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Noah Smith's Review of Power and Progress is Very, Very Bad

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It should have been disowned, not republished

I didn’t expect to have more uncomplimentary things to say about the unfortunate intellectual relationship between (a few) economists and (a few) Silicon Valley billionaires right away. But Noah Smith republished his review of Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson’s Power and Progress this morning as part of a feud with Acemoglu and Johnson over whether we ought be trying to “steer” the development of AI. A “timely repost” he says. Not so much. When Noah first put up his review, I responded, pointing out some of the things it got very badly wrong about the book it purported to describe. Then, he…

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