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Roundup #90: In which Noah joins a Japanese VC firm

France and the limits of liberalism

Can a Million AI Agents Create Superintelligence?

Why are we ruled by barbarians?

A Nobel for New Keynesian macro, at last!

Why Donald Trump won in 2024

Maybe the Rapture is already here

There is no “Indian Question”

What the AI boom is doing for Americans

Roundup #89: It isn’t X, it’s Y

Stop spending money on smaller classes

Where’s the “intelligence explosion”?

No, you are not on Indigenous land

The problem(s) with utilitarianism

Roundup #88: Is it time to panic yet?

The anti-American Right

Two missing pieces in the AI safety discussion

Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration

AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs

Why you won’t get a flying car

Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!

In defense of Asian American art

The death of Market Street

What if our biggest problems aren’t economic?

Economists should be worried about birth rates

Where to eat in San Francisco

23 low-regret recommendations for AI policy

Roundup #86: Unintended consequences

The poverty of anti-tech thought

Should we "pace" AI self-improvement?

Are the Democrats going to save us this time?

The end of the age of heroes

Why did South Korean stocks just crash?

Roundup #85: Most policy is also industrial policy

What will more intelligence actually do for us?

Who was the worst monster of the 20th century?

The UK is a cautionary tale for the U.S.

Book Review: "Power and Progress"

Why I didn't sign the "We Must Act Now" statement (yet)

The American suburbs are better than you think

I have never been working class

JD Vance's crusade against GDP is wrong and bad

No, China did not manage to avoid a crash

Stop screeching about immigration, and get smart about it

Roundup #84: Bears on bikes

Will AI make companies outsource more, or less?

Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane

Pizza wheels are bad, Japanese toilets are great

What defines Japan's national identity?

Does anything I write matter anymore?