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Here is the source. The post Germany fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn reply to Guy. Heil Hootlah! Mein Fury! by Jamal HashimotoIn reply to M. Why don't you and Massimo get a room? The two ... by Jamal HashimotoIn reply to Hmm. It's noisy but seems to show stability from ... by BobIn reply to rsm. Negative wholesale...

1. Why “p doom” is a fruitless endeavor.  A very good piece, puts in one place a lot of reasons why so much of the recent discussion has been fruitless. 2. The rise and stagnation of nuclear energy. 3. How much of China’s growth was Solow catch-up growth? 4. Foreign visitors are now less interested […] The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on...

The minimum wage will tend to increase unemployment among low-skill workers, often minorities. To many people that’s an argument against the minimum wage. But to progressives at the opening of the 20th century that was an argument for the minimum wage–progressive’s demanded minimum wages to get women and racial minorities out of the work force. […] The post Rent Control Reduces New Development: Bug...

Tyler, Your point about easier reductions abroad goes much further than you wrote about. In the US we have already significantly decreased coal usage so electricity generation is roughly a quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions. Electricity generation accounts for half of emissions in countries like China. Many countries haven’t even installed their first battery system, so […] The post Austin Vernon on emissions reduction (from...

You all are not noticing the location. Why do you think anchorage is the busiest cargo airport in the world? Because it is the only large western city on the main air route between China and Europe. Shipping from China through the artic is 30% faster and more efficient than current routes. Anchorage will one […] The post Claims about Anchorage (from the comments)...

1. Yes, brutalism is underrated, including in El Salvador. 2. Oral history film on James C. Scott. 3. Timothy Gowers on the math DeepMind results. 4. How NATO nuclear doctrine is being revised, an important thread. 5. Is the AI boyfriend business taking off? 6. Bryan Caplan getting his blogging start at MR. 7. Town […] The post Saturday assorted links appeared first on...

I’ve only seen excerpts, but many people are upset.  I can vouch “this is not what I would have done,” but perhaps the over the top, deviance-drenched modes of presentation are reflecting some longer-running strands in French culture.  La Cage aux Folles?  Le Bal des Folles?  The whole Moulin Rouge direction?  How about Gustave Moreau, […] The post The French Olympic opening ceremony appeared...

First of all, I favor the classical liberal strands on the Right, not the New Right strands, as I have argued repeatedly in the past.  So I am not trying here to argue for “my guys.”  But the degree of misinformation at the current moment is just staggering, and most intellectual commentators seem to be […] The post I’m kind of tired of this...

Following a 2018 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, 38 states have legalized sports gambling. We study how this policy has impacted consumer financial health using the state-by-state rollout of legal sports gambling and a large and comprehensive dataset on consumer financial outcomes. Our main finding is that overall, consumers’ financial health is modestly deteriorating as […] The post The Financial Consequences of Legalized Sports...

Akash Kulgod is a 23-year-old cognitive science graduate from UC Berkeley and chief canine comrade at Dognosis, where he is building tech that increases the bandwidth of human-canine communication. He received his EV grant for a pilot study in Northern Karnataka testing the performance of cyber-canines on multi-cancer screening from breath samples. He writes on his Substack. A […] The post Emergent Ventures India, sixth cohort, post...

A further bump in real wages of up to 3.5 per cent is expected this year, alongside an expected 3 per cent jump in real disposable income, according to Russia’s Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting. The unemployment rate, forecast to hit between 7 and 8 per cent in 2022, is at 2.6 per […] The post Russia facts of the day appeared...

1. Two Patrick Collison citations on mentorship. 2. The refrigerator anecdote. 3. Nick Whitaker puts forward AI policy. 4. “The US economy has been expanding for 15 years, only interrupted by 2 months of contraction in early 2020″…and…”The US economy has now been in an expansion for 51 months with annualized real GDP growth of […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on...

Reuters: To learn how this global industry works, reporters made multiple buys of precursors over the past year. Though a few of the sales proved to be scams, the journalists succeeded in buying 12 chemicals that could be used to make fentanyl, according to independent chemists consulted by Reuters. Most of the goods arrived as […] The post Markets in Everything: Fentanyl Precursors appeared...

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: A recent study finds that, of all domestic subsidies, the most effective involve replacing the dirty production of electricity with the cleaner production of electricity. In practice, that means subsidies or tax credits for solar and wind power. Those are more than twice as effective as […] The post Which are the most effective subsidies...

Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is the episode summary: Tyler and Taylor take a walking tour of early history through North America covering the decisions, and ripples of those decisions, that shaped revolution and independence, including why Canada didn’t join the American revolution, why America in turn never conquered Canada, American’s early […] The post My excellent Conversation with Alan Taylor,...

We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level. It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. Here is further information. From the NYT three days ago “A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math.”  […] The post From Google DeepMind (it’s happening) appeared...

1. Malaysia to build a large AI and data centre next to Singapore (FT). 2. The Indicator from Planet Money NPR on whether AI might possibly be underrated, I am one of the guests.  And beta website for The Rational Optimist Society. 3. Shruti on why observers of American politics now need to learn about […] The post Thursday assorted links appeared first on...

An excellent post from Maxwell Tabarrok at Maximum Progress: On 75 percent or more of the residential land in most major American cities it is illegal to build anything other than a detached single-family home. 95.8 percent of total residential land area in California is zoned as single-family-only, which is 30 percent of all land in the state. Restrictive […] The post Overturn Euclid v. Ambler appeared first...

Lots of fresh material and debate, they question me, lots of philosophy, here are the links.  And this is a new podcast from Peter and Kasia, Lives Well Lived, further interesting episodes are on the way. The post My podcast with Peter Singer and Kasia de Lazari-Radek appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn reply to Area 51. “Top 100 global thinker” There are...