Tyler Cowen
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NYT debate on the rules for AI companies
Emily Bazelon was the moderator, there were five of us in the symposium. Excerpt from me: Bores: Do you think the federal government pre-empting the states is consistent with democracy?
Is “Who’s on First?” funny?
Well, no, it is not funny, it would be too easy to relieve the dramatic tension by having Abbott explain the actual situation to Costello. One is not wrong to call the whole thing stupid.
Frances Lee on American elections
More likely than interference with the election is that unsuccessful office-seekers will refuse to concede, claiming their opponents cheated.
Brazil’s economic problems, in a nutshell
It would take true Milei-like ardour to slice through Brazil’s economic troubles. These are caused by a gnarly mix of high public spending, stubborn inflation and low saving.
Facts about breastfeeding
We produce a numerical estimate of the value of unpaid breastfeeding relative to national income spanning five centuries and integrating historical and bioarchaeological data.
How central bankers spend their time
How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics.
Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort
Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost.
Why are cybersecurity losses not worse?
Here’s the first part of my theory: cybercriminals are not the organized geniuses we implicitly imagine.
Econvitals
From Jason Furman, it tracks economic indicators, mostly U. S. Here is the website. Subscribe here to briefings. Here is a thread on the site.
I guest host an NYT podcast with Michael Kratsios, Trump science advisor
Here is the audio, video, and transcript.