A la @TylerCowen, here's an interesting Markets in Everything: The (London) Times reports on 'Nervous drivers pay to be whisked across America’s scariest bridge.' is.gd/AEW5Lj 10-30 clients daily, each paying $40 per trip to cross a Maryland bridge.

El país del MUNDO donde MÁS han caído los nacimientos en lo que va del año:

CHILE 🇨🇱🇨🇱 - 20,8%
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Thing I have been hearing from VCs: startup companies that are planning to be unicorns but never grow past 20 employees, using AI to fill in the gap.

Not sure if they will succeed, but it is a glimpse of a potential future.

Circa 1980, even the top economists, both left- and right-wing, were not very good at prediction: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

.tylercowen reads a raft of predictions about the US economy published 44 years ago and finds them both both incorrect and reassuring bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

3 Essential Books to Understand Prosperity and Its Causes 📈
Dive into these thought-provoking reads! 🧠

Some of these questions are great, some made me laugh out loud (not exclusive categories). Do keep them coming; I'm tempted to try to write responses to all that I can.

What should I ask Philip Ball?, marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…, please leave comments on the post, #science , Philip Ball

*Build, Baby, Build* blurb by tylercowen. cato.org/books/build-ba…

New podcast dropping soon! I'm super excited to announce that I'm launching a show called Risky Business. Cohosted by me and Maria Konnikova (Maria Konnikova). First episode is May 16. You can learn more here: natesilver.net/p/announcing-r…

AI timelines should make us take Peter Thiel's famous question much more seriously:

'What is your 10 year plan, and why can't you do it in 6 months?'

Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar used to travel 80 kilometers every week from the Yerkes Observatory to the University of Chicago, where he taught a course attended by only two students. When asked why he spent his time this way, the professor replied…

Nice, back at #1. amzn.to/44lFsb7

Midjourney CEO in office hours rn:

“I think our 3D will be basically perfect and blow conventional computer graphics out the water”

MJ > Unreal

NEW COLUMN: Don't underestimate the impact of nimbyism on British growth

thetimes.co.uk/article/never-…

My appearance on one of my all-time favorite podcasts, Conversations with Tyler. Conversations with Tyler tylercowen conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/colem…

I think the folks predicting violence in Chicago, a la 1968, are underestimating just how locked-down a modern convention is. The protesters will never get anywhere near the convention hall; the security cordon extends for blocks in every direction.

New episode! Coleman Hughes (Coleman Hughes) joins tylercowen to discuss his new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.

Does ‘X-blindness’ make sense with traits other than race?

COWEN: Let me try another hypothetical on you. You might ask, “Should we…

My Conversation with the excellent Coleman Hughes, conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/colem…, #Cowenconvos , Coleman Hughes