1. Ronan McGovern on Finland and two Baltics.
2. Was housing overbuilt in Nevada?
3. How much of the universe is legible to intelligence?
4. What are the bottlenecks for actually applying evidence to policy decisions?
5. Adrian Wooldridge says beware of Labour rule (Bloomberg).
8. Revenge of the generalist?: “Prediction: Over the next decade there will be a revenge of the generalist. Generalists will be rewarded as organizations shrink and employees are asked to do more with less. AI will accelerate this trend as specialized tasks become more and more automated.” Gagan Biyani.
Tuesday assorted links
1. AI as palm reader? 2. “why we need to train models to learn their own capabilities, and how this...
Saturday assorted links
1. Hedging the singularity? 2. Claude doing stand-up comedy, the video is AI too. 3. Thirty more lines from Empedocles...
The exposed counties (from my email)
Professor Cowen, Built a county-level AI displacement model across all 3,204 US counties. Top 5 most exposed counties are all...
That was then, this is now
At the advent of a more aggressive Persian Gulf policy on the part of Iran during the interwar years, the...
