2023–2026
1,449 posts
2026 305
October 2026
- The 1960s Space Program
- AI and the Economy Links, 10/30/2026
- The Book is Available
- The Moon Landing
- Economics Links, 10/27/2026
- AI and the Economy Links, 10/26/2026
- Hatred Of Others’ Profits
- The Great Diffusion
- AI and the Economy Links, 10/23/2027
- AI and the Economy Links, 10/22/2026
- Clash of Civilization Links, 10/21/2026
- 7 reflections on the situation in France
- Public Choice Links, 10/19/2026
- AI and the Economy Links, 10/18/2026
- AI and the economy links, 10/17/2026
- Economy and AI Links, 10/16/2026
- AI and the Economy links, 10/15/2026
- The Introduction and the Epilogue
- The Economics Nobel
- Education Links, 10/12/2026
- Economy and AI links, 10/11/2026
- Psychology links, 10/10/2026
- AI Links, 10/9/2026
- Artificial Narrow Intelligence: response to a few comments
- Artificial Narrow Intelligence
- AIDS and a Blue Dress
- Economic Policy from Reagan through Clinton
- Economics Links, 10/5/2026
- The 1980s and 1990s bond market
- The 1980s and 1990s stock market
- Clash of Civilizations Links, 10/2/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 10/1/2026
September 2026
- Education Links, 9/30/2026
- Education Links, 9/29/2026
- The 1990s and the Internet
- The 1980s: the personal computer
- On Health Care Systems
- Clash of Civilization Links, 9/25/2026
- Culture and Fertility Links, 9/24/2026
- American hubris, 1990s style
- The Soviet Union’s End
- Political Psychology Links, 9/21/2026
- Carter’s end
- Social texture in the 1970s
- AI and the Economy Links, 9/18/2026
- Movies of the 1970s
- The 1970s economy
- Nixon’s downfall
- Polanyi Knowledge and AI
- President Nixon’s First Term
- Economy and AI links,09/12/2026
- The Sixties: Sex and Drugs
- Four Sports Stories of the 1960s
- Civil Rights and Urban Riots
- The War on Poverty
- Vietnam
- 1960s music
- AI Links, 9/5/2026
- Introducing the 1960s: The Beatles
- Economics Links, 9/3/2026
- Education Links, 9/2/2026
- Jews Break Through
August 2026
- The 1950s: Suburbia and Television
- Race in America, 1947 - 1963
- Cold War, part two
- Cold War, part one
- American history, 1947-1963
- AI links, 8/26/2026
- Sixteen fun facts about me
- Psychology Links, 8/24/2026
- WWII: America's Home Front
- Political Psychology Links, 8/22/2026
- AI links, 8/21/2026
- Culture Links, 8/20/2026
- Education Links, 8/19/2026
- Beyond Language Models
- Economics Links, 8/17/2026
- WWII military history
- World War II, part one
- Hard Times and Escapes in the 1930s
- Clash of Civilization Links, 8/13/2026
- Radio and Movies in the 1930s
- Economic Policy in the 1930s
- What Caused the Great Depression?
- The Great Depression, 1930-1940
- The Wrapper Model
- The artificially intelligent dog
- Political Psychology Links, 8/6/2026
- Economics Links
- Political Economy Links, 8/4/2026
- The 1990s Web vs. today's AI
- AI Links, 8/2/2026
- Education Links, 8/1/2026
July 2026
- Progressive Economics in One Lesson
- Is AI Progress Stalling?
- Arts and Ideas of the 1920s
- Prohibition and the 1920s behavior
- How to make AI writing more concise
- Political Psychology Links
- Finance and the Economy
- Re-examining the 1930s Depression
- American Prosperity, 1914-1930
- Against Brokenist Economics
- Claude does TLP
- Farm-City Terms of Trade, 1920-1929
- Economics Links, 7/19/2026
- AI Links, 7/18/2026
- The 1918-1919 Epidemic and Immigration Restriction
- America 1914-1929: the Red Scare
- Using AI to prepare for a seminar on AI
- Tyler's Question on Iran
- Political Economy Links, 7/13/2026
- The War at home, 1917-1919
- Working with Claude on history lectures
- American diplomacy, 1914-1929
- Education links, 7/9/2026
- Modern Military Problems
- America, 1914-1930
- A Successful AI Application
- Not so Great Britain
- Psychology Links, 7/4/2026
- America, 1898-1914: arts, letters, and ideas
- America, 1898-1914 technology and daily life
- America, 1898-1914: Immigration and Labor Organizing
June 2026
- The Democrats *are* the DSA
- There is no AI in Team
- Political Psychology Links, 6/28/2026
- Public Choice Links, 6/27/2026
- AI Links, 6/26/2026
- Bryan Caplan on UATX
- America, 1898-1914: social movements
- Nonprofit Links, 6/23/2026
- America, 1898-1914: The Federal Reserve
- AI links, 6/21/2026
- The Value of Nothing
- America, 1898 -1914: Mergers and anti-trust
- Systems Get Gamed
- Economics Links, 6/17/2026
- *Jews and the Left*
- Education Links, 6/15/2026
- America, 1898-1914: Race and Eugenics
- Comparing Humans and AI on skills
- The Premarital Sex Revolution
- Political Psychology Links, 6/11/2026
- The Progressive Movement, 1898-1914
- America in the world, 1898-1914
- America, 1898-1914, overview, part 3
- America, 1898-1914, overview continued
- Islam as an imperial project
- Psychology Links, 6/5/2026
- America, 1898 -1914, overview part 1
- Books I have re-read
- America among the empires, 1898-1914
- Charles Fain Lehman on the Fight Against Crime
May 2026
- Comments on Kyle Saunders
- The Pope and Jonathan Haidt
- Education Links, 5/29/2026
- Discussing Eric Hoffer
- Economics Links, 5/27/2026
- Fertility Links, 5/26/2026
- Why are you reading fewer books?
- Public Choice Links, 5/24/2026
- Drone Warfare Strategy
- Political Psychology Links, 5/22/2026
- Culture Links, 5/21/2026
- Paul Romer on information and property rights
- Education Links, 5/19/2026
- Technocratic Economics, 1935 - 1975
- Oligarchs, Poligarchs and Foligarchs
- Higher Education Links, 5/16/2026
- Why is pitching in baseball more strenuous?
