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Wednesday assorted links

1. Göran Söllscher plays The Long and Winding Road.

2. “Hallucination is not a bug, it is LLM’s greatest feature.

3. On commercial zoning liberalization.

4. Why are so many U.S. pedestrian deaths happening at night? (NYT)  And provocative sex is back at the movies (NYT).

5. Maurice Obstfeld argues that low real interest rates will continue.

6. Why do some areas recover from deindustrialization and others not?

7. What is most watched on Netflix?

8. All sorts of Mercatus fellowships, new listing and applications open.

9. Okie-dokie people, Magnus basically vindicated.

Monday assorted links

1. Do fertility-boosting genes also shorten expected lifespan? (NYT)

2. An economic theory of the Manila to Mexico galleons and their shipwrecks.

3. How stable is the offense-defense balance in history?

4. Alas David Colander, economist at Middlebury, has passed away.

5. Quantum-computing approach uses single molecules as qubits for first time.

6. Is Northern Ireland a failed state?

Sunday assorted links

1. Polysee: Irish YouTube videos about YIMBY, aesthetics, and economics.

2. Germany political map of the day.

3. Thwarted Wisconsin DEI markets in everything.

4. The EU AI regulatory statement (on first glance not as bad as many had expected?).

5. The NBA Play-In was in fact a big success.  Is the implication that other sports do not experiment enough with producing more fame/suspense at various margins?  Basketball games are simply a much better product when the players are trying their best.

6. Your grandfather’s ACLU is back…for one tweet at least.

7. New GiveDirectly results on lump sum transfers, from Kenya.

8. Ideas matter.

9. The Chinese are using water cannons at sea, against the Philippines.

Saturday assorted links

1. A piece on Magill and free speech, written before the recent brouhaha.

2. “Today, Future House is announcing WikiCrow, our first automated system for synthesizing scientific knowledge.

3. Erik Hoel on the marginal value of intelligence, and AI.  And with a clever restatement: “call it the supply paradox of AI: the easier it is to train an AI to do something, the less economically valuable that thing is”

4. And was some version of democratized AGI technology released yesterday?

5. Modeling “Assorted links.”

6. Apply for an ACX grant from Scott Alexander.

7. The extremely large telescope.

8. Google’s NotebookLM aims to be the ultimate writing assistant.

Friday assorted links

1. The culture that is British crunchy hedgehog food markets in everything.

2. Alex & Books summarizes some of my takes on reading (though he gets the number of books wrong).

3. “Karin Kneissl (Austrian ex-minister) danced with the Russian leader at her wedding. Now she’s building a new life in Russia.

4. On the Gimbal incident.

5. Which construction tasks have become cheaper?

6. Poor German PISA results.

7. “Before she was Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay was involved in the pushing out a dean after students protested his legal representation of Harvey Weinstein.”  Link here.

Thursday assorted links

1. Where is San Francisco housing policy headed?

2. Whole genome sequencing for embryos advances.

3. The Indian siblings taking the chess world by storm.

4. Catherine Project classics courses for next year.

5. Why is religious attendance linked to more anxiety in U.S. South Asians?

6. “We introduce a new approach to decode and interpret statutes and administrative documents employing Large Language Models (LLMs) for data collection and analysis that we call generative regulatory measurement. We use this tool to construct a detailed assessment of U.S. zoning regulations. We estimate the correlation of these housing regulations with housing costs and construction. Our work highlights the efficacy and reliability of LLMs in measuring and interpreting complex regulatory datasets.”  Link here.

Tuesday assorted links

1. Indicators of British stagnation.

2. The geopolitics of Godzilla.

3. On the effectiveness of different mental health interventions.

4. New documentary about North Korea.

5. History of the Venezuela-Guyana dispute.

6. How are global poverty stats revised if we consider the value of public goods?  Do consider Amory Gethins on the job market from Paris School of Economics.

7. Milei on social justice.

p.s. Do note the correction on today’s insider trading post, the main result probably is not correct.

Monday assorted links

1. Will 48 volts end up the standard for cars?

2. Is “Mom dread” a cultural problem?

3. Joshua Gans model on whether social governance can control harms from AGI.  And economists model optimal liability for AI.  Whether or not you agree with these particular arguments, it is amazing how the economists suddenly are cleaning up in this field.

4. “We also present new estimates that show that assortative mating was much stronger than previously estimated for the US.” (pre-1940)

5. “South Korea’s high-rise housing and low birthrates are closely related.”  True or not?

6. A Nicaraguan beauty queen coup?

Sunday assorted links

1. Recalibrating respect.  Fertility issues again.

2. Breakthroughs of 2023, an important thread.

3. Arnold Kling has built a GPT to grade your Op-Eds (requires ChatGPT plus, paid version).  Here is explanation and a chance to offer feedback.

4. Why is this Fiat missing a wheel?

5. Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books (the polity that is Porto Alegre).  A likely improvement?

6. Way back when, before SCOTUS, William Rehnquist proposed marriage to Sandra Day O’Connor.  She said no.

7. The live touring of Kiss will be replaced by digital avatars.

Saturday assorted links

1. Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue.

2. Is the gender confidence gap contagious to evaluators?

3. What Tom Whitwell learned this year, always good stuff.

4. Should you offer to tip your GPT?

5. Claims from Jonah Goldberg.

6. Women fare better than men on the economics job market when they specialized in “high-male” fields.

p.s. they are doxxing anons using voice samples matched against text.  Just fyi.

Friday assorted links

1. Rasheed Griffith on reparations for the Caribbean.

2. Millions of new materials discovered by deep learning.

3. You can now pre-order Henry Oliver’s excellent Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life.

4. Chinese semi-clone of a GPT model.  It’s not bad.

5. Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas.

6. You can pre-order Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics.

7. “Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country.

Thursday assorted links

1. Alexandria, Virginia ends single family only residential zoning.

2. Predictions about Seoul yikes.

3. Profile of Tamara Winter.

4. Background on the pending Guyana conflict.

5. Camera obscura, AI, and art.

6. Is AI easy to control? Speculative, but a good example of how the discourse runs, this time from the optimist side. And claims about Chinese open source AI, speculative too but important if true.  And more.

Wednesday assorted links

1. Anti-Piketty on r > g, once you put entrepreneurs into the model.

2. From Loyal, potential gains in canine life extension.  And more from the NYT.

3. The economics of globalized fashion.  And Emily Oster moonlights as fashion model.

4. Please donate to Conversations with Tyler.

5. Joe Walker podcasts with Shruti Rajagopalan on India and also talent.  With transcript, there is also quite a bit of discussion of me in there.

6. Scott Alexander on Effective Altruism.

7. Niskanen symposium on Milton Friedman and the negative income tax.

8. Naming and necessity, Young Thug edition.