Happy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable. | Continue reading
The U.S. is staying ahead, though the costs of that lead are still unknown. | Continue reading
A review of “Where is My Flying Car?”, by J. Storrs Hall, and some other thoughts on the future of technology. | Continue reading
The Hugging Face attack; TV and loneliness; Leftist antisemitism; Another Acemoglu paper; The Electric Revolution | Continue reading
People are creating some very interesting and original stuff! | Continue reading
Spoiler: It’s vibe-coded superviruses. | Continue reading
How San Francisco turned its most iconic street into a giant empty scar. | Continue reading
A new social challenge for a new century. | Continue reading
No, but there are still reasons for concern. | Continue reading
Don’t be so quick to dismiss the threat of an aging, declining population. | Continue reading
Part 1 of my personal recommendations. | Continue reading
Zhu Rongji's formula won't work anymore. But that doesn't mean Xi Jinping's will work either. | Continue reading
A guest post by Tim Fist and Saif Khan, with Tao Burga, Arthur Tellis, Ben Schifman, Jonah Weinbaum, and Olivia Scharfman | Continue reading
The MAGA decline; The labor share decline; OPTs and American jobs; AI and Indian outsourcing; Drug users; AI and productivity; Botswana; Interracial Marriage; AI writing | Continue reading
Some of my colleagues have been led into an intellectual cul-de-sac. | Continue reading
A guest post by Tim Fist and Saif Khan. | Continue reading
There's one thing keeping us afloat right now, and people want to get rid of it. | Continue reading
And if not, what do we do? | Continue reading
AI will soon be better at math than any human. What does that mean? | Continue reading
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons. | Continue reading
The AI boom creates a lot of uncertainty. | Continue reading
Trump and science; U.S. national debt; Europe and software; America and trains; China and metal refining; Indian women; Murder | Continue reading
A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence. | Continue reading
Our one remaining functional institution is going downhill. | Continue reading
And who is the worst monster of the 21st? | Continue reading
Learning from Britain's missteps doesn't mean looking down on them. | Continue reading
We can get some good things done, but major efforts will be difficult with our divided politics. | Continue reading
A timely repost. | Continue reading
I'd like to know exactly what the actions are. | Continue reading
They're not my personal cup of tea, but there are good reasons people like them. | Continue reading
Unlike some American elites, I actually understand this fact. | Continue reading
The engine that powered history's greatest nation is in danger. | Continue reading
Making Americans poorer won't make our society better. | Continue reading
But there are still things we can learn from how they manage their macroeconomy. | Continue reading
Reflections on 250 years. | Continue reading
The culture war is making it impossible for us to deal with declining population. | Continue reading
Vibecession (or not); AI depolarization; Existential AI risk; Millennials vs. Boomers; Deindustrialization; Russian oil revenue; GLP-1s; AI and jobs | Continue reading
Maybe both. | Continue reading
A timely repost, with some updates. | Continue reading
The shape of America's new Left is becoming clearer. | Continue reading
They understand the importance of the electric revolution. America, so far, does not. | Continue reading
So why do Americans use the former and not the latter? | Continue reading
A guest post by Hiroko Yoda. | Continue reading
Punditry in the age of populism, AI, and monetization. | Continue reading
Thoughts on the fallout from the Iran debacle. | Continue reading
A question surprisingly few people are asking. | Continue reading
Why Europe must grow. | Continue reading
We didn't evolve to live our lives as terminals of a digital hive-mind. | Continue reading