Timothy Sandefur

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

How is this not racist?

It seems possible that this cease fire might go on indefinitely without any “deal.” Both sides will make their demands, but neither will have any interest in restarting the shooting. We might end up with months or years of sitzkrieg, the least bad equilibrium for all.

A Citi Bike ride shouldn’t cost a penny more than a subway or bus ride. We’ve got a bill to cap e-bike fees at $3 and end Citi Bike-flation.

Boebert: “Why is everybody so horny here”

Trump rants that his ballroom will feature "Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass." "The Ballroom is deeply important to our National Security, and no Judge can be allowed to stop this Historic and Militarily Imperative Project," he adds.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Sam Peltzman famously argued in 1975 that the effect of safer cars on total traffic deaths is ambiguous: Safer cars mean that drivers take more risks. I am afraid that the effect of LLMs on email will be the same. We are promised that we will spend less time handling email thanks to autonomous agents. My fear? As the cost of sending and processing emails goes down, more emails will be sent. Everyone has incentives to do so. An administrator at the dean’s office (one of the most dangerous people in the U.S. right now) will feel they can send many more emails requesting information from faculty. A colleague at another department might reach out to you with questions. You name it. The bottom line? Yesterday I got nearly 200 emails (without counting spam). Let’s call it the Peltzman effect of LLMs.