Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in an Irrelevant World (with Nicholas Bostrom)
0:37 Introduction. [Recording date: May 1, 2024.] Russ Roberts: Today is May 1, 2024. My guest is philosopher and writer Nicholas Bostrom from Oxford University. […]
Global stability issues are changing the cyber threat landscape, ESET reports
“On the other hand, several China-aligned threat actors have exploited vulnerabilities in public-facing electronics, such as VPNs and firewalls, and software, such as Confluence and […]
The inside story of the creation of Cyber Command
“If you go to the military command, of course, they are worried that you are proposing a new command to fight against different authorities, and […]
How Does Flexible Incentive Pay Affect Wage Stability?
Maybe not as much as you might think: We introduce flexible incentive contracts to model inflation and unemployment conditions. Our main result is that the […]
Fed Board: “Why is US GDP recovering faster than other advanced economies?”
The Board’s broad article released on Friday: Figure 1 shows the fact that the US has returned to the pre-Covid trend, while other economies have […]
Sunday separate links
1. The most notable person in each area? 2. The French post office issues a scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp. 3. Skepticism about new and higher estimates […]
Why prediction markets are not popular
By Nick Whitaker and J. Zachary Mazlish, this is the best piece on this question so far. In the excerpt, I note that I will […]
Are you a product? – Econlib
We must be careful with words, expressions, and sayings, especially those political hyperboles that reinforce the statist zeitgeist of our time. You are a product […]
My Weekly Reading for May 19, 2024
by Charles Oliver, The reasonMay 10, 2024. Quote: A German court has ruled that robots in a supermarket in Tegut must be taken out on […]