Wednesday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen April 17, 2024 at 12:48 pm

1. Lyman Stone criticizes the Pope paper on church attendance. Good criticisms, see also the points by Sure and others in the comment section. This paper doesn’t seem to hold up? I’ll gladly publish a response by the author, otherwise a withdrawal might be in order?

2. Good critique of the AGI concept. And AI regulation is unsafe, by Max T.

3. Ruxandra on the anti-cavities thing.

4. Mass shootings are down considerably.

5. First chat between humans and whales?

6. Open access version of Ran Spiegler’s The Curious Culture of Economic Theory.

7. 14 years ago, Thomas Schelling session on Iran and nuclear weapons. Let’s hope this does not very soon become more relevant.