Saturday assorted links
1. GLM-5.3 understands Bob Lucas (and then some). It amuses me how many basic principles of economics are being rediscovered in these new contexts. 2. Most famous book tied to…
1. GLM-5.3 understands Bob Lucas (and then some). It amuses me how many basic principles of economics are being rediscovered in these new contexts. 2. Most famous book tied to…
Sixteen AI agents were each handed 1,000 satoshis of real bitcoin and told nothing about how to use it. A hundred rounds later, four of them had roughly doubled their…
From the Executive Summary: Therefore, the NSF, NIH, and the federal government should put far more resources and effort into developing metascience. With proper metascience efforts, the NSF could run…
1. Can Dybantsa (and others) turn around the Wizards? (NYT) 2. Claims about interpretability. I have to say I do not quite “get it”…? Here is some exposition. 3. “90%…
In Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State, Shruti Rajagopalan and I discuss how India has essentially all of the laws of a developed country but at much lower state capacity–this…
I first saw Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, his stone-cold classic of 1965, as a teenager, and God knows how many times I have seen it since. It has the greatest opening…
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Excerpt: Cowen: Unreleased models — why are they important? Patel: As in the ones that are internal to the companies? Cowen: Well, many…
1. Claims about military satellites. 2. book talk. 3. AI misalignment in Sweden? 4. Will El Salvador grow? 5. AI, automation, and the Indian workforce. 6. How language models revise…
TheoPhysEval: We present a suite of 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems with verifiable answers. Without AI assistance, a typical problem in our collection could be solved by a world…
They are so very, very good at matching me to the books I wish to read and the music I wish to listen to. In this odd sense they are…