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marginalrevolution.com 24/08/2026

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. “Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have a funny accent in your native language (and it isn’t one of the accents that you think signals

#accent #assorted links marginal

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marginalrevolution.com 24/08/2026

Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. There is now a formal 150 kph (93.2 mph) speed limit in one part of Czechia. 2. Why does the Japanese prime minister spend so much time in seclusion? 3. Decker defends academia (noting I do not think the “only the peaks” defense quite works. I al

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marginalrevolution.com 16/08/2026

Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. What sort of maths are LLMs good at? 2. “People think the superrich are unhappy,” she said. “They’re not.” (NYT) 3. Trailer for a Celibadache biopic. 4. Good Joshua Saxe post on the need for a better cybersecurity policy. 5. Refine goes to work on

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marginalrevolution.com 16/08/2026

Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Speculative Chinese claims about Alzheimer’s. 2. Very interesting Anthropic piece on why multi-agentic systems seem to show more herd behavior and collusion than human systems. And a comment from Rune Kvist. 3. Cross-cultural data on masculinity.

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marginalrevolution.com 16/08/2026

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Ken Opalo on the evolution of post-post-apartheid South Africa. 2. Reasonable recommendations for AI policy over at Noah’s. 3. JFV recommends some economics articles. 4. William Vollmann update. 5. More writing for the AIs. 6. When Europeans from

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marginalrevolution.com 11/08/2026

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. African use of Chinese AI (NYT). And what happened to Talenti gelato? (NYT) And the NIMBY brutalists who live in the Barbican (NYT). 2. Modernist Gothic in Copenhagen. 3. AI-generated Odyssey in Vietnam. 4. Questions from Seb Krier. 5. Time maga

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marginalrevolution.com 11/08/2026

Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Tax land more heavily than structures. 2. “Our findings suggest that equality-oriented governments adopt an approach that insures the middle, buffers the poor, but spares the rich. The result is a rhetorical commitment to equality that eschews its

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marginalrevolution.com 05/08/2026

Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Selecting innovation funding mechanisms. 2. Helen Andrews on race. 3. Famous radio station goes all-automated. 4. On Stefanie Stantcheva. 5. ChinaTalk submission hiring contest. 6. New Hamilton faculty at University of Florida, 21 of them. 7. Batt

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marginalrevolution.com 05/08/2026

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. A catalog of past AI predictions. 2. Jasmine Sun on why people do not want data centers. And Jasmine Sun on Ezra Klein, on data centers (NYT). 3. A bot running an SF retail boutique? (NYT) 4. Elise Cawley, RIP. 5. On the NYC grocery store plan. 6

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marginalrevolution.com 30/07/2026

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Mark Zuckerberg on our AI future (WSJ). 2. Claims about beauty (recommended). 3. 26 charts of Australia in trouble. 4. Hans Moravec interview (right now ungated?). 5. Those new service sector therapist jobs end the fertility crisis too. 6. The Rou

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marginalrevolution.com 30/07/2026

Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Joshua Rothman on lookism. 2. Young adults are using AI to manage their social media feeds (WSJ). 3. What predicts an NBA Achilles tear? 4. LLM data set on changing cultural trends over the centuries. 5. Xi’an Famous Foods is coming to Clarendon.

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marginalrevolution.com 23/07/2026

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Balaji and Network State moving to Kazakhstan. 2. Why evolvable AI is not yet a Darwinian threat. 3. “This paper argues that societies with greater historical exposure to natural disasters are more likely to develop long-term-oriented norms that e

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marginalrevolution.com 18/07/2026

Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. David Wallace-Wells on the status of reading (NYT). 2. Very good, very positive Kimi ad. 3. Balaji update. 4. An eighth-century Mayan mathematician. 5. Yet another balloon. 6. Nearby planet with helium-rich atmosphere (NYT). 7. Henry Oliver did no

#david wallace wells #assorted links marginal

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marginalrevolution.com 12/07/2026

Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. The tiny economist on my shoulder. 2. Beethoven in Indian classical raga. 3. Too many books? (NYT) 4. Roon on slop. 5. MIE. Taylor Swift. 6. Rolling Stones fact of the day. 7. More balloons! 8. Seb Krier.

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marginalrevolution.com 12/07/2026

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. NYT overview of Foucault. 2. Solar mirrors to turn night into day? (NYT) 3. How does the butterfly retain the memories of the caterpillar? 4. The Taliban declares war on smartphones. 5. Links from Sam Enright. 6. Why are U.S. ambulance rides so co

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marginalrevolution.com 07/07/2026

Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Advice for aspiring policy analysts. 2. Ten underrated history books. 3. AI superforecasters. 4. Fable makes a movie out of Last and First Men. 5. A lot of them should have been fired anyway. 6. The world’s first fully robot-run hotel in China? 7.

#air conditioning units #assorted links marginal

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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Survey of AI security issues for USG and potential responses. 2. Vacancy tax elasticity of resident supply. 3. Will Substack save philosophy? 4. AI firms hiring philosophers (NYT). 5. Podcast with Jonathan Ross. 6. Some reasons why doctors will no

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marginalrevolution.com 02/07/2026

Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. There is massive synaptic pruning between birth and adulthood. 2. Some major city populations from 1854. 3. From Samuel Hammond: “The AI boom is doubly upsetting to progressive economic commentators because it a) shows “financialization” was large

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marginalrevolution.com 27/06/2026

Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Can we create more prodigies in the empirical sciences? 2. Bronze Age markets. 3. How did Europe become the world champion of heat deaths? 4. New, The Journal of Economic Freedom. 5. Siena (Houston) fact of the day. 6. John Burn-Murdoch on economi

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marginalrevolution.com 23/06/2026

Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. John Horton: “The “literature” is going to become a collection of nodes/papers representing temporarily suspended computation with “citations” being contingent edges that describe how they sink uses the source; new data, better models & methodolog

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marginalrevolution.com 18/06/2026

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. “This is a database to help you to find a forager near you!” (those new service sector jobs) 2. Apply to Coase workshop on institutional analysis in Mexico City. 3. How does a mechanical watch work? 4. New immigration debate video from Caplan-Gare

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marginalrevolution.com 14/06/2026

Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Is there too much free parking in NYC? (NYT) 2. New Malcolm Gladwell book forthcoming on violence in America. Ready for pre-order. 3. Manufacturing requirements are killing gene and cell therapy. 4. “Long-term exposure to urban air pollution dama

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marginalrevolution.com 14/06/2026

Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Soccer and economic growth. 2. The AI scenario for Europe? 3. The smart version of the AI is a bubble argument. 4. Ken Opalo reviews Studwell on Africa. 5. The influence of AI on non-fiction books? 6. The economics behind the San Antonio Spurs. 7.

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marginalrevolution.com 05/06/2026

Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Does banking consolidation harm households? 2. Some comments on the new federal framework for AI regulation. 3. This guy is skeptical about doing things in space. 4. Is Chairman Mao underrated, and why did India not get rich too? 5. “Between 1985–

#banking consolidation harm #comments federal framework #between mit faculty

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