Incredibly jarring whenever Silicon Valley "intellectuals" pop up on the timeline. Play-pretend techbro philosophers often have raw IQ but zero cultural scaffolding to their views and beliefs. They're a tabula rasa, trying to reinvent things from scratch that have been discussed

This is just such low IQ trash take, and why Republicans can't win over smart people. It would be better just to argue directly against his ideas, there's plenty to oppose. Instead they go to dumb racism because they've completely lost the ability to talk about ideas.

Uh oh

I co-authored our piece this week on the quiet rise and rise of guest worker-style migration in the rich world, and why it's thriving even in places where anti-migration politicians are ascendant or in charge already, and the enormous opportunities to getting it right.

Occasionally, people ask me for some kind of an "unexpected insight" I gained in traveling around the USA for so long. The first one that always comes to my mind is how SAFE most of America is by any reasonable historical standard. Random violence is unknown in 99.9% of the

In passing, Erik Fossing Nielsen 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 pushes back on our rejection of wealth taxes, citing Guvenen et al. Note that the paper studies *replacing all other capital taxes* with a wealth tax, not adding it to the status quo. In their revenue-neutral proposal, wealth inequality rises!

The US is the country most worried about AI, Pew survey finds. A recent survey from the Pew Research Center looks at how people around the world view AI. The bottom line is that a median of 43% of respondents said they are equally concerned and excited. That's only 8% more

Melatonin in the US is sold in 5mg doses when the effective dosage range is .3-3mg. Americans essentially overdose on melatonin by default for no good reason.

Callum Williams Thanks, FT had this data the other day, but it's not very detailed.