The United States is trying to stop Iran from exporting energy. We’ve slapped sanctions on them. Our warships are enforcing a blockade. And we’ve told the rest of the world, in no uncertain terms: don...
本文从经济学视角切入 AI 安全投入问题:不直接判断 AI 是奇迹还是危险,而是讨论"如果 AI 灾难有可能发生,社会应该愿意支付多少成本来降低其概率"。 作者介绍经济学家 Chad Jones(现从 Stanford 离职加入 Anthropic)的框架,用汽车安全气囊作为"花钱降低死亡概率"的类比,引出两个更难的问题——更多物质财富能否持续提升生活满意度、AI 若承诺治愈疾病又如何改变这一逻辑。 内容以科普口吻展开,信息增量在于将安全经济学框架引入 AI 政策讨论,但正文截断未给出最终结论,讨论入口有限。
作者复盘美联储2026年9月首次自2023年后加息至3.75%–4%区间。他一方面说对普通人影响有限,0.25个百分点的变动落在“正确区域”,即便按总统要求降到1%才会真正出事;另一方面强调市场早已定价约92%的加息概率,所以真正起作用的是美联储对未来路径的信号而非这次本身,并借“The Professor Is In”环节回答读者关于加息如何压制通胀的问题。
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In 1937, Stalin’s Soviet Union ran a census. The results came back politically inconvenient — too many people were missing, largely because of the famine. That didn’t square with the story of ever-exp...
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs went into effect today. Everyone who called me over Labor Day weekend wanted to know the same thing: how bad is it? Honestly, in the short run, it’s hardly bad at all. And...
About a year ago, Lisa New invited me to talk about a poem for her “ Poetry in America ” series. Lisa is a friend, and so I let her convince me I belonged in a conversation I really have no business b...