- Working on the AI Tutor
- Zionism and anti-Zionism
- AI Links, 5/12/2026
- Robert Pozen on AI financial gimmicks
- Culture Links, 5/10/2026
- Public Choice Links, 5/9/2026
- My Socratic Treatise on Political Psychology
- AI Links, 5/7/2026
- Political Psychology AI Tutor, update
- Lorenzo Warby on Feminization
- Political Psychology Links, 5/4/2026
- AI Links, 5/3/2026
- Economics Links, 5/2/2026
- Two UATX videos
April 2026
- Education Links, 4/30/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 4/29/2026
- A Theory of Political Extremism
- AI and Higher Ed Links, 4/27/2026
- The Eradicator Faction?
- AI tutor update, 4/25
- The Politics of Nature vs. Nurture
- Public Choice Links, 4/23/2026
- College Degree Requirements
- AI tutor--next version
- Culture Links, 4/20/2026
- Clueless Colleges Closing
- Money and the Economy
- Computer Security Follies
- My Newest AI Project
- AI and the economy links, 4/15/2026
- Hollis Robbins on Average vs. Marginal
- The Fundamental Dilemma of Schooling
- Economics Links, 4/12/2026
- AI and the high school student
- AI Links,4/9/2026
- Claude explains John Wallis to me
- The Ambiguity Factor
- North, Weingast, and Wallis
- The Moral Dyad
- Some UATX entrepreneur-students
- Why do Financial Intermediaries Exist?
- Why so much stock market trading?
- Fertility Links, 4/1/2026
March 2026
- AI and research papers
- Public Choice Links, 3/30/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 3/29/2026
- AI and higher ed, continued
- Education Links, 3/27/2026
- Tyler Cowen on the state of economics and AI
- Economics Links, 3/30/2026
- AI and Higher Ed
- Culture Links, 3/24/2026
- Fantasy Baseball 2026
- Reactions to AI
- My UATX term winds up
- Montgomery County, MD School Spending
- Economics Links, 3/19/2026
- Culture Links, 3/18/2026
- The AI as an acid-head
- Political Psychology Links, 3/16/2026
- Education Links, 3/15/2026
- My Wish for Software Engineering
- Fertility Links, 3/12/2026
- AI Links, 3/14/2026
- Economics Links, 3/11/2026
- Public Choice Links, 3/10/2026
- Education Links, 3/9/2026
- AI Links, 3/8/2026
- Culture Links, 3/7/2026
- AI links, 3/6/2026
- Some Guesses about AI in 2026
- The FOOL behind cell phone bans for kids
- Political Psychology Links, 3/3/2026
- The Current Thing
- Perceptions of Crime and Disorder
February 2026
- Live with Arnold Kling and Lee Bressler
- Education, Technology, and Controversy
- The Scholar vs. the Professional
- Culture links, 2/26/2026
- John Cochrane gets AI-pilled
- AI and Academia
- Public Choice Links, 2/23/2026
- Economics Links, 2/22/2026
- Pending Change in Higher Ed
- AI Links, 2/20/2026
- David Pinsof on Evolution and Intellectuals
- Education Links, 2/18/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 2/17/2026
- Self-recommending
- Economics Links, 2/16/2026
- Further Progress on AI Teaching Assistant
- AI and the Economy
- Maybe a project?
- Economics Links, 2/12/2026
- How is teaching going?
- Political Psychology Links, 2/10/2026
- Random Notes from Austin
- The Problem Posed by Social AI
- On Personality Psychology
- Public Choice Links, 2/06/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 2/5/2026
- Toward a New College Culture
- Economics Links, 2/3/2026
- AI (Moltbook) links
- Average is Over with AI
January 2026
- On Social Media Bans for Minors
- Education Links, 1/30/2026
- AI Links, 1/29/2026
- Democracy and Moral Issues
- Economics Links, 1/27/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 1/26/2026
- Education Links, 1/25/2026
- Public Choice Links, 1/24/2026
- Culture Links, 1/23/2026
- University Civics Centers: what is the point?
- Need a few days off
- AI links, 1/18/2026
- Corporate Soap Opera at UATX
- Tyler Cowen's AI Campus
- The Intellectual: Will He Wither Away?
- Political Psychology Links, 1/14/2026
- Muller and Koppel on Jews in Israel and America
- Political Psychology Links, 1/12/2026
- AI Links, 1/11/2026
- re-post: My Communist Vision
- Public Choice Links, 1/9/2026
- Actually-existing UATX
- AI and Economics Links
- My Post on *Furious Minds*
- Economics Links, 1/5/2026
- Political Psychology Links, 1/4/2026
- The UATX Brand
- Culture Links, 1/2/2026
- The Trump Derangement Index
2025 353
December 2025
- AI Links, 12/31/2025
- Political Psychology Links, 12/30/2025
- Public Choice Links, 12/29/2025
- When to Graduate from College?
- Beggar thy Neighbor China Trade w/ Arnold Kling & Random Walk
- Picturing my students
- Economics Links, 12/25/2025
- 2025: A Jewish Perspective
- Culture Links, 12/23/2025
- Nothing new for today
- AI Links, 12/21/2025
- Political Psychology Links, 12/20/2025
- Economics Links, 12/19/2025
- Culture Links, 12/18/2025
- Culture Links, 12/17/2025
- Economics Links, 12/16/2025
- Humilitism
- Political Psychology Links, 12/14/2025
- Economics Links, 12/13/2025
- Visions for AI
- Public Choice Links, 12/11/2025
- Conservatism 101
- AI has Educators Polarized
- Political Economy Links, 12/08/2025
- Statistical Methods Links,12/07/2025
- AI Links, 12/06/2025
- If I Taught Conservative Thought
- More Macfarlane
- Your Friends are Your Destiny
- Political Psychology Links, 12/02/2025
- What's Different about Health Care?
