Last year, I wrote a 100+ page report on whether risks from future bioweapons were so high that we shouldn’t try to make science more productive (since that accelerate arrival of those weapons).

Who has time to read all that? May I recommend instead, this podcast interview!

Vaccines allow us to deviate from what’s “normal” and achieve child mortality rates of under one percent instead of having more than a third of kids die before turning five.

Evergreen advice.

. Matt Clancy is a mensch as well as my favorite teacher of the economics of innovation. If you haven't had a chance to take the [free] online course we co-teach (ifp.org/economics-of-i…) -- or even if you have -- this is a great chance to learn from him.

'This graph shows how battery operations have greatly expanded throughout the day. Perhaps most impressively, batteries discharged over 5GW at peak times, marking a 100% increase over the average in just one year.' — Grid Status

A world in which Americans could build nuclear like South Korea and metro rail like Spain would be incredible.

People do not realize that we could have way more cool stuff if we could figure out how to pay less for it than we do.

Blue states should be embarrassed by this.

NEPA is a big problem for building large, complex transmission lines.

These projects take 7 times longer than normal.

Matt Clancy is one of my favorite people in the entire world and you should be delighted that you get the chance to listen to his brain for 2.5 hours

Google is really just falling apart

This is good.

For your Memorial Day weekend listening pleasure, I went on the 80k podcast!

We mostly talked about why (imo)
- benefits of science outweigh risks from new bioweapons
- AI won’t lead to 10x faster growth.

Not at all weird; textbook, boring, economics of innovation

Oh my god

People always underrate this. Polities copy each other in weird ways - eg all countries, including land locked ones, break their militaries up into armies and navies. Policy cascades are very real amazon.com/Socializing-St…

My God we did need the 3rd Amendment