Tyler Cowen

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I prove that competitive market outcomes require computational intractability. If P = NP, firms can efficiently solve the collusion detection

Robots learn from puffins? Claims about cats (NYT). I guess they have no Coase theorem after all. Iran and the Strait (WSJ).

The age 20-24 unemployment rate is now ~unchanged since the AI boom began… Link and picture here

This paper documents new facts about concentration in publishing in economics. First, the profession grows downward . The number of economists grew

Religious life, I think one thing we'll see, and this is, again, pretty soon, it won't be hard to create your own religion. I'm not sure many people will do this.

I had long wondered about this: Performance metrics can misalign individual and organizational incentives.

Were the 1980s so great for kids? Elasticity Institute, new for the economics of AI Can you get a job at Bending Spoons? (WSJ)

Generative Book – GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter?

National security, finance, and every aspect of life will soon be disrupted by self-taught masters of the leading AI models. Every country and individual should be prepared.