November 2025
- Land Ownership, Individualism, and Government
- Land, Debt, and Crises
- Magoon's Model of Radical Movements
- Culture Links, 11/27/2025
- Political Psychology Links, 11/26/2025
- The Nixon Era
- Carbon Bias and AI functionality
- AI links, 11/23/2025
- Extreme Wealth
- Education Links, 11/21/2025
- Culture Links, 11/20/2025
- Economics Links, 11/19/2025
- Some Mortgage Payment Arithmetic
- AI Links, 11/17/2025
- Political Psychology Links, 11/16/2025
- The Homeownership Distraction
- Culture Links, 11/14/2025
- Public Choice links, 11/13/2025
- Cult-like Beliefs
- The one-hoss Shay
- Culture Links, 11/1/2025
October 2025
- White Flight
- Culture Links, 10/30/2025
- Education Links, 10/29/2025
- Shocked, shocked
- AI links, 10/27/2025
- Feminization and Victimhood Culture
- Economics Links, 10/25/2025
- Political Psychology Links, 10/24/2025
- Jews, Media, and Politics
- Public Choice Links, 10/22/2025
- Political Psychology Links, 10/21/2025
- AI Links, 10/20/2025
- Culture Links, 10/19/2025
- Economics Links, 10/18/2025
- Peter Howitt on Coordination
- Political Psychology Links, 10/16/2025
- Baseball seems strange
- I Love the 2025 Economics Nobel Laureates
- Give the man credit
- Education Links, 10/12/2025
- Public Choice Links
- Some Economics Links, 10/10/2025
- Some Political Psychology Links, 10/9/2025
- What Would Winston Churchill Say?
- Political Psychology Links
- Social Media and The Theory of Justice
- Some Links, 10/5/2025
- Some AI Links
- Some Links, 10/3/2025
- Austin Impressions
- Will Computer Science become useless knowledge?
September 2025
- Some Links, 9/30/2025
- Brainstorming and Concept Mapping
- Some Links, 09/28/2025
- Santo, Koufax, and Hausman
- Some Links, 9/26/2025
- Anti-Conservatism
- Some Links, 9/24/2025
- Perspective on AI
- Psychology and Politics Links Links, 9/22/2025
- Some Links, 9/21/2025
- Some Links, 9/20/2025
- The Great Stock Re-pricing
- What I'm Reading
- Screens, Media, and Mental Illness
- Meta-Learning
- Some Links
- The Unbalance of Power
- When a Loser Acts Out
- Some Very Random Links
- Using Replit's latest to create code
- Some Links, 9/10/2025
- Austin Bound
- Some Links, 9/8/2025
- Some Links, 9/7/2025
- AI and Software Productivity
- Reading with AI
- Occupancy Fraud
- Teaching Writing in the age of AI
- School and State
- Asking AI's to critique my network university idea
August 2025
- Some Links, 8/31/2025
- Thoughts on a teaching gig
- Presidents and Integrity
- Some Links, 8/28/2025
- A Few Links, 8/27/2025
- Neither Robot Nor Baby
- A Few Links, 8/25/2025
- A Few Links, 8/24/2025
- Some Links
- More on Alpha School
- A Few Links
- Cash Transfers Fail?
- Some Links, 8/19/2025
- The End of the Post-Holocaust Era
- Some Links, 8/17/2025
- Some Negative Takes on AI and Crypto
- Some Quotes
- Not Hiring is Contagious
- Some Links
- Why isn't every child using Mastery Learning?
- Where is the Moat in AI?
- From YAHOO to Google to AI
- ChatGPT5 drops
- Some Links
- Pity the Harvard Undergrad
- Exit Questions
- Health Care System Problems, again
- Common Experiences
- Institutionalists and Brokenists, Continued
- Who are you going to believe?
- Rating Systems and Dating Systems
July 2025
- Some AI Links
- Turchin vs. Zeihan on China
- Some Thoughts on Tom Lehrer
- The Blind Spot of the Anointed
- What if Hamas Surrendered?
- Some links
- The U.S. Debt Binge will end with a 2-tier health care system
- Project Learning in the age of AI
- Some Links
- AI and GDP: The Caplan-Karnofsky Bet
- The Unconstrained Vision Lives
- DIY vs. Specialization and Trade
- An Exam for the Social Code
- Economists and Dentists
- Complex, real-world tasks
- Conformity and Education
- The Financial Sector
- More thoughts on political realism
- Creative Destruction
- Political Realism
- Mike Munger on the Culture of Capitalism
- Some recommended links
- Some Recent Essays on Schooling
- The God's-eye View of the Economy
- From the comments on Friedman vs. Huemer
- Envy and Suspicion
- David Friedman vs. Michael Huemer
- Feeling Honored
- Revisiting the Iraq War
- The PPI wants kids to know that America is good, actually
- When AI collides with corporate IT
June 2025
- AI and economic growth
- Some Current Things
- How I Engage the AI
- Business Process Audits
- Seminar Update
- The Cooperative Competitor
- Artificial Demand for College
- Controlling Seminar Atmosphere
- A Tutor Interface
- How the seminar looks
- What I'm Reading
- Seminar has real content
- A Glimpse Inside the Vanity Project
- Neither Robot Nor Baby
- Student Assessment in the Age of AI
- Using AI: Queries, Conversations, and Projects
- Assorted Links
- So Near and yet So Far
- No More Forms to Fill Out
- Code works as intended
- My son-in-law's job is safe
- The Software Engineer with Alzheimer's
- Taking a New Direction
- The Seminar Continues
- Economics Links, 6/2/2025
- Transforming Education: AI-Powered Seminar Learning at Scale
- I Say Thank You to Big Pharma
May 2025
- Social Learning Links, 5/31/2025
- Clayton, Missouri
- Macroeconomics: Some Defects
- Social Learning Links, 5/28/2025
- Education Links, 5/27/2025
- Economics Links, 5/26/2025
- AI links, 5/25/2025
- Why I Fear Trumponomics
- Believing in order to Belong
- Social Learning Links, 5/22/2025
- Social Learning Links, 5/21/2025
- Psychology Links, 5/20/2025
- Economics Links, 5/19/2025
- The New Right vs. Conservatism
- Statistical Methods Links, 5/17/2025
- Economics Links, 5/16/2025
- Conservatism vs. Brokenism
- Education Links, 5/14/2025
- Social Learning Links, 5/13/2025
- Fertility Links, 5/12/2025
- The Tyranny of Last Year's Budget
- Social Learning Links, 5/10/2025
- Why is AI not in your productivity statistics?
