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Thursday assorted links
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.
5. Cayalá, Guatemala (NYT).
Wednesday assorted links
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.
6. Machine learning as a tool for hypothesis generation.
7. DeepMind making big advances in mathematics. AI-generated data too.
Tuesday assorted links
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.
5. Patrick Luciani reviews GOAT.
7. Short interview with Paul McCartney’s school teacher (1965 video). Of course he sees Paul as a regional thinker.
Monday assorted links
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.”
Sunday assorted links
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.
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”).
Saturday assorted links
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.
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.