Reading path
You think in markets
For readers fluent in charts and economic reasoning but not in code. Start with work and incentives; branch into the machinery and the politics.
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The reading order
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✓[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models
The one technical prerequisite — what the product actually is.
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✓Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
The best field experiment on AI and productivity.
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✓Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
Comparative advantage applied to AI, by an economist writing for everyone.
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✓The Cyborg Era: What AI means for jobs
The same machinery with the concessions included — corner solutions and all.
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Then follow your interest
How it works, and why it scales
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✓Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
Where the costs and capabilities actually come from.
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✓The Bitter Lesson
Why compute keeps winning — the supply side's founding text.
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✓The AI water issue is fake
Resource economics of data centers, done with real denominators.
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