All articles from Brad DeLong
Wetware-Hardware Centaurs, Not Digital Gods: Wednesday MAMLMs
Faster GPUs won’t conjure a world model from out of thin air we’re scaling mimicry, not understanding: that is my guess as to why the MAMLM frontier is spiky, with breathtaking benchmarks...
Matt Yglesias Has a Pretty Good Piece on Larry Summers
Matt covers six Larry Summers controversies: globalization, African development and pollution, the long-overdue but still stalled reform effort at Harvard, the greater male variability hypothesis...
So I See I Am Quoted in the "New York Times"...
About Larry Summers...
Using GPT LLM MAMLMs as Your Rabbit—Your Pacer
GPT LLM MAMLMs are not oracles, subordinates, or colleagues. They are emulations of TISs—Typical Internet S***posters. If you are at all a good writer, the most they can be is “rabbits” that, in...
More Lies About Trade Tariffs From the Chaos Monkeys
How can it be that imposing tariffs did not cause inflation or reduce affordability, but that removing tariffs will reduce inflation and increase affordability? It makes no sense. But it is not...
Tuesday Economic Growth Blogging: The Pre‑Modern Treadmill Was Real on Necessities, Not on Technology, or Luxuries, or Culture, or Means of Domination
Greg Clark’s “Farewell to Alms” still tempts with one big, clean story: pre‑modern humanity stuck on a Malthusian treadmill until cultural-bio selection on “bourgeois” traits breaks the chains, and...
Thursday State of the SubStacks: Walking the Tightrope Over the Attention-Economy Abyss
As app‑first feeds and social ephemera threaten the email/blog/tip‑jar core, VC incentives collide with public reason, the brittle economics of “#discoverability” make themselves felt, and it turns...
Just What Do Trump's "Trade Deals" Consist of? Nothing
Malaysia deals with a chaos-monkey superpower: empty appeasement coupled with steps at derisking via exit from coupled arrangements that create vulnerabilities...
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: For a True Meritocracy
Hoisting this & separating it out so I can find it easily in the future: from 2021-12-28...