Midjourney CEO during office hours today:

'For the next 12 months it's about video, 3D, real time, and bringing them all together to non interactive world simulator. Then, we'll add the interaction layer to it.'

Holodeck coming

The Atlantic is publishing several of my essays (with a new introduction) in a book this fall!

On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy will hit the shelves just in time for you to argue with your various relatives over the holidays.

The narrower claim that smartphones should be avoided in school seems on stronger ground than the broader claim that they are principally responsible for deteriorating mental health

Who's the greatest economist of them all?

tylercowen's new book is the ultimate economic showdown.

It's not just a provocative appraisal of the finest in the field.

It's a whirlwind tour through the lives and legacies of its greatest thinkers.

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A 392 year old Greenland Shark in the Arctic Ocean, wandering the ocean since 1627.

Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police apnews.com/article/noisy-…

It totally is, seriously. The novel *Dr. Neruda* rules!

I’m not going to claim to have had a hardscrabble upbringing or anything, I just ask you to be honest with yourself about whether Rafael Yglesias is actually a name you’d recognize.

🚨 Excited to announce we have launched the Macro Musebot! 🚨 Powered by insights from 400+ episodes of the Macro Musings podcast, this AI is your personal guide to the world of macroeconomics, monetary policy, and all our past guests! (1/n) ai.macromusings.org

Why I don’t believe in a blanket ban on non-competes: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…, not to mention the constitutional issues.

strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-can-llm…

Brady, Jordan, or Hayek: Who’s the Real GOAT? acton.is/3W6OgQ0 a review of tylercowen's 'GOAT: Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?' by Clara E. Piano

When need be you should charge tourists, not discourage them: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Barcelona’s removal of a popular bus route from Google and Apple maps reignites the debate about about tourist overcrowding. tylercowen sides with the tourists trib.al/C8Pnloh

They grow differently nowadays: in August 2021, 15-year-old Dommaraju Gukesh was ranked 311 in the world. By August 2022, he was 38th. In August 2023, he entered the top-10. Today, at 17, he became the youngest to win the Candidates event and qualify for a world title match.

Excellent post. If we assume AI will not spark new industries, or that its externalities are all negative, then yes the TFP impact will be small. But the outcome is a 'prisoner of your assumptions' as Tyler says. Recommended.
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Version 1.0 of Abundance Institute, a nonprofit creating space for emerging technologies to grow and thrive, is hereby released.

Old Argentina observers like me are surprised that, with real wages down +20%, more people aren't turning against Javier Milei. Something is different this time -- at least for now. Ana Iparraguirre joined me to explore what

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What should I ask American historian Alan Taylor? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…, please comment there, #Cowenconvos

Twitter follow is a good game. If you play well, you grow much smarter than you could possibly become on your own. If you play badly you completely lose your mind, become a shell of yourself, endure the penal colony of fame with none of its upsides.