~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (25)
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My excellent Conversation with Peter Thiel - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, along with almost thirty minutes of audience questions, filmed...
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The progress in Progress Studies - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is a very good article by Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine. Excerpt: The contours of...
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Cultivating Minds: The Psychological Consequences of Rice versus Wheat Farming - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s long been argued that the means of production influence social, cultural and psychological processes. Rice...
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What should I ask Slavoj Žižek? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes, I will be doing another Conversation with him. Here is the first one, in Norway...
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My contentious Conversation with Jonathan Haidt - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the transcript, audio, and video. Here is the episode summary: But might technological advances...
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Be careful what you announce about your expected value maximization - Marginal REVOLUTION
Judge Kaplan: A man willing to flip a coin as to the continued existence of life...
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*Who's Afraid of Gender?* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the title of the new Judith Butler book, focusing mostly on trans issues. To...
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*Star Maker*, by Olaf Stapledon - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nnow though it was generally assumed in intellectual circles that the best was yet to be,...
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Who are currently the most influential thinkers/intellectuals on the Right? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Here is my corresponding (and much longer and more complicated) post...
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Claude 3 Opus and AGI - Marginal REVOLUTION
As many MR readers will know, I don’t think the concept of AGI is especially well-defined. ...
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GPT as ethical advisor - Marginal REVOLUTION
This study investigates the efficacy of an AI-based ethical advisor using the GPT-4 model. Drawing from...
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What should I ask Michael Nielsen? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him. No description of Michael quite does him justice,...
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What should I ask Coleman Hughes? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him, based in part around his new book The...
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John Stuart Mill on women, as explained by TC - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s interesting to think of Mill’s argument as it relates to Hayek. So Mill is arguing...
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Zvi Mowshowitz covers my podcast with Dwarkesh Patel - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is very long, very detailed, and very good. Interesting throughout! Excerpt: Dealing with the third...
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From the beginning, "neoliberalism" was an obnoxious term - Marginal REVOLUTION
It was meant as an insult, implying that Mises – a marginalist – was trying to...
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What happened in 17th century England (a lot) - Marginal REVOLUTION
East India Company founded — 1600 Shakespeare – Hamlet published 1603 England starting to settle America...
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What should I ask Marilynne Robinson? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. Here is from Wikipedia: Marilynne Summers Robinson (born...
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Social improvements that don't create countervailing negative forces - Marginal REVOLUTION
Let us say you favor policy X, and take steps to see that policy X comes...
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Settembrini and the continuing relevance of classical liberalism - Marginal REVOLUTION
Adrian Wooldridge has an excellent Bloomberg column on this topic, promoting the relevance of Thomas Mann,...
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Tyler Cowen on Undertone podcast - Marginal REVOLUTION
New episode with @tylercowen. We talk about Tyler's implicit theology, literature in translation, Jonathan Swift, Peter...
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Are chatbots better than we are? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe so: We administer a Turing Test to AI Chatbots. We examine how Chatbots behave in...
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*Molly* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new book by Blake Butler, a memoir. It is no spoiler to tell...
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2023 CWT retrospective episode - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the link, here is the episode summary: On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and...