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Friday assorted links
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.
Thursday assorted links
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).
Wednesday assorted links
1. Donation suggestions for economic growth.
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).
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Saturday assorted links
1. Flowers are evolving (rapidly) to have less sex (NYT).
2. Europe’s political stupor, excellent essay by Leopold Aschenbrenner.
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).
Friday assorted links
1. Problems with U.S. shipyards.
2. Satellite imaging shows there is a lot more industry in the ocean than we had thought.
3. My podcast episode with Will Bachman, most of all about talent see also the Show Notes at the link.
4. Bravo NYT, glad they signaled their intent was not to insult my intelligence.
5. Straussian Taylor Swift? (NYT)
6. Scott Sumner movie and book reviews, he also has perfect taste in fiction.
Thursday assorted links
1. Jeffrey Paller 19 books to read on Africa.
3. Miss America supports nuclear power.
5. Why is the Dominican Republican incumbent popular?
6. Very good Douthat column on higher education (NYT). And: “Yet, through all her troubles, not a single right-leaning voice spoke up on Gay’s behalf. Indeed, during the past month, I didn’t talk to a single Republican on the Hill or around D.C. who had any kind of relationship with Gay. You might ask how Harvard’s president could have so few relationships.” A good piece.
Wednesday assorted links
1. The logic of American vs. Japanese ghost stories.
2. Paul Krugman on the economics of slavery (NYT).
3. The Year in Interintellect.
4. Casey Handmer on Elon Musk.
5. Nils Karlson open-access book on classical liberalism vs. populism. The book is very much on the mark and I was happy to blurb it.
6. What Bill Ackman is up to. A very long, programmatic tweet.
7. Good background explainer on the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal (NYT). The agreement may end up with some charter city-like elements.
Tuesday assorted links
1. Scott Sumner on money/macro GOAT (I largely agree with his perspective and picks).
2. Monopsony amplifies distortions from progressive taxes.
3. Temporarily Coasean Ethiopia and Somaliland deal.
4. Anselm Kiefer in 3-D Glory.
5. Best skyscrapers of 2023? Notably Latin America is well ahead of China.
6. 2024 is the biggest election year in history.
7. Against habits.
Monday assorted links, comments, and jabs
1. A claim that we are in a new world of RBC theory.
2. Orson Welles on Woody Allen.
3. Indian books published in English translation in 2023.
4. By the way, the strongest movie actor GOAT contenders from abroad are Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Mifune, Juliette Binoche, Isabel Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni, Klaus Kinski, and Max von Sydow. Chow Yun-Fat and Max von Sydow are my personal favorites, though I am not sure they are foreign winners in more objective terms. British people don’t count for this designation, though Charlie Chaplin is a good dark horse pick (though not the winner) for the broader designation. I can’t bring myself to mention the Putin lover from France. Mel Gibson is higher in the rankings than many people wish to admit, and he is Australian, sort of, though most of all a creature of Hollywood. Bollywood is a whole separate thing, but they have some definite contenders. As for Marlon Brando, I think too many of his performances now come across as excessively mannered. Where is his cult following? Somewhere in Osaka? He was very talented but seems of the past.
5. Any “very heavy” reliance on real shocks to explain the macro of the last two years has to account for why 2021 had high growth rates, in spite of supply chains then being quite tangled. And why prices haven’t gone back down to their original levels? And what happened to aggregate demand, once the Fed turned its attention to the problem? There simply was a huge, negative AD shock in recent times, at least under any non-tautological definition of aggregate demand. Why didn’t that crush us? Any account needs to address these issues.
Sunday assorted links
1. What Kent Hendricks learned this year, always good.
2. NYT calls for the total destruction of all extant major LLMs. Of course this should be a scandal, and considered an example of unacceptable predatory behavior, but it isn’t. How is this different from what a super-villain would say? Brian Chau, telephone!
3. “A sweeping purge of Chinese generals has weakened the People’s Liberation Army, exposing deep-rooted corruption that could take more time to fix and slow Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s military modernization drive amid geopolitical tensions, analysts say.” And is the CCP moving on Alipay?
5. The sources of cost inflation at Auburn University (WSJ).
6. The kinds of questions people are asking GOAT. Galbraith gets his chance!
7. Milei kissing his girlfriend. And Milei responding to a critic on socialism.
8. Maxim Lott monitors political bias in chatbots.
9. Hannah Ritchie sanity on climate change (NYT).
Saturday assorted links
Friday assorted links
1. How the president of Columbia University avoided much of the current mess (NYT). She also is an economist. And part of how Harvard screwed up the tactics on the PR side.
2. Profile of Stevenson and Wolfers.
3. A typology of who is easiest and hardest to troll on-line. For instance: “People who are focused on economic issues are harder to troll. People who care primarily about social issues are easier to troll.”
4. Scott Sumner on my macro podcast with David Beckworth.
5. A claim that NYT will lose their copyright case. And Rohit. And Kevin Fischer. So far Open AI is favored in the betting markets.