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This is the environmental review for a 460-acre project with 6,000 homes. It started 36 years ago. If CEQA were in effect a hundred years ago, California’s population would be a fraction of the size it is today. This approach to development is fundamentally anti-American.

In a better world users wouldn’t rebel against a “low medium high” dropdown menu but alas we are fallen creatures and must be coddled

The US is the Saudi Arabia of oil. @AlecStapp speaking at the Public Choice Outreach Conference.

The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth. The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt. This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention.

Marc Andreesen said that Biden’s requirement that frontier AI developers tell the government about their safety practices was an existential threat to US AI, but he thinks global export controls on US AI models is “based” if they’re against people he hates/missed the series A of

Fascinating how quickly Commerce can move on unsubstantiated Anthropic jailbreak claims, while taking forever to deal with well-documented NVIDIA chip smuggling

Congressional Democrats should simply not do this

If this is true, it is just baffling. An administration whose posture is that we *should* export advanced AI chips to China, which also wants to ban… Britain (and every other non-American on Earth)… from using our best models? I have no words.

This is one of my favorite pieces we’ve published in Macroscience. @jenngustetic and @calebwatney fill a crucial gap by articulating similarities and differences between the six metascience camps (tag yourself! I’m Innovation Economics and R&D Management). In doing so, they give policymakers clarity on what different groups are talking about when pitching metascience ideas. macroscience.org/p/the-six-c…

And this tracker does not include the *years* of litigation delays that can follow final federal approval. To be effective, permitting reform should also include changes to judicial review & remedies.

When I was introduced to the term “metascience” a few years ago, admittedly I had no idea what it meant. I have since come to understand that metascience is the study of science itself: how we structure, fund, and conduct science. It’s the belief that no system is precious enough to not improve and that especially for something as valuable as science we should be continually experimenting with the system to get more social return on investment for the dollars we spend. This piece was fun to coauthor with @calebwatney (and have edited by @andrewmgerard) as my first written contribution in my new role at @IFP. It lays out six different hypotheses about how science could be improved and examples of research and projects that test those hypotheses. Any one researcher might associate with 1 or more of these “camps” so could wear numerous “badges” as they explore. This framework is important for policymakers in agencies, congress and the administration: if they are looking to take some of this advice to evolve science, they should be aware of the underlying premise behind each worldview and the types of evidence they generate. I believe that the most robust policy solutions are ones that are not limited to any one worldview, but consider various perspectives in the proposed reform. This is also why I think it’s important to collaborate within and across camps, to openly debate, and for iron to sharpen iron for the strongest research and development enterprise possible. Would welcome your thoughts on the map as well as any metascience questions you think are the most important to address. open.substack.com/pub/macros…

It takes an average of 7 years for transmission projects to get their federal permits. Permitting reform now.