Sitemap - 2024 - Maximum Progress

How Scientific Incentives Stalled the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, and How We Can Fix It

How much of "Ideas Getting Harder To Find" is due to declining researcher skill?

Anti-car Urbanists Should Be More Pro-Market

Is The Great Stagnation Actually Just a 'So-So' Stagnation?

Literacy Rates Haven't Fallen By 20% Since the Department of Education Was Created

A Theory of Equilibrium in the Offense-Defense Balance

The Internet is Good, Actually, And Other Assorted Links

Do Presidents Affect the Stock Market?

Prices are Bounties

Unions are Trusts

The Offense-Defense Balance of Gene Drives

Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

Economics is a Field of Software Engineering

How the FAA Is Keeping Flying Cars in Science Fiction

Congressional Insider Trading

Investigating the Chart of the Century

Two Hypocrisies of Conservation

Four Randomized Control Trials In Economics

End Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid V Ambler

Romae Industriae

The Best Bits From Build, Baby, Build

An AI Manhattan Project is Not Inevitable

Contra Acemoglu on AI

The Long View on AI

Four Futures For Cognitive Labor

The NIH Doesn't Fund Small Crappy Trials

Tax Cuts and Innovation

Low Fertility is a Degrowth Paradise

Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run?

Against Student Debt Cancellation From All Sides of the Political Compass

Links For the Week

Two Vernor Vinge Book Reviews

AI Regulation is Unsafe

A High Decoupling Failure

The 2nd Demographic Transition

Metascience of the Vesuvius Challenge

American Acceleration vs Development

Claude vs GPT

Boomer NIMBYs vs Zoomer NIMBYs

Don't Endorse the Idea of Market Failure

We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform

When Should Copyright Get Shorter?

A Puzzle in Voter Behavior

Practicing my Handwriting in 1439

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Against the Burden of Knowledge

Land Reclamation is in the 9th Circle of Stagnation Hell

Rabat, Morocco