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Affordability is mostly anger at high nominal prices after a one‑time inflation jump. Even as inflation cooled, prices didn’t retreat. Plus tariff policy operates like a tax that lifts them further. Meanwhile, housing outpaced wages, amplifying the pain. Politically, the promise to cut prices was undeliverable—and now visibly broken. The appropriate response is income‑raising, m...
Faster GPUs won’t conjure a world model from out of thin air we’re scaling mimicry, not understanding: that is my guess as to why the MAMLM frontier is spiky, with breathtaking benchmarks, baffling failures, real consequences… class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{"url":"https://braddelong.substack.com/p/wetware-hardware-centaurs-not-digital?utm_source=substack&am...
Matt covers six Larry Summers controversies: globalization, African development and pollution, the long-overdue but still stalled reform effort at Harvard, the “greater male variability hypothesis”, and the Obama stimulus, in addition to Larry’s being an infatuated fool; he grades Larry as more right than wrong on four of the six, is agnostic on the greater male variability hypo...
GPT LLM MAMLMs are not oracles, subordinates, or colleagues. They are emulations of TISs—Typical Internet S***posters. If you are at all a good writer, the most they can be is “rabbits” that, in races and in training, mark and keep the pace that you want to meet and then better. Yes, with a lot of work you can nudge the TIS-emulators into desirable configurations. But that is a ...
