who are funny more satisfied with each other?

6. Pakistan starts to expel 1.7 million undocumented Afghani migrants.  That is perhaps the largest forced expulsion since the 1950s?

7. Paul’s latest (video).  And the song itself.

1. Jake Seliger on the clinical trial system, from the point of view of a patient.  And from his wife Bess Stillman.

2. The war in Sudan, and its economics.

3. Progress on the dengue front (link corrected).

4. Joy Buchanan review of GOAT.

5. Zvi’s review of the AI Executive Order, recommended if you care.

1. Some comments on the AI Executive Order.  And on the role of HHS.  And Adam Thierer.  And yet another negative take.  I agree with the general perspective of the more negative takes, but perhaps they are overrating the legality/enforcement of the actual Order?

2. Acapulco report.

3. Symbols of New Jersey.

4. New paper on the economic recovery of Hiroshima (Princeton job market paper also).

5. Shocker: university faculty are very slow to adopt generative AI, students are way ahead of them.

6. My Bloomberg column on how to regulate AI.

1. That was then, this is now, railway compartment edition.

2. Harriet Taylor is underrated.

3. “My data show that nearly half of my study participants report meaningful and regular interactions with deceased relatives and friends who were important in their lives.” — solve for the AI equilibrium.

4. Yet another paper showing that the evidence for YouTube radicalization is weak.

5. Russ Roberts Substack on current life in Israel.

6. Patrick O’Shaughnessy interview John and Patrick Collison.

1. Prior Probability nominates Coase as GOAT, here and here.  And more here.

2. The forthcoming Biden executive order on AI (file under: “Lina Khan, accelerationist”).

3. Doug Irwin on Max Corden.

4. Claims about banned pigs.

5. New research paper on UK regional disparities.

6. That was then, this is now (Salem witch edition, WSJ).

7. The Guna [Kuna] people are starting to have to relocate to the Panamanian mainland.

8. Arnold Kling discusses GOAT (the book, not any nominated economist): “From now on, every book should be like this.”

1. Henry Oliver and GOAT and personality.

2. Various ratings for LLM services.

3. Georgetown fact of the day, 1940 edition.  And Unilever retreats from “Woke” (FT).

4. “Preschoolers extend novel labels based on people’s weight rather than their race.“

5. I guess they all read Thomas Schelling?

6. Correct link for new Stephen Dubner podcast series.  Theme is how to succeed by failing.

7. Cry for me Argentina.

1. The culture that was German.

2. “The profit share has been constant at 18% of GDP because the increase in monopoly rents has been completely offset by rising fixed costs and changes in technology.”

3. More on GPT for time series.

4. My beloved Acapulco is in bad shape.

5. The Latecomer, new on-line periodical, lead article by Casey Handmer.  And on Twitter.

6. Geothermal learning curves.

1. MIE: Robinson Crusoe tourism.

2. “An estimated 500,000~ women in the United States between 18-24 are content creators on Onlyfans.”

3. New Freakonomics radio podcast series on how to succeed at failing.

4. “Celebrities made this mainstream.” Recommended.

5, Want to send a comment to the IRS about proposed new crypto tax reporting rules? The polity that is AI.

6. The world’s first wearable e-reader?

7. Robert Irwin, RIP (NYT).

8. Brian Albrecht on why Armen Alchian is the GOAT.  And Peter Isztin on Gary Becker.

1. Is it racist to have this policy, or racist to cancel it?

2. Mark Skousen argues for Carl Menger as GOAT.

3. Benjamin Yeoh reviews GOAT.  Excellent piece.

4. Are LLMs too sycophantic? 

5. “Findings from a series of logistic regression models indicate that Black Protestants have the lowest rates of both credit card and mortgage debt and Hispanic/Latinx Catholics have comparably low rates of credit card debt relative to Conservative Protestants.”

6. Richard Roundtree, RIP.

7. And “It is the height of the cyborg Theocracy.”  NB: I don’t actually recommend clicking on the link.

8. Max Corden has passed away (FT).

1. Those new service sector jobs: therapists for climate change anxiety (NYT).

2. Defunct airports of Southeast Asia.

3. Eli Dourado on personal aviation and the coming revolution.

4. The coolest neighborhoods in the world? (can’t say I agree with the list…cool for wimps maybe!)

5. Ashish reviews GOAT.

6. “About 20 per cent of 650 Protestant ministers in Korea recently surveyed by the Ministry Data Institute said they have used ChatGPT to create sermons and about 60 per cent of them found ChatGPT useful in coming up with ideas for sermons.” (FT)