Henry Farrell

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Henry FarrellSep 20, 2023
So we have ... ah ... our first Amazon review. If you've read Underground Empire and are so minded, it would be wonderful if you could rate it and perhaps even review it. I'd love it if you liked it, but would willingly settle for more sophisticated criticism than GoonerStrike https://amzn.to/3PbIyqX
Henry FarrellSep 11, 2023

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-11/economic-statecraft-latest-underground-empire-authors

Dan Flatley on Underground Empire in Bloomberg this morning.

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Economic Statecraft Latest: Underground Empire authors

To understand how a modern empire is built, look not to the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan or the vast military industrial complex on the banks of the Potomac River, but to the fiber optic cables that surface in San Francisco or the server farms that are tucked away in suburban Virginia.

Bloomberg
Henry FarrellAug 30, 2023
https://amzn.to/3kb8FTn The first proper review of Underground Empire, by Wes Clark, is up - "We should be seeing the bigger picture that [Newman] and Farrell paint and working to structure a global environment that is safe and secure for all." https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/08/27/info-wars/
Amazon.com

Henry FarrellAug 23, 2023
https://www.justice.gov/media/1311391/dl?inline There's some truly unreal shit in the Tornado Cash indictment.
Henry FarrellAug 23, 2023
The Defenestration of Prig
Henry FarrellAug 23, 2023
Just one Amazon category, but we are #1, #2, #3 and #4 in it ... https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/digital-text/8493782011/ref=zg_b_hnr_8493782011_1
Amazon.com New Releases: The best-selling new & future releases in International Economics

Amazon.com New Releases: The best-selling new & future releases in International Economics

Henry FarrellAug 21, 2023
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Henry FarrellAug 8, 2023
https://programmablemutter.substack.com/p/who-really-runs-the-university-illustrated Who really runs the university (in rank order of clout) - illustrated with muppets.
Who really runs the university (illustrated with muppets)

In order of relative clout

Programmable Mutter
Henry FarrellJun 25, 2023
https://www.econlib.org/the-one-big-fact-that-overawes-all-doubts/ It would be unfair to grabquote this as "Thus, my Myth of the Rational Voter ... uses deeply flawed intellectual methods, and holds a wide range of absurd views" but it would still improve on the original https://tinyurl.com/44pafaz4
The One Big Fact that Overawes All Doubts - Econlib

How do I pick book topics?  On reflection, I usually start with what appears to be a big blatant neglected fact.  Then I try to discover whether anything in the universe is big enough to explain this alleged fact away.  If a laborious search uncovers nothing sufficient, I am left with the seed of a […]

Econlib
Henry FarrellJun 22, 2023
And in re: Cosma and LLMs, this basic insight seems to be one that is at best poorly understood by social scientists (like meself) playing around with chat programs. http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.html
"Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models"