Friday assorted links
Author: Marginal Revolution·
Key Takeaways
- •The roundup includes a link about what kinds of mathematics large language models handle well.
- •It points to updated Stanford research on AI and labor market effects, with a summary of recent employment impacts.
- •The article references a post arguing for improved cybersecurity policy and government coordination.
- •It notes a project by Refine working on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- •It includes a link to a discussion of a view that nuclear energy is bad, while stating that this is not the author’s view.
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
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“People think the superrich are unhappy,” she said. “They’re not.” (NYT)
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Joshua Saxe has a post on the need for a better cybersecurity policy, a topic that tends to sit at the intersection of technical controls, incentives, and government coordination.
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Refine goes to work on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. At some point we will be reexamining everything, good luck people.
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A semi-consistent EA view that nuclear energy is bad (not my view though).
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Updated AI and labor market results, and a summary here, adding another data point to the ongoing debate over how quickly AI is showing up in employment patterns.
