Mumbai correspondent at the Economisthttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvkfuqh2n22wSolidarity with Zack Polanski as I also can't properly aspirate the jh and kh sounds15 Sep 2026 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkfuqh2n22whttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvhqahn4tk2z"Under realistic assumptions a single housing supply (or demand) curve is not well defined and may be misleading. We probably know much less about housing demand and supply than generally believed" - San Francisco Fed paper https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/wp2026-18.pdf14 Sep 2026 08:52 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhqahn4tk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvhoiyxm6s2zCan cheap power make poor countries competitive in data centres? Not really, says the World Bank. Most of the cost is hardware rather than energy so small differences in financing costs and regulation erase any advantage from cheaper energy. https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099327207202690992/pdf/IDU-95682cf6-fd22-4021-80fc-2bb7948a8f65.pdf14 Sep 2026 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhoiyxm6s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvhkl6bvtc2pSometimes I think about AI like cars. Cars kill over 1m a year in accidents alone and that's after we've come up with "car alignment" policies like traffic lights and speed limits. When cars first came out the British government had a man with a flag walk very slowly in front of them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhkl6bvtc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvhgez7ihc2pFeeling like all this AI safety talk is very Baptists and Bootleggers [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2026 05:55 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhgez7ihc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvhauxfsrs2p"The primary effect of [California's] fast-food minimum wage was to disadvantage small chains, albeit with modest overall employment effects thus far." https://www.nber.org/papers/w35749?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg10 https://www.nber.org/papers/w35738?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg1014 Sep 2026 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhauxfsrs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvhasysyws2p40% of women in New Delhi report experiencing stalking, groping or sexual assault in the past year. 14% in Bangalore. https://www.nber.org/papers/w35738?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg1014 Sep 2026 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvhasysyws2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mvab4ada522jReckon there are loads of creative science and engineering grads with great critical thinking skills.11 Sep 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvab4ada522jhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mva6i6zz3c2jWhat I really want is a company offering me post-training an open weight model so that it matches my needs. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Sep 2026 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mva6i6zz3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mv5uokxaoc2kDoes it not also suggest that English is a much easier language for migrants to pick up than e.g. Finnish? Ireland is similar to Britain. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Sep 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5uokxaoc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mv5o5kzm5k2qWhy would you want this [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Sep 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv5o5kzm5k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mv3632hts22xTelling my ai agent to kill all the humans and then setting up another ai agent to check the first did actually kill all the humans09 Sep 2026 08:55 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv3632hts22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mv353srlcs2yThinking of Blake Lemoine right now https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoine09 Sep 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv353srlcs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3mv2y7nehns2yIf, as Scott Bessent and others suggest, bonds are selling off because of higher growth expectations then why is the reaction in India so muted? https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/08/what-is-causing-the-global-bond-sell-off09 Sep 2026 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:fqg2krki2lw3b6rex2jtrkos/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2y7nehns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/gavinjackson.bsky.social/post/3muz5vf2h322kRicardo (law of diminishing returns) always wins. 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