{"slug": "saturday-assorted-links", "title": "Saturday assorted links", "summary": "Economist Tyler Cowen's recent AI talk in New York City was covered by Fortune, where he also shared NBA predictions. The article highlights Cowen's perspective on AI's economic impact, while other links explore topics including NBA player flopping, Japanese corporate diversification, and new writing from Karl Ove Knausgård.", "body_md": "# Saturday assorted links\n\n1. [Fortune covers my AI talk for Sana in NYC](https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/tyler-cowen-ai-economy-not-mass-unemployment-adjustment/). Plus my NBA predictions, made Thursday a.m.\n\n2. [SGA does seem to flop more](https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/flop-or-not-does-shai-gilgeous-alexander-really-fall-more-than-his-peers-134022010.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADiEruYdsRrI1wmTd6SIgU9ifQ5s6-sy9IkGSCN0I1dFGyVg0ZVRzugH0F5yKytGgxZL_TOBjE3TZy0NR4Y90cRO3qPfL7VeDfxUTvfp5ynlU5zaRQ2JARVQx-zH3BZCL003tSuHG4qeAtbyX-G_pvdser8hsPEJvwjV9q6VmDSj&guccounter=2).\n\n4. [Thomas Sargent lectures on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@thomassargent6648).\n\n5. [Why Japanese companies do so many different things](https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many).\n\n6. [Fresh Knausgård](https://granta.com/a-strange-birds-cry/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saturday-assorted-links", "canonical_source": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/saturday-assorted-links-562.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saturday-assorted-links-562", "published_at": "2026-05-23 16:09:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 00:24:50.567841+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Fortune", "Sana", "Tyler Cowen", "NBA", "SGA", "Thomas Sargent", "YouTube", "Knausgård"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saturday-assorted-links", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saturday-assorted-links.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saturday-assorted-links.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/saturday-assorted-links.jsonld"}}