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1. Did proxenia grants help ancient Greece grow?

2. Bob Lawson tribute to Jim Gwartney.

3. Puffin walking on the cliff in Iceland, other good photos too.

4. “Alphafold found thousands of possible psychedelics.”

5. Daniel Gross on AGI trades?

6. Girardian Papuans, circa 1963 (short video).

7. Nabeel on how to use Twitter.  And on Substack.

1. Are some Latin American countries “quiet quitting” the war on drugs?

2. “We find that in the United States, enslaved workers were responsible for somewhere between 12.49 per cent and 18.0 per cent of the increase in output per capita between 1839 and 1859.”

3. Some much-needed perspective on the “Chinese brain killer virus.”

4. Detroit Beer Exchange closes, erstwhile floating price markets in everything.

5. On Solano and cars, noting that I don’t find the car outcomes so bad myself.

6. How good is the three-minute intelligence test?

7. “A Japanese man who made a living from letting people rent him to do absolutely nothing says he now does it for fun.”

8. BAP on populism and libertarianism.

There is now an Andrew Gelman newsletter.

1. Why doesn’t the Davos set sound more intelligent?  (Only a partial diagnosis)

2. New and lucrative scholarships at University of Austin.

3. “What would an empirical revolution in safety research consist of?” Many would do well to heed this piece.

4. CWT meet-up in NYC Feb.5.

5. Cayalá, Guatemala (NYT).

6. “The Afghan Taliban is calling for peace, urging Pakistan and Iran to exhibit restraint and avoid violence.“

1. Revisionist take on why woodpeckers do not get concussions.

2. The supposed rise in U.S. maternal deaths may not be real.

3. GPT Hayek Reborn.

4. Conversation with John Gray and Peter Thiel.

5. Milei at WEF, video.

6. Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation.

7. DeepMind making big advances in mathematics.  AI-generated data too.

1. My Feb.21 Arsht Center live event with Peter Thiel, “Political Theology,” register here.

2. One account of Russia’s game-theoretic strategy to come (speculative).

3. “Yemen now has more births per year than Russia, far more than Germany or Japan. In a few decades it must end up with a larger population than Russia. The future is Yemeni.”  Tweet here.

4. Taiwanese short stories.

5. Patrick Luciani reviews GOAT.

6. “The Indianapolis airport actually installed a full-length basketball court in the terminal in honor of NBA All-Star.”

7. Short interview with Paul McCartney’s school teacher (1965 video).  Of course he sees Paul as a regional thinker.

1. “Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the United Arab Emirates to sell to exclusive bars.”

2. Is deterrence failing with North Korea also?

3. How migrants seek out familiar climates.

4. “OpenAI’s GPT Store Now Offers a Selection of 3 Million Custom AI Bots.”

5. “…a Freakonomics Radio episode we just put out, called “Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?” … We’re all very proud of this episode, which has been in the works for a good while … You can hear it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on our website, where we also publish a transcript.”

6. Do women actually travel more than men?

1. Excellent Zach Mazlish tweets on the macro puzzle of our day.  He concludes with: “And note that all of 1/2/3 predict negative output effects to come if rates stay high for much longer, unless the (net!) positive supply shock is persistent (AI?), or fiscal demand pressures are persistent.”

2. Very good David Brooks piece on Nikki Haley (NYT).  And you all know I don’t like to cover matters electoral.

3. “Astronomers have discovered a ring-shaped cosmic megastructure, the proportions of which challenge existing theories of the universe.”

4. Andreessen and Horowitz on what is wrong in higher education.

5. The Teacher’s Lounge (NYT) is a superb movie, most of all about the collapse of social trust in Germany.  It has a chockful of points relevant to social science as well.

6. Data on these links and where they come from (“Straussianism peaked in 2021″…and yes I am always on the lookout for new instances of “Horse Nationalism”).

1. Why do women travel more than men?

2. Gates and Altman play Desert Island Discs (short YouTube).

3. Try not to let moose lick your car (Canada).

4. Luring top scientists out of universities (NYT).

5. AI will underwhelm, and a six-month pause?  And it’s time to learn something serious about private equity.  Adam is right throughout.

6. “30% or Portuguese people between the ages of 15 and 39 have left the country.”

7. Ho hum.  I’ve been watching the other post-briefing interviews as well.

1. Those new service sector jobs, former chess player edition.

2. John O. McGinnis reviews GOAT.

3. Huge ancient city found in the Amazon.

4. Michael Magoon on progress-related Substacks.

5. Elaine Schwartz has been blogging every day for ten years at Econlife.

6. Things you learn dating Cate Hall.  And Cate’s essay on how to be more agentic.

7. Esther Duflo to lead Paris School of Economics.

1. Claims about the Russian defense sector.

2. South Korea to ban dog meat.

3. Microsoft debates what to do with AI lab in China, perhaps EAers should discuss this more? (NYT)  EA is right about many issues, but for far too long foreign policy has been a weak suit of the philosophy.  And here is U.S. companies talking to China about AI safety (FT).

4. Johor Bahru metro concept map.  And “Malaysia and Singapore agreed to jointly develop a special economic zone and explore a range of measures including passport-free travel to boost trade between the neighbors that each count the other as the No. 2 trading partner.” (Bloomberg, this has been a longstanding prediction of mine).

5. Visiting the CIA to give a talk.

1. Donation suggestions for economic growth.

2. “We look at what happens when human judges are given algorithmic risk assessments to help determine who to incarcerate.”

3. Tiny homes in Austin (NYT).

4. Casey Handmer on alleviating water scarcity in the US Southwest.

5. Using an LLM as your operating system? And the video is here, I have been predicting this.

6. Hillsdale College update (NYT).

1. Manifold on whether various public intellectual are overrated or underrated.

2. Somaliland update, good and important piece.

3. Milei on technological progress and economic growth.

4. Used fire trucks can be pretty cheap, relatively speaking.

5. Pilot union resistance to safety reforms.

6. “Interestingly, news coverage has become increasingly negative across all states in the past half-century.”

1. Data on the bullets fired in Salt Lake City.

2. Have we passed “peak economics”?

3. Walk and talk: everything we know.

4. Bob Lawson appreciation of Jim Gwartney (WSJ).

5. Regulatory reform for Britain, using insurance-based ideas.

6. Solar eclipses and economic development?

7. Reforming intramural NIH.

1. Can it make sense to spend $2500 at Applebee’s?

2. Getting over being a culture incel.

3. Review of Phind.

4. What people pay per hour, for varying forms of entertainment.

5. Brendan McCord is starting the Cosmos Institute, to study AI, philosophy, political philosophy, and the classics.

6. Severe financial pressures at University of Chicago.

1. Flowers are evolving (rapidly) to have less sex (NYT).

2. Europe’s political stupor, excellent essay by Leopold Aschenbrenner.

3. Navajo Nation’s objection to landing human remains on the moon prompts last-minute White House meeting.

4. Horse cloning transforms polo in Argentina.  “Using embryo transfers, a single horse can now give birth to as many as 10 foals per year, instead of one…”

5. Model this (NYT): “Maine at Augusta spent $15,225 last year for the right to market U.S. News “badges” — handsome seals with U.S. News’s logo — commemorating three honors: the 61st-ranked online bachelor’s program for veterans, the 79th-ranked online bachelor’s in business and the 104th-ranked online bachelor’s.”

6. Mexican drone attack kills 30 in Guerrero (in Spanish).