Tyler Cowen
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Some Navier-Stokes updates
Some Terry Tao. More Terry Tao. Some ChatGPT. Some are calling this “a Deep Blue moment” for AI. All via T., a mathematician.
Ed Elson and Scott Galloway interview me on AI
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Capital gains vs. wealth taxes
Standard optimal capital tax theory abstracts from modeling asset prices, making it unsuitable for thinking about capital gains and wealth taxation.
South Korean aspirational markets in everything
Instead of Amazon, I spent the past week browsing a new breed of websites known as “dopamine sites,” a trend that emerged in South Korea.
Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort
Tym Syrytczyk, London, autonomous vehicles in the UK. Shane Regan, Long Island, 16, AI agents. Maximilian Kornstein, 15, Atlanta area, agents and general career support.
Insurance price sentences to ponder
NYU Stern researcher @NateWitkin questions why cyber insurance rates keep falling if AI cyber risk is accelerating: “Insurance rates for cyber risk declined by about 4% globally in Q2 of this year…
*Why Not Bolivia?*
The author is Calvin Korponai, and the subtitle is From Macchu Picchu into Bolivia in search of the Garden of Eden.
Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems
I study how short-form design amplifies self-control problems in digital media.
Is Lichtenstein an actual monarchy?
It seems so: Internal documents reviewed by the FT show that three days earlier, behind the walls of Vaduz Castle, Europe’s wealthiest ruling dynasty had quietly approved an overhaul that strengthens…
Mein Ingeborg Bachmann Studium
Recently I finished read Malina, by Ingeborg Bachmann, an Austrian novel published in 1971.