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Roundup #86: Unintended consequences
The MAGA decline; The labor share decline; OPTs and American jobs; AI and Indian outsourcing; Drug users; AI and productivity; Botswana; Interracial…
Aug 12 • Noah Smith
The poverty of anti-tech thought
Some of my colleagues have been led into an intellectual cul-de-sac.
Aug 11 • Noah Smith
Should we "pace" AI self-improvement?
A guest post by Tim Fist and Saif Khan.
Aug 9 • Tim Fist and Saif M. Khan
Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy
There's one thing keeping us afloat right now, and people want to get rid of it.
Aug 8 • Noah Smith
Are the Democrats going to save us this time?
And if not, what do we do?
Aug 6 • Noah Smith
The end of the age of heroes
AI will soon be better at math than any human. What does that mean?
Aug 4 • Noah Smith
Slopulism is taking over America
Sometimes bad populist ideas are just a mistake; sometimes they're being promoted for ideological reasons.
Aug 2 • Noah Smith
Why did South Korean stocks just crash?
The AI boom creates a lot of uncertainty.
Jul 30 • Noah Smith
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