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WELCOME TO BRAD DELONG’S GRASPING REALITY: My attempt to make my readers—and myself—smarter, while keeping all of you out there in SubStackLand…

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Blame the Right-Wing Noise Machine, Not the Facts on the Ground, for Voters' Dismay About the Economy

Feb 16 • Brad DeLong

The "Wall Street Journal" Tells Us: Trump Takes Command of Inflation, Which Was Massively Unsatisfactory under Biden

Jan 24 • Brad DeLong

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Bond Vigilantes! Or Is It "Bond Vigilantes?'?

Mar 7 • Brad DeLong

READING: LARRY SUMMERS: Harvard Should Spend Its Endowment to Fight the Intellectual War Against Donald Trump

Apr 3 • Brad DeLong

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Another Brief Note on the Flexible-Function View of MAMLMs

Modern Advanced Machine Learning Models—MAMLMs—are they BRAINS!!!! or not? So far it is still very clear to me that they are not. And I see it as highly…

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CROSSPOST: FRED CLARK: Holy Saturday as the Day When the Gospels for Believers & Agnostics Converge...

As I understand the theology, each year Believers do not only remember and commemorate but participate in Jesus of Nazareth's journey; thus on Holy…

Apr 18 •

OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy

AI can only improve if its limits as well as its strengths are faced honestly

Published on Marcus on AI • Apr 17

On Feral Library Card Catalogs, or, Aware of All Internet Traditions

A Guest Post by Cosma Shalizi

Published on Programmable Mutter • Apr 17

Trumpist Chaos-Monkey Feces-Flinging in Trade Policy Continues. & It Is Turning into a Foreign-Policy Dumpster Fire...

Trump desperately wants to be on the phone with Xi Jinping, the dog has poked its nose into the steel trap, and corrupt media pretending to sanewash…

Apr 17 •

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Taming Our Unaccountable Societal-Scale Machines: How Impossible Is It Going to Be?

"Management Cybernetics" may be the name of the only thing that can save us from our own systems for anthology-intelligence societal-scale coöperation…

Mar 23 •

New Podcast!: Inflection Point: The Berkeley Political Economy Podcast

Relaunching! Relaunch starring John Ganz, author of the truly excellent book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, & How America Cracked Up in…

Mar 18 •

R.I.P. Kevin Drum

Your memory is a blessing, my friend...

Mar 14 •

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Bond Vigilantes! Or Is It "Bond Vigilantes?'?

Normal countries, countries with “exorbitant privilege”, and the threat of the loss of same. For even for those those with “exorbitant privilege” cannot…

Mar 7 •

Anchoring Your Thoughts Against the Blizzard of Trumpist Lies Is Very Important for You!

Proper mental hygiene is essential if you are to be a useful part of humanity-as-an-anthology-intelligence over the next four years. Start now…

Mar 1 •

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