A review of Ashlee Vance’s latest book. Highly recommended.
Category Archives: Economics
AI
Why it will save the world.
Not hot off the press, but worth a read from a smart guy.
Astra Carta
Bob Zimmerman isn’t impressed.
When Elites Don’t Fight
The Global Space Race
Assif Siddiqui says that we need new ways to think about it: “We need to let go of our nostalgia for Apollo and move on and work with different models to the old 1960s space races.”
I’ve been saying this for years.
Too Many Dishonorable People Are Honored
Hard to argue.
The Human Suffering In Our Cities
…is a symptom of deep cultural rot.
Ramaswamy is a pretty articulate guy.
After College
Is higher ed in a death spiral?
If so, history will record that it was a suicide.
NASA’s Latest Budget Issue
Now Mars Sample Return threatens the planetary science budget.
I agree that JPL should be soliciting bids from contractors.
A Question For The Climate Crazies
What evidence would it require for you to change your mind, and for you to realize that it is not a crisis, and that we don’t have to destroy the economy in the name of climate?
This is a (semi)serious question, but mostly a note to write a longer essay about science and falsifiability, that I didn’t have time or gumption to write tonight.