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  1. Iron dome economics - 2023 October 08

    With the outbreak of military hostilities in the Israel Palestine conflict this weekend there's been a constant stream of bad takes about the Iron Dome system and wartime economics in general.


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  2. The death of full employment - 2023 September 21

    Technology is moving in such a way that advances in AI will mean that barring massive changes some fraction of people will now be permanently unemployed. This effect of technological unemployment will be most harshly felt in locations with a combination of high wages and high cost of living since the equilibrium forces push more strongly towards replacing labor with capital expenditure in such places. AI is a crucial change because it greatly expands the types of jobs that can be replaced and progress in technology means that the capital expenditure needed to replace labour with technology has dropped. We should revisit assumptions that people who's jobs are destroyed will be able to move to other jobs easily.


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  3. Glycosphate and the breakdown of discourse - 2023 March 20

    Glycosphate is one of those chemicals that's far more brutal than I think anyone imagines. Unfortunately political tensions between polarized groups of people prevents sensible discussions happening on this topic and many other topics related to farming. In recent times discourse has broken down even further with many tensions between legislators and farmers spilling over into massive widespread protests worldwide.


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  4. Determinism in research code - 2023 March 20

    Getting deterministic results out of research code is an important part in reproducible research. Unfortunately the incentive structures in many research organizations punish people for putting effort into helping others reproduce their results, collectively we would do better if we could change these incentive structures.


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  5. Collateral crisis psychology - 2023 March 19

    Many people have no idea how the banking industry works and therefore have no idea what's driving th current crisis. I've noticed a lot of people who are dead wrong about it being very smug about things. They'll probably lose a lot of money and even they they still might not learn. Interactions with these people can be difficult especially if you are actually trying to help them.


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  6. Central bank interventions and price discovery - 2023 February 18

    Do we really have free markets if there's ongoing large interventions being made into those markets even if it's under the guise of monetary policy?


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  7. Demand destruction anecdotes - 2022 November 09

    Lately I've run across a few amazing examples of demand destruction that I couldn't help but write about.


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  8. Some predictions for the upcoming era - 2022 September 09

    A new era in the Commonwealth has begun.


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  9. Where is your line in the sand? - 2022 May 18

    Far too many people are unsure of their ethical and moral stance on things and that's causing an enormous number of problems.


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