Economy
What can LLMs never do?
By Rohit Krishnan, he and I are both interested in the question of what LLMs cannot do, and why.&nbs ...View More
What is the proper policy toward tourists?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, basically you should charge them fees rather than d ...View More
More Tuesday links
1. AI Camera turns your images into poetry. 2. Highly capable model locally on your phone. 3. Clara ...View More
Four Thousand Years of Egyptian Women Pictured
In an excellent, deep-dive Alice Evans looks at patriarchy in Egypt using pictures drawn from four t ...View More
Hiring discrimination sentences to ponder
Several common measures — like employing a chief diversity officer, offering diversity training or ...View More
Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture
Forthcoming from the QJE, here is a new paper by Andrea Matanga: The Neolithic revolution saw the in ...View More
Deregulate our universities
Take a look at how the number of federal regulations and policies governing research at universitie ...View More
Tying the Knot
Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a ri ...View More
Arguments that (almost) everyone hates
These are usually worth pondering, as at the very least you will learn something. Here is a ha ...View More
Guinea pig questions
If someone demographically normal and not especially at-risk wants to serve as a guinea pig, what is ...View More