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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.

5. Some Claude 3 capabilities.

6. Claude and Circassian.

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.“

1. Do philosophers overrate philosphy?

2. Northern Minnesota helium discovery!

3. Karachi vs. Lahore.

4. Belmopan, Belize (NYT, it is brutalist too).

5. WaPo reviews Dune 2.

6. Hegel remains underrated.

7. 1843 on RCTs in Kenya.

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.

1. Interview with Scott Alexander.

2. Notes on Azerbaijan.

3. What Ethiopia did to boost agricultural productivity.

4. “Perelandra Bookshop’s reader-in-residence commits to reading at the store for two hours per week in exchange for a small coffee and book stipend.”

5. Profile of Dwarkesh Patel.

6. A Milton Friedman AI?

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)

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.

1. Dan Klein responds to my Casablanca review.  Of course my view is that what Dan sees in the movie is also there.

2. Do standard error corrections exacerbate publication bias?

3. Mr. Beast as talent evaluator (short video).

4. My Bloomberg column on the very high value of open source software.

5. “What is Éire accelerationism and why does it matter?” A new podcast episode from David McWilliams.

6. More on BYD and Chinese electric vehicles (NYT).

7. “The 24-year-old suspect, who is understood to have been working at Terminal 5, allegedly charged customers £25,000 to allow them to fly without the necessary visa.“

1. Sociopaths remain underrated (NYT).

2. Claims about Asian birth rates, speculative but not to be dismissed.

3. The “science is getting less disruptive” paper does not replicate.  And the full critique.

4. Why people fail to notice horrors around them (NYT).

5. New paper on supermodular goods, by Divya Siddarth, Matthew Prewitt, Glen Weyl.

6. UK is now regulating Mary Poppins.

7. Big Indian wedding.

8. Thank goodness for agriculture.

1. Military lessons from the Ukraine war.  Very good piece.

2. Merve Emre.

3. Rootclaim, lab leak, and a $100,000 bet.

4. You can pre-order the new Carola Binder book Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy.

5. Why do East Asian firms value drinking?

6. Markets in everything: special flights for eclipse viewing.

1. “In sports, South Korean women generally outnumber men in the stands.” (NYT)

2. Why don’t people talk about fat-tailed sheep more?

3. China-Africa donkey trade wars? (NYT)  Donkey nationalism!

4. “Roosevelt fixed his VP mistake.”

5. New Oliver Kim Substack, he is an economist from Berkeley, first piece is on public housing.

6. Small towns building statues to fictional characters.

1. Is dancing the best treatment for depression? Limited data, speculative.

2. Tom Cruise will use new deal to do more “auteur” movies.

3. Ginevra Lily Davis on women, good piece.

4. A look inside a nuclear submarine.

5. The project of trying to make yourself more agentic.

6. Niklaus Wirth, RIP (NYT).

7. Will there be a hydrogen energy gold rush? (FT)

1. Funny and rude map of Brazil.

2. Did Silicon Valley drive the stagnation problem?

3. Kind > nice.

4. Noah reviews Power and Progress.

5. Caribbean reading list: “You can judge your progress by continually listening to Lee Perry‘s music. If you can comprehend why his music best represents English Caribbean culture, then you are on your way.”

6. Zvi on restaurant types.

7. New Yorker profile of Vaclav Smil.

1. AI-generated advice doesn’t help lesser performers as much as you might think: data from chess.

2. Incels are slightly left of center on average.

3. How AI is changing the internet (WSJ).  And here is Consensus, which summarizes scientific papers for you.

4. Why isn’t solar scaling in Africa?

5. Counties with the highest life expectancy in the United States.

6. Four individual Beatles movies are coming out, I predict Ringo’s will be best.

1. Museum Selfie-Takers Are Causing Damage by Backing Into Artworks.

2. New Zealand is now falling behind much of Eastern Europe.

3. Dan Schulz reading list.

4. More coverage of Bukele.  Good piece.

5. How religious is Iran these days?

6. Paul Bloom on how to be a good podcast guest.

7. Peter Thiel talk at Harvard.  Best part on Christianity and the Woke starts at about 28:00.