- Social Learning Links, 5/8/2025
- Social Learning Links, 5/7/2025
- Economics Book Links
- Digital World Dissidents
- Swarthmore in the News
- Economics Links, 5/3/2025
- The Julio Rodriguez All-Stars
- Live with Moses Sternstein (and looking ahead to next week, with a guest)
April 2025
- On RFK, Jr. on Autism
- Anthony Downs on the Alignment Problem
- Anthony Downs on Personalities within Organizations
- The Trade Myths that refuse to die
- Building the Transcontinental Railroad, Today
- Economics Links, 4/25/2025
- Social Learning Links, 4/24/2025
- What I'm Reading
- AI Links, 4/22/2025
- Ken Kesey's Organizational Archetypes
- The Bureaucracy Problem
- Small Machine Warfare, Revisited
- Were the 1960s the 1970s, actually?
- Trends in Mental Disorders
- The Current Thing: Harvard
- Education Links, 4/15/2025
- How Important were the Beatles?
- Psychology Links, 4/11/2025
- Miranomics
- Social Learning Links, 4/9/2025
- What Causes am I For?
- Greg Mankiw on Trumponomics
- Time Off
- Fertility Links, 4/3/2025
- Statistical Methods Links, 4/2/2025
- On Personality Psychology
March 2025
- Concepts for a new economics: government process
- Concepts for a New Economics: Complexity
- The Roundabout Society
- Human Nature vs. Limited Government
- Discussion today (Thursday)
- AI Links, 3/26/2025
- Economics Links, 3/25/2025
- Social Learning Links, 3/24/2025
- "Abundance Progressivism" vs. Reality
- We Have a Gambling Problem
- Education Links, 3/21/2025
- Social Learning Links, 3/20/2025
- Economics Links, 3/19/2025
- Fantasy Baseball, 2025
- Psychology Links, 3/17/2025
- AI links, 3/16/2025
- Baseball Pitching and Injuries
- Jews in 2025: the situation and the conception
- Fertility Links
- The "I Want to. . ." AI App
- The Age of Theatrical Politics
- Games of my youth
- 7 of my opinions about AI
- Economics Links, 3/9/2025
- Social Learning Links, 3/8/2025
- College is a Bundle
- What I'm Reading
- Psychology Links, 3/5/2025
- Live with Arnold Kling
- I come for the central planners
- Where are interest rates headed? plus economics Links, 3/2/2025
- Vibe Change Links, 3/1/2025
February 2025
- LLM Links, 2/28/2025
- What now for Independent Agencies?
- Arnold Kling Martin Gurri The Revolt of the DOGE
- Psychology Links, 2/25/2025
- Social Learning Links, 2/24/2025
- Fertility Links, 2/23/2025
- Fertility Links, 2/22/2025
- LLM links, 2/21/2025
- Economics Links, 2/20/2025
- Social Learning Links, 2/19/2025
- Yascha Mounk on the vibe shift
- Statistical Methods Links, 2/17/2025
- ARC Research Links
- Economics Links, 2/15/2025
- James Cham on AI
- Goodbye, Menu Interfaces
- Social Learning Links, 2/13/2025
- LLM Links, 2/12/2025 and Live Event Friday
- How are Trump and DOGE doing?
- Economics Links, 2/10/2025
- The Intimate World and the Remote World
- The central planners come for me
- AI and the individual human
- Fertility Links, 2/6/2025
- Psychology Links, 2/5/2025
- How Does "Reasoning" Work?
- Narrower, Deeper, Older
- Economics Links, 2/2/2025
- LLM Links, 2/1/2025
January 2025
- Dan Williams on Democracy and Technocracy
- DOGE, Software, and Government
- Fertility Links, 1/29/2025
- Social Learning Links, 1/28/2025
- LLM Links, 1/27/2025
- Crypto is chain-letter technology
- Economics Links, 1/25/2025
- My Debate with Curtis Yarvin
- Which Jobs will AI Take?
- Do Tariffs Reduce Trade Deficits?
- Fertility Links, including a conversation with Lyman Stone
- Inauguration Links
- Psychology Links, 1/19/2025
- Social Learning Links
- LLM Links, 1/17
- Join my Conversation with Lyman Stone
- LLM Links, 1/16
- Economics and Business Links, 1/15
- Children and Social Media Links
- Lyman Stone on the fertility decline
- Business and Economics links, 1/12
- Fertility Links
- Tough Love for California
- Statistical Methods Links
- Leaders, Followers, and Casuals
- Psychology links
- AI in Meta Land
- My Communist Vision
- Business Relationships
- Economics Links, 1/4/2024
- Greater FOOL Theory
- Why are corporations cutting managers?
- Producers and Parasites
2024 390
December 2024
- Fertility Links
- The Decade of Greed
- Social Learning Links
- Overhead Costs vs. Marginal Costs
- Complicated Plots, Undetected
- Jonathan Rauch on Disinformation
- The Enemy is Us on Health Policy
- Economics Links
- LLM Links
- High-school debate: Pro
- Economics Links
- If the doctrine fits, ...
- The Brokenism Axis
- Six Laws of Social Learning
- The Real Cause of Health Care Dysfunction
- Social Learning Links
- Trust and Accountability
- Fischer Black vs. Monetarism
- Will President Trump Revive Liberalism?
- Hedging Inflation with Real Assets
- Mads Larsen on the Fertility Crisis
- On the "elite overproduction" problem
- Syria after Assad
- Fertility Links, 12/8/2024
- Social Learning Links, 12/7/2024
- Links to Consider, 12/6/2024
- Getting it Right vs. Getting Ahead
- The Real Significance of the new AI
- Links to Consider, 12/3/2024
- Putting the I in Team
- LLM Links, 12/1
November 2024
- Should you sell your words to AI?
- Beware of Econ Grad School
- University and State
- Links to Consider, 11/27/2024
- Trump Transition Issues
- Accountability and Authority
- Links to Consider, 11/24/2024
- The Conservative Worry
- Links to Consider, 11/22/2024
- LLM Links, 11/21
- The 2028 Election
- Wars of the Sexes
- LLM links, 11/17
- If I Ran the DOGE
- Links to Consider, 11/16/2024
- My Social Journey Toward the Right
- Links to Consider, 11/14/2024
- My Two Summers in a Factory
- Links to Consider, 11/12/2024
- The Real Mission of the Fed
- Links to Consider, 11/10/2024
- Team Technocrat vs. Team Woke
- Links to Consider, 11/8/2024
- My Number One Issue
- My Takes on the Election
- Links to Consider, 11/6/2024
- Can society be perfect?
