Friday assorted links
1. “We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism. That relationship has been evident since 2008 and it decidedly is not a product of…
1. “We find a significant and highly robust empirical relationship between gender conservatism and protectionism. That relationship has been evident since 2008 and it decidedly is not a product of…
By Egana Djabbarova of Azerbaijan. A wonderful short novel, and as described by Olga Grjasnowa “An extraordinary novel that translates corporality and estrangement into language.” Here is the Amazon link.…
I strongly recommend a trip to Armenia, now is a great time to go. Here are a few things I noticed: 1. The country remains intellectual. The book fair is…
Lots of fresh material… The post Peter Thiel on AI and tech stagnation and democracy appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. #Peter #Thiel #tech #stagnation #democracy
An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.’@nytimes‘s Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to…
1. Shruti on Coltrane. 2. On the drop in Pisa scores. Quite exaggerated, it turns out. 3. Hope you all reoptimize your views accordingly, on AI agreements with China. 4.…
Carl Danner writes to me with a political economy mystery. On Sept 9, 2026, The California Public Utilities Commission announced a set of clean energy grants but only “for eligible…
The author is Omri Ben-Shahar, and the subtitle is How Privacy Panic Led Tech Regulation Astray — and How to Fix It. I would describe this book as bracing, and…
Gita Gopinath has spent the last several years inside the room where the world’s monetary plumbing gets fixed — or doesn’t. As first deputy managing director of the IMF and,…
Believing that AI will be incorrigible leads us to proposing the wrong solutions, including ones which are likely to increase the danger than decrease it. I think that an AI…