Tuesday assorted links
1. Freddie as AI skeptic (and I have given my predictions in fact). 2. Claims about Shakespeare and Marlowe. 3. How did “artificial intelligence” get its name? 4. How is…
1. Freddie as AI skeptic (and I have given my predictions in fact). 2. Claims about Shakespeare and Marlowe. 3. How did “artificial intelligence” get its name? 4. How is…
1. Jon Hartley on Bob Hall. And Chad Jones on Bob Hall. 2. Nicholas Decker on who might have won the prize. 3. Koyama tribute to Wickam. 4. A parallel…
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. 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. Designing a FINRA for frontier AI. 2. Andrew Ng. 3. Some semi-skeptical notes on stablecoins, based on economic history. 4. Global views on fairness and redistribution. 5. Essays on…
1. Easy to bioengineer a very dangerous virus? 2. The astrophysicists are getting antsy too. Princeton is also getting nervous. If nothing else, these are huge PR own goals. The…
1. The Carob Prize, for scholars who tell the truth (WSJ). 2. Observations from watching Iranian social media. 3. The Emma McAleavy feminist vision. 4. Is the inflation picture shifting?…
1. The AI market is still growing rapidly. And “In less than 200 days after launch, ChatGPT Ads has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.” 2. On Warsh.…
1. How to run a start-up with AI agents and zero employees (video talk). 2. Elon of the bird world (Times of London). 3. Swiss judge using AI to help…
1. AI is helping patients to solve their medical mysteries (WSJ). 2. History of economic thought in one paragraph. 3. Becca Rothfeld on Rachel Cusk. 4. “Since ChatGPT, the number…