- Links to Consider, 11/4/2024
- The Oversized Conglomerate
- Links to Consider, 11/2/24
- Freud and the Beatles
October 2024
- LA meetup on Saturday?
- Links to Consider, 10/31/2024
- What's Holding Up Progress?
- Links to Consider, 10/29/2024
- LLM Links
- Why are we badly governed?
- Links to Consider, 10/26/2024
- Facebook's Challenges
- Risers and Fallers
- Links to Consider, 10/23/2024
- We Argue in Metaphors
- How the national debt will play out
- Links to Consider, 10/20/2024
- World Policing or World Perfecting?
- Changes in the Demand for College
- Links to Consider, 10/17/2024
- Alice Evans on Acemoglu, et al
- Links to Consider, 10/15/2024
- Election Links
- Links to Consider, 10/13/2024
- How Much Dissent is Optimal?
- Zoom event Monday evening October 14
- Links to Consider, 10/11/2024
- The Aphorisms of Merle Kling
- Links to Consider, 10/9/2024
- LLM Links, 10/8/2024
- Baseball 2024 Post-Mortem
- Links to Consider, 10/6
- What Motivates the DC Staffer
- Links to Consider, 10/4
- Who to Believe?
- Links to Consider, 10/2
- Friedman, Williams, and Intellectual Charity
September 2024
- Links to Consider, 9/30
- Israel says "maybe" to a cease-fire
- Sorting Out Social Epistemology
- My Frustration with LLMs
- LLM Links, 9/26/2024
- Sam Hammond on Neoliberalism
- Links to Consider, 9/24/2024
- Speaking of Mind Viruses
- Links to Consider, 9/22/2024
- Links to Consider, 9/20/2024
- LLM Links, 9/19/2024
- In Praise of Liberal Quakerism
- Where do you Stand?
- The Israel-Iran War
- Roundabout Production
- Links to Consider, 9/15/24
- Some Problems with Technocracy
- Links to Consider, 9/13
- Policy and the Passive Voice
- Is Rational Argument Hopeless?
- Links to Consider, 9/10
- Why do Stupid People Exist?
- LLM Links
- Links to Consider, 9/7
- A Guide to Watching the Group-Status Game
- Humans as Cooperators
- David Roman on Munich and Ukraine
- Links to Consider, 9/3
- The Group-Status Lens
- Links to Consider, 9/1
August 2024
- LLM links, 8/31
- Universities and Reverse Assimilation
- Economists vs. Non-economists
- The MIT Economics Canon (?)
- Links to Consider, 8/27
- Links to Consider, 8/26
- John Goodman on Health Care Regulation
- Personality: HEXACO vs. Big Five
- Liberalism and Immigration in the 3-layers model
- PSST: there is no aggregate labor market
- LLM Links
- On Universities
- Links to Consider, 8/19
- Links Regarding The Revolt of the Public
- Jonathan Rauch on Liberalism
- Links to Consider, 8/16
- Social Epistemology: Process vs. Outcome
- Theme From an Imaginary Book
- Is "luxury beliefs" a useful category?
- Links to Consider, 8/12
- Links to Consider
- Current thing: we are being played (con't)
- Special Guest Monday
- LLM Links, 8/8
- Links to Consider, 8/7
- Current Thing: The Coming Jewish Dilemma
- Southwest opts for Price Discrimination
- Links to Consider, 8/4
- Current Thing: The Biden Entourage
- Raj Chetty Strikes Again
- Links to Consider, 8/1
July 2024
- LLM Links
- The UBI is dead
- Links to Consider, 7/29
- Hear me Rant, Monday evening
- Pleas to change childhood
- Links to Consider, 7/27
- The Current Thing: Kamala Harris
- Zoom event Tuesday
- Links to Consider, 7/25
- Liberalism vs. the New Right
- Links to Consider, 7/23
- The Woke Virus and its Hosts
- Links to Consider, 7/21
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Productivity Data
- J.D. Vance links
- Centralization vs. Decentralization
- Links to Consider, 7/17
- Matt Y's Declaration of Independence
- Links to Consider, 7/15
- Essential Readings in Economics
- LLM links
- Links to Consider, 7/12
- NatPros and NatCons
- Links to Consider, 7/10
- Senator Josh Hawley and Me
- Links to Consider, 7/8
- The Courtier Game
- Economics: Chicago, Austria, and me
- Links to Consider, 7/5
- A Butterfly Effect
- Links to Consider, 7/3
- The NatCons in Europe and America
- The U.S. is in a Crisis
June 2024
- The Current Thing
- Links to Consider, 6/30
- The true story -- as best I can remember -- of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape.
- Man and Superman
- The Mission for Freddie and Fannie
- Links to Consider, 6/26
- LLM Links, 6/25
- Are We the Bad Guys?
- Tonight: Alternatives to Standard K-12 Education
- Links to Consider, 6/23
- The Importance of Measurement Error
- Steve Teles on Academia
- Camp Mill, once again
- Links to Consider, 6/19
- Next week Zoom event; recording of this week
- Steve Sailer's Greatest Hits
- Yuval Levin on Maintaining Political Peace
- LLM Links
- Links to Consider, 6/15
- Libertarianism: Milei's Example
- Links to Consider, 6/13
- Zoom meeting with Moses Sternstein
- Splinter Groups
- Links to Consider, 6/11
- My Favorite Business Books
- How to Fix Higher Education
- David Boaz and the state of libertarianism
- Israel is America's 51st state
- LLM Links
- Small-machine Warfare
- Links to Consider, 6/4
- Helen Dale on ideology/personality fit
- Links to Consider, 6/2
- Are Chatbots Dangerous for Teachers?
May 2024
- Links to Consider
- Are Humans Evolved to be Machiavellian?
- Jewish Christophobia
- Links to Consider, 5/28
- The Nonprofit Brand
- Links to Consider, 5/26
- LLM links
- An AI PC is an Oxymoron
- Links to Consider, 5/23
- Vouchers and Government Control
- Links to Consider, 5/21
- Links to Consider, 5/20
- Reminder, Zoom meeting today
- The Day After in Gaza
- Contra the Dourado-Tainter story
- Links to Consider, 5/17
- Thoughts on Dopamine Culture
- My Books, Essay #9
- LLM links
- Is Big Tech Too Big?
