Ethan Ding on the economics of providing LLM services:

when you're spending time with an ai—whether coding, writing, or thinking—you always max out on quality. nobody opens claude and thinks, "you know what? let me use the shitty version to save my boss some money." we're cognitively greedy

Scott Sumner's final EconLog post:

In my view, people focus far too much on individual issues and far too little on the essential role of integrity in the political process. We should demand that politicians tell the truth. We should demand that politicians refrain from corrupt practices. We should demand

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Ethan Mollick discusses how AI research agents are evolving to become sophisticated tools that will transform but not replace human experts.

"These experts and consultancies aren't going away - if anything, their judgment becomes more crucial as they evolve from doing the work to orchestrating and validating the work of