Bookmarks (559)

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    The new Scott Sumner book - Marginal REVOLUTION

    It is called Alternative Approaches to Monetary Policy, it is on-line and free.  I have not...

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    Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. Matt Teichman podcasts with Gaurav Venkataraman.  Starts with a discussion of memory and biology. 2....

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    Again, don't ban TikTok - Marginal REVOLUTION

    You cannot trust the banning entity with the powers you are about to give it: The...

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    The Law of Unintended Consequences - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Sketchplanations writes up my theory of unintended consequences: People are complicated. Life is complicated. Ecosystems are...

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    Two forthcoming biographies - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Jennifer Burns, Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, due out in November, now available for pre-order, via...

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    Alex Murrell, The Age of Average - Marginal REVOLUTION

    One of the best essays of this year, though I think the author considerably underrates how...

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    Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. More Leopold on alignment.  Leopold continues to be good on this topic. 2. I think...

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    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...

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    The Government Conspiracy Against Crypto - Marginal REVOLUTION

    A sharply worded whitepaper from law firm Cooper and Kirk accuses regulators at the FDIC and...

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    My Conversation with Jonathan GPT Swift - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Here is the transcript and audio, I have heard that video (no joke) is on the...

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    Ukraine fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION

    With the current surplus of generation in the country’s energy system, Ukraine is ready to resume...

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    Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. On existential risk and AI, Zvi responds at length.  And a response from Richard Ngo...

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    GPT-4 Does the Medical Rounds - Marginal REVOLUTION

    GPT4 passed the medical licensure exam but the critics want to know how does it perform...

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    Modeling the current NBA - Marginal REVOLUTION

    The surprise, and the irony, is that the more good players there are, the more important...

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    How might AI impact developing economies? - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Cheap, tailored expertise Many of the poor have little access to experts, on topics ranging from...

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    The permanent pause? - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Here is an Elon Musk-signed petition, with many other luminaries, calling for a pause in “Giant”...

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    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...

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    Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. Some concrete thoughts on AI regulation (am not convinced, but goes way beyond most discussions)....

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    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...

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    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...

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    What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. Judith A. Green, The Normans: Power, Conquest & Culture in 11th-Century Europe.  A very clear...

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    Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. Conservatives often win their battles. 2. Some Afro-Surinamese music. 3. Vyacheslav Dvornikov interviews me (in...

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    Nepo vs. Ding - Marginal REVOLUTION

    It starts in less than two weeks, in Astana.  But unlike those Karpov-Korchnoi matches in the...

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    The Public Choice Outreach Conference! - Marginal REVOLUTION

    The Public Choice Outreach Conference is June 9-11 in Arlington, VA near Washington, DC. Please apply...

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    (Younger) Spinoza - Marginal REVOLUTION

    The post (Younger) Spinoza appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn reply to derek. Google paid...

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    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...

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    Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. “I asked GPT4 to perform a risk assessment on Silicon Valley Bank...” 2. New four-part...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. Note to self: do not play Bongcloud against Vladimir Kramnik. 2. You shall know a...

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    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...

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    Travel philosophies for the well-traveled - Marginal REVOLUTION

    How should you choose your next trip?  I can see a few general philosophies on the...

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    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...

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    End Speed Limits on Aircraft - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Fifty years ago today, on March 23, 1973, Alexander P. Butterfield, the Administrator of the Federal...

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    Baby AGI is Here - Marginal REVOLUTION

    The central claim of our work is that GPT-4 attains a form of general intelligence, indeed...

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    Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. “ChatGPT for me.” 2. Early GPT-4 paper from Microsoft. 3. The new art of moviemaking...

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    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...

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    Regulatory sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION

    The SEC allowed Coinbase to go public in 2021, he [Brian Armstrong] wrote, including after reviewing...

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    Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. Some roots of the Swedish music miracle. 2. “Fast ihr ganzes Leben hat eine 104...

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    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...

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    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...

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    My excellent Conversation with Tom Holland - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Here is the transcript, audio, and video.  Here is part of the summary: Historian Tom Holland...

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    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...

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    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...

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    Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

    1. “We propose the nose as central to faces and their perception.” 2. Musa al-Gharbi on...

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    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...

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    Germany fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION

    Good Morning from Germany, where China is losing importance as export destination. In Feb, exports to...

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    "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...

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    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...