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Maxwell Tabarrok

@mtabarrok

Blog at: maximum-progress.com
Economics PhD student at Harvard

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I am not against selling any public land on principle. I am against an opaque fire-sale system where private developers do not have to prove that the public boons of their specific project will outweigh what the public loses in ceding access and ownership.

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an interesting way LLMs differ from early AI narratives is that they are much better at unspecified, creative tasks than those with lots of specific instructions "Make me a cool game" is something LLMs are great at "Make me this game with these mechanics" is mostly beyond LLMs

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Lab grown meat is probably one of the most important things you could work on right now Moral activism can help on the margin, but the arguments have been around for centuries and haven't worked. No one is willing to sacrifice The only way out is to build something better

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Google earth and maps are two of the biggest consumer surplus products of all time. A wonderful gift to the world Thank you Big Tech!

Google earth and maps are two of the biggest consumer surplus products of all time. A wonderful gift to the world

Thank you Big Tech!
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Austin didn’t just “freeze” rents for the majority of tenants who live in unsubsidized housing. they actually *lowered* rents by building a ton of housing

Austin didn’t just “freeze” rents for the majority of tenants who live in unsubsidized housing. they actually *lowered* rents by building a ton of housing