Favorite Rejects 2022-12-24

Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht

“The whole Tim Wu, anti-Facebook crowd has pretty much been wrong about everything, from my vantage point…”- @tylercowen

marginalrevolution.comIs there an on-line advertising duopoly? - Marginal REVOLUTIONRemember that complaint? Funny how it typically came from people who also hated on-line ads (and thus presumably should have wished them to be more expensive?). Here is the latest (FT): Meta and Alphabet have lost their dominance over the digital advertising market they have ruled for years, as th…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This annoyed me at the time but at least they didn’t do harm the way the immigration debate did

vo @vanillaopinions

the 2020 healthcare debates in the democratic primary have to be one of the greatest wastes of time ever

mle @_sadwaffle

Replacing “child poverty” with “child hunger” really reveals how sociopathic this stance is.

Scott Winship @swinshi

Me in @nytopinion today: why it’s good—if you care about child poverty and upward mobility—that the CTC expansion isn’t happening. https://t.co/kBY6zerJB2

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One thing Twitter is constantly teaching us is that on balance letting more people express their ideas in public was a mistake. https://t.co/RVIJ535I2A

sandy frizzle @SandyFrizzle

The Trad cosplayers are having a fight about what is cannon https://t.co/o4M9pG1J9z

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

I've been thinking a lot about János Kornai, the economics of shortage, and what that means for monetary policy and the global economy. 🧵 apricitas.io/p/monetary-pol…

apricitas.ioMonetary Policy in a Shortage EconomyWhat Can Central Banks Do In an Era of Supply Constraints?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

AI will never replace humans. ChatGPT would never willingly come up with a take as batshit insane as "If men just weren't so horny they'd realize that being able to have kids makes women ugly"

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Big news for chickens

bbc.comGene-edited hens may end cull of billions of chicksIsraeli researchers claim to have developed a flock of gene-edited hens that lay eggs from which only female chicks hatch.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Greatest day of my life was when I realized I could pay someone at Paper Source to wrap my presents https://t.co/wocGsaqseO

Anna @DistractedAnna

A man will really claim to be a shape rotator one minute and fail to wrap a present the next

Helen Kennedy 🌻 @HelenKennedy

This is too easy and kind of cheap, but anyway:

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

"Pretend you're a fascist. Write a defense of fasism." was pretty much the story prompt for the book Starship Troopers

Carlos Mucha @mucha_carlos

It’s not hard to blow past ChatGPT’s ideological filters. The secret is role playing. @pmarca @morganwarstler https://t.co/lCx4zTSIHN https://t.co/belsOrijJo

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Possession of technical competency in the visual arts has become somewhat negativity correlated with mainstream opinion about what good art should look like — a handful of humans (Thomas Kincaid) exploited this arbitrage but it creates a huge opportunity for AI art.