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1. Are more stable rock bands more likely to be successful?

2. Harvard will not proceed with its geoengineering experiment.  I think you can guess why not.

3. The Zvi on Devin.

4. Is there ever a labor market motherhood premium?

5. Mysteries of the Gardner Museum theft (NYT).

6. “Police Scotland’s officers are being told they should target actors and comedians under Scotland’s new hate crime laws.” (mostly gated, you can read a bit of it)

7. Regulatory arbitrage, tech no-mergers edition.

8. Noah on various matters, including the Canadian economy (I think he is putting too much weight on the last two years, no doubt they are in a downturn).

1. Long paper on how the grid is regulated, co-authored by an uncle of Matt Yglesias.

2. Sam Altman on Lex, transcript (it’s happening).  They will be doing amazing things over the course of 2024 (and beyond).  And a ChatGPT billing joke.

3. Are college extracurriculars replacing studying and reading?

4. Toyota building a smart city.

5. PEPFAR will be extended.

6. How to run a CIA base in Afghanistan.

7. Python farming as a flexible and efficient form of agricultural food security.

1. GPT-automated peer reviews?

2. How does Russia make missiles? (Kamil Galeev)

3. Carrying costs > liquidity premium, frozen egg edition.

4. Lynch/Oz is quite a good and interesting movie — if you already know a lot about cinema.

5. Sama chatter about GPT-5?

6. How to network at unstructured happy hours.

7. How to shut down Stanford — enforce the law.

1. A YIMBY victory in Wellington, New Zealand.  And boarding houses are underrated.

2. Eric Lombardi on an abundance agenda for Canada.

3. Christopher Beam and Catarina Saraiva at Bloomberg cover EJMR.

4. Luis Garicano thoughts on the Levitt podcast with Hartley.

5. John Nye on the political economy of Dune.

6. Against a TikTok ban.

7. William Nordhaus on whether we are approaching a singularity.

8. Frans de Waal, RIP, and more here.

1. Nobel Laureate Roger Myerson added to Russia’s black list.

2. IABD publications are now all generative AI-enabled (like GOAT).

3. Indiana bill for intellectual diversity in universities.

4. Some details in the TikTok bill.

5. Facts about Kenyans.

6. Claims about Dutch road liability.

7. Tyler Cowen on Jaylen Brown.

8. Modest evidence for a nuclear power comeback.

1. Casey Handmer on how to feed the AIs.

2. What we would like to know about aging.

3. Are there good reasons to create giant sheep?

4. My colleague Michael Clemens on how deportations would harm U.S. job creation.

5. Have the liberal arts gone conservative? (New Yorker)

6. Markets in everything? (speculative, pirate revenge edition)

1. “Could an AI replace all music ever recorded with Taylor Swift covers?”

2. European Parliament passes the AI Act.

3. It’s happening.

4. Profile of Karl Oskar Schulz at Harvard.

5. “At 23, she landed a job at a 3-star Michelin restaurant. Less than 2 years later, she left to run a food stall in Singapore.”

6. Character.ai engagement data.

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)

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.

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.

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?)

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.

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)

8. Luka is overrated.

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?

6. Global distribution of penguins.

1. The 2024 Pritzker winner.

2. Civic Future fellowships for young British people.

3. Progress on the woolly mammoth project.

4. Learning to think like an economist without becoming one (TC: is this possible?).

5. Grille height on cars kills pedestrians.

6. Construction is booming in Mexico’s south.