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New Results on Fertility and Growth
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Even Acts of God Can't Fix Permitting Anymore
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The Straussian Message of Abundance
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Contra MacAskill and Wiblin on The Intelligence Explosion
Will MacAskill went on Rob Wiblin’s 80k hours podcast last week to talk about AI.
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Econ 101 Needs More Progress Studies
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The Single Clearest Metascience Reform
Faster internal reviews instead of external academic ones
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Why Japan Succeeds Despite Stagnation
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