Tuesday assorted links
1. What is the real rate of Chinese economic growth? 2. An Abundance caucus rolls out a bipartisan agenda. 3. Canada fell to 18th from 9th in global ranking of economic…
1. What is the real rate of Chinese economic growth? 2. An Abundance caucus rolls out a bipartisan agenda. 3. Canada fell to 18th from 9th in global ranking of economic…
1. Jokic. And another angle. 2. Six questions for believers in AI consciousness. 3. Prediction markets do not seem to be politically biased. 4. “AI writing is absent before 2023,…
1. New London play about Keynes. 2. Aphantasia, and looking at buildings. 3. AI and job growth in Africa. 4. On Nussbaum, opera, and liberalism. 5. Congress seeks to speed…
1. Rewarding failure? 2. An excellent Brian Potter explainer on how matrix algebra is used in both LLMs and robotics. 3. Chat with Mircea Cărtărescu. 4. It seems the expansion…
1. How rich was Anglo-Saxon England? 2. New game theory paper on AI races. 3. Scott Sumner movie reviews, please note he is always correct and thus the greatest film…
1. Cato’s Vision for Liberty award for 50k. 2. Gross output signals an economic surge (WSJ). 3. Echo, a new AI site to mimic the styles of particular writers or…
1. It seems there is no evidence for the concept of a fertility rebound. 2. We will tell children nasty stories, but mostly only show them positive images. 3. Deregulation…
1. Comment section arbitrage. This is what the AIs do too, right? 2. Claims about New Zealand. 3. Good Bryan Caplan post on Effective Altruism. 4. Reported female bisexuality is…
1. Should more men move to Alaska? 2. The world’s oldest known peace treaty found. 3. In praise of Joyce, Whitman, and Crane. 4. Background explainer on the Chinese AI…
1. AI-related efforts in higher education in Morocco (ChatGPT). 2. Intelligence explosions are social. 3. The speech-processing skills of dogs. 4. Kalshi market in economics Nobel. 5. Why are Indian weddings…