Marginal Revolution
Trade reform and economic growth
From the excellent Doug Irwin: Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to fa ...View More
What should I ask Paul Bloom?
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is Wikipedia: Paul Bloom…is a Canadian ...View More
The Prisoner’s Dilemma of Non-Competes
I agree with Tyler, that the FTC ban on non-competes is overly broad and not tailored to fields wher ...View More
The Norwegian ban on smart phones in middle schools
Here is a new paper by Sara Abrahamsson. Perhaps there is Norwegian exceptionalism at work, bu ...View More
Why do I prefer current airport procedures?
Michael Stack writes me: “Hi Tyler – you wrote about preferring current airport procedures to pre-9/ ...View More
It’s happening, Reid Hoffman AI twin edition, wwrgs?
Why did I deepfake myself? To see if conversing with an AI-generated version of myself can lead to ...View More
Imagine recording and storing everything you read
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses just got a massive Multimodal upgrade – Meta AI with Vision It doesn't j ...View More
What can LLMs never do?
By Rohit Krishnan, he and I are both interested in the question of what LLMs cannot do, and why.&nbs ...View More
What is the proper policy toward tourists?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, basically you should charge them fees rather than d ...View More
More Tuesday links
1. AI Camera turns your images into poetry. 2. Highly capable model locally on your phone. 3. Clara ...View More