Thursday assorted links – Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “Next to rising oxygen levels and other contributing factors, the importance of feces in ancient ecosystems is often overlooked…” 2. New publication on AI and institutions. Good people involved.…
1. “Next to rising oxygen levels and other contributing factors, the importance of feces in ancient ecosystems is often overlooked…” 2. New publication on AI and institutions. Good people involved.…
1. A catalog of past AI predictions. 2. Jasmine Sun on why people do not want data centers. And Jasmine Sun on Ezra Klein, on data centers (NYT). 3. A…
1. Selecting innovation funding mechanisms. 2. Helen Andrews on race. 3. Famous radio station goes all-automated. 4. On Stefanie Stantcheva. 5. ChinaTalk submission hiring contest. 6. New Hamilton faculty at…
1. A new simulation argument? 2. PC on aesthetics. 3. An interview with Yiyang Zhuge. 4. The truth and aesthetics of going to church? 5. Some forms of math cope? And…
1. The inverseminar, someone else presents your paper. 2. The rise of million-dollar companies with just one employee (WSJ). 3. The political party itself is a big driver of polarization.…
1. What do consultants get paid for? 2. Ugly architecture creates coalitions against development. 3. London is (modestly) degentrifying. 4. Is the “no forward guidance” approach failing? (FT) 5. Chinese…
1. Tokenizing the value from compute? 2. Will they ruin the look of Dulles airport? 3. Pathways into homelessness. 4. Defensible valuations for AI companies. 5. Further reasons why very…
1. Joshua Rothman on lookism. 2. Young adults are using AI to manage their social media feeds (WSJ). 3. What predicts an NBA Achilles tear? 4. LLM data set on…
1. Cameroonian prison with its own record label. 2. Noah on what will AI do for us exactly. 3. The impact of the sewing machine on women. 4. Will GPTVoice…
For many months, conservative lawmakers and political operatives have been targeting the scientists and lawyers behind the Climate Judiciary Project, a program meant to educate the courts about climate science,…