Tyler Cowen
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The economics of late grandmotherhood
We show how fertility delays compound across generations to raise age at first grandmotherhood. Under the 1960 first-birth schedule median grandmotherhood came at 44.
Banning self-recursive improvement in AI models?
Some people are suggesting this, including Ezra Klein. I do not understand how it is supposed to work. Put aside the issue of foregone innovations, let us say I seek to access an AI from overseas.
Dartmouth Provost okie-dokie
On Aug. 26, a Semafor investigation using Pangram to determine whether recent guest columns in major newspapers were written using artificial intelligence identified a column by Schnell as “100%…
Further results on AI and labor market reallocation
This paper documents how artificial intelligence has affected stocks and flows in the U. S. labor market.
Obama on agentic AI
Obama recently said: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the…
Empathy gaps
I observed, for example, that when I got an invitation to travel to give a talk in a different time zone, it mattered what time zone I was in when I got the invitation.
UK productivity higher than we had thought
UK productivity rose at almost twice the pace previously estimated in the decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, according to new official figures that make Britain look much less of an…
Muse
It is excellent. It has one of the best user interfaces I have seen on any product. The model is good and the speed and clarity exemplary.
The polity that is Singapore
…this month, Singapore launched a scheme promising actual cash to citizens as a reward for logging reading time on a government website.
Internet diffusion and religious decline?
Using a panel of 81 countries across six World Values Survey waves (1990–2022), we examine whether growth in internet diffusion is associated with religious decline.