Arguably, though, current events favor Schoultz’s view that it’s the mindset of US policymakers that matters. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

I think Grow’s book on Cold War interventions offers a great framework. kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700618880/

Love this piece. Thanks for sharing.

Third, AIs help identify changes between different versions of documents. I work on labor law/social security law in Chile. Different bills have differing provisions. Some changes are obvious, some less obvious ones were noted at the time. AI has helped me recognize subtle but important differences.

Secondarily, I have found it useful for turning printed tables of data into spreadsheets. That allows me to then analyze the data. Again, still has errors, so I need to check the numbers. But the process is MUCH faster with an AI than by hand.

Right now, the main use I have found in AI is in transcribing documents. The different AIs I have tried all make errors, but fewer than I do when just typing by hand.

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The guy literally wrote a book advocating for mass immigration into the United States!
On what possible basis can you justify a claim that he “only” advocates “positions that are already popular”?

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I understood it differently. I thought everyone knew the office would be used to make money; the metropolitan government was just trying to get its cut up front to cover pressing expenses. Like a tax farm.

Reminds me of this: pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/i...

Interesting. Adam Smith seems to imply that in most places & at most times they were not good enough. Maybe a glass half full/half empty contrast.

Brenner also explicitly argued, right there in the introduction, against North & Thomas who had translated the demography-institutions model into its neoclassical formulation.