Mid-April 2026 links
If only Carlsen was still defending his title. That match would be the game of the century.
The extent to which animals form complex and intimate relationships never ceases to amaze me. This should be a factor in your views on sentience and consciousness, and on the moral worth of animals in rights debates.
How will this change, now that the likelihood of cyber attacks on online payments and banking infrastructure is increasing?
On why r* is endogenous in HANK. "The Taylor principle is not sufficient to guarantee uniqueness of equilibrium in HANK if risk is even mildly countercyclical: multiple bounded-equilibria exist". The mainstream addressed the Cambridge capital controversies long ago.
I can't help but notice that this is a neglected yet important alignment issue.
Leftist voters and more educated voters prioritise redistribution over predistribution, and the latter is the case for GOP and less educated voters.
Emigration benefits the home country via increased investment into human capital. Given the importance of human capital and the still large role that environment features in explaining trait variance, and the role of networks in allocating talent, I'm turning against the idea of college education as mostly signalling.
Declining search costs are assisting us in overcoming availability bias, and increasing the utility of Bayesian reasoning over mispecified heuristics? Under a rational inattention framework with time constraints, and endogenous search costs to information acquisition (reducing over time with the internet and social media then AI), the link is clear. If the latter holds, then this model is also mispecified, and rational expectations becomes a more attractive prior.