I graduated with high honors from an affluent, acclaimed high school and then again with high honors with a BA in philosophy & pre-law before EVER once hearing the idea that prices convey information and coordinate actors. I'll never forget rolling up to a philosophy conference in Pasadena in 2008 and wandering into a session on "price gouging" and the pro-"price gougers" introduced this concept. Possibly the single most transformative moment of my entire education.

Excited to be on @CNN tonight talking about the rise of fake AI news with Miles Davis and Galadriel of Rivendell.

Working on some yard signs for the newly popular free trade movement

So why not yield to a future in which real-world speeches will mostly be written by AIs? Because the process of learning how to write is the process of learning how to think. Because crafting a speech to appeal to a given audience is an exercise in empathy.

Men will literally try to recreate the CPI from scratch instead of going to therapy

Government-funded basic research and industrial translation research are complements, not substitutes. The left frequently gets this wrong, thinking that the government does all the real work and private firms (notably pharma) just steal the idea and make bank. Now the right is getting it wrong from the other direction.

for starters I don’t think you’re selfish for not having children and kids actually are a joy to have but if you need a different reason, I really liked what some other couple once said, about wanting to have “a maximum human experience”. I’ll elaborate how I interpreted that

Wild is not priced in, I don’t think.

Well, it's Joe Biden's last full day in office, and I have a lot to say about it. natesilver.net/p/why-biden-f…

“Fact Checkers” Become Rent Seekers by @jamestaranto wsj.com/opinion/fact-checker… via @WSJopinion

One of the most important questions every society must answer: what story will you give your young men to help them order their lives? A story of hope leading to the belief they can make the world better, or another story. They will act, but the direction is set by the story

This is so true When I write code, I try to write it for the dumbest programmer that I know: me 6 months in the future

This @tabletmag piece is the most brutal beatdown of @davidaxelrod and, to a lesser extent, @BarackObama -- and their dystopic, authoritarian, and totalitarian approach to gaining and preserving power.

Ok, real talk: I've known people who have run for congress and lost (which is always the modal outcome for a non-incumbent), and watched the process closely because once upon I time I thought I might want to do it myself. Here's how it really works: (1/n)

Please read @BrandondelPozo's thoughtful reflection on Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/da…

My husband’s (@EithanHaim) First Amendment rights may be under attack by a de facto gag order – but mine are not. 🧵1/7 On Dec 3, the judge threatened Eithan with FEDERAL PRISON and his attorneys with sanctions if they continue to post so-called “inflammatory” content on X about the DOJ’s corruption in this case. He didn’t grant or deny the gag order, but kept the government’s motion “live” pending trial in February. This is arguably worse and serves two purposes. (1) The court’s instruction to avoid “similar conduct” leaves unclear what kind of speech represents a violation (presumably that which the DOJ doesn’t like? see below) and what the consequences would be – imposition of a gag order merely being one of them. (2) By leaving the matter undecided, the court is shielded from public criticism and appellate review (where it would likely be overturned as unconstitutional in the Fifth Circuit). As a result of this “non-gag gag order,” the onus is on the defense to muzzle themselves. It’s an unconstitutional prior restraint of someone who needs free speech the most: the criminal defendant David facing a corrupt government Goliath. I was not planning on speaking publicly about this case. I’m a private person, and I don’t really use social media. But Eithan’s X posts have been the only way he has been able to raise funds for a legal defense and expose the DOJ’s blatant corruption over the last year and a half. As a wife and attorney, I can’t sit by while they extinguish the light he’s shone on this case, particularly as newly unsealed evidence proves that this case was malicious all along (more on that later!).

Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies schneier.com/blog/archives/2…