Robin Hanson does what few others have. Bottom line: we are at serious risk of having done or doing too much lock down.
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Machine Learning
Is it (finally) bringing fusion closer to reality?
That would be nice. Especially if we can also use it for space propulsion.
For Better Health
…find a cure for government.
Yes, it is a crippling underlying condition.
China Looks For Europe’s Backbone
…and finds it doesn’t have one.
It hasn’t for a long time.
[Monday-afternoon update]
Contrast Europe with Australia.
[Bumped]
Mining The Moon
A history. I don’t think that the 2015 law was a “blow” to the OST, though.
The Paranoid Style In COVID-19 America
Yes, people are trying to scare us into a depression, and much of this is irrational.
[Update a while later]
Nevada is reopening, ready or not.
Crisis Planning
When and why it doesn’t work. This is pretty much intrinsic to big government.
Russia In Space
It adapts to defeat.
Yes, China is a threat, but he doesn’t mention the recent launch failures.
Triumph Of The Woke Oligargarchs
ObamaCare
Is there anything it didn’t wreck?
A lot of us warned about this at the time.