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Economy

Renationalising British utilities

There is talk of this with the pending change in PM, but I would not do it. I am quite aware that a) not all of the privatisations went well, and b) American data indicate that state-owned utilities do not seem very economically different than, or less efficient than, privately-owned utilities. Especially for water, where […] The post Renationalising British utilities appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.

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Azeem Azhar (and others) on the state of the AI economy

Due to travel I have not had time to read this detailed report, but it is getting very good reviews The post Azeem Azhar (and others) on the state of the AI economy appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to rayward. What is the deal with you obsession with . by SnowyIn reply to Vaquero. See Slide 37: Gross rental yields . by RADIn reply to rayward. Compress every layer, and consumers . by RADThe potential investment numbers are huge – which suggests . by EngineerAssuming a si...

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My Conversation with Joanne Paul

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Joanne Paul is a historian at the University of Sussex, author, and a go-to Tudor expert on YouTube. She tells Tyler she’s drawn to the 16th century because it sits between the medieval and the modern, and because its paths not taken are […] The post My Conversation with Joanne Paul appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Migrants: A Memoir with ManuscriptsMy aesthetics podcast with Benjamin LimaThe Fre...

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Cricket and the railways

Railways are a golden thread in the history of cricket, making national competition possible in every current Test-playing nation (with the exceptino of the West Indies and Afghanistan). In later years, we will see railway workers as exporters of cricket to Scotland and Wales and beyond to Britain’s formal and informal commercial empires. We will […] The post Cricket and the railways appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsDo the aboriginies count as 'Australians' in that quote? by Qua...

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Healthcare

Does fasting harm cognitive performance?

More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high-stakes decision-making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real-world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong chess engine. We analyse nearly 300,000 games and more […] The post Does fasting harm cognitive performance? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments...

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Technology

Aaron Levie on current implicit AI regulation

We now have de facto AI regulation. It’s not obvious why from here on out models that have certain levels of capability or are trained on certain compute sizes won’t have to be reviewed by the government before release. Realistically, as AI models became more and more powerful this was going to be inevitable (I […] The post Aaron Levie on current implicit AI regulation appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesCalifornia’s Gay Certification ProgramBastiat’s telephone?My Conversati...

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What should the UAP Scientific Advisory Board do?

There are more and more frauds, charlatans, and lunatics entering this area of inquiry. It is important to stay disciplined on data-driven questions, most importantly to what extent are released (and unreleased) videos backed by radar, satellite, eyewitness and other forms of confirming evidence? By confirming, I do not mean “confirming they are aliens,” rather […] The post What should the UAP Scientific Advisory Board do? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments“There are more and mor...

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Translated from the Chinese

I think this is the Cursor moment for academia. The Stanford REAP team has made their move, http://CoPaper.AI is mass-terminating the manual labor of traditional empirical papers. Link: https://copaper.ai/landing If using large models to write papers before was just about polishing and compiling references for you, then this Project from Professor Ross Griebenow’s team at […] The post Translated from the Chinese appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesAlan Greenspan, RIPHow rese...

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Education

Emergent Ventures winners, 55th cohort

Aliaksandra Melnichenka, Belarus/Kentucky, to support science and math writing. Guilherme Pinho, Sao Paulo, real estate titling and transactions in Brazil. Diyar Zhakpelov, Astana, Kazakhstan, 17, exam prep app for Kazakhs, general career support. Randy Chang, AI policy writings, Ontario/Chapel Hill. Jesse Casana, Dartmouth, archaeology tranche, “Drone-acquired synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a novel and experimental technology, […] The post Emergent Ventures winners, 55th cohort appeared fir...

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Healthcare

GLP-1 drugs and marriage

GLP-1 medications generate large weight loss and may also alter social and economic outcomes. Using the Understanding America Study, I compare women starting GLP-1s for weight loss with matched women who would like to start a GLP-1 but have not. Single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise by 29 percentage points and employment among baseline non-employed women […] The post GLP-1 drugs and marriage appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesElderly Health and Longevity in the US...

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Culture

*The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts*

Christopher de Hamel’s Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is one of the very greatest books of the last twenty years. So I buy whatever else he puts out, and I did not regret my purchase of this one. Imagine an intersecting tale of a boyhood in New Zealand (!), the medieval manuscript collecting habits of Colonial […] The post The Migrants: A Memoir with Manuscripts appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesThe Free Press summer reading listMy aesthetics podcast with Benjamin ...

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