Results for “assorted links” 5591 found
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.
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.
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.
Friday assorted links
1. Virginia stadium deal might be dead.
2. More blue cities are backing anti-crime measures.
3. Mark Skousen reviews GOAT for Economic Affairs.
4. Lengthy JEL survey article on the productivity slowdown (AEA gate).
5. Weak showers do not necessarily save water.
6. Tehzeeb live sessions (music from Pakistan).
7. The secret door is the new trend? (NYT)
Thursday assorted links
1. Discordant twins, where only one is abused (NYT).
2. Okie-dokie. Dr. Moreau would be pleased. And GPT parses me on Claude and GPT.
3. National Guard for me but not for thee?
4. New stadium for The Athletics in Las Vegas?
5. What is going on with the possible repeal of the Oregon drug decriminalization law?
Wednesday assorted links
Tuesday assorted links and non-links
1. Claude 3 does auction theory.
2. A “fixed exchange rate” criticism of Milei.
3. Yet further LLM forecasting results.
4. Bitcoin hits new high, passing 69k.
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.
Sunday assorted links
1. Do philosophers overrate philosphy?
2. Northern Minnesota helium discovery!
4. Belmopan, Belize (NYT, it is brutalist too).
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.
7. Nvidia is now worth more than Saudi Aramco.
8. The Elon vs. OpenAI legal case. Worth a read.
Friday assorted links
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.
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 bread. Addendum: There is a grandfather clause that more or less restricts this to Pandera.