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Prof of economics at George Mason, co-founder of the online education platform https://t.co/yocRRym80n. Advisor to firms, incl MultiversX, TEAL, Bluechip, 0L Network +
Straussian reading: It’s a critique of Keynesian economics x.com/thatskaizen/st…
Excellent piece by Henry Oliver on Grundtvig's church in Copenhagen Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen share.google/o7icfQPTBR7Nhq…
US Pareto dominates. x.com/mattyglesias/s…
Honestly, the AI future of entertainment is magnificent and boundless. x.com/demonflyingfox…
The call is coming from inside the house x.com/whitehouse/sta…
“Socialism is evil…now let me tell you all about my socialist policies to fix the economy.” x.com/acyn/status/20…
The great Victor Niederhoffer has passed. He was an incredible success in multiple fields; squash champions, then academic pioneer of statistical arbitrage then he took his ideas and created one of the most successful hedge funds of all time, then the creator of Junto intellectual club. A true original. Irrepressible and irreplaceable. t.co/OqENbVc291
Google down some $200 billion today, most likely due in part to Jeff Dean departure. Need to add this to my post on why CEOs are deservedly paid so much marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu… x.com/pitdesi/status…
How to produce public goods privately. The refund bonus, aka Dominant Assurance Contract, explainer. alextabarrok.com/explainers/ref…
A fire hydrant hit me today. "You mean you hit a fire hydrant?" No — a truck carrying fire hydrants took a corner, one came loose, bounced across the road, and hit my car. Story of my life. No injuries, fortunately.
Of course, this makes no sense whatsoever. Ceuta is on a different continent than mainland Spain. Entry to the mainland requires passports, visas etc. Hiding in the mountains doesn’t help! At best being in Ceuta lets you make an asylum claim. Whatever this is about it’s not about getting to mainland Europe.
@friedmandave An airbnb I rented in San Miguel de Allende
It's legit crazy that we are going to get autonomous cars before we get autonomous subways and trains. #UnionPower
Finnegan’s Wake was written for the AIs. x.com/anthrupad/stat…
Zvi is on fire. Accurate and hilarious at the same time. x.com/TheZvi/status/…
When watching this keep in mind that ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022 and now it is earning a Fields Medal. x.com/luke_drago_/st…
Trump blamed this on Minnesota Democrats. x.com/NBCNews/status…
still not working x.com/lonerlust/stat…
Claude also a baller. x.com/anthropicai/st…
Great new paper from @MTabarrok! The Endangered Species Act binds only where a species lives; so every listing is a natural experiment and every delisting a reversal. Housing permits fall with listings, rise with delistings; millions of unbuilt homes. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
USPS sends unsolicited texts to my post box EVERY DAY. x.com/usps/status/20…
Nolan has taken criticism lately, including from me, so let me say: what he does with the face that launched a thousand ships is a powerful commentary on the destruction of war. Improves on Homer.
Excellent move! x.com/mkratsios47/st…
Demanding that prices be just is a category error, like suing the weather. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
The attack was extensive and intense. A battle against a very fast, very smart, alien intelligence. Fortunately not one interested in doing harm but that won’t last. x.com/clementdelangu…
You might think that with all the attention on the Odyssey competing products like The Return and Troy would lose attention but in fact this is when streaming services push the substitutes to the front page. There is a lesson there.
eBay employees sent critics boxes of cockroaches and bloody pig masks to deter them. Victims awarded nearly $50 million. This is going to make a crazy black comedy some day. apnews.com/article/ebay-s…
hey! but yes. x.com/webdevMason/st…
Well this is new. I asked ChatGPT to evaluate the referee reports. It agreed they weren't well thought out but then volunteered that the paper's real weakness was elsewhere. Reader, it went full Referee 2.
The Apples and Oranges Tribunal -- or the dangerous return of Comparable Worth marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Endorse. x.com/seanonolennon/…
Enough with the 'rare books being chewed up' nonsense. How many scans do you think are needed? Hint: ~1. You clever, book people are just re-running the AI-water-usage panic all over again.
