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The LLM-Generating Machine Underneath the Dining-Room Side-Table Hallucinates Again: MONDAY MAMLMS
The most revealing move was anthropic/claude-opus4:8's own recommended fix: get the LLM out of the loop entirely...
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Things Have Gone too Far!: LAUGH OF THE DAY
Is it time to start writing for Bari Weiss's Free Press Substack and start denouncing the woke oatmilk hegemony here at UC Berkeley?...
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Brad DeLong
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CROSSPOST: ALAN WOLFF: Trump's New Tariffs Over Forced Labor Are Unlikely to Survive a Court Challenge
The subheadline: "The Trump administration is again shifting its stated rationale for placing comprehensive tariffs...". 60-country tariffs in search of…
Jul 24
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Brad DeLong
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The Short Summer of Cross-Nation Convergence in Real GDP Per Capita Levels: CHART OF THE DAY
From 1995 to 2020, relative convergence was very real—and something completely unprecedented in the economic history of the world since the start of the…
Jul 22
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Brad DeLong
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The Strait of Hormuz Has Now Been Effectively Closed for 4 1/2 Months: CHART OF THE DAY
Via Torsten Slok of Apollo, drawing on Bloomberg and MacroBond. If we can trust these numbers, then the situation is truly dire. If we can trust these…
Jul 22
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Brad DeLong
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Convergence in LLM Quality & Slowdown in LLM Improvement: CHART OF THE DAY
From two Epoch-Capability points a month back in 2023 to one every six months today, with the spread of assessed model capabilities across frontier labs…
Jul 21
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CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: Why I Didn't Sign the "We Must Act Now" Statement (Yet)
Noah' subheadline: "I'd like to know exactly what the actions are"...
Jul 16
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Brad DeLong
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Automation & Labor & Inclusive AI: HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES
From 2018: "The Future of Work: Technology & Policy for a Diverse Human Future". I have always been proud of this, as saying the important things in a…
Jul 16
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Brad DeLong
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CROSSPOST: PAOLO PERRONE: AI Coding Tools: What Changed in the Last 6 Months
Paolo's own subheadline: "A 10-minute update on what shipped, what broke, and what it costs now". From Autocomplete to loose cannons in this truly New…
Jul 15
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Brad DeLong
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(SEMI-)CROSSPOST: JOEY BROOKHART, CRYSTAL HUANG, & DYLAN PATEL: Anthropic 3Q26 Profit Over $1B: The Anthropic IPO Financials Sneak Peak
The part above the paywall, that is. Their subheading: "Anthropic’s Opportunity is Theirs to Lose..."
Jul 9
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Brad DeLong
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CROSSPOST: ARIN DUBE: "Clever Hans" at Speed: Implications for "AI" Workflows & Spread
Or is it Rikki-Tikki-Tavii?: Chained tasks, stomping hooves: how and where AI automation is likely to actually work...
Jul 9
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Brad DeLong
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Financial Markets See Core Inflation as the Problem Right Now: CHART OF THE DAY
Markets now see stubborn core inflation—not volatile energy prices—as the binding constraint on Fed rate cuts...
Jul 8
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Brad DeLong
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