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You will find it here. The post The excellent Matt Clifford does a *Talent* podcast with Daniel Gross and me appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsI receive email notifications of each new post on MR, and I ... by mkt42Just once I'd like to see you have a recommendation from ... by MyroneRelated StoriesSome blurbs for *Talent*, with Daniel GrossInfant Formula, Price Controls,...

The EU is preparing to loosen its environmental regulations as it seeks to replace Russian fossil fuels with renewable energy and imported hydrogen power. Companies in the bloc would be allowed to build wind and solar projects without the need for an environmental impact assessment, according to draft proposals obtained by the Financial Times that […] The post Ask and they shall deliver appeared...

1. New languages for Google Translate. 2. Travel notes from Ukraine. 3. Eric Topol on the current state of the virus. 4. A guy on YouTube mimicking John Lennon, with Yoko and George Harrison, singing Paul McCartney solo songs.  And now here is “John Lennon” doing “Band on the Run” album. 5. David Boaz honors […] The post Monday assorted links appeared first on...

I’ve been reluctant to write about the shortage of infant formula simply because it’s so tiring to say the same thing over and over again. Obviously, this is a classic case where the FDA should allow imports of any food or baby formula approved by a stringent authority. (Here’s the US Customs and Border Patrol […] The post Infant Formula, Price Controls, and the...

Russia has stopped publishing detailed monthly trade statistics. But figures from its trading partners can be used to work out what is going on. They suggest that, as imports slide and exports hold up, Russia is running a record trade surplus. On May 9th China reported that its goods exports to Russia fell by over […] The post Russia fact of the day appeared...

Here is a rather underwhelming list of such purchases in recent times.  West Germany buys three islands from the Netherlands in 1963?  Pakistan buys Gwadar from Muscat and Oman in 1958.  America buys the Danish West Indies in 1916.  In 1947, though the Soviet Union bought part of Lapland in Finland to enable a hydroelectric […] The post Why don’t nations buy more territories...

Some wise words on ESG and innovation from the excellent Bart Madden: Excessive focus on looking good in the short term via ESG metrics can be at cross-purposes with a long-term planning horizon keyed to innovation. A sizable portion of a firm’s major innovations may not move the needle much as to ESG metrics but […] The post ESG Versus Innovation appeared first on...

1. Sheikh Khalifa of UAE passes away (NYT). 2. George H. Smith has passed away. 3. The Economist on India’s economy, a good feature story. 4. Regulatory obstacles to flying electric vehicles (WSJ). 5. Is current comedy favoring the right wing? 6. More on the infant formula crisis. 7. The 666 greatest novels of all […] The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on...

I mean in private conversation, not in public discourse, and this is not to their faces but rather behind their back.  And with at least a modest amount of meanness, I am not talking about criticizing their ideas.  Here are some reasons not to criticize other people: 1. “Complain less” is one of the very […] The post How much should you criticize other...

We have to be more willing to disrupt current animal habitats when building wind or hydroelectric power. That means, to put it bluntly, that we have to be more willing to kill animals. Erecting wind turbines, for instance, often leads to the death of some number of birds. To favor more wind turbines is not […] The post I favor bird consequentialism appeared first...

We now know who is rich in America. And it’s not who you might have guessed. A groundbreaking 2019 study by four economists, “Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century,” analyzed de-identified data of the complete universe of American taxpayers to determine who dominated the top 0.1 percent of earners. The study didn’t tell us about the […] The post Who is rich in America? appeared...

Earlier in the pandemic, you might have had various theories about who was most likely to infect you, who was most likely not to be vaccinated/boosted, or who was most likely to have been going around without proper mask precautions.  Perhaps you went to some greater lengths, either large or small, to avoid those people […] The post Covid and reverse discrimination appeared first...

My questions are: What do you actually do? Are you always stuck inside? What did you do when you were a child and couldn’t drive? Why do you have these sorts of strange regulations? Are your officials so incompetent? Is this due to lobbying from car or oil companies? I don’t get it. Why is […] The post Slovakian Asks Good Questions About American...

