Tyler Cowen
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Our fascination with screens, demand curves slope downward installment #1637
What we find here is that the quality-adjusted screen time price index is down 39 per cent since 2000, but that change is overwhelmingly a function of improvements in quality, not declines in prices…
*This Beautiful Country*
The author is Edward Cutler and the subtitle is How Italy’s Nature Shaped its Culture and Civilisation.
Solving for the equilibrium?
Sixteen AI agents were each handed 1,000 satoshis of real bitcoin and told nothing about how to use it.
New Matt Faherty study of the NSF
From the Executive Summary: Therefore, the NSF, NIH, and the federal government should put far more resources and effort into developing metascience.
On Bergman’s *Persona*
I first saw Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, his stone-cold classic of 1965, as a teenager, and God knows how many times I have seen it since.
I guest host the NYT podcast and interview Dwarkesh
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Excerpt: Cowen: Unreleased models — why are they important? Patel: As in the ones that are internal to the companies?
My excellent Conversation with Liaquat Ahamed
Here is the audio, video, and transcript.
Why I do not use LLMs more
They are so very, very good at matching me to the books I wish to read and the music I wish to listen to. In this odd sense they are not very sticky.
*Plunder: The Last of the War in Europe, 1945*
By Max Hastings, an excellent book, I benefited from every page. One recurring theme is simply how hard the Germans fought on the way down, and how unusual that behavior was.
Well-planned African immigration to America will go fine
That is the topic of free latest Free Press column, here is one excerpt: The good news is that African immigrants already have done well in the United States.