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Brad DeLong

@braddelong.bsky.social
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Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 15h
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CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claude
They react to Anthropic’s declaration that it will cut off your access to Claude in extreme cases in which you are too mean to it “repeatedly... with no discernible purpose”...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 15h
...in the day: **CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claude** They react to Anthropic’s declaration that it will cut off your access to Claude in extreme cases in which you are too mean to it “repeatedly... with no discernible purpose”... 2/
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CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claude
They react to Anthropic’s declaration that it will cut off your access to Claude in extreme cases in which you are too mean to it “repeatedly... with no discernible purpose”...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 15h
I am on Ben Thompson’s and John Gruber’s side here: These are stochastic-parrot clever-hans software tools, potentially very useful when properly harnessed, but a source of madness to people who fall into the same trap that the gullible fell into when interacting with Weizenbaum’s ELIZA back... 1/
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CROSSPOST: JOHN GRUBER & BEN THOMPSON: Meanness & Claude
They react to Anthropic’s declaration that it will cut off your access to Claude in extreme cases in which you are too mean to it “repeatedly... with no discernible purpose”...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 21h
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What Jón Steinsson Learned from Mike Woodford in Econ 420: ENCOMIUM OF THE DAY
The Woodford framework has real bugs, but it is still far and away the best one to think with; a 1999 Princeton seminar with 1/3 of its students going on to high-status research university tenure...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 21h
...out self-fulfilling spirals: **What Jón Steinsson Learned from Mike Woodford in Econ 420: ENCOMIUM OF THE DAY** The Woodford framework has real bugs, but it is still far and away the best one to think with; a 1999 Princeton seminar with 1/3 of its students going on to high-status research... 2/
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What Jón Steinsson Learned from Mike Woodford in Econ 420: ENCOMIUM OF THE DAY
The Woodford framework has real bugs, but it is still far and away the best one to think with; a 1999 Princeton seminar with 1/3 of its students going on to high-status research university tenure...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 21h
The Woodford framework: The interest rate, not the money stock, is the instrument. Expectations are the dominant channel, so credible commitment to a rule is everything. Price stability minimizes relative-price distortions. And rules must move rates more than one-for-one with inflation to rule... 1/
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What Jón Steinsson Learned from Mike Woodford in Econ 420: ENCOMIUM OF THE DAY
The Woodford framework has real bugs, but it is still far and away the best one to think with; a 1999 Princeton seminar with 1/3 of its students going on to high-status research university tenure...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
...n His Original Greek: REGRET OF THE DAY** The “Meditation”’ of Marcus Aurelius is not a Stoic textbook. It is a tired man trying to talk himself out of bed in the morning, and into doing a job he never wanted to have... < braddelong.substack.com/p/a-second-r... . 2026-10-12 3/END
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A Second-Rate Philosopher I Cannot Read in His Original Greek: REGRET OF THE DAY
The “Meditation”’ of Marcus Aurelius is not a Stoic textbook. It is a tired man trying to talk himself out of bed in the morning, and into doing a job he never wanted to have...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
...could he stop that? He already was the Caesar. Thus the Meditations reads less like a philosophy lesson than like a man arguing with himself, losing, and then picking himself back up off the floor and trying to man-up to argue with himself again": **A Second-Rate Philosopher I Cannot Read... 2/
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A Second-Rate Philosopher I Cannot Read in His Original Greek: REGRET OF THE DAY
The “Meditation”’ of Marcus Aurelius is not a Stoic textbook. It is a tired man trying to talk himself out of bed in the morning, and into doing a job he never wanted to have...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Epictetus provide a better guide to stoicism. Seneca writes better prose. So Why is it that Marcus Aurelius’s private, repetitive, nagging-himself notebook endures and influences more than all the other stoics put together? “Don’t turn into just another Caesar,” Marcus warned himself. But how... 1/
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A Second-Rate Philosopher I Cannot Read in His Original Greek: REGRET OF THE DAY
The “Meditation”’ of Marcus Aurelius is not a Stoic textbook. It is a tired man trying to talk himself out of bed in the morning, and into doing a job he never wanted to have...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
