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Monday assorted links

1. Why is it now so common to be asked about your food allergies? (GPT Pro answer) 2. Training for alignment, applies principal-agent theory. 3. Do people offload empathy when…

Friday assorted links

1. Dwarkesh interviews Robert Caro (!). 2. New and pretty brutal results on CTE and football. 3. Interview with Dan Wang. 4. Updated version of the Saez-Zucman audit.  Contestable and…

Sunday assorted links

1. Jakob Davidsen, The Individual and the Entire Tissue (song cycle).  It is good. 2. The Oilers Entertainment Group pushed prices too high and here is what happened. 3. The…

What are the Worst MR Posts?

What are the worst MR posts, most illogical, poorly reasoned, low value, inconsistent? From the Archives, written by ChatGPT: These are provisional candidates for weak reasoning, selected because there is…

My Barcelona talk

Wednesday, November 4, 18:30 Barcelona time, details here.  I am honored to have won the Elinor Ostrom Prize from the Institut Ostrom Catalunya.  Maybe see you there! The post My…

And so it begins…

Researchers, I just uploaded a prominent QJE paper on climate change economics to @RefineDotInk and I loaded my critique of the paper. I asked the AI to offer an impartial verdict. I…