How to Rebuild Your Broken Attention Span—Adam Clark Estes
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Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal
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4 Reasons Why GDP is a Useful Number—Noah Smith
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You are Introspecting Too Much—Auren Hoffman
Introspection should stop once it has done 3 jobs: identify your strengths, identify your weaknesses, and identify what you want, Auren Hoffman argues. Permalink
The American Age was the Human Age—Noah Smith
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The Quarter-Millenial of the United States of America
Note: I think “semiquincentennial” is a poor choice for the name of this anniversary. You can see my name for it. I couldn’t let the United States bicentennial pass without writing a post. As I wrote what is below, I surprised myself with what was on my mind when I think about where the United States of America is 250 years after its founding. The image above that I had ChatGPT make expresses my…
Why Intelligent People Often Struggle With Love—Daniel Chechick ("Existential Reflections")
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Want to Get Life Insurance Wrong? Ask AI—Larry Kotlikoff
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Christine Desan on the History of Money in America
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How to Pray When You Don't Believe in God—Kasper ter Kuile
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Robert Pinsky's 2012 Commencement Speech at Concord Academy
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The Age of AI
Image made with the help of ChatGPT It has been 14 years since my first blog post: What is a Supply-Side Liberal? I have written an anniversary post every year since: A Year in the Life of a Supply-Side Liberal Three Revolutions Beacons Why I Blog My Objective Function A Barycentric Autobiography Crafting Simple, Accurate Messages about Complex Problems On Human Potential Pandemic Passage: My Past…
Contra Everyone on Taste—Scott Alexander
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How to Get a Job in Today's World—Auren Hoffman
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Superintelligence is Already Here, Today—Noah Smith
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Disasters Increase People's Present Bias—Ichiro Kawachi
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Noah Smith: Where Does a Liberal Go from Here?
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The Spirit of Mormonism from a Nonsupernaturalist Perspective—The Chronist
There is a hyped tone here and some inaccuracies here—for example Mormons avoid the use of the cross as a symbol because Mormonism prefers to emphasize the resurrected Christ rather than the dying Christ—but this video captures much about what is admirable in Mormonism, and much that would ideally be incorporated into a strong nonsurpernaturalist religion. Of course, there is the possibility that…
On Barry Schwarz's `The Paradox of Choice'
Link to the Amazon page for The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwarz As an economist, I have long been annoyed. Contrary to “Having fewer choices is better” message many readers are likely to get from the book, more choices are always better, as long as (a) information is not destroyed and (b) you aren’t stupid about dealing with a larger number of choices. On destruction of information, consider a…
Causation Does Not Imply Variation—John Cochrane
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Miles's Custom AI Summarizes His Proposal for a Public Contribution Program
The more the national debt increases, the more important my proposal for a public contribution program looks. I asked a custom AI I made within ChatGPT to summarize my proposal public contribution program after reading the relevant blog post. A key idea is to have the nonprofit sector take care of a subset of things that government is responsible for—hence the picture of what the government does…
Noah Smith: We're Living in the Cyberpunk Future
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