Results for “assorted links”

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1. Robin Hanson theorizes about aliens.

2. Wokeness is maybe the source of lower well-being on the Left?

3. Rubber Soul but only bass and drums.

4. Dror Poleg is running “a ventures approach to peace.”

5. Italy will ban “synthetic meat.”

6. Salim Furth book review on Japanese urbanism.

7. Interview with John Gray.

8. Poll data on shifting U.S. views on Israel and Palestine.

1. Some thoughts on why ambition is so scarce.

2. Fertility roundup from Zvi.

3. Poland electoral map of the day.

4. SpaceX needs the FAA to move faster.

5. Do spiders think with their webs?

6. Partial Spotify playlist from my music podcast with Rick Rubin.

1. A squib on Chinese LLM censorship.

2. On space-based solar power (FT).  And proper link for Ulkar Aghayeva new science blog.

3. Profile of Luke Farritor, who is reading the scrolls.

4. Justin Wolfers webinar on ChatGPT and homework.

5. Pedro Santos : Água viva.

6. How a Georgia Man Got a $1.4 Million Speeding Ticket.

1. Can a political candidate promise “no taxes”?  (The culture that is Argentina)

2. Embryologists inundated with requests for sperm retrieval from the fallen and dead.

3. More on chess-playing GPT.

4. Does free play for kids lead to happier adults?

5. New science blog by Ulkar Aghaeva, first post on Merton and multiple discoveries.  NB: Proper link here: https://measureformeasure.co/blog/multiple-discoveries/

6. Dengue outbreak in Italy.

1. Those new service sector jobs.  East vs. west coast money.

2. Scottish NIMBY vs. Stella McCartney.  Environmental review is out of control.

3. 104-year-old woman jumps from plane, dies in her sleep a week later.

4. Why not look at fake views in your digital windows?

5. Should Britain “outsource” by sending prisoners abroad to other nations?  If so, to which ones?

6. “One thing that the rise of social media (particularly Twitter) did is to suddenly put Americans in direct contact with people from all over the world, without Americans realizing this. A lot of the radicalization of Americans over the last decade came from overseas.”  From Noah Smith.

7. Marc Andreessen with his Techno-Optimist Manifesto.

1. Is Christian Wolff now underrated?

2. Why Malcolm Gladwell is a good writer.

3. Progress on Covid nasal vaccines.

4. Djon-djon, and Haitian black mushroom rice (NYT).

5. Max Weber on journalism.

6. Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Claudia Goldin (NYT).

1. Puffin on the 20p!

2. Hezbollah’s arsenal of weapons.

3. Israeli billionaire quits Harvard board.

4. What might be in those scrolls.

5. Louise Gluck, RIP.  She was one of our best poets, even if not the equal of Shakespeare.

6. Profile of Charania, NBA analyst.

1. More on the New Mexico footprints and their dating.

2. Markets in everything, those new service sector jobs.

3. Summary of current results on corporate taxes and economic activity.

4. One attempt to model Petro in Colombia.

5. A disputation on the economic costs of climate change (WSJ).

1. Are coin tosses fair?

2. Older solar storms were bigger than we had thought.

3. Scientific productivity as a random walk?

4. In defense of electricity markets.

5. How consumers justify their discretionary spending.

1. Alice Evans on Claudia Goldin.

2. Interview with Michael Lewis.  Yikes.

3. Russ Roberts tells me that he was not born in Ames, Iowa, though he did spend 1957 there (see this now-corrected post).

4. Kevin Phillips, RIP.  An early theorist of populism and its rise.

5. Bilal Coulibaly update.

6. Jason Farago piece on whether our culture is stagnating (NYT, note there is much I disagree with in this piece, nonetheless the issues are interesting).

1. Summary of assembly theory.  Possibly very important.

2. This Tablet article about Iranian spying should have received more attention.

3. Different investments during times of conflict.

4. Notes on Ghana.

5. Larry Summers on the Harvard response to current events.

6. SSC evaluates his mini-grants.

1. NYT covers prediction markets, and “the Godfather” (Robin Hanson).

2. AI approaches to corporate risk measurement?

3. My earlier NYT column on the Goldin-Katz book.

4. Israel loosens gun carry laws.

5. Economics of the orchid market.

6. Vox on Claudia Goldin on the gender wage gap.

1. An AI device to help you control your dreams?

2. Boogie Woogie Queen Gets a Police Escort to the Piano.

3. AI and oral exams.

4. Hikaru on the Vishy Anand CWT.

5. Are AI models the new form of time series econometrics?

6. Scavenging hyenas save on carcass disposal costs.

1. Model this.

2. A bunch of claims about nobles, genetics, and violence.

3. New results on interpretability.  And much more detail.  Potentially very good news.  One interpretation.  Some are becoming less pessimistic.

4. Arnold Kling on the trouble with books.  Remedies will come!

5. “We show that the high level of rural income mobility is principally driven by boys of rural-origin, who are more likely than their urban peers to grow up in communities with a predominance of two-parent households.”

6. Might desalinated water ever be cheaper?

7. Alex Cukierman, RIP.

1. Dan Rothschild reviews Alexandra Hudson’s The Soul of Civility.

2. Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness, by Carrie Sheffield, forthcoming 2024.

3. Nabeel on Jon Fosse.  And Merve Emre on Fosse.

4. Woman named Siri changes her name.

5. There is no great stagnation who would spend millions on this?

6. LLMs provide useful feedback on research papers.