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Cartoon: America’s gargantuan debt

This cartoon from The Economist humorously critiques America's massive national debt, highlighting the growing concern over fiscal responsibility and its implications for the economy.

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Predictions for economics, given AI

From Ingar Haaland: With math essentially being delegated to OpenAI, here’s what I predict for economics and the social sciences more generally: The top tier of research will just become better and it will be normal human-led research where AI is used for scale (e.g. conducting qualitative interviews with relevant populations, running behavioral interventions in […] The post Predictions for economics, given AI appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to S. I am using a standard...

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On *Stubborn Attachments* and religion (from my email)

Hey Tyler I consider Stubborn Attachments your most dogmatic and religious book. Pondering on it, here are my Abrahamic readings of it: Jewish: Ten Commandments, obviously. While the bigger canon of Jewish laws tend to be overly conservative because people will fail following them anyway, the Ten Commandments are the laws the Jews should be […] The post On Stubborn Attachments and religion (from my email) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Confused on Ten Commandment...

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A Sentiment Analysis of Cowen, Hanson, Caplan, and Krugman

Supplied by Bryan Caplan, performed by ChatGPT, excerpt: So Cowen isn’t well described as either “positive” or “negative.” A much better description is: High appreciation + high concern + very low emotional agitation. He seems to think there is an astonishing amount of wonderful stuff in the world and an astonishing number of things worth […] The post A Sentiment Analysis of Cowen, Hanson, Caplan, and Krugman appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsSounds about right, except for “unusu...

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