& Jason Furman tells us Stephen Miran is a very good economist... - Brad

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2025-11-22 Sa
#using-gpt-llm-mamlms-as-your-rabbit
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...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 lot of work, done at the wrong and at a very unreliable abstraction layer. Better to say “I can do better than that drivel…” and write it yourself… 2/

...coherent argument, but to provide talking points that corrupt media can flash on screens to convince the uninformed to follow someone they portray as a leader doing something...
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I suppose we can all take a very small quantum of consolation from the fact that no matter how badly we f*** up at our jobs working to better the country and the world, we are all doing infinitely better than Merrick Garland...

I am convinced that Art Goldhammer lives on the grounds of Alexis de Tocqueville's ancestral estate during the July Monarchy, and visits us only via time machine. He certainly writes like it...

...selection on “bourgeois” traits breaks the chains, and growth escapes. Tempting—and partly right. But, I think, substantially wrong. However, today let me talk pretty much only about the parts in which it is right…
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I would be inclined to translate it more vernacularly as "You don't have to hope in order to try, you don't need to succeed to keep trying" OR "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!"

And who was it who said: "if at first you don't fricassee, fry fry a hen!?"

I 'like' this variation from Paradise Lost:

“What reinforcement we may gain from hope,
If not, what resolution from despair.”

...rhe hard part is the mechanics of the business finding the sweet spot…
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...Hope is not needed to attempt, nor success needed to keep trying”. ChatGPT claims that this makes its way into English in Wilson’s 1963 "O, Canada!" And it has the obvious application to us, here and now:
CROSSPOST: ART GOLDHAMMER: Perseverance in Despair... 3/

...true about the world. “Il faut imaginer” is thus a declaration of the mental stance one must assume in order to live a worthwhile life as a human being. According to Camus. But the wise Art Goldhammer prefers: “Il n’est pas besoin d’espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer”—... 2/

Moral boosting speech to rouse the troops by going "we're f***ed, we're absolutely f***ed. we're doing awful, shameful things to hang on and they probably won't even work. it's absolutely terrible lads, you've no idea, it's so bad. anyway, until you hear different, business as usual"

the really peculiar thing is that the ruling economic policy triumvirate in the first two years of the Obama administration seems to have rapidly become Emmanuel, Geithner, and Obama—none of whom had a serious macroeconomist in their immediate staff circle; with Summers on the outside looking in...

yes indeedee...

touché...