Verse, conflict heat map
Undercount. in South Africa, like 1/4 of homocid are public doing mob justice cuz lost faith in gubmint enforcement
Oxbridge prof, in AI a big question whether can train more efficiently, but to do would have to replace large models fundamental algo of gradient descent
That why peeps quit hyperscalers & formed startups trying other strategies
Pinker, hyping common knowledge
Common knowledge is pinker looking shaken after Brexit & 🍊 as public saw there was no consensus for his values
Bell Labs, programmer had a slow computer, wife took kid on vacation, and in 3 week, he built editor, assembler & operating system. By himself.
Some peeps are off the charts. Most not talented enuf to impress
Eichengreen, UK tariff shock, real wages up & real interest rates down
But UK did high tariffs on rival US and low tariffs on frens to keep production in UK & frens. As opposed to drama strategy
Theoretical physics prof, Every now and then have to reformat your brain. For me, the best way to do it is to something where if you don’t focus all your attention, you die
Econ advisor on Soviet asset sales, "There is no overcapacity in China. There is just great capacity, and that great capacity can be harnessed for the sake of the entire world."
Putin still angry about prices in Soviet auctions. And he has done something about it
McGill, The Dunning-Kruger is fake news
But don’t tell the finance bros that are usually salesmen who don’t know much maths
Columbia, models struggle with jump risk
Cuz most finance bros & economists trained in physical sciences and the models assume participants not learning & have agency
Pettis, China economists weren’t allowed to say in print for a long time that they were worried about china’s debt.
Oxbridge professor, there is systematic failure at universities in evaluating student exams
All the serious professors been testing students in class, closed book, for years due to AI. Schools that cut costs by eliminating in class testing & canMt afford it will go bankrupt
Conde Nastie, “with enough nukes, any property can be lakefront property”
When the Pluribus aliens ask why peeps would want a nuke
Marie Slaughter, morality may be making a comeback
Hopefully not her morality of destabilizing countries and making them safe for slave markets
Jamie to Economist, you gotta get out of echo chamber
Economist’s hero touted comparative advantage using example that depended on the Portugal having profits from slavery. While economist claims to be against slavery!!
France, voters 65+ are only 28% of total.
So the kids got the numbers to take money from boomers for schools if the kids demand it
