On Russian reserves. To answer some of the reasonable objections:
I am not very worried about precedent. I think the contingency is well defined. If you engage in physical war, then you are at risk.
Holding dollar or euro reserves does not imply holding them in the US or in…

Despite all the noise in the media, the past 15 years, and especially the past four have been relatively good ones for the United States economy compared to the rest of the world.

Here's a short summary of the Economics of Generative AI that Danielle Li and I wrote for the NBER

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Know an amazing software Engineer?

@Workhelix is hiring!

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One of humanity’s greatest strengths is our ability to improvise

It’s striking how many of the people who demand the harshest action against hateful, repugnant speech today are the same people who wanted more leeway for hateful, repugnant speech a few years ago.

Banning smartphones in schools is good for learning and well-being.

New study of 400+ middle schools in Norway: after smartphone bans, girls had fewer mental health issues & better grades. Boys and girls were less likely to be bullied.

Smartphones belong at home or in lockers.

I think a lot of people would be genuinely surprised that the US is not only not declining on the world stage, it's currently gaining in global economic share.

US GDP increased 1.4 trillion dollars last year, which is equivalent to adding the entire country of Spain.

As President of Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), proud of our team's efforts in bringing everyone from @openai to @aclu and many orgs in between to support more funding for NIST, an institution that is now among the most important in the federal government.

Bob Wachter JAMA Erik Brynjolfsson Wait until you see what I am working on....

Luck or skill?

We live in amazing times:

“Much as ChatGPT learns to generate language… Profluent’s technology creates new gene editors after analyzing enormous amounts of biological data”

via ⁦Cade Metz⁩ @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/04/22/tec…

Would the opponents of getting rid of the penny be willing to change their minds if we made them worth 5 cents instead?

What’s the best argument against abolishing the penny?

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I hope this is extremely clear.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 The number of highly successful multinationals coming out of Sweden, a country of just 10 million people, is astonishing. Think Volvo, IKEA, Saab, Spotify, Ericsson, EQT. Very impressive nation! Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Patrick Collison tylercowen Erik Brynjolfsson

When you hear politicians, media or social media pundits tell you everything is getting worse, send them these charts.