...statement should carry it on decision day...”; Warsh is pointlessly opaque... < braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-... > 2026-19-12 4/END
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CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Hand the Pen to the Committee
Claudia’s subheadline: “The Fed’s main reason for raising rates took three weeks to reach the public. The statement should carry it on decision day...”; Warsh is pointlessly opaque...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
...other, but each day that choice is delayed is a victory for him, if not for the economy, the country, and the world: **CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Hand the Pen to the Committee** Claudia’s subheadline: “The Fed’s main reason for raising rates took three weeks to reach the public. The... 3/
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CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Hand the Pen to the Committee
Claudia’s subheadline: “The Fed’s main reason for raising rates took three weeks to reach the public. The statement should carry it on decision day...”; Warsh is pointlessly opaque...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
...point if you think that Warsh’s principal objective is to delay the day of reckoning when he has to choose between having Trump conclude that he has been betrayed and having the bond market conclude that it is being betrayed by Warsh. He will ultimately have to choose between one or the... 2/
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CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Hand the Pen to the Committee
Claudia’s subheadline: “The Fed’s main reason for raising rates took three weeks to reach the public. The statement should carry it on decision day...”; Warsh is pointlessly opaque...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Warsh’s press conference and the FOMC committee statements he is letting through are pointlessly opaque. Pointlessly, that is, if the idea is to make good monetary economy and have a stabilized high-growth sustainable-employment low-inflation economy. Warsh’s opaqueness, however, does have a... 1/
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CROSSPOST: CLAUDIA SAHM: Hand the Pen to the Committee
Claudia’s subheadline: “The Fed’s main reason for raising rates took three weeks to reach the public. The statement should carry it on decision day...”; Warsh is pointlessly opaque...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
...Berkeley, CA; Henry Farrell lays out how political scientists should study “AI”... < braddelong.substack.com/p/henry-farr... > 2026-10-09 2/END
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Henry Farrell of Johns Hopkins Agora Comes to Berkeley: FOG & FLATLANDS
Life & Work in Berkeley, CA; Henry Farrell lays out how political scientists should study “AI”...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Farrell treats AI as one more of the information-processing social institutions Herbert Simon described, alongside markets and bureaucracy, rather than as the buliding of a Machine God-Overlord: **Henry Farrell of Johns Hopkins Agora Comes to Berkeley: FOG & FLATLANDS** Life & Work in... 1/
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Henry Farrell of Johns Hopkins Agora Comes to Berkeley: FOG & FLATLANDS
Life & Work in Berkeley, CA; Henry Farrell lays out how political scientists should study “AI”...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
...I Learned Co-Founding Vox** Matt’s subheadline: “Talent is scarce, training is hard, and the competition is smarter than you want them to be...” < braddelong.substack.com/p/semi-cross... > 2026-10-09 3/END
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(SEMI-)CROSSPOST/HOISTED: MATTHEW YGLESIAS (2022): What I Learned Co-Founding Vox
Matt’s subheadline: “Talent is scarce, training is hard, and the competition is smarter than you want them to be...”
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
...journalism back toward clickbait—in Vox’s case, a very mild form of clickbait, but still it was what the eyeballs that it could harvest and sell to advertisers wanted to see. It was not what the eyeballs it attracted needed to see: **(SEMI-)CROSSPOST/HOISTED: MATTHEW YGLESIAS (2022): What... 2/
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(SEMI-)CROSSPOST/HOISTED: MATTHEW YGLESIAS (2022): What I Learned Co-Founding Vox
Matt’s subheadline: “Talent is scarce, training is hard, and the competition is smarter than you want them to be...”
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yglesias's postmortem of Vox shows how distribution economics shapes what journalism can be. Paying salaries required income. Ad-funding required scale. Scale required kowtowing to FaceBook’s and Google’s algorithms. That made for enormous pressures to back off from true data and explainer... 1/
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(SEMI-)CROSSPOST/HOISTED: MATTHEW YGLESIAS (2022): What I Learned Co-Founding Vox
Matt’s subheadline: “Talent is scarce, training is hard, and the competition is smarter than you want them to be...”
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I suspect it really is Honey Badger Don't Care www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7w...
