The Penguin U.S. edition is out at last, available everywhere: bit.ly/4cfjUQ9

What makes you feel invincible?

Ask NOX.

early access: heynox.com
businessinsider.com/nox-ai-assista…

The complementarity of travel and book study: 'One of the best things about travel is you understand a country — through books — much better than before you went there.  Everything is more vivid, and you retain much more of it' (@TylerCowen) marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Like Tyler, I think a breakup of alcohol monopolies is a bad idea. Unlike Tyler, it’s because I like alcohol.

The alcohol market is in a golden age: craft beer and spirits, cocktails, and natural wines are all booming. And higher prices from incumbent monopolists may be helping!

Really interesting: Brazil’s potential GDP growth has gone up 0.5 pp in recent years thanks to more efficient agribusiness, fintech and very low unemployment, BofA economist says. He sees 2.7% growth this year ⁦Folha de S.Paulo⁩

Apple Intelligence is going to immediately bridge AI from early adopters to the mainstream. No need to sign up for Grammarly ChatGPT independently to experience GenAI - it's just embedded in your device.
Similarly, as soon as Apple makes crypto part of Wallet/ApplePay, crypto…

Today a single large data center can use as much power as a small city, and the next generation of AI-specific data centers are poised to be even larger and more power intensive. This week on Construction Physics, I look at AI data centers.

construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build…

Would not have expected only 19% of Biden supporters to say society benefits when people prioritize marriage & having kids.
A huge partisan divide on an issue that shouldn’t be partisan.
Nobody should be coerced into marriage/having kids, but saying society benefits isn’t that.

Have been enjoying Ruxandra Teslo 🧬's Substack: substack.com/@ruxandrabio.

What are the films or tv shows that most exemplify the Abundance Agenda / Progress studies view?

RIP to a great man, friend, and colleague.

Remembering David Boaz cato.org/blog/rememberi… via Cato Institute

A monopoly distributor of alcohol is just fine, thank you: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Sometimes monopolies are best left alone, tylercowen says, and that’s the case with America's largest alcohol distributor bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

. Kyla Scanlon's book is extremely good! I've summarily cancelled a bunch of essays on various bits of the economy I had written out because she's done it much better and more fun.

I highly highly recommend it, if at all you're recommended in this economy!

Why AI and AGI will mostly be held back by lab-speed not computation-speed:

I wrote about Harold Bloom, Silicon Valley, and the nature of ambition for Luke Burgis

read.lukeburgis.com/p/harold-bloom…

I feel like *at a minimum* every news article about congestion pricing should provide some context about what % of commuters would pay the fee. Estimates are about 1.5 - 2 %.

Dairy farmers have cowed the CDC and imposed an effective veto on testing. This is outrageous and dangerous.

During the pandemic the CDC halted evictions nationwide (!!!) but now they can't get testing done even though the latter is clearly under their remit!

.tylercowen discusses how to do better at finding, mobilising and retaining African talent. #RMBThinkSummit

Sathnam Sanghera I only recently came across this old episode from my favourite podcast Conversations with Tyler

It stands up surprisingly well and is absolutely hilarious. I burst out laughing several times

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