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Sentences to ponder about 1812 America
…even with a population of only about 7.5 million, U.S. already had more business corporations than...
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Apologies, the great Frank Fukuyama still lives!
Good. The post Apologies, the great Frank Fukuyama still lives! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. ...
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Monday assorted links
1. The French had concluded it was impossible to break the Enigma machine. 2. The emerging...
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Apologies, the great Frank Fukayama still lives!
Good! The post Apologies, the great Frank Fukayama still lives! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. ...
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Principles of Economics Textbooks and the Market for Ice Cream
Rey Hernández-Julián and Frank Limehouse writing in the Journal of Economics Teaching write that very few...
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Effective Altruists and finance theory
One of the most admirable and impressive things about the EA movement is how many people...
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*Conclave*
I would say this was a good not great movie, but I pass along word because...
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Sunday assorted links
1. An eighth grade test from 1912. 2. “Create an AI agent with a crypto wallet...
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What should I ask Paula Byrne?
From Wikipedia: Paula Jayne Byrne, Lady Bate…is a British biographer, novelist, and literary critic. Byrne has...
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Does the O-Ring model hold for AIs?
Let’s say you have a production process, and the AIs involved operate at IQ = 160,...
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The anti-tourism movement continues into winter season
It’s well past the August holiday peak, but anger against over-tourism in Spain is spilling into...
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Saturday assorted links
1. Samuel Siskind, Awake, he is a 17-year-old composer. And Les Aunties, female vocalists from Chad....
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Ethiopia fact of the day
More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in the country this...
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The uneven effects of AI on the American economy
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: To see how...
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What happened to football’s concussion crisis?
Here is a very good New York piece by Reeves Wiedeman, here is the excerpt from...
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Friday assorted links
1. Goldfish crackers are changing, but only for a limited period of time. 2. The rise...
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Science and politics podcast
From the Institute for Progress, here is the link, the participants were Caleb Watney, Dylan Matthews,...
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Scott Alexander on the Progress Studies conference
Here is one excerpt: Over-regulation was the enemy at many presentations, but this wasn’t a libertarian...
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Risers and Fallers, mostly Fallers
Here is a fun post by Arnold Kling on which thinkers have kept name recognition and...
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Thursday assorted links
1. First robot painting to auction at Sotheby’s. 2. A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical...
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Quantifying the Super-Villains
There is a new paper on this topic: We investigate the effects of substantial Medicare price...
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Metascience podcast on science and safety
From the Institute for Progress. There are four of us, namely Dylan Matthews, Matt Clancy, and Jacob...
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Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition
Although many women report being victimized by gossip, fewer report spreading negative gossip. Female gossipers might...
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Wednesday assorted links
1. The latest @pmarca gambit. Crypto + AI. And a Brian Armstrong offer, take it! 2....