Sunday assorted links
1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the…
1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the…
“When I’m at work, I make sure to always give my best,” Sunday Rose said of treating the job with respect Sunday Rose on the runway; Nicole Kidman in Paris;…
1. Was Leonardo da Vinci Jewish? 2. Twenty things to listen to in classical music. 3. Ezra Klein and Arvind Narayanan on AI as a normal technology (NYT). 4. Gans…
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. 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…
1. Nobel Laureates in support of the California billionaire wealth tax include Krugman, Acemoglu, Diamond, Stiglitz, Banerjee, and Duflo (FT). 2. Secretariat as GOAT. 3. Dead brains and the piano??…
1. Scott Sumner as regional thinker. 2. The economists who work on “Productivity and Innovation” are most likely to use AI for their writing. 3. Michael Levin defends neo-neo-Platonism? 4.…
1. Vishy now thinks Pragg is number one in the chess world. 2. Do children grow continuously, or grow in fits and starts? 3. It remains my view that Ferrante…
1. NYT covers Maria Edgeworth. 2. A calmer look at the Hugging Face incident. And from Ciaran Martin in The Economist. And Elie. And Jacob Bruggeman. 3. Chandhana visits Egypt.…
1. “Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have a funny accent in your native language (and…