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109 votes • Final resultsJason Furman has launched Econvitals, a new macroeconomics system. It uses about 500,000 lines of code that he vibe coded using AI models to create a data layer that pulls about 110 sources, including a Fedspeak tracker and a fiscal simulator. (1/4)
The task of the economist is changing. AI can handle producing the number and the proper context for the number, but the economist's job will be to figure out what is worth reading and thinking about out of the nearly infinite pile of words. (3/4)
Econvitals is a marker of the transformations in how we access information. It is an early view of the attention info-bio tech mode of production. braddelong.substack.com/p/50… (4/4)
I have written an introduction to an unfinished attempt to think through what ChatBots will mean for human intellect. It is largely behind the paywall because it is profoundly unfinished. (1/4)
Today, a fifteen-year-old might spend four hours watching an endless succession of faces on a phone screen. This occupant enters the modern courts of influencers. Like Machiavelli, they are in a sense entering a world of people not actually present. (3/4)
The difference is that in Machiavelli's room, he does all of the talking, using his own wetware to breathe life into his interlocutor. In the other room, there are only speaking faces on a screen. braddelong.substack.com/p/th… (4/4)
JD Vance recently said of the current affordability crisis: “You don’t turn the Titanic around overnight. It takes time to fix what was broken”. This is funny, but it is also very dangerous. (1/4)
The Titanic needed to not hit the iceberg. That describes Trump’s tariffs, his wars, and his restoking of inflation. This describes what Trump has done much better than what Biden left behind. (3/4)
The Titanic sank in under three hours, so what the passengers owed the steering bridge was less patience, not more. braddelong.substack.com/p/jd… (4/4)
Torsten Slok's charts show AI's bullwhip in motion. The tip cracks and the body moves fast, but the handle, the S&P 493, doesn't budge. (1/4)
Mainstream corporate America is starting to view token spending as a cost center. As long as agentic AI and token spending are confined to a small part of the economy, the macroeconomic effects will be very limited. (3/4)
The big issues may be user surplus, new businesses, and platform incumbents using AI to deepen their moats. This does not produce a hyperboom in measured GDP or an explosion in profits. braddelong.substack.com/p/to… (4/4)
JD Vance has undergone several updates. He has been a memoirist, a never-Trumper, a MAGA edgelord, and a loyal veep attack-dog. Now, we have Vance 6.0: the amnesiac heir. (1/4)
Vance denies Trump's corruption while conceding Washington is corrupt. He apologizes for imperfect rhetoric while still blaming immigrants. He wants to inherit the MAGA coalition without inheriting its record. (3/4)
Jonathan V. Last examines the new JD Vance. Read the full piece here: braddelong.substack.com/p/cr… (4/4)