Weekend Reading & Selected Links
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Happy weekend! Here are some links to things I've been reading or listening to that you might also enjoy:
- An ambitious start to the new year: In early 2025, I'll host a series of six live podcasts in Sydney and Melbourne. For listeners of the show there's an early bird discount available now until the 1st of Jan, but only for the first 50 tickets for each event. Learn more and get tickets here. (Email me at joe@jnwpod.com if you want a discount to attend multiple events in the same city.)
- Francois Chollet on o3.
- 'The Black Spatula Project'. Via Ulkar Aghayeva.
- 'The how we need now: a capacity agenda for 2025', a new paper on state capacity. (And a podcast on it.)
- Housing supply syllabus by Sam Bowman, Ben Southwood and John Myers.
- Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work. A very good new 80,000 Hours podcast.
- 'The plot against Mercia', John Myers.
- Two new papers on prediction: 'The AI Calculation Debate', by Cass Sunstein; 'The tracking forecasting accuracy of geopolitical schools of thought—and causes of their predictive successes and failures', by Phil Tetlock.
- 'Why India’s Food Is the Best in the World', Tyler Cowen.
- A Girard Christmas Card.
Have a great weekend,
Joe