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The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Your podcast deserves more bumps! It is really good! And the duration of AI-stocks is absolutely insane! They should be the most sensitive to interest rates of all possible investments these days. Either Honey Badger Don't Care, or it is the datacenter buildout and nothing else that is driving r up
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
...people who'll never know our names; we trade with thousands who want no connection with us. So a personal email from a friend whose tie to me has also become a parasocial one is precious... < braddelong.substack.com/p/you-are-no... > 2026-10-08 3/END
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"You Are Not Taking Up Too Much of My Time": A Note from a Not Asocial but Rather Parasocial Age: CHART OF THE DAY
We follow people who'll never know our names; we trade with thousands who want no connection with us. So a personal email from a friend whose tie to me has also become a parasocial one is precious...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
...wrestling with a sociability that is no longer person-to-person network but rather profoundly parasocial, even when the parasociality is a two-way symmetric one: **"You Are Not Taking Up Too Much of My Time": A Note from a Not Asocial but Rather Parasocial Age: CHART OF THE DAY** We follow... 2/
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"You Are Not Taking Up Too Much of My Time": A Note from a Not Asocial but Rather Parasocial Age: CHART OF THE DAY
We follow people who'll never know our names; we trade with thousands who want no connection with us. So a personal email from a friend whose tie to me has also become a parasocial one is precious...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have read and heard most of what Charlie Jane Anders has written and podcast over the past 6.5 years since the start of the plague, yet I do not think I have seen or had a two-way voice or video call with her since. Thus America today has, in my estimation, not a problem of asociality but of... 1/
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"You Are Not Taking Up Too Much of My Time": A Note from a Not Asocial but Rather Parasocial Age: CHART OF THE DAY
We follow people who'll never know our names; we trade with thousands who want no connection with us. So a personal email from a friend whose tie to me has also become a parasocial one is precious...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
...the AI trade, of course; the FT’s “Unhedged” podcast—that is something I am definitely long... < braddelong.substack.com/p/katie-mart... > 2026-10-07 2/END
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Katie Martin & Rob Armstrong: There Is Only One Trade: PODCAST OF THE DAY
The “only one trade” is the AI trade, of course; the FT’s “Unhedged” podcast—that is something I am definitely long...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The “Honey Badger don’t care” stock market: why and how twenty “AI” stocks and only twenty “AI” stocks shrug off the big shock of rising interest rates in our weird two-speed stock market: **Katie Martin & Rob Armstrong: There Is Only One Trade: PODCAST OF THE DAY** The “only one trade” is... 1/
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Katie Martin & Rob Armstrong: There Is Only One Trade: PODCAST OF THE DAY
The “only one trade” is the AI trade, of course; the FT’s “Unhedged” podcast—that is something I am definitely long...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...subheadline: “The actual question is what kind of a nation America is going to be...”; I say it should be as a city set upon a hill.. < braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-... > 2026-10-07 4/END
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CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”
Noah’s subheadline: “The actual question is what kind of a nation America is going to be...”; I say it should be as a city set upon a hill...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...that commission, and become one of us. Hazing makes ethnic enclaves. Covenants make Americans. Ask George Mitchell, Irish-Levantine Maronite altar boy turned Bowdoin College graduate and Yankee Senate Majority Leader: **CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”** Noah’s... 3/
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CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”
Noah’s subheadline: “The actual question is what kind of a nation America is going to be...”; I say it should be as a city set upon a hill...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...been constant since 1630. Rufo and Lomez’s “question” is part nativist panic and part knife aimed at JD Vance. The answer was given aboard the Arbella: come to the New World to avoid all the mistakes and the tyrannies of the Old World, and to build a god-fearing prosperous utopia, take up... 2/
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CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”
Noah’s subheadline: “The actual question is what kind of a nation America is going to be...”; I say it should be as a city set upon a hill...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What kind of a nation America is going to be? It will be what it has been: A country composed of all those who escape from the Old World and all of its mistakes and tyrannies to build a god-fearing prosperous utopia here in the New World: that is our errand unto the wilderness, and that has... 1/
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CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”
Noah’s subheadline: “The actual question is what kind of a nation America is going to be...”; I say it should be as a city set upon a hill...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this may not bear any resemblance to what I actually teach, but Cecile insists that students have syllabuses available before they start the signup-bidding-for-courses process...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...Sense of Human History: (LATE) TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOIL** All Grand Narratives are false; but having a Grand Narrative is an essential foundation to being able to think at all; political economy in the broad sense... < braddelong.substack.com/p/the-largel... > 2026-10-07 2/END
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The Largely-Fruitless Task of Trying to Make Sense of Human History: (LATE) TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOIL
All Grand Narratives are false; but having a Grand Narrative is an essential foundation to being able to think at all; political economy in the broad sense...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Berkeley Economics Undergraduate Committee Chair Cecile Gaubert demands a syllabus for next spring. So let me throw it together. What is (are) my Grand Narrative(s) going to be, and will I be able at the end to look back and pull up the ladder?: **The Largely-Fruitless Task of Trying to Make... 1/
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The Largely-Fruitless Task of Trying to Make Sense of Human History: (LATE) TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOIL
All Grand Narratives are false; but having a Grand Narrative is an essential foundation to being able to think at all; political economy in the broad sense...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable... < braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-... > 2026-10-06 3/END
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CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Justin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...the promised release. And it is not new. It is leftovers from the March committee: **CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement** Justin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be the... 2/
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CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Justin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Journalists who do not count the zeroes and compare them to the proper magnitudes are not bystanders or generalists, but accomplices in the disinformation bullshit machine. The release is one day of world output and one-fifteenth of the total Hormuz-closure gap over the four-month period of... 1/
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CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Justin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human: (LATE) MONDAY MAMLMS
Can me + my machines read the books that I will never have time to? I read half as manyserious books as I used to. Can my systems fake it? & are the systems in which I am a component really faking it?
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...Model But the One Between the Model & the Human: (LATE) MONDAY MAMLMS** Can me + my machines read the books that I will never have time to? I read half as manyserious books as I used to. Can my systems fake it? & are the systems in which I am a component really faking it?... 3/
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Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human: (LATE) MONDAY MAMLMS
Can me + my machines read the books that I will never have time to? I read half as manyserious books as I used to. Can my systems fake it? & are the systems in which I am a component really faking it?
