An In-Depth Analysis of Caplan and Co.

Bryan Caplan recently asked ChatGPT to do a sentiment analysis of his writing alongside Tyler Cowen’s, Robin Hanson’s, and Paul Krugman’s. As I discussed in my guest post on Bryan’s Substack, AI’s agentic modes (such as Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work) allow for very extensive research - they can gather data, write scripts, and systematically go through sources. While Claude merged Claude Cowork and Chat mode, ChatGPT for now still has separate chat and work modes,.I figured I could redo the analysis with ChatGPT Work and also throw Alex Tabarrok into the mix. I asked ChatGPT to prepare a methodology in advance, and to distinguish between different emotions. Besides a simple sentiment analysis, I had the AI model itself run over a 1,000-post sample so it could dig deeper and better interpret things like sarcasm. Here’s the full report; below is ChatGPT’s write up of the analysis: Bryan Caplan’s sentiment comparison of Cowen, Hanson, himself and Krugman offered four vivid portraits:…