(Very partial) crosspost: Alex heath: SubStack is opening up to AI: Interviewing CEO chris best Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Jun 4, 2026 · 16 min read · AI & Tech
Crosspost: Noah smith: How much more software do we really need? Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Jun 2, 2026 · 12 min read · AI & Tech
Inference is unlikely to ever be a low marginal cost operational node, & the other reasons why the… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Jun 1, 2026 · 11 min read · AI & Tech
Stochastic parrots on the palatine hill: Monday MAMLMs Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Jun 1, 2026 · 11 min read · AI & Tech
Re: The truly abominable kevin hassett: Steve durlauf does the work of the lord: Life in the 2000s Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Jun 1, 2026 · 12 min read · Economics
The transformation problem was not something karl marx overlooked! & Other topics: History of… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Jun 1, 2026 · 16 min read · Economics
The current balance in this Pause—Not end, but pause, perhaps perpetual pause—in the war in the… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 30, 2026 · 11 min read · Foreign Policy
"Agentic AI" is a bonfire of the tokens while fab capacity, power grids, and P&Ls are the brakes:… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 29, 2026 · 15 min read · AI & Tech
Reading: Joan robinson: An open letter from a keynesian to a marxist Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 25, 2026 · 13 min read · Economics
Big trouble in little human genetic Diffence-Worshipper land Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 24, 2026 · 10 min read · Science
Crosspost: Nate silver: Disney erased FiveThirtyEight Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 21, 2026 · 31 min read · Media
Digital gods, cardboard brains, & the coming AI bust: Going around robin hood's barn to get to the… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 19, 2026 · 15 min read · AI & Tech
Well! I am finally optimistic about the SubTuringBradBot project!: Monday MAMLMs Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 17, 2026 · 10 min read · AI & Tech
Crosspost: Ilari mäkelä, steven broadberry, & bishnupriya gupta: The big picture: Measuring the… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 15, 2026 · 13 min read · Economics
Anthology Super-Intelligence: Thursday economic history Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 13, 2026 · 52 min read · Science
Hoisted from the archives: Do birds do it much better? (Intelligence, that is), & other topics… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 5, 2026 · 16 min read · Science
Draft: Social theory for the mid-21st century Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·May 3, 2026 · 30 min read · Philosophy
A comment on noah smith's "the moderately easy problem of consciousness" Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Apr 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Philosophy
Not my john hicks lecture: "John (hicks) the apostate" Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Apr 25, 2026 · 13 min read · Economics
How is the administration managing to lose a war with Iran?: Perhaps the most important thing going… Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Apr 16, 2026 · 13 min read · Foreign Policy
Stochastic lobsters, token tsunamis, & the spinning-up of isaac576bot Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Apr 6, 2026 · 10 min read · AI & Tech
"Contango", "backwardation", & the current freaking-out of the oil market Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Apr 6, 2026 · 10 min read · Economics
Confused notes on the war on Iran: Everyone is losing except for surviving irgc officers getting swift promotions Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Mar 30, 2026 · 16 min read · Foreign Policy
Crosspost: Dan drezner & no 1: Welcome to the lax americana & March 19-21: God is a comedian Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Mar 24, 2026 · 10 min read · Foreign Policy
"Project hail mary" movie: $80 million domestic launch weekend, $140 million worldwide Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Mar 23, 2026 · 11 min read · Culture
Rashomon-ai: Fear, hype, & platform power? Or broad-based productivity gains close enough to smell? Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Mar 16, 2026 · 18 min read · AI & Tech
"The permanent problem of the human race": Yglesias, keynes, lindsey; the quest for valued identities & societal roles; & how to move from "abundance" to "flourishing" Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Mar 9, 2026 · 11 min read · Economics
Killing khamenei: Regime-change roulette in a powder-keg world Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Mar 1, 2026 · 11 min read · Economics
Understanding the state of the corrupt supreme court today Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Feb 27, 2026 · 12 min read · Economics
Mamlms still epic fail open‑book, closed‑world, finite‑list, obvious ground truth tasks Brad DeLong · DeLong's Grasping Reality ·Feb 24, 2026 · 19 min read · History