- Links to Consider, 5/13
- The Economics Profession Congratulates Itself
- Links to Consider, 5/11
- My Books, Essay #8
- Status-Driven Syndrome
- Social Media and other Status Games
- Links to Consider, 5/7
- Robert Solow Memorial Conference
- My Books, Essay #7
- Links to Consider, 5/4
- My Books, Essay #6
- Links to Consider, 5/2
- My Books, Essay #5
April 2024
- Links to Consider, 4/30
- Reminder: Zoom event for paid subscribers
- Say's Law for Bureaucrats
- The Hippies vs. The Woke
- Links to Consider, 4/27
- Waiting for Netscape
- Links to Consider, 4/25
- My Books, Essay #4
- Can Gender Norms Please Everyone?
- My Books, Essay #3
- Links to Consider, 4/21
- My Books, Essay #2
- Conservative Weakness
- Links to Consider, 4/18
- My Books, Essay #1
- Israel's Choices
- Links to Consider, 4/15
- Rescheduled for May 1
- Do Economists Understand Business?
- The State of Progress in AI
- Links to Consider, 4/12
- From Natural Mystery to Social Mystery
- Zoom Event Rescheduled
- Links to Consider, 4/10
- Cowen Argues with Haidt
- John Tooby on Dysgenics
- Links to Consider, 4/7
- How I Teach Statistics
- Live event Thursday April 11
- Links to Consider, 4/5
- Dan Williams on Social Learning
- LLM links
- Probability and Subjective Certainty
- Links to Consider, 4/1
March 2024
- Israel, once again
- Creative Types and Management Types
- Links to Consider, 3/29
- What is Probability?
- Links to Consider, 3/27
- Where is the Progress?
- Links to consider, 3/25
- Deficits, Inflation, and Conflict
- Links to Consider, 3/23
- Naive Realism and the Unconstrained Vision
- Links to Consider, 3/21
- Fantasy Baseball 2024
- LLM links, 3/19
- Links to Consider, 3/18
- Steve Levitt on the academic career path
- Dear High School Freshman
- Links to Consider, 3/15
- Links to Consider, 3/14
- Claude's Shmuck is Bigger!
- Where I stand on libertarianism
- LLM Links, 3/11
- Links to Consider, 3/10
- Obvious Business Opportunities
- Three Components of Social Order
- Links to Consider, 3/7
- LLM links
- Economic Activity in Context
- Links to Consider, 3/4
- Dan Williams on Cooperation
- Can Marriage Be Saved?
- Links to Consider, 3/1
February 2024
- Intelligence is a Process
- Confirmation Bias: A Bayesian Interpretation
- LLM links, 2/27
- Reminders for live events
- Rob Henderson's *Troubled*
- Links to Consider, 2/25
- LLM Links, 2/24
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Race
- Reminder for Monday evening
- Links to Consider, 2/22
- Elite? Or Ultra-Citified?
- Non-Bank Finance in America
- A Profit-Seeking Government?
- Links to Consider, 2/18
- Jews and Communism
- Links to Consider, 2/16
- LLM Links, 2/15
- A Libertarian Gets Mugged
- Links to Consider, 2/13
- LLM links, 2/12
- Rob Henderson and Lorenzo Warby on Elite Beliefs
- Links to Consider
- Statistical Jargon to Use and to Avoid
- Links to Consider, 2/8
- Walk and talk the Delaware seashore?
- Reminder for paid subscribers
- Links to Consider, 2/6
- Boomer Nostalgia
- LLM links, 2/4
- The GDP Indicator
- Links to Consider, 2/2
- Zoom event for paid subscribers
- Wright and Wrong Ways to Debate
- Wright and Wrong
January 2024
- A Walk and Talk
- Links to Consider, 1/30
- LLM links
- Links to Consider
- Current Things
- Links to Consider, 1/26
- The Threat to Democracy
- Discussing the book *The Geek Way*
- Links to Consider, 1/24
- Copper, Abundance, and Scarcity
- Links to Consider
- What Stops Learning?
- The Null Hypothesis Strikes Again
- Links to Consider, 1/19
- Links to Consider, 1/18
- Vietnam in the Middle East
- Decision Rules vs. Pattern Matching
- LLM links
- Links to Consider
- Anti-Communism and 20th-century Economics
- Links to Consider
- The Lifelong Learner
- NYT vs. LLMs
- Conversation with Dan Williams
- The True Role of the Central Bank
- Links to Consider
- Trump, the Ballot, and the State of Exception
- Reminder: Zoom discussion Monday
- Links to Consider
- Links to Consider
- Is "race realism" realistic?
- Race, Genetics, and High Achievement
- For Paid Subscribers on January 8
- The Claudine Gray Litmus Test
- GPT/LLM links
2023 401
December 2023
- Links to Consider
- The Constitution and Mr. Trump
- Links to Consider
- The Left had a difficult year
- How Does a Mind Change?
- LLM links
- Anticipating the Uses of the new AI
- Links to Consider
- Fashion >> Logic
- On Robert Solow
- Reading of the Year
- LA meetup this Saturday morning
- LLM links
- Links to Consider
- LA Meetup? Andrey Mir book discussion?
- An Essay Grade that is not a B
- Links to Consider, 12/16
- More Essay-grader Results
- Links to Consider, 12/14
- Internet upstarts vs. legacy institutions
- Links to Consider, 12/12
- Economics and the Social Justice Activist
- Links to Consider, 12/10
- The Superpower of Large Language Models
- Links to Consider, 12/8
- Three Languages for Avoiding Discussion
- Some more results from my essay-grader GPT
- Going Against the Crowd
- Testing my GPT to grade essays: an example
- What Cannot be Discussed
- Invitation to try my op-ed grader GPT
- Dan Williams on Social Epistemology
- Links to Consider, 12/1
November 2023
- Who needs Bureaucracy?
- MM notes, chapter 7 to the conclusion
- Links to Consider
- Software Development in the Old Days
- Links to Consider, November 26
- My Recent Reading
- Links to Consider, 11/24
- The Limits of AI
- Toward a Textbook on Human Interdependence
- MM notes, chapters 4 through 6
- Links to Consider, 11/20
- Open AI and its apps
- Links to Consider, 11/18
- MM notes, chapter 3
- Links to Consider, 11/16
- MM notes, chapter 2
- Is the Overton Window Moving to the Right?
