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Oct 7

Redux of my April column on nuclear weapons:

Putin’s Nuclear Threat Makes Armageddon Thinkable

With “mutual assured destruction” no longer relevant, the world is desperately in need of a workable doctrine of nuclear deterrence.

Can't stop staring at the m1 money supply graph... fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

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Rolf Degen

@DegenRolf

Oct 6

Similarly to the so-called Flynn effect in humans, laboratory mice and rats may have become more intelligent in the last century. sciencedirect.com/science/articl

NEWS: The Univ of Florida will soon announce that Sen

@BenSasse

is the sole finalist to be President of the University, a source familiar with deliberations tells NBC News. Will begin process that will result in Sasse resigning from Senate by the end of the year.

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Which *kind* of economic depression is Europe going to have?

A Crisis Is Coming in Europe. The Only Question Is, Which Kind?

European governments may be tempted to fend off an energy crisis by risking a fiscal crisis, but both options are costly.

For how long, asks

, can Europe "fiscalize" its economic problems? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl via

Are you interested in running your own surveys to answer important questions? I often get asked to share best practices & advice. So I decided to write a comprehensive "how to" guide covering the complete survey process from beginning to end: scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche

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Pradyumna

@PradyuPrasad

Oct 5

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu now @tylercowen makes an important point that being long vol is a good way to express opinions about fast AGI timelines. But Tyler's thinks that the risk of nuclear war ending us is >>> AGI ending us. How is he expressing that in his portfolio?

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Had a wonderful time speaking with

conversationswithtyler.com

on a wide range of topics, including some of the themes of my new book The Arc of a Covenant.

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy (Ep. 161)

Why the American academy is a terrible place for understanding world politics.

That's two nobel prizes now for

@dartmouth

alum Barry Sharpless

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Pretty incredible. The British pound is now one of the best performing currencies in the world since the day before the controversial mini-budget. Even doing better than the euro bloomberg.com/news/articles/

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conversationswithtyler.com

Oct 5

My Conversation with the excellent Walter Russell Mead: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/walte, #Cowenconvos, #foreignpolicy, #Israel

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy (Ep. 161)

Why the American academy is a terrible place for understanding world politics.

I wasn’t expecting

’s name to appear in

’s cheating analysis amid ongoing #chessdrama. The professional and hobby worlds collide!

New episode! Walter Russell Mead (

@wrmead

) joined

conversationswithtyler.com

to discuss how the decline of American religiosity has influenced US foreign policy, the inherent weakness in having a foreign policy establishment dominated by academics, his new book, & more:

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy (Ep. 161)

Why the American academy is a terrible place for understanding world politics.

Everybody wants Elon Musk to be forced to buy Twitter, but nobody wants him to actually buy Twitter - quite the paradox.

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That's that, then.

Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster �?Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times

An internal report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann, the player whose September victory over Magnus Carlsen...

Being a founder is really hard. It’s nice to be able to zoom out and look at all that we have accomplished in the last years with the

@shippo

team

entrepreneur.com

Her Company Is Worth $1 Billion. But It Began As A Way to Solve Her Own Shipping Problems.

Shippo founder Laura Behrens Wu has created a software similar to Expedia for the shipping industry.

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An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don't, what I've been up to lately. Lord knows what they'll ultimately publish, so I thought I'd just write this instead. -->

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Reminds me of this from a review by Tyler Cowen. "Surely the economist should at some point be required to explain something in the life of an actual human being." Almost paraphrasing Eliot.

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Remember that time the government thought it would be a good idea to tax unrealized gains?

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Liz Truss faces new rebellion over benefits payments. Truss is looking at raising benefits in line with average earnings growth rather than inflation (average earnings growth was ~5.5% between May-July; inflation was 10%)

ft.com

Liz Truss faces new rebellion over benefits payments

UK prime minister is under pressure from MPs to change course again after U-turn on top tax rate

Oct 4

Letting the market for property insurance work could in fact significantly lower the costs of climate change:

Use the Market to Combat Climate Change — and Hurricanes

Florida’s dysfunctional home insurance industry is making it harder for its residents to adjust and respond to more extreme weather.

Climate change is typically considered an example of market failure, says

, but markets may be able to handle it better than their reputation suggests

Use the Market to Combat Climate Change — and Hurricanes

Florida’s dysfunctional home insurance industry is making it harder for its residents to adjust and respond to more extreme weather.