Browsing: Economy

Josh Hendrickson has a new Substack post that discusses the implications of the US dollar’s role as an international reserve…

By Roger Chickering, this is so far the best book I have read this year, and I knew that within…

1. Jerome Powell on stablecoins. 2. Hollis Robbins on o3 and higher education. 3. Google has started hiring for “post-AGI…

While giving some of my thoughts on R. R. Reno’s book Return of the Strong Gods, I gave Reno credit…

Basically it wipes the floor with the humans, pretty much across the board. Try, following Nabeel, why Bolaño’s prose is…

I loved his new book on John and Paul, of the Beatles, and I am delighted to see it doing…

  I often see people in debates online accuse other people of playing “Whataboutism.” Here’s a standard definition: Whataboutism is…

I think it is AGI, seriously.  Try asking it lots of questions, and then ask yourself: just how much smarter…

For any science to be broadly understood, it needs to be communicated in a helpful manner.  Indeed, much of my…

1. Uh oh. 2. Very good list of bottlenecks to progress. 3. NYT on seasteading (an oddly undercontextualized article). 4.…