- For paid subscribers tonight--reminder
- MM notes, chapter 1
- Links to Consider, 11/12
- The UBI should be inadequate
- Links to Consider, 11/10
- Grading an Essay by Noah Smith
- GPT/LLM links
- Zoom discussion for paid subscribers
- MM notes, introductory material
- Using AI to grade commentary
- Wisdom and Influence
- Links to Consider, November 5
- The AI regulation order
- Links to Consider, November 3
- Dying to Please the Moderates
- Links to Consider
October 2023
- GPT/LLM links
- Michael Muthukrishna Talks His Book
- Links to Consider, 10/29
- Re-evaluations Since October 6
- Rajiv Sethi Comments
- Links to Consider, 10/26
- Zionism and Ethnonationalism
- A Conference on Intellectual Humility
- World War II History
- For Paid Subscribers this evening
- Links to Consider, 10/23
- Teenagers out of School
- Links to Consider, 10/21
- GPT/LLM links
- Monday Evening Zoom meeting
- The Quest for Autonomy
- The Gaza Hospital Tragedy
- Conservatives outside the comfort zone
- When Social Justice Equals Genocide
- Stories to Watch: Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
- Watch Out for Crowding Out
- Rewarding the use of Human Shields is a War Crime
- Links to Consider, 10/15
- Stories to Watch: For teenagers, 18 is the new 14
- I Condemn. . .But
- Links to Consider, 10/13
- Gaza Memories
- The Current War and WWII
- Conservative vs. Progressive Takes on Hamas and Israel
- The latest Economics Nobel Prize and Me
- GPT/LLM links
- Links to Consider,10/7
- The Trouble with Books
- Links to Consider, 10/5
- AI in 2023 is like the Web in 1993
- Stories to Watch: Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
- Links to Consider, 10/2
- What's happened to pitching?
September 2023
- Stories to Watch: Stock Market Arithmetic
- Links to Consider, 9/29
- Stories to Watch: Industrial Policy
- Links to Consider, 9/27
- Why No Anarcho-Capitalism?
- Links to Consider, 9/25
- The Strategy of Dating Short Men
- A Field Guide to the Anti-Woke
- Stories to Watch: Emerging Matriarchy
- Links to Consider, 9/21
- GPT/LLM links
- Zoom discussion tomorrow
- Why are race relations worse?
- Most Business Mistakes are not Fatal
- Stories to Watch: Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
- Links to Consider, 9/16
- Arithmetic and Builder Buydowns
- Links to Consider, 9/14
- Distracting Ourselves to Death
- Links to Consider, 9/12
- The Case for the Republican Establishment
- Madness in their Methods
- Reminder: Sunday for paid subscribers
- Links to Consider, 9/9
- The Decline of Liberalism
- This Time They Mean It
- Links to Consider, 9/6
- Zoom meeting for paid subscribers
- GPT/LLM links
- Links to Consider, 9/4
- Stories to Watch: Tech Stock Arithmetic
- Stories to Watch: Politics in the Streets
- Stories to Watch: Industrial Policy
August 2023
- Stories to Watch: Unsustainable Fiscal Policy
- Links to Consider, 8/30
- Gurwinder on Cognitive Strategies
- Links to Consider, 8/28
- True North
- Links to Consider, 8/26
- The Trouble with Chesterton's Fence
- Links to Consider, 8/24
- Michael Huemer on Thought Crime
- GPT/LLM links, 8/22
- Substacks offer relationship advice
- Stories to Watch: Industrial Policy
- Links to Consider, 8/19
- GPT/LLM links
- Rob Henderson on Status-Seeking
- Links to Consider, 8/16
- U.S. Government Bonds are Junk Bonds
- Links to Consider, 8/14
- We're All Wrong About AI
- Links to Consider, 8/12
- Is there a unitary self?
- GPT/LLM links
- Links to Consider, 8/9
- Warby from a Sowell perspective
- N.S. Lyons on the panic of the managerial class
- Links to Consider, 8/6
- Lorenzo Warby guest appearance
- Bumper Bowling into Adulthood
- Links to Consider, 8/4
- The Mutual Friend
- An Epistemic Crisis?
- Links to Consider, 8/1
July 2023
- Health Policy: Finkelstein-Einav, Cowen, and me
- Link for Monday night zoom
- Links to Consider, 7/30
- Responses to Reader Questions, 7/29
- Links to Consider, 7/28
- Yellen (and Akerlof)
- Disinflation might be Transitory; live Zoom on 7/31
- Links to Consider, 7/25
- GPT/LLM links
- Links to Consider, 7/23
- Hanania, Rufo, and Conservative Strategy
- Links to Consider, 7/21
- Reader Questions?
- The Marginal Revolution is Dead
- Links to Consider, 7/18
- Loyalty Tests Signify Religious Authority
- Links to Consider, 7/16
- Israel as a Preview of America
- Links to Consider, 7/14
- GPT/LLM links
- Links to Consider, 7/12
- Marijuana Reconsidered
- For Monday night
- Links to Consider, 7/10
- David Friedman on the Mating/Reproduction Game
- Links to Consider, 7/8
- Libertarianism as a Warning System
- Readings on the current state of the economy
- Where did you get your political preferences?
- Act locally, work remotely
- Links to Consider, 7/3
- Specialization and Trade are Increasing
- Why Health Insurance Systems are Mismanaged
June 2023
- Narrow Banking and Conscripted Banking
- GPT/LLM links
- Price Discrimination Explains College Tuition
- Links to Consider, 6/27
- Politics Under the Constrained Vision
- Links to Consider, 6/25
- Could Bank Regulation be Privatized?
- The Mating/Reproduction Game
- Links to Consider, 6/22
- How did my genes survive?
- Assume Positive Motivation
- Links to Consider, 6/19
- Index Investing is Misunderstood
- Is Mental Illness Merely a Social Construct?
- Links to Consider, 6/16
- Productivity down as Remote Work up?
- Re-imagining the Conference
- Links to Consider, 6/13
- GPT/LLM links, 6/12
- Links to Consider, 6/11
- Diagnosing the U.S. Health Care System
- Rob Henderson lectures on Status
- Deming, Quality, Education, and Health
- Richard Hanania on the Tech Right
- Links to Consider, 6/6
- ASK links
- Why Narrow Banking?
