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Latest Book Summaries
- Book Summary: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
- Book Summary: Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom
- Book Summary: The New Map by Daniel Yergin
Latest Blog Posts and Other (Non-Book) Summaries
- How Asia Works with causal diagrams[Estimated time: 5 mins] Some people have pointed out that it’s hard to test the theory of development put forward by Joe… Read more: How Asia Works with causal diagrams
- How AI might cause GDP and well-being to (further) decouple[Estimated time: 12 mins] This is my third post for this series. It refers to concepts ideas in my previous two posts,… Read more: How AI might cause GDP and well-being to (further) decouple
- GDP has never been a measure of well-being[Estimated time: 14 mins] When people speculate about the effects of AI on “economic growth”, they often assume economic growth will increase… Read more: GDP has never been a measure of well-being
- Shouldn’t productivity improvements reduce GDP?[Estimated time: 10 mins] I was chatting the other day with a friend about AI and economic growth. In the middle of… Read more: Shouldn’t productivity improvements reduce GDP?
- The Monty Hall problem—explained with a causal diagram[Estimated time: 3 mins] The Monty Hall problem is a famous probability puzzle based on the game show Let’s Make a Deal.… Read more: The Monty Hall problem—explained with a causal diagram