Is migration scalable? This week in In Development Magazine, Maheshwor Shrestha writes about how Nepal used migration to reduce extreme poverty.
Frances Lorenz is collecting reports of discrimination and harassment in EA and AI safety. EA can be a bleak place to be a woman, and I am glad Frances is doing this work.
A new paper on the H-2A program finds that families benefit substantially from temporary migration, but it is stressful for those left at home. This seems to be the finding pretty much worldwide: labor migration can be hard, but grinding poverty is even harder, and therefore: labor migration good.
This is your regular recommendation of The Rocket for UK progress news.
I also recommend Charlie Goldsmith on third-party monitoring.
In high-income countries, $1 spent on tax collection results in around $270 collected. In low-income countries, the same $1 of spend can bring in as little as $20.
Look, if you’re going to fabricate your research, at least put some effort into it.
Some predictions on what the first AI-enabled terrorist attack will be like.
What a night for the 35 Lula voters currently resident in Serbia!
The best AI disclosure: “During the writing of this paper, we had several conversations with Claude, 55, owner of the neighborhood bar in Strasbourg. Unfortunately, none of them was of relevance to the topics of the paper.”
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