"Economics of transformative AI” summer course wrapped up just over a week ago. Here are the slide-decks from the course: docs.google.com/document/d/1hS… Most of the slides are from the (inimitable) Philip Trammell, some from me, and some from our great guest lecturers (1/2)

this is probably a massive deal but it depends on your r_wacc.

A smart man I know estimated that partisan tribalism drops IQ by about 15 points. But there are outliers.

Hey Claude: "Please create the PowerPoint shared by the high powered management consultants hired by Hamlet after seeing his fathers ghost" That was the only prompt. Loved that Claude made this from the McKinsey Elsinore office (with the right colors!), also that SWOT analysis!

Is it better to automate workers or managers? Our intuitions and desires might lead to a fundamental tension. Hear more at the Justified Posteriors podcast, available on all podcast platforms.

נתניהו יודע את האמת, והיום פלט אותה: ממשלת הכאוס שלו גוררת את כולנו להיות *מדינה מצורעת*, אוטרקיה. המדינה האוטרקית היחידה שאני מכיר היום היא צפון קוריאה. משמעות *חזון המדינה המצורעת* של נתניהו-בן גביר-גולדקנופף: חיילים משוחררים יירדפו בנחיתתם בחו״ל, חברות הייטק יעברו לארה״ב

Books are important in summarizing research lit for policymakers & public. Still lots of open space for the most important AI topics... (books by Erik Brynjolfsson Matt Beane Leopold Aschenbrenner Isaac Baley Laura Veldkamp Ajay Agrawal Avi Goldfarb Joshua Gans & more!) kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookRev…

The implication is that the returns to building good simulated environments and world models are tremendous - a bit like imagenet but with real interactions and feedback.

A lot of you don’t know (but now you will!) that Andrey Fradkin and Seth Benzell - the LA-atic Stranger have an excellent podcast (and newsletter!) where they cover the new papers on Economics and AI They often make me company at the gym and I learn a lot from them open.spotify.com/show/6GAE7zHAn…

There is literally nothing that will prepare you for the future more than reading analytic philosophy

New AI benchmark proposal. Can the AI use a browser to create a t-shirt design and successfully sell it online without human intervention. I shall call it t-shirt bench.

Proud to be a Moldovan-American today.

If one of the big labs or coding assistants (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc) built in “Hello World” SaaS github starter templates in Typescript/Python that had strong security, auth, Stripe integration, MCP, and deployment best practices handled with one click deployment

Andrej @Karpathy provides an insightful review and extension of the epic discussion between Richard Sutton and Dwarkesh Patel The Bitter Lesson never tasted so sweet.

Early digitization

Wrote this 3 years ago

Roon! Overinvestment would lead to lower interest rates. Someone correct this Arthur character.

This was great. 2 hours of Phil poking at leaky abstractions, like real GDP, productivity, tasks, effective compute, and even suffering. We should aspire to interrogate the models and claims we take for granted as well as Phil.

A Western coalition installs a group of politically neutral technocrats as rulers of newly conquered Gaza. The year is 1150