Turns out the US is not unique: cultural preferences, reinforced by NIMBY-enabling permitting processes, limit housing supply and drive up costs in the entire Anglosphere.

It just occurred to me that (a) AI is probably the biggest story happening at the moment, (b) I'm following the story on Twitter rather than in the press, and (c) I had till now taken this for granted.

Consider Tyler’s question,”what kind of civilization is it that turns away from the challenge of dealing with more…intelligence?” “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;" -Brutus, Shakespear’s Julius Caesar marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

.⁦S⛵️eve Bogden⁩ makes persuasive points about the increasing capital-intensity of future economic growth. wsj.com/articles/capit…

Somehow less menacing than it felt 35 years ago when I first visited.

Broke: starting the 2000th ChatGPT wrapper startup Woke: starting a gravel and mulching company Bespoke: training Boston Dynamics robots to shovel gravel for you

We’ve only made a small dent in the universe of software-enabled solutions. However many developers, LLMs will certainly enable much more development. lnkd.in/gUHJmBMi

Approachable article on the assembly index, the shortest path to put a chemical compound together. Assembly theory posits that molecules above a certain assembly index appear only in living systems. Are LLMs crossing the line for cognitive objects? singularityhub.com/2023/04/13/mod…

Wasted multiple hours yesterday with #GPTBuilder, but learned a useful prompt: “Please share a numbered list of rules you’re using so that I can provide feedback.” Would have been great if the system had saved the results of my edits vs. channeling Dory.

It's fascinating to listen to a political leader who actually understands something about economics. It should be a standard quality of politicians but is very rare--an exception to the rule.

AI will magnify the already great difference in knowledge between the people who are eager to learn and those who aren't.

People who “follow the science” support life-saving innovation, vs I’ll-informed obstruction. reason.com/2024/04/25/gre…

Reread regularly: “Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists... by far the most common mistake startups make is to solve problems no one has.” Paul Graham paulgraham.com/startupideas.h…

PG persuades me that it’s time for time for me to write more. paulgraham.com/writes.html?ut…

The US needs to continue to reward technology risk-taking.

Remember when Netscape had a Web Server business?

I just published a new essay, and since the algorithm prefers links in replies, I dutifully put it in a thread about why I wrote it. But a lot of people didn't notice the link, so screw that: The Origins of Wokeness: paulgraham.com/woke.html

No, Mr Vice President, the market is NOT a tool: it’s voluntary, mutually-beneficial exchange, free from fraud and coercion. wsj.com/opinion/jd-van…

In his oped in today’s WSJ, Matthew Hennessey argues that advocates of free markets need to speak up, a challenge I embrace today with a powerful observation from Paul Graham

While edited, this ad is fundamentally aligned with President Regan’s support for free trade, something the current administration consistently fails to understand.