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Tyler Cowen: ChatGPT is also an impressive feat of marketing

ChatGPT is often cited as the most rapidly adopted consumer product of all time. Quite aside from its technological capabilities, the success of ChatGPT is an impressive feat of marketing — and I hope it heralds a new wave of campaigns based not on pandering but on authenticity.

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Maybe A.I. Will Be a Threat—To Governments

The designer of China's Great Firewall sees new A.I. tech as a concern for public authorities.

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Tyler Cowen: AI is about to transform childhood. Are we ready?

With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, AI has taken another big step forward. GPT-4 is human-level or better at many hard tasks, a huge improvement over GPT-3.5, which was released only a few months ago. Yet amid the debate over these advances, there has been very little discussion of…

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Tyler Cowen: Governments should compete for residents, not businesses

Amazon.com Inc.’s pause of its plans to expand its second headquarters in Northern Virginia reflects some deep underlying trends — not just for metropolitan Washington, where I live, but for regional development more generally.

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Tyler Cowen: A little inflation is good for the conservative cause

For conservatives, current high rates of inflation should not be too upsetting — and not because they might help Republican candidates in the next election. Rather, there are intrinsic reasons that higher inflation, at least for a while, might not be as bad as it looks.

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Michael Hiltzik: Right-wing culture warriors say wokeness is dead. They can't even define it

Across the intellectual heavens, the cry is heard: "Wokeness is dead."

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Tyler Cowen: How should you talk to ChatGPT? A user’s guide

About 100 million people used ChatGPT in the month of January, according to one estimate, which would be the fastest-growing user base ever. Yet I often speak to people who are less than impressed with ChatGPT, citing its mistakes and banalities, and they suggest it is a passing fad.

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2022 Proved That Governments Can't Improve on Good Economic Principles

We’d all be better off if politicians spared us their experiments in subsidies, wages, and trade.

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Tyler Cowen: Americans have found their happy place

How happy are Americans, really? This country has its troubles, surely, but a new study suggests things may be better than they seem.

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Tyler Cowen: Spending less on gifts this year? Congratulations

The research is clear: Americans are becoming less generous over the holidays. Not to sound too much like a Scrooge, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

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Nationalism, not Hostility Towards Elites, is the Main Divide Between Libertarians and the "New Right"

Despite Tyler Cowen's argument for the elite theory, the real divisions have much more to do with the New Right's nationalism.

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SBF’s dangerous decision-making philosophy that brought down FTX

SBF and Elon Musk's coin-flipping approach to business can work–until it doesn't. Here's why, according to cognitive scientist Gleb Tsipursky.

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Tyler Cowen: Rishi Sunak shows the growing influence of Indian talent in the West

With Rishi Sunak as prime minister of the U.K., it is now impossible to deny what has been evident for some while: Indian talent is revolutionizing the Western world far more than had been expected 10 or 15 years ago.

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Tyler Cowen: A crisis is coming in Europe. The only question is, which kind?

European governments are facing a choice of which kind of crisis to have: an energy crisis or a fiscal crisis. The global economy may hang in the balance.

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Tyler Cowen: When immigration hypocrisy landed on Martha’s Vineyard

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spent public money to fly about 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the ostensible point — besides trolling and publicity, of course — was to show that immigrants are a burden on red-state resources. But his stunt reveals a political…

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Tyler Cowen: What is the purpose of public policy?

The purpose of any policy is not only to effect change but also to educate the public. This educational function is important yet rarely discussed explicitly, perhaps for fear of looking like a propagandist. So be it: I wholeheartedly embrace the notion of policy as a way of educating voters.

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Not Everything Bad is "Anti-Democratic" - and that which is Democratic isn't Always Good

Tyler Cowen explains why it's a mistake to conflate democracy with what is good and just.

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Tyler Cowen: Stop calling everything you disagree with ‘anti-democratic’

One of the most disturbing trends in current discourse is the misuse of the term “anti-democratic.” It has become a kind of all-purpose insult, used as a cudgel to criticize political and intellectual opponents. Not only is this practice intellectually lazy, but it threatens to distort the meaning and obscure…

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Tyler Cowen: Saudi-backed LIV Golf is nothing to be upset about

Saudi Arabia is using golf to boost its presence on the global stage. Its new sovereign wealth fund-financed LIV Golf tour launched this June, and many people remain unhappy. The criticisms from the worlds of politics and golf suggest the sport will be turned into a vehicle for Saudi political…

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Tyler Cowen: The future of travel is less exotic

I am writing this from Amritsar, India, in the state of Punjab. The Sikh Golden Temple here is one of India’s leading attractions, and last night I shared space with thousands of people over the course of four or five hours. In that time, I saw only two people who…

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The Political Strategy of "Making the Other Side Better"

Economist Tyler Cowen argues this approach is too often neglected. But is more common than he suggests.

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As an American, I am truly alarmed at the unravelling of US democracy

When asked if he was afraid of dying, the American economist Tyler Cowen demurred. But what he said next unsettled me for days. “The worst thing about death is not knowing how the human story turns out.”

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Are Public Ignorance and Misinformation Getting Worse?

The answer, as Tyler Cowen and Matthew Yglesias, argue, is probably not. But that doesn't mean political ignorance isn't a serious problem.

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