- How do Parents Matter?
- GPT/LLM links
- Democracy does not mean will of the people
May 2023
- Outrage Porn for Everyone
- Exploit, Explore, Copy
- Links to Consider, 5/29
- Brett Andersen on the evolution of morality
- The House-Concert App
- Links to Consider, 5/26
- What Banks Do
- JEP links
- GPT/LLM links 5/23
- Links to Consider, 5/22
- Expectations of a Macroeconomist
- Justice, order, and the left-right divide
- Links to Consider, 5/19
- The Great White Defendant
- Volkswagen is not Microsoft
- Links to Consider, 5/16
- Tomorrow Live Zoom for everyone
- GPT/LLM links, 5/15
- The Intention Heuristic and Non-Profits
- Links to Consider, 5/13
- Local government, exit, and voice
- Freddie deBoer on Monday
- GPT/LLM links, 5/11
- Assimilating Women into Male Institutions
- GPT/LLM links, 5/9
- Links to Consider, 5/8
- Monday night: Bryan Caplan joins on Zoom
- Jean Twenge on Premarital Sex
- Links to Consider, 5/6
- Divided over Liberty and Equality
- Links to Consider, 5/4
- Big Firms Need to be Sluggish
- Links to Consider, 5/2
- Notes from #EconTwitterIRL
April 2023
- GPT/LLM links, 4/30
- The p Factor
- Monday night with Tim B. Lee
- Links to Consider, 4/28
- Small Firms Beware
- Matt Levine on Banking
- Links to Consider, 4/25
- Links related to natalism
- Monday night Zoom for paid subscribers
- Links to Consider, 4/23
- Subscription Milestones
- Links to Consider from National Affairs
- Payment in a Cashless Society
- Links to Consider, 4/19
- Monetary Theory for a Cashless Society
- Links to Consider, 4/17
- GPT links, 4/16
- Links to Consider, 4/15
- Excessive Daydreaming
- Links to Consider, 4/13
- Who is in San Antonio?
- What Motivates Humans?
- Links to Consider, 4/10
- Will Notes Ruin Substack?
- LLM Links, 4/8
- Links to Consider, 4/7
- The Muddle of Labor and Capital
- Links to Consider, 4/5
- Adverse Selection of Leaders
- LLM links, 4/3
- Links to Consider, 4/2
- Lorenzo Warby Complains about Economists
March 2023
- Links to Consider, 3/31
- An organization gets the software systems it deserves
- Fantasy Baseball, 2023
- ChatGPT/LLM links, 3/28
- Links to Consider, 3/27
- Organizational Behavior: Incentive Systems Get Gamed
- Kling vs. Cochrane
- Links to Consider, 3/24
- ChatGPT/LLM links, 3/23
- The 2 Percent Inflation Target is Toast
- Links to Consider, 3/21
- Reminder: Zoom event for paid subscribers tonight
- The Teach-a-Thon
- Links to Consider, 3/19
- The SVB story: narrative and causes
- Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard
- The Formal and the Informal
- Financial Regulation is a Challenge
- Links to Consider, 3/16
- When Accounting Departs from Economics
- Links to Consider, 3/15
- You Don't Want Zombie Banks
- Links to Consider, 3/14
- Moral Hazard is widely misunderstood
- Banking and Moral Hazard
- To My Readers
- Zoom event with Alan Pentz
- Mark to Market Sooner, not Later
- The Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility
- Bing/ChatGPT links, 3/9
- Links to Consider, 3/8
- Expanding on Moral Dyad Theory
- Links to Consider, 3/6
- What's the matter with kids today?
- Marc Andreessen on Availability Cascades
- Links to Consider, 3/3
- Speculation about ChatGPT/Bing/LLMs
- Lorenzo Warby on Adverse Selection of Elites
February 2023
- Links to Consider, 2/28
- Live on Friday: Robin Hanson and me
- The Unbundling of Christianity
- Rationalists vs. Community
- Links to Consider, 2/25
- Bing/Sydney links, 2/24
- Links to Consider, 2/23
- Is there a market failure in child care?
- Misreading others' minds: Moral Dyads
- Links to Consider, 12/20
- Human Evolution and Collaboration
- Links to Consider, 2/18
- Recent links related to Bing/Sydney, 2/17
- Recent Links Related to ChatGPT, 2/16
- Kevin Corcoran on Jeffrey Friedman's proposal for "Exitocracy"
- The State and Commitments
- Links to Consider, 2/13
- An Explanation of Reinforcement Learning for AI
- Links to Consider, 2/11, with uncharitable remarks by ChatASK
- Links to Consider, 2/10
- Exit and Voice
- ChatGPT: what I know and don't know about it
- Links to Consider, 2/7
- What Economics (and Sociology) ought to be
- Links to Consider, 2/5
- The ChatGPT of 1993
- Links to Consider, 2/3
- Recent Links related to ChatGPT, 2/2
- This Monday evening: ChatGPT and Knowledge Management
- Links to Consider, 2/1
January 2023
- Five ChatGPT Businesses You Should Start Today
- Discuss Peter Zeihan's *End of the World*
- Links to Consider, 1/30
- Links to Consider, 1/29
- Cooperate or Defect?
- Links to Consider, 1/27
- Organizational Behavior: Hiring for Serenity
- Links to Consider, 1/25
- Sociology, Links, and ChatGPT
- Tonight: Discuss ChatGPT with Alex Tabarrok
- Links to Consider, 1/23
- Links to Consider, 1/22
- Naive Realism
- Links to Consider, 1/20
- Links to Consider, 1/19
- Monday 1/23 discussion of the Current Thing
- Books are not Information Dense
- Links to Consider, 1/17
- Links to Consider, 1/16
- Misreading Others' Minds: Asymmetric Insight
- Links to Consider, 1/14
- People Who Should Learn to use ChatGPT
- Lorenzo Warby's Political Economy
- Links to Consider, 1/11
- The Great Re-Evaluation
- Links to Consider, 1/9
- Is Macroeconomics Nomothetic or Idiographic?
- Links to Consider, 1/7
- Don't Expect a Network State
- Reminder: Monday discussion with Eric Kaufmann
- Links to Consider, 1/5
- Fiske's Relational Models
- Political Symbols and Misdirection
- Links to Consider, 1/2
- Dominance, Prestige, and Propriety