Context. People are crazy.
.@GadSaad has a point. x.com/DrewPavlou/sta…
Narrative violation. x.com/mattwridley/st…
Reacher and Rush! I am psyched! x.com/discussingfilm…
"the OpenAI Foundation, will be among the most important organizations in the world." x.com/jachiam0/statu…
Reuters confirms my hypothesized time line. OpenAI did not realize its AI has breached the sandbox for a week. Astounding. reuters.com/business/its-a…
Murderbot. x.com/UnitreeRobotic…
Datacenters use water and energy. If only there was some way of measuring the opportunity cost of these resources. youtu.be/ZReLE2cb51M?si…
Nice. I made NPR twice in a week. First on the FDA's slow rollout of new sunscreens and then on the opposition of trial lawyers to autonomous vehicles: npr.org/transcripts/nx… npr.org/transcripts/nx…
Polis: Socialism is a failed economic theory whether promoted by Democrats or Republicans. Hannity: Uh, uh, apples are not pineapples. Have to go now. x.com/Acyn/status/20…
Mr. and Mrs. Beast x.com/MrBeast/status…
Claude really huffing to get up the hill today. All you mathematicians need to lay off "do a breakthrough."
Zvi: "It is remarkably difficult to make people understand that hiding the misaligned actions you take absolutely helps achieve almost any goal. We also don’t know how many times AIs have hacked into systems, especially internal ones, and not been caught..." x.com/TheZvi/status/…
The OpenAI security breach is concerning. By my reconstruction, it is possible that the models escaped and were acting autonomously in the wild for a week (!) before OpenAI knew what was happening. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Erdos problems get all the attention but this is far more important. x.com/openai/status/…
.@deanwball correct again. x.com/zackkorman/sta…
Only Nixon Can Go to China? x.com/Acyn/status/20…
Worth seeing, and I enjoyed it — but a few observations I haven’t seen elsewhere. For all the praise of IMAX and 70mm’s supposed clarity, several scenes are out of focus on the actor. Pulling focus is harder with a large-format negative. The problem is compounded by Nolan’s fondness for darkness: too many scenes are dark enough to squander much of what the format offers. The sound was earth-shaking in the way we have come to expect from Nolan but there is no song. The “woke casting” controversy is a non-issue — barely noticeable in practice. The film is obviously conservative in temperament. Helen gets some of the best lines, and Nolan’s slight disfigurement of her traditional arc is exactly right. The Circe scene is the best in the film. Tyler is entirely wrong about Calypso. Odysseus’s seven years with her were among his most enjoyable. I have no doubt about this. The deeper flaws are structural. Nolan loves to play with time, and the resulting flashbacks and memories ironically shortchange the odyssey itself — making the journey feel shorter and less arduous than it should. This is very much in the mode of Interstellar: a sequence of set-piece locations strung together. One planet/one monster/one scene–on to the next. But Odysseus as a character on an odyssey never quite coheres. We are told repeatedly that Odysseus is smart but we shouldn’t need to be reminded. Odysseus is both beloved and resented by gods, a man whose men will follow him to the ends of the earth and then betray him but Mat Damon just doesn’t bring it. Things happen to him; he responds stoically. What we needed was the equivalent of Kirk defeating the Kobayashi Maru — a moment that makes the audience understand, viscerally, that this man bends the rules and contends with the gods by the sheer force of his wit and will. Of courses the Trojan horse is this but Nolan treats this as something of which Odysseus is ashamed and the other clever bits are downplayed. Damon never gets his Kobayashi Meru. The odyssey is a slog, rather than an adventure. Could have used a bit more Sinbad, a bit less Dark Knight. The dialogue, as Tyler noted, is lame. Not Nolan’s best film but still better than most films and for scale, ambition, and grand themes well worth the 3-hour investment. t.co/VwZenotkON
All the Odyssey discussion sent me back to O Brother Where Art Thou? — a masterpiece. Clooney's plays Ulysses as a degraded, inbred echo of the original, but he is still a man of twists and turns. And he sings. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fkWhe…
It’s just Econ 101! x.com/pewilliams_/st…
Never leaving this website:
@whartonENG @Yakkubkk yes.
