The new Scott Sumner book - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is called Alternative Approaches to Monetary Policy, it is on-line and free. I have not...
Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Matt Teichman podcasts with Gaurav Venkataraman. Starts with a discussion of memory and biology. 2....
Again, don't ban TikTok - Marginal REVOLUTION
You cannot trust the banning entity with the powers you are about to give it: The...
The Law of Unintended Consequences - Marginal REVOLUTION
Sketchplanations writes up my theory of unintended consequences: People are complicated. Life is complicated. Ecosystems are...
Two forthcoming biographies - Marginal REVOLUTION
Jennifer Burns, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, due out in November, now available for pre-order, via...
Alex Murrell, The Age of Average - Marginal REVOLUTION
One of the best essays of this year, though I think the author considerably underrates how...
Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. More Leopold on alignment. Leopold continues to be good on this topic. 2. I think...
How will AI change *other* policy debates? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Not debates about AI, no the other ones. For one thing, more ideas and more intelligence...
The Government Conspiracy Against Crypto - Marginal REVOLUTION
A sharply worded whitepaper from law firm Cooper and Kirk accuses regulators at the FDIC and...
My Conversation with Jonathan GPT Swift - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the transcript and audio, I have heard that video (no joke) is on the...
Ukraine fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
With the current surplus of generation in the country’s energy system, Ukraine is ready to resume...
Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. On existential risk and AI, Zvi responds at length. And a response from Richard Ngo...
GPT-4 Does the Medical Rounds - Marginal REVOLUTION
GPT4 passed the medical licensure exam but the critics want to know how does it perform...
Modeling the current NBA - Marginal REVOLUTION
The surprise, and the irony, is that the more good players there are, the more important...
How might AI impact developing economies? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Cheap, tailored expertise Many of the poor have little access to experts, on topics ranging from...
The permanent pause? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is an Elon Musk-signed petition, with many other luminaries, calling for a pause in “Giant”...
Regulation Can’t Prevent the Next Financial Crisis - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one piece of it: For...
Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Some concrete thoughts on AI regulation (am not convinced, but goes way beyond most discussions)....
America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up - Marginal REVOLUTION
Adam Posen has an excellent piece in Foreign Policy: Beginning with the Trump administration, and accelerating...
A brief observation on AGI risk and employee selection (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
Stunting growth now in the development of artificial intelligence just makes the probability of a bad...
What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Judith A. Green, The Normans: Power, Conquest & Culture in 11th-Century Europe. A very clear...
Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Conservatives often win their battles. 2. Some Afro-Surinamese music. 3. Vyacheslav Dvornikov interviews me (in...
Nepo vs. Ding - Marginal REVOLUTION
It starts in less than two weeks, in Astana. But unlike those Karpov-Korchnoi matches in the...
The Public Choice Outreach Conference! - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Public Choice Outreach Conference is June 9-11 in Arlington, VA near Washington, DC. Please apply...
(Younger) Spinoza - Marginal REVOLUTION
The post (Younger) Spinoza appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to derek. Google paid...
Côte d’Ivoire claim of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Côte d’Ivoire citizens pay the highest income taxes in the world according to this year’s survey findings by...
Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “I asked GPT4 to perform a risk assessment on Silicon Valley Bank...” 2. New four-part...
Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800 - Marginal REVOLUTION
I analyze the adult age at death of 115,650 European nobles from 800 to 1800. Longevity...
New Emergent Ventures winners, 25th cohort - Marginal REVOLUTION
Duncan McClements, 17, incoming at King’s College Cambridge, economics, general career and research support. Jasmine Wang...
Are social media making us miserable? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Stuart Richie rebuts some of the recent studies: And here’s the thing: when the authors of...
Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Note to self: do not play Bongcloud against Vladimir Kramnik. 2. You shall know a...
What should I ask Kevin Kelly? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Wikipedia: Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of...
Travel philosophies for the well-traveled - Marginal REVOLUTION
How should you choose your next trip? I can see a few general philosophies on the...
How to make GPT worse at microeconomics - Marginal REVOLUTION
Somehow missed this the first time I looked, but GPT-4 got *significantly worse* at microeconomics after...
End Speed Limits on Aircraft - Marginal REVOLUTION
Fifty years ago today, on March 23, 1973, Alexander P. Butterfield, the Administrator of the Federal...
Baby AGI is Here - Marginal REVOLUTION
The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed...
Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “ChatGPT for me.” 2. Early GPT-4 paper from Microsoft. 3. The new art of moviemaking...
Do Americans want to ban TikTok? - Marginal REVOLUTION
A Washington Post poll finds that 41 percent of Americans support a federal ban of the popular short-video app, while...
Regulatory sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
The SEC allowed Coinbase to go public in 2021, he [Brian Armstrong] wrote, including after reviewing...
Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Some roots of the Swedish music miracle. 2. “Fast ihr ganzes Leben hat eine 104...
The Great Digital Divide: Panic at Twitter Speed, Respond at AOL Speed - Marginal REVOLUTION
In The New Madness of Crowds I argued that SVB failed because “Greater transparency and lower...
The evolution of my canine custodianship - Marginal REVOLUTION
Upon arrival, Spinoza’s morning routine had been: 1. Ask to go outside to pee. 2. Come...
My excellent Conversation with Tom Holland - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the transcript, audio, and video. Here is part of the summary: Historian Tom Holland...
Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems - Marginal REVOLUTION
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation across various...
What is the best cost-benefit analysis of cycling investments? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Many people are upset at my rather anodyne remarks from earlier in the week. Thus I...
Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “We propose the nose as central to faces and their perception.” 2. Musa al-Gharbi on...
In Praise of the Danish Mortgage System - Marginal REVOLUTION
When interest rates go up, the price of bonds goes down. As Tyler and I discuss...
Germany fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Good Morning from Germany, where China is losing importance as export destination. In Feb, exports to...
"This banking crisis won't wreck the economy" - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is my latest Bloomberg column, penned on Sunday, these days the VIXes are back down...
My podcast with Bari Weiss, she interviews me - Marginal REVOLUTION
Titled “Bank runs, crypto scams, and world-transforming AI,” plus a round of overrated vs. underrated, among...