Marginal Revolution

@MargRev

Small steps toward a much better world.

Joined February 2011

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 7 h

Claims about DOGE and AI marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligence tool to slash federal regulations, with the goal of eliminating half of Washington’s regulatory mandates by the first anniversary of...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 8 h

Saturday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. A paradox of robotics. 2. “AI is devaluing the MBA.” 3. The Bryan Caplan of prediction markets? 4. Philosopher-Builder summer reads. 5. Indian studio alters 2013 hit movie with new AI-generated...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · 17 h

China kindergarten fact of the day marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. The number of children in Chinese kindergartens has fallen by a quarter in four years, prompting the closure of tens of thousands of preschools in the country as a precipitous drop in births hits the...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 25

Why does renovating the Fed cost so much? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Here is a good WSJ piece on that question. Excerpt: For example, members of the fine arts commission in 2020 recommended that the Fed use more marble to better match the original buildings. The Fed...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 25

Friday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. Can yogurt lower your house temperature? 2. Yet another way of using AI to crack Roman transcriptions. 3. Janhavi Nilekani on inclusivity in health care. 4. Progress on genetically editing...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 25

USA fact of the day marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. You know what’s cool… a quadrillion tokens. We processed almost 1,000,000,000,000,000 tokens last month, more than double the amount from May. That is from Demis Hassabis. And here is Demis discus...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 25

Horseshoe Theory: Trump and the Progressive Left marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Many of Trump’s signature policies overlap with those of the American progressive left—e.g. tariffs, economic nationalism, immigration restrictions, and deep distrust of elite institutions. Trump...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 25

Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Here is a recent paper by Benjamin S. Kay, Aeimit Lakdawala, and Jane Ryngaert: Using a novel dataset linking professional forecasters in the Wall Street Journal Economic Forecasting Survey to their...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 24

What should I ask George Selgin? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Yes, I will be having a Conversation with him, live at the Cato Institute on September 26th, here is some basic information: Website: https://www.cato.org/events/false-dawn-new-deal-promise-recover...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 24

*The Economist* on the speed of AI take-off marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. A booming but workerless economy may be humanity’s ultimate destination. But, argues Tyler Cowen of George Mason University, an economist who is largely bullish about AI, change will be slower than...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 24

Thursday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. Alvin Lucier’s brain is still making music. He died in 2021. 2. Bryan Johnson update. 3. “The Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force has unearthed a fake embassy operating in Ghaziabad and has...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 24

USA fact of the day marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

$MargRev's tweet card. …fraction of children living with two parents is highest it’s been since 1991 (which wouldn’t be surprising with less teen/v young pregnancy)… That is from Kevin Bryan, here is the source material.$

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 24

My excellent Conversation with Helen Castor marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Helen explore what English government could and couldn’t do in the 14th century, why landed nobles obeyed the...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 23

That was then, this is now, AI edition marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. COWEN: They can now do Math Olympiad problems. There’s one forecast by someone working on this that, within a year, they’ll win Math Olympiads. It could be wrong, but when you say that it’s only a...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 23

Wednesday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 1. State-level arts funding is to some extent substituting for federal arts funding. 2. Norwegian sovereign wealth fund deploys AI. And more thinking is not always good for the AI. 3. Some Amish...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 23

China fact of the day marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. China alone accounts for almost 1000 hotels that include Vienna in their name, far more than any country, including Austria itself. This article is more generally about what you learn when you study...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 23

Markets in everything, bet on tariff repeal edition marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, has offered to buy the right to hundreds of millions of dollars in potential refunds from...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 22

Stablecoin podcast with Garett Jones marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. 37 minutes, fresh material in here, see also Spotify under Bluechip Dialogues.

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 22

AIs and Spontaneous Order marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. Tupy and Boettke in the WSJ on AI and the economy: The belief that AI can achieve comparable results to free markets, let alone surpass them, reflects a misplaced confidence in computation and a...

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Marginal Revolution@MargRev · Jul 22

The Benefits of Scholastic Athletics marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

MargRev's tweet card. This paper uses longitudinal data to study the benefits of participation in scholastic athletics starting with high school participation and continuing with college athletics, including the benefits...

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