1. Thomas Schelling 1963-64 syllabus and final exam. 2. On Srinivasan and sex. 3. Transitioning to post-quantum cryptography? 4. Do insects have culture? 5. There are fewer Karens. 6. “The FDA won’t allow European formulas to be sold here because of inane labeling concerns…” 7. “New funding effort will deploy a corps of scientist ‘scouts’ […] The post Saturday assorted links appeared first on...

1. Paul Strathern, The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo.  It is not just Dante and Galileo, there is also Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Fra Filippo Lippi, Michelangelo, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, and many more, all from one small region of Italy.  This book doesn’t answer how that all happened, but it is perhaps the best […] The post What I’ve been reading appeared first...

I will be doing a Conversation with him so what should I ask?  He is a carpet cleaner.  And there is this: “So, how many languages do you speak?” “Oh, goodness,” Vaughn says. “Eight, fluently.” “Eight?” Kelly marvels. “Eight,” Vaughn confirms. English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Czech, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Slovak. “But if you go by […] The post What should I ask Vaughn Smith?...

1. Umbrex presents Tyler Cowen on Talent. 2. Devon Zuegel podcast with Andy Matuschak on…group message etiquette – peripheral vision – homegrown software. 3. The guys behind the Turkish drones (New Yorker). 4. Nintil review of Talent. 5. Catherine Rampell on the inflation conspiracy theory.  #TheGreatForgetting 6. Nadia on EA and idea machines. 7. Help […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on...

Discrimination exists but rather than being systemic Campbell and Brauer argue it’s due to a small number of prejudiced individuals. Discrimination has persisted in our society despite steady improvements in explicit attitudes toward marginalized social groups. The most common explanation for this apparent paradox is that due to implicit biases, most individuals behave in slightly […] The post Systemic Bias versus Concentrated Bias appeared...

The economic crisis is a result of mismanagement by the Rajapaksa administration (and its predecessors) as well as Sri Lanka’s vulnerability to external shocks. The pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have had a devastating impact. The Rajapaksas pursued populist economic policies — including unaffordable fuel and food subsidies and printing money to finance them […] The post Is Sri Lanka becoming a failed...

With Daniel Gross, here is a (very much) shortened bit from Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creators, and Winners Around the World, published at a16z, excerpt from the chapter on when to use talent scouts: It is worth thinking about why the scouting model works in this context [finding supermodels]. First, the relevant talent could […] The post How to make talent scouts work...

1. Megyn Kelly interviews me, after about half an hour we get to Talent; the earlier inflation material will not be new to MR readers. 2. Rene Saenz: “What Cowenism Is,” a short essay. 3. Switzerland pondering whether Liechenstein is really very different, or not. 4. Kevin Kelly on Vanishing Asia. 5. New Vitalik/Glen paper, […] The post Thursday assorted links appeared first on...

“Talent” is what happens when two brilliant and profoundly iconoclastic minds apply their imagination to one of the hardest of all business problems: the search for good people. I loved it.” –Malcolm Gladwell “Talent is everything―whether in investing and building startups, or in other creative endeavors. Between product, market, and people, I’ve always bet on the last one as […] The post Some blurbs for *Talent*, with Daniel...

Saudi Aramco has overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable company after higher oil prices pushed shares of the world’s biggest crude exporter to record levels while a broader tech stock sell-off weighed on the iPhone maker. The Saudi Arabian oil company’s market capitalisation on Wednesday was $2.426tn, exceeding Apple’s $2.415tn by just over $10bn. […] The post Saudi fact of the day appeared...

Who are the most underrated talents in AI and machine learning? Think technical, and think builders. More Midjourney, Gwern, and 15.ai. Comments are open, thanks in advance! The post The most underrated talent in AI? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsThe ability to see WHICH layers/components fit together to ... by JonasPieter Abbeel of Robot Brains Podcast by GrangeIn reply to JWatts. > Microsoft has an...