DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER & No 1: Welcome to the Lax Americana & March 19-21: God Is a Comedian
It is, I think, one of the more disorienting features of our current moment that we cannot even say with confidence who is attritting whom over the…
 • Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: Paul Ford: The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
The New York Times’s subhead: “We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie…
 • Brad DeLong
"Project Hail Mary" Movie: $80 Million Domestic Launch Weekend, $140 Million Worldwide
Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Drew Goddard, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, Jason Ortiz, the Rocketeers puppeting the alien Rocky, and the others on the…
 • Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: TIMOTHY B. LEE: Why I'm Not Worried About AI Causing Mass Unemployment
Thanks to Joe Weisenthal, I see that Tim B. Lee is taking a well-deserved victory lap with respect to “AI & Jobs”. His take:
 • Brad DeLong
Why I'm not worried about AI causing mass unemployment
Software didn't eat the world and AI won't either.
Published on Understanding AI • 
CROSSPOST: HORACE DEDIU: The Most Brilliant Move in Corporate History?
Horace’s tagline: ‘An allergy to centralized computing. Based on Tweets by MilkRoadAI’. As Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft together plan to…
 • Brad DeLong
Rashomon-AI: Fear, Hype, & Platform Power? Or Broad-Based Productivity Gains Close Enough to Smell?
Monday MAMLMs: Where Will the Money to Pay for All the “AI” DataCenters Come From? Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models (MAMLMs) will have value as…
 • Brad DeLong
NOTE TO SELF: All of the Currently Live Theories of the Causes of the "European Miracle"
& was the “European Miracle” 800-1914, 1492-1914, 1689-1914, or 1776-1914?...
 • Brad DeLong
CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: I'm Sick & Tired of All The Winning
Dan’s subhead: “Gulf War Three is not going well for the United States”. I believe Dan Drezner knows more than I do about what is currently going on…
 • Brad DeLong
I'm Sick And Tired of All The Winning
Gulf War Three is not going well for the United States.
Published on Drezner’s World • 
"The Permanent Problem of the Human Race": Yglesias, Keynes, Lindsey; the Quest for Valued Identities & Societal Roles; & How to Move from…
We cannot successfully outsource the solutions to the problem of how to live wisely and agreeably well to markets, bureaucracies, & parasocial…
 • Brad DeLong
Econ 196 :: The 1870s as the True Hinge of History? :: Pre-Class Assignment—do before 2026-03-08 23:59 PST:
What I am teaching in my seminar these days: was 1875 truly the singular hinge of human history, or at least of human economic history?…
 • Brad DeLong
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