What I’ve been reading – Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Mikhail Fishman, The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Decline of Modern Russia. One of the best books
Hollis Robbins on AI and higher education
There’s a growing idea I’ve seen in some circles that college could be replaced by conversations between an A.I. tutor
The UAP report so far
I will stick with my earlier Free Press predictions: The fact remains that, if you talk with insiders, they will
Justin Wolfers update – Marginal REVOLUTION
Wolfers’s moment of clarity ultimately sent him down a road less traveled by academic economists: creating his own media company.
Sunday assorted links
1. “data centers are now responsible for nearly half of county tax revenue in Loudon County, VA” 2. The emerging
Thursday assorted links
1. “Olympiaders were 1500x more likely to be billionaires and 4000x more likely to be unicorn founders than the average
Will AI end anonymity?
Like many journalists, I have a bunch of unpublished fiction lying about, so I tried Claude on the first chapter
Growth is getting harder to find, not ideas
Relatively flat US output growth versus rising numbers of US researchers is often interpreted as evidence that ideas are getting
Imagegen 2.0
Created by Alex T., and of course GPT as well. The post Imagegen 2.0 appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source
That was then, this is not now?
The 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion destroyed Reza Shah — but not the Pahlavi state. The two Allies — joined by the