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Wednesday assorted links

1. The largest worms on earth.

2. AI safety is not a model property.

3. Dan Schulz podcast with Nabeel Qureshi, with transcript.

4. African influencers who make it big in Brazil.

5. “Films that promote risk-taking sell more in entrepreneurial societies today, rooted in traditions where characters pursue dangerous tasks successfully.

6. Prompt library for Claude.

7. Be careful what you wish for: “The proposed legislation may force app stores to remove TikTok. But restricting access through web browsers or already-installed apps—which would be necessary to really limit the platform’s reach—would represent another level of intrusive regulation.” (WSJ)

Tuesday assorted links

1. Over 2015-2021, the number of Chinese workers in Africa fell by 64 percent (note the link has too many pop-ups, click only if you have to).

2. Seasonal pollen boosts traffic fatalities.

3. Golden Mall reopens in Flushing, Queens (NYT).

4. Katja Grace and AI worries (New Yorker).  And a general update on the AI worries.

5. Henry Oliver on James Joyce.

6. A post-mortem on neoreaction.

7. The Alliance for the Future Manifesto, on AI, by Brian Chau.

Monday assorted links

1. Claude 3 on Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

2. How raw milk became a political issue.

3. “First, we don’t find that increasing corporate competition driven by M&A is important for workers either through concentrating the market for the products the workers produce, which would in theory increase worker wages, or through concentrating the labor market, which would in theory decrease their wages.”  Link here, Canadian.

4. Estimating a supply curve for carbon removal.

5. Facts about Vietnam trade.

6. That was then, this is now, Joe Biden edition.

Sunday assorted links

1. The suburban YIMBY movement (NYT).

2. Chess Fever, a Soviet silent movie.  27 minutes, Buster Keaton-style.

3. Angus Deaton makes a nationalist turn.

4. Is Silicon Valley pricing academics out of AI research?  (I hope so.)

5. List of names you cannot give your Icelandic daughter (sorry Abigail! Aisha eventually was approved, though).  For men, they have banned Fabio, but not Elmer.  I believe in laissez-faire for names, but if you are going to ban anything, surely Elmer is worth some consideration?

6. Are Florida voters tiring of the culture wars?

7. “Mr. Musk has not hired any staff for his foundation, tax filings show. Its billions are handled by a board that consists of himself and two volunteers, one of whom reports putting in so little time that it averages out to six minutes per week.” (NYT, quite possibly he is doing this well?)

Saturday assorted links

1. Why high drug prices are good for Americans.

2. Open access Sanford Ikeda  book on Jane Jacobs.

3. “He’s just a complete parliamentary obsessive and savant, really like no one I’ve ever met, even people in the parliamentarian’s office…”  He is a twenty-year-old economics student from Britain, born in Poland.  Good piece.

4. OpenAI review is completed.

5. Taylor Swift tour prompts economists to upgrade Singapore growth forecast (Bloomberg).

6. John Cochrane on increasing the number of women in economics.

7. The Economist on new city projects.

Monday assorted links

1. Houston (Siena) fact of the day.

2. Royals receiving payment from land.

3. Katherine Boyle on the hard realignment.

4. Most common domesticated animal, by county, counting humans (and pheasants!).

5. “Lebron was created by the OLS gods.

6. Claude 3 from Anthropic.  Exciting times.

7. “Our findings suggest that lower returns increase inequality, which contradicts Piketty’s (2014) r-g formula.

Saturday assorted links

1. Is Somalia running on electronic money?

2. Lookism and blond privilege?

3. What do states do with fiscal windfalls?

4. Jane Austen fans oppose Jane Austen statue on the grounds that people might visit it.

5. A user has created a very useful guide to Marginal Revolution University videos.

6. Cowen’s Second Law.

7. Nvidia is now worth more than Saudi Aramco.

8. The Elon vs. OpenAI legal case.  Worth a read.

Thursday assorted links

1. Why South Koreans don’t have more children.  And a Twitter thread on the same topic.

2. Pete Boettke on why we should still read Adam Smith.

3. When cars hit pedestrians, who is blamed more?

4. Ghost donors.  Important.  But will this become a big story somewhere?

5. Interview with Orley Ashenfelter, who is retiring after fifty years of teaching.

6. Nabeel on synthetic data.

7. “Disney adults” are a thing.

8. “Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat.” (NYT)

Wednesday assorted links

1. One view of how foreign students are reshaping U.S. universities.

2. Some Milei reforms may be overturned (Bloomberg).

3. Russian thresholds for using tactical nuclear weapons?

4. RLHF is the problem and the solution.

5. Are new technologies harming liberalism? Short tweet version here.

6. How to raise the demand for breadAddendum: There is a grandfather clause that more or less restricts this to Pandera.