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Dec 03, 2022

BREAKING: ITS ANOTHER BEAT 263K new jobs, 3.7% unemployment rate, hourly wages jump 0.6%. Economists had expected 200K new jobs, and for the unemployment rate to remain at 3.7%. https://t.co/3qRc6BftBc

High interest rates still haven't slowed things down, the Fed isn't gonna like that, suddenly the market thinks rate hikes are going to continue for a long time. Looking a at a graph of aggregate nominal labor income versus pre-covid trend definitely makes it look like we continue to be at risk of overheating the economy. We need more immigration!

Quantian @quantian1

Remarkably rapid pivot on this issue, the CCP seems to be realizing they fumbled the bag on zero covid and backtracking. https://t.co/DrxRqQnMH8

Hu Xijin 胡锡进 @HuXijin_GT

It’s been a long time since daily COVID-19 infections exceeded 10,000 in China,but there are only 98 severe cases. No new deaths for 5 consecutive days. Omicron is really becoming weak.China is unlikely to reproduce the humanitarian disaster that the West had in the past 2 years.

Hu Xijin is with CCP state affiliated media. Also, CNN is reporting that Xi Jinping is hinting at relaxing COVID restrictions, good to see him taking feedback

Best of ChatGPT

Everyone was sharing amusing things they could get out of OpenAI ChatGPT today. I haven’t really included any where it totally fails, but in the examples (as well as my own experience) it’s far from perfect. This is a sample biased towards the things that worked particularly well:

• It explains in biblical verse how to get a sandwich out of a VCR• Recommends macroeconomic policies for Japan.

• Writes a Monty Python sketch about the forefathers of modern AI

• Essay as Trump arguing for open borders, or better yet, Marijuana Legalization

• Scores an 83 on an IQ test, walkthrough of the answers it gave.

• Creates plausible conversations with Tyler Cowen

• Explains legal concepts as an orc, or as Elmer Fudd

• Puts a dog on the stand in a scene from A Few Good Men.

• New scenes from The West Wing

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