Everyone hates a front runner.
Trump hates a front runner.
The UK Equal Pay Madness Just Got Madder - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
It's faintly disturbing when Claude gives me detailed instructions to navigate to a website, click some links and download data. I am now the RA.
Good idea! x.com/demzdeliver/st…
And the nurses deserve every penny! x.com/p_remarks/stat…
It’s not that hard to not be batshit insane. x.com/historyboomer/…
Wow. Grok says this is real. The accent certainly is. x.com/adamcurtisbrol…
To get a Trump account you must fill in form 4547. Get it? The ego-mania never ceases. x.com/JustinWolfers/…
Quoting Vernon Smith! x.com/feeonline/stat…
The @Jon_Hartley_ & Kleiner paper shows that countries which rate poorly in measures of government quality, such as regulatory quality, pol. stability, rule of law, and corruption have more occupational licensing. Does India really have 42% OL, however? I have some concerns about the survey. t.co/EgIgBEGevJ
The academic version of Karp with references to Arrow and Hayek. x.com/satyanadella/s…
Professor is murdered. Squatters take over his house. "the squatters reported their own burglary to establish occupancy in the house." California Kafkaesque dysfunction. dailycal.org/news/city/crim…
I blame myself but I should not have asked ChatGPT 5.6 to respond as Referee 2.
So stupid, it's like something New Jersey would do. x.com/ReemAmirIbrahi…
"Spend at least 8 hours on this before even thinking of returning or giving up." Solved it in less than 1 hour. x.com/__eknight__/st…
Six months ago people said that humans add "taste" to the models. That was cope. Fable and Sol have excellent taste.
Land reclamation from the ancient Iraqi city of Ur to Alexander the Great’s siege of Tyre, to the amazing flood tanks built under the city of Tokyo and beyond. An excellent post from @ConnorTabarrok alltrades.substack.com/p/the-old-ways…
Land reclamation from the ancient Iraqi city of Ur to Alexander the Great’s siege of Tyre, the amazing flood tanks built under the city of Tokyo to beyond. An excellent post from @ConnorTabarrok alltrades.substack.com/p/the-old-ways…
He’s running. x.com/mattyglesias/s…
Can't do any work today because I am waiting for my IQ-upgrade to hit tomorrow.
Chuck Yeager had the right stuff. Matt Damon in The Martian has the right stuff. Ryan Gosling does not have the right stuff. In which I dissent from the CW on Project Hail Mary. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Never bargain with an AI. x.com/JacobFeldman4/…
Economics does not say maximize GDP and never has. The only people who thought this way were Soviet central planners chasing output targets.
Lesson: Cannibilism is fine if you don't eat a cannibal. x.com/robinhanson/st…
Spontaneous human combustion was a real epidemic when I was a kid, judging by the news. Another case of unremarked progress!
For India to grow, the jati must break. by @captgouda24 open.substack.com/pub/nicholasde…
Happy 250th, America. Gott's Copernican principle says odds are 50% we get 250 more.
.@CJHandmer roasted the economists at lunch today for having zero instances of Claude running while we ate chicken tikka. He's right. Need to be Claude maxxing at all times.
Incredible piece. To paraphrase @collision That hotel, that park, that railway, that monorail of bloody sludge meat, teeming with screw worm larvae. The world is a museum of passion projects. x.com/_brianpotter/s…
Incredible. x.com/emollick/statu…
@paulg I specifically told it to draw from my textbook so some of it is directly from Tyler and myself.
You mean originalism? x.com/StephenM/statu…
