Revealed preference arguments often have hidden flaws

People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether.

If AI violates our privacy, takes our jobs, and potentially can destroy the world, then it’s too big for Congress to regulate alone

Bolstering the case for the most no-brainer policy: increasing government science funding.

Choosing DuckDuckGo says a lot about you and we like your style.

When principles conflict, a priority stack usually decides which one wins.

Decoupling collection from disbursement will make it easier to start putting money in a lockbox now, providing flexibility to craft the right support for workers displaced by AI in the future

Pick something you believe to be untrue, for example a common conspiracy theory or policy narrative.

Congress won't reform itself, but a citizen-led amendment path could.

I’ve been using Cursor for coding for some time, but I finally gave Claude Code a try for this short side project: simulating the 2026 World Cup bracket to predict likely matchups for all matches, whi...

AI is everywhere. Did anyone give you a choice?

What if some displaced workers help build the housing we need?

We have hundreds of easter-egg logos (featuring our friendly mascot Dax Brown) that surface when you make certain queries on our search engine. Our subreddit is trying to catch ‘em all. They’ve certai...

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Disclaimer: This approach works for me.

Given this advantage, they have a path to dwarf the U.S. economy

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The name of this hidden driver of prosperity is unappealing and not self-defining to mainstream people. What should it be called instead?

If progress = rising living standards, why doesn’t a progress agenda command top billing in U.S. politics?

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Prohibited practices, others that face higher scrutiny, and the rest at least transparent and optional

175,000 reddit views generated just 310 clicks, a 0.18% CTR

China’s population is declining, but UN projections show it will remain at least twice the size of the U.S.

All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.

It takes considerable effort, education, organization, and money

Building an audience for ideas that last

One of the universal rules of decision-making is that every decision involves trade-offs.

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Unpacking this counterintuitive conclusion

Making it easier and more intuitive to change the system prompt in duck.ai

We can turn temporary economic productivity bumps into permanent higher economic growth through sustained higher investment in basic research.

Let’s not give AI a decade-long free pass from regulation.

When properly assessing any conclusion, it is essential to enumerate the underlying assumptions.

A marker for why we need more structural governance reform.

When millions recently took to the streets over economic insecurity.

By growing the economy enough that future tax revenues exceed initial expenditure.

The answer hinges on how severe and prolonged the economic disruption becomes—particularly for jobs.

A potential pitfall for future “short-term pain, long-term gain” economic policy proposals.

Restoring the status quo is not good enough; we should increase federal research funding to something like three times the previous level.

I’ve always been drawn to characters with “rules.”

The timeline seems to turn on two assumptions.