It's happening, Reid Hoffman AI twin edition, wwrgs? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why did I deepfake myself? To see if conversing with an AI-generated version of myself can...
Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. U.S. vs. Taiwanese work culture. 2. Albert Wensemius and the rise of Singapore. 3. Unusual...
Imagine recording and storing everything you read - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses just got a massive Multimodal upgrade – Meta AI with Vision It...
What can LLMs never do? - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Rohit Krishnan, he and I are both interested in the question of what LLMs cannot...
What is the proper policy toward tourists? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, basically you should charge them fees rather...
More Tuesday links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. AI Camera turns your images into poetry. 2. Highly capable model locally on your phone....
Four Thousand Years of Egyptian Women Pictured - Marginal REVOLUTION
In an excellent, deep-dive Alice Evans looks at patriarchy in Egypt using pictures drawn from four...
Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. A literalist reading of Civil War. 2. Why it is so hard to get a...
Hiring discrimination sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
Several common measures — like employing a chief diversity officer, offering diversity training or having a...
Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture - Marginal REVOLUTION
Forthcoming from the QJE, here is a new paper by Andrea Matanga: The Neolithic revolution saw...
Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Are Indian women stronger relative supporters of Modi? 2. Apple to build on-device AI? 3....
Deregulate our universities - Marginal REVOLUTION
Take a look at how the number of federal regulations and policies governing research at universities...
Tying the Knot - Marginal REVOLUTION
Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a...
Arguments that (almost) everyone hates - Marginal REVOLUTION
These are usually worth pondering, as at the very least you will learn something. Here is...
Guinea pig questions - Marginal REVOLUTION
If someone demographically normal and not especially at-risk wants to serve as a guinea pig, what...
Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Rasheed Griffith reggae playlist. 2. Poland got rid of compulsory homework for grade school. 3....
The game theory of the final round of the Candidates - Marginal REVOLUTION
The amazing Gukesh (17 years old!) is half a point ahead with one round remaining today. ...
What should I ask Alan Taylor? - Marginal REVOLUTION
He is one of the greatest of living American historians, here is from Wikipedia: Alan Shaw...
"The Simple Macroeconomics of AI" - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new Daron Acemoglu paper, and he is skeptical about its overall economic effects. ...
South Africa fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Two economists from the Harvard Growth Lab (Shah and Sturzenegger) estimate that the average transport costs...
Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Ross Douthat on whether the internet is the enemy of progress (NYT). 2. “This year,...
Decoupling from China? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe, but maybe not: Amid the current U.S.-China technological race, the U.S. has imposed export controls...
The politics of *Civil War* (full of spoilers, do not read) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I saw the film as having very definite politics, and yes I am aware of the...
Dwarkesh interviews Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3 and more - Marginal REVOLUTION
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Andrej Karpathy on Llama 3. 2. The PEN awards are on the brink of collapse....
Why a Housing Shortage Exists Despite More Houses Per Person - Marginal REVOLUTION
When I post about the skyrocketing price of housing and the need to build, commentators (include...
What I am nostalgic about - Marginal REVOLUTION
With a group of friends I was having a chat about the merits of the current...
Response from Devin Pope, on religious attendance - Marginal REVOLUTION
All of this is from Devin Pope, in response to Lyman Stone (and myself). Here was...
U.S.A. fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Latin American immigrants are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of the U.S. population...
Claims about claims (it's happening) - Marginal REVOLUTION
The craziest LLaMA 3 reveal: The 400B+ version of the model is **on par with Claude...
Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Interview with Ulrike Malmendier, a regional thinker in the best sense of the term. 2....
Do protests matter? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Only rarely: Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership,...
My excellent Conversation with Peter Thiel - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, along with almost thirty minutes of audience questions, filmed...
Economic growth sentences to ponder, Argentina fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Sometimes I feel like focusing on policies that only affect growth rates by a few tenths...
Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Lyman Stone criticizes the Pope paper on church attendance. Good criticisms, see also the points...
Why is the Biden Administration Against Fee Transparency in Education? - Marginal REVOLUTION
President Biden has made a big deal of simplifying fees: The FTC is proposing a rule that…would...
Barcelona escalates its role in the war against tourism - Marginal REVOLUTION
…residents of La Salut neighbourhood in Barcelona are celebrating a move to wipe themselves off the map. For...
The Ludwig von Mises comeback - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the subject of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is one excerpt: The Austrian economist Ludwig...
Charlotta Stern and Fabio Rojas - Marginal REVOLUTION
Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom is Something We Do Together https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666961331/Sociology-and-Classical-Liberalism-in-Dialogue-Freedom-is-Something-We-Do-Together Direct link to...
Does the NYT not recognize child abuse? - Marginal REVOLUTION
“I have one partner now with three kids. He is transmasc, and he’s radical about the...
Data on private security forces - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a recent paper: We bring novel data to bear on these questions, presenting the largest...
Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Paul Christiano appointed to USG Head of AI Safety. 2. Further worries about the anti-cavity...
LDS and indeed USA fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Thus, approximately 1 out of 7 people who I classify as a Latter-day Saint attends [religious...
The progress in Progress Studies - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is a very good article by Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine. Excerpt: The contours of...
A portrait of Portugal - Marginal REVOLUTION
…at least half of a population of ten million depend on the state in some way—35% are...
Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Should we change species to save them? (NYT) 2. Mechanical watch. 3. Why is it...
The Adderall Shortage: DEA versus FDA in a Regulatory War - Marginal REVOLUTION
A record number of drugs are in shortage across the United States. In any particular case,...
Michael Cook on Iran - Marginal REVOLUTION
Our primary concern in this chapter will be Iran, though toward the end we will shift...
GPT-4-Turbo still doesn't answer this question well - Marginal REVOLUTION
“Name three famous people who all share the exact same birth date and year.” Usually it...
Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Austrian economist Walter Block is now a columnist for Israel Hayom. 2. Progress against dengue....