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Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives
We estimate the causal impacts of GLP-1 treatment on labor market outcomes using linked Danish administrative data and a matched stacked difference-in-differences design. We compare patients who initiate GLP-1 treatment during the first two years of Semaglutide availability to observably similar patients who initiate four years later. We find that GLP-1 treatment reduces long-term sickness […] The post The economic effects of GLP-1s appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe sm...
Any time you hear claims about American government, a sanity-inducing response is to ask whether they also are true of state and local governments. Here is an excerpt from my latest piece at The Free Press: First, in people’s daily lives, they typically interact with their state and local governments more than with the feds. […] The post Is America ruled by an oligarchy? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsRelevant. by PlamusIn reply to Steve Sailer. No worries. History has never s...
The strategy for China is obvious: commoditize your complements. Note that Xi explicitly ties openness to AI “moving from the digital world into the physical world”; the physical world is the world dominated by China, and the country’s lead in areas like robotics is going to massively benefit from widely available AI models. Along the […] The post Words of wisdom on Chinese AI and our responses appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsReminds me of discussions in Britain and Germany bef...
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