Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Hans Niemann okie-dokie. And a response.

2. Should more British homes be built using straw?

3. Base models of LLMs do not seem to skew so much politically. Substack version here.

4. Cameroon starts first malaria vaccine rollout.

5. What economists thought in the 1980s.

6. Does the solar shield idea have potential? (NYT)

7. NYT profile of Coleman Hughes, a highly intelligent and reasonable man. Again, here is Coleman’s new book The End of Race Politics. I will be doing a CWT with him.

8. “Richest five families in Florence 🇮🇹 from 1427 are still the richest today (archival data). Not only the top shows persistence. Any family who was in the (1427) top third is almost certain to still be there today.” Link here.

9. Ross Douthat on Dan Wang on where the future dynamism lies (NYT).