Politics and Economics
Negative Opportunity Cost
Economists rate opportunity cost as the most important economic concept for the public to understand. Turns out it comes in two flavors.
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Social
Personal Export Subsidies
Can the secret to South Korea's economic development also help your teenager?
7 min read
Politics and Economics
When Bits Split Atoms
Artificial Intelligence and that time the US Secretary of Defense thought we were all going to die.
6 min read
Writing
For And Against Pre-Scheduling Posts
Pre-scheduling posts has a couple of big benefits and a couple of major costs.
4 min read
Productivity
If the Present is Better than the Past, Bias Towards Action
If the mean human action has been positive, the base rate is a positive expected value.
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Politics and Economics
The Theory of Displacement Value
What do homeopathy, Tourette's-like tics and traditional religion have in common? They have displacement value.
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Politics and Economics
Pareto Chinese: Say Xi's
You should probably forget about learning Chinese meaningfully. So how does one learn Chinese meaninglessly? I’m so glad you asked.
4 min read
Writing
Beautiful World Where Are You?
Four people have relationships with each other, and discuss them
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