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Is work from home bad for your mental health?

From the “Results” section: Relative to those in nonremotable jobs, workers in remotable jobs spent approximately one additional hour alone per workday after the pandemic. Those in remotable jobs also differentially increased days spent entirely alone and decreased after-work socializing. The rise in isolation was sharpest for those living alone, whose likelihood of spending the […] The post Is work from home bad for your mental health? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply ...

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Why drugs are here to stay (from my email)

This is anonymized, I can vouch that the person is very smart and has excellent taste: Some thoughts [referring to my recent Free Press piece on marijuana]. My feeling is that you read quickly enough that I can dump words on you and it will not be an imposition. So I have not really edited […] The post Why drugs are here to stay (from my email) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsSome people can handle drugs and have them not ruin their life, . by David KhooQuite the dystopian futu...

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Tyler and Alex Speak to OpenAI

We were honored to speak to OpenAI about the economics of AI. Lots of good material here. Self-recommending. The post Tyler and Alex Speak to OpenAI appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesEurope Demands Family DynastiesShould we recriminalize marijuana?Law professors prefer AI over peer answers

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Should you move to Argentina? (from my email)

My name is Josh Neuman, and I’m writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina where Peter Thiel’s move is all over the news here. He lives in [redacted], only a xx minute drive from my own apartment in Recoleta. I want to pitch a piece…arguing that Thiel is right to be in Argentina, but wrong about why. […] The post Should you move to Argentina? (from my email) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Ben G. Tyler did a CWT with Pierpaolo Barbieri, . by Unclear on the conceptIn reply...

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My twenty-minute AI talk for the Swedish company Sana

The post My twenty-minute AI talk for the Swedish company Sana appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Christopher Johnson. I dunno Christopher, you . by bazzaIn reply to Mark Bahner. 95% by Todd KIn reply to Aaronn. Nuclear fission is regulations-bound. by Mark BahnerIn reply to Todd K. 2. “I think that most things that kill . by Mark BahnerI agree with most of it, but disagree with one important thing. by AaronnPlus 10 more.Related StoriesLaw professors prefer AI over pee...

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Rubber rationing in World War II

When during the meetings the Americans offered that at most they could convert 15 percent of U.S. auto plants to military production, Beaverbrook replies that 100 percent of British automobile factories had been converted, and encouraged Roosevelt to aim higher. He did, and on January 1 he ordered U.S. auto production halted by late Februrary. […] The post Rubber rationing in World War II appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to World War 2 Fatigue. “We all know what . by BC...

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Culture

Richard Feynman’s formula for the best holiday restaurant

According to Feynman’s approach, in this context, people should try a different restaurant each night until they find one that exceeds a particular threshold that reflects a desired quality. In Feynman’s equations this threshold is not fixed. Instead it declines more and more rapidly as the number of days left in the city reduces. In […] The post Richard Feynman’s formula for the best holiday restaurant appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesCampo Grande bleg, BrazilWhat else i...

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Law professors prefer AI over peer answers

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly promoted as educational tutors, yet most evaluations focus on domains with a single ground truth. Many disciplines, however, hinge on judgment: reasoning, weighing ambiguity, and reaching defensible conclusions. Law provides a sharp test. We conducted a blinded evaluation of short-answer tutoring in contracts courses with sixteen U.S. law professors. […] The post Law professors prefer AI over peer answers appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Rel...

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The US Exports Intelligence

Most Americans work in the service sector so it’s not surprising that most export-related jobs are in the service sector (The U.S. exports about $2.2 trillion of goods and $1.2 trillion of services, but services are more labor intensive than manufacturing so they support more export jobs per dollar.) Richard Baldwin writes: In 2022, US […] The post The US Exports Intelligence appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related Stories80,000 Hours: The BookSupply is elastic, installment #1637Why ar...

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Society

Consent-based laws and aggregate fertility

This paper examines how expanding the legal definition of sexual assault affects fertility and sexual behavior, using a panel of European countries. I find that switching to tacit consent-based legislation reduces fertility by about 4% relative to the mean. This effect is driven by a decrease in couple formation and an increase in abortion rates. […] The post Consent-based laws and aggregate fertility appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsWhy don't you make a post about how 60 minute...

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The chimera of universal coverage in a large, diverse country

Our findings suggest that policies intended to subsidize health insurance of higher income groups, for example, the enhanced premium subsidies, are far less efficient than policies intended to further expand public insurance to low-income groups, for example, in non-expansion states. That is from a new NBER working paper by Anuj Gangopadhyaya & Robert Kaestner. The post The chimera of universal coverage in a large, diverse country appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Dis...

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*The Republic of Love*

The author is Martha C. Nussbaum, and the subtitle is Opera & Political Freedom. Martha decided she did not wish to do a podcast after all, so since I put some real prep time in I thought I would offer some thoughts on the book directly, in part because it is not receiving substantive reviews […] The post The Republic of Love appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related Stories80,000 Hours: The BookMy excellent Conversation with Toby WilkinsonWhat should I ask Richard Hanania?

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