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...that exchange appears. Now my machines are trying to make it so that, going forward, I will have or be able to create the memories I would have had if I actually had read it. Will it work? Probably not. Will it be interesting? Very. Probably: **Not the Interface Between the Machine & the... 2/
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Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human: (LATE) MONDAY MAMLMS
Can me + my machines read the books that I will never have time to? I read half as manyserious books as I used to. Can my systems fake it? & are the systems in which I am a component really faking it?
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Max Weber in mid-1917 called socialist-revolution Russia “a laboratory that will be heaped with human corpses”; Schumpeter replied that every anatomy classroom is the same. Weber, outraged, stormed out in anger at Schumpeter’s cool contemplation of near-genocide. I never read the book where... 1/
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Not the Interface Between the Machine & the Model But the One Between the Model & the Human: (LATE) MONDAY MAMLMS
Can me + my machines read the books that I will never have time to? I read half as manyserious books as I used to. Can my systems fake it? & are the systems in which I am a component really faking it?
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
...contradicts nearly all his claims... < braddelong.substack.com/p/crosspost-... > 2026-10-06 4/END
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CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior contradicts nearly all his claims...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
...that this is not the case: **CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense** A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior... 3/
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CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior contradicts nearly all his claims...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
...inconsistent with the relevant standards of review, where the inconsistencies have a remarkable tendency of benefiting Republicans, and all while insisting that what little the Court says after such a truncated process should have precedential effects below._ Samuel Alito pretends, falsely... 2/
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CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior contradicts nearly all his claims...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The problem with the Supreme Court’s corrupt Republican majority’s use of the “Shadow Docket” is this: _In too many high-profile cases, the justices are handing down significant rulings on scant briefing with little internal deliberation and little public explanation, in ways that at least... 1/
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CROSSPOST: STEVE VLADECK: 256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
A lot of false statements by Samuel Alito in his book “So Ordered”: he rebuts a caricature of his critics, and ignores all the ways his own behavior contradicts nearly all his claims...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...surplus, & increasing the scope for capital deepening: “AI” is batting not 0 for 3 and not 3 for 3, but 2 for 3. TFP is the one that has not yet arrived at the picnic... < braddelong.substack.com/p/aggregate-... > 2026-10-05 2/END
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Aggregate Total Factor Productivity & “Artificial Intelligence”: CHART OF THE DAY
TFP, creating user surplus, & increasing the scope for capital deepening: “AI” is batting not 0 for 3 and not 3 for 3, but 2 for 3. TFP is the one that has not yet arrived at the picnic...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Torsten Slok is right: There is no “AI” in the TFP data. But he's wrong to stop there. "No sign of AI in the productivity data" is a headline that confuses the scoreboard with the game: **Aggregate Total Factor Productivity & “Artificial Intelligence”: CHART OF THE DAY** TFP, creating user... 1/
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Aggregate Total Factor Productivity & “Artificial Intelligence”: CHART OF THE DAY
TFP, creating user surplus, & increasing the scope for capital deepening: “AI” is batting not 0 for 3 and not 3 for 3, but 2 for 3. TFP is the one that has not yet arrived at the picnic...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...could quote Goethe on the superiority of practical life over abstract theory. That did not mean that Lenin knew what the fuck he was making with his 1917 coup... < braddelong.substack.com/p/the-highly... > 2026-10-05 2/END
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The Highly-Cultured Vladimir Lenin: SANEWASHING OF THE DAY
Lenin could quote Goethe on the superiority of practical life over abstract theory. That did not mean that Lenin knew what the fuck he was making with his 1917 coup...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Much better for the world and, almost surely, for Lenin, had he been a little less quick-witted, a little less a practical man of affairs, and a better Marxist theorist, like. Someone like, say, the Menshevik Yuliy Martov: **The Highly-Cultured Vladimir Lenin: SANEWASHING OF THE DAY** Lenin... 1/
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The Highly-Cultured Vladimir Lenin: SANEWASHING OF THE DAY
Lenin could quote Goethe on the superiority of practical life over abstract theory. That did not mean that Lenin knew what the fuck he was making with his 1917 coup...
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nate Silver did not put his thumb on the scale in 2016. Why are you a bullshit artist, and a liar?
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
...Silver & Co.’s Take on the House of Representatives: CHART OF THE DAY** Democrats need to win the House popular vote by roughly 2.5 points before the seat math breaks even... < braddelong.substack.com/p/nate-silve... > 2026-10-02 2/END
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Nate Silver & Co.’s Take on the House of Representatives: CHART OF THE DAY
Democrats need to win the House popular vote by roughly 2.5 points before the seat math breaks even...
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