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A photo from my email
That is from Brad H., from a Starbucks in Nashville. The post A photo from my email appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
View ArticleTyrone, your local Straussian, comments on “Trap House”
I took it to refer to a place where drugs are sold, but you might be trapped either by the police or by the attendant lifestyle and its appeals. The Yale Federalist Society was proclaming itself...
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Tyrone on crypto assets
Egads, what a fool this man is! Nonetheless he has grown wealthier as of late, so I thought I would give him the indulgence of another MR post. Little did I know what arrant nonsense he would come up...
View ArticleSunday assorted links
1. Maureen Dowd has a Tyrone and he is not bad (NYT). 2. And South Korean men fight back against beneficial feminization (NYT). And more here. 3. Insights from Arnold Kling. 4. Vitalik revisits...
View ArticleCrypto’s volatility premium
That is the topic of this week’s Bloomberg column, 2x the usual length, building on earlier work by Tyrone, see also this Megan McArdle column. As for me, here is a key excerpt: Much of the primary...
View ArticleIs the EA movement dead?
No. To be clear, I am not “an EA person,” though I do have sympathies with considerable parts of the movement. Most of all it has struck me, as I have remarked in the past, just how much young talent...
View ArticleAI and language learning
Rob asks: I would love to see you write on how AI changes the value of language learning, at the margin. Two thoughts: The value of learning languages in order to “get” a culture more deeply probably...
View ArticleTyrone cheers up Tim Harford
If you needed someone to cheer you up, would you not want my evil twin brother Tyrone? Well, Tim Harford is a privileged fellow. Tyrone read Tim’s recent FT column “Is life in the UK really as bad as...
View ArticleThe Great (British) Stagnation
David Wallace-Wells in the NYTimes: In December, as many as 500 patients per week were dying in Britain because of E.R. waits, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, a figure rivaling...
View ArticleThe medical culture that is Britain
Universities have been told they must limit the number of medical school places this year or risk fines, a move attacked as “extraordinary” when the NHS is struggling with staff shortages. Medical...
View ArticleSaturday assorted links
1. Forthcoming Netflix movie: “They Cloned Tyrone.” 2. “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” by Roald Dahl 1954. 3. One account of how GPTs hallucinate. 4. More on MusicLM from Google. Yet Google won’t...
View ArticleFriday assorted links
1. The history of Japanese stock prices. 2. The new NEOM exhibit. 3. Who are the top 15 liberal economists of France, 1695–1776? 4. New Netflix trailer, “They Cloned Tyrone.” 5. Young people are...
View ArticleTwenty Years of Marginal Revolution!
Who would have guessed that after twenty years Tyler and I would still be writing Marginal Revolution! Thanks especially to Tyler, we have had multiple new posts every single day for twenty years!...
View ArticleConversations with Tyler 20th year of MR anniversary episode
CWT producer Jeff Holmes is the moderator, the panel of guests is Tyler, Alex, Vitalik Buterin, and Ben Casnocha — self-recommending! Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Topics include: …the...
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Salta (and Jujuy) notes
The food is excellent. Don’t worry about choosing the right restaurant, just try to eat the simple things. Corn products. Beans. Baked goods such as empanadas. Don’t waste your time on the steak....
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