Results for “assorted links”

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1. Interview with Michael Elowitz on synthetic biology.  Asimov Press again.

2. The brothers who collected Star Trek memorabilia (NYT).  A weird story, believe it or not.

3. The importance of foreign workers for national security.

4. What makes home building so expensive? (cost issues, not NIMBY issues)

5. The growing rate of NBA twins.

6. At what age should you be taught Algebra 2?

1. Where do the Amish go on vacation? (2018 New Yorker piece)

2. “Adding noise to a grantmaking decision can induce more applications”

3. How olive oil marked globalization.

4. The Facebook rollout study.

5. Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany.

1. New Zealand’s building boom.

2. Thread on new research on why people hate inflation, by Stefanie Stantcheva.

3. NFTs as part of the art world doing better than many people think.

4. ‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’

5. List of biotech-themed questions.

6. “Headline results: we estimate raising Dogger Bank would cost £97.5bn, but would bring present value benefits of £622bn. Under the government’s standard method of cost-benefit analysis, this project would get a go-ahead, with a cost-benefit ratio of 6.2.”  Link here.

7. Ezra Klein and Ethan Mollick, self-recommending (NYT).

8. AI Mathematical Olympiad Progress Prize.

1. How much would you pay never to saw off a finger? (NYT)

2. Scott Sumner movie reviews.

3. Peter Eotvos, RIP (NYT).

4. Haidt responds to critics.  And is schizophrenia a useful identifying variable?

5. Vaccine mandates were counterproductive for health care workers.

6. New guidelines on email deliverability.

7. Highly speculative take on Russia and the Havana Syndrome.  I have long believed that Havana Syndrome is real, though I cannot vouch for this particular account.

1. Brian Wilson thought this was the best Beach Boys album ever.

2. A new interview with Daniel Kahneman.  His last?

3. Vitalik on the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline.

4. “The Beatles, Jones recalled, had named a song “All You Need Is Love.” Why not call the paper “Attention Is All You Need”?”  Wired link here.

5. Travel notes for Thiruvananthapuram.

6. America is claiming lots of new land.

7. Only Islamist terror attacks hurt the stock market.

1. Is Wang Huning the Chinese Tocqueville?

2. David Brooks on Fareed Zakaria (NYT).

3. “Knighthoods for services to AI are PROFOUNDLY Anglofuturist.”

4. Pakistan wants to open trade with India (Bloomberg).

5. Andrew Gelman does not think the median voter theorem is underrated.  I say look at outcomes in the aggregate, for instance the content of the federal budget.

6. Are social media to blame?

7. Monkey gangs on Twitter, the polity that is Thailand.

1. Over 100 comments here on an MR blog post, and by far the best one is by GPT-4.

2. My older posts on time management.  I’ll think if I have any revisions.  Speaking of old links, here again is Martin Shkreli on SBF and prison.

3. Canada gdp on the rebound.

4. I welcome Ben Klutsey to his new role as Mercatus Executive Director.  And have had a great ten years working with Dan Rothschild.

5. Honduras trying to break its contracts.  Ten of the eleven pending cases are against Honduras.

6. “Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it.”

7. “Martin Scorsese to Headline a Religious Series for Fox Nation.” (NYT).

1. Why do people still pay mutual fund fees?

2. Open Philanthropy update.

3. Grazie Sophie Christie on marrying an older man.

4. Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia.

5. End of the CFA zone?

6. Bird species uses symbolic gestures.

1. Woman names herself after a London train station she loves very much.

2. Dylan Matthews on AI and economic growth.

3. The Minimal Effects of Union Membership on Political Attitudes.

4. The great Richard Serra has passed away (NYT).

5. A short essay on Cowen’s First Law.

6. New Erik Matson IEA book on paternalism.

1. Autistic 27-year-old Canadian now allowed to end her life.  It’s time to end the Canadian suicide regime as it currently exists: “…the province [Alberta] operates a system where there is no appeal process and no means of reviewing a person’s MAID approval.”

2. Highlights from SF CWT listener meet-up event.

3. “More than 60 percent of Ohio’s driver’s license suspensions do not stem from bad driving; instead, they arise because the driver owes an unpaid debt.”

4. Bears take a ride on swan pedalo at Woburn Safari Park.

5. Economics round-up from Zvi.

6. Finding excessive sentencers in the judicial system.

7. On the Bach cello suites.

1. First woman to complete grueling Barkley marathon.

2. New Aztec codices discovered on amate paper.

3. Why Ireland’s housing bubble burst.

4. Wokeness was associated with lower mental well-being.

5. Is Johan Röhr one of the most popular composers of all time?

1. Peter Coy on AI and jobs (NYT).

2. Asgar Farhadi cleared of plagiarism allegations by Iranian court.

3. The Eitan Hersh conservative experiment at Tufts.

4. New Liberty Fund paperback edition of Hayek on Mill.

5. Is Los Angeles leading the way toward a new and better urbanism?

6. Free tours of Nevada nuclear test site are starting.

7. The week in medical AI.

1. 101 things Leila would tell her past self.

2. “The colonel was then carried to the Dotonbori river and tossed into the murky water.”

3. Leadership lessons from Shakespeare’s Henriad.

4. Good thread on the Apple case.

5. Where do the major African economies stand? And fellowship in Tanzania.

6. U.S. life expectancy is rising again.

7. First flight of the Boom Supersonic jet.

1. How to recruit Iraqi weapons scientists.

2. The Zvi with a bunch of things, including commentary on some recent economic models of AI.

3. Dean Ball on how to regulate AI.  And Dean’s Substack on related issues.

4. Did Easter Island invent writing independently?

5. The new Thiel winners.

6. “I’m not sure I have a full model of how this works, but the situation where nearly 100% of credentialed experts are Democrats seems to me to have made both parties’ epistemics worse than they were 20 years ago.” — from Matt Yglesias.

1. Status showerheads (WSJ).

2. Parrots love playing tablet games, a good link.

3. New secret constellation from SpaceX, is it a game-changer?

4. Overpriced thus failed markets in everything, the house of Aung San Suu Kyi.

5. Fast and slow writers.

6. The Neuralink thing, two Elon links today please note.

7. Vernor Vinge, RIP.