Stories by herbertl

What Artists Do

The Path Not Taken: The 50 Most Economically Disastrous College Majors

The Day the Muse Died

The Best Revenge Is None

Infinity and Eternity

Festina Lente

How I Got Smart (2021)

The Incuriosity Engine

GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)

The End of YC

The "No, but" Engineer

Sticker Shock

Some people have it, some people don't?

Why frequent monitoring decreases perceptions of progress

The fossil fuel industry is trying to keep buildings hooked on gas

Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials

USAID's chief economist has resigned. Here's why

AI could combat conspiracy theories, according to new research

A Chinatown-by-the-Sea Popped Up on the Jersey Shore (2017)

Alignment Faking in Large Language Models

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