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Tyler Cowen

Economist at George Mason University; blogs at Marginal Revolution; hosts the podcast Conversations with Tyler

The latest interviews, podcast appearances, and blog posts from Tyler Cowen, updated daily.

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Sep 21

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…

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2 days ago
Sep 20

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.

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Sep 20

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…

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2 days ago
Sep 20

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.

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2 days ago
Sep 20

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.

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3 days ago
Sep 19

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.

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3 days ago
Sep 19

Emergent Ventures India, 19th cohort

Asit Singh, founder of Syngi, received his grant to develop sub-angstrom optical MEMS sensors for next-generation semiconductor lithography.

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4 days ago
Sep 18

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents

That is a new Nature paper by Jiacheng Miao, Joe R. Davis, Yaohui Zhang, Jonathan K. Pritchard, and James Zou.

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4 days ago
Sep 18

Why Papua New Guinea is so interesting

And this leads to the most interesting part of this story: how the highlanders were so isolated for so long.

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4 days ago
Sep 18

Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming

The post Scott Beaulier interviews me, in part about Wyoming appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

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