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Bryan Caplan
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Bryan Caplan
@bryan_caplan
GMU econ prof, NYT bestseller, father of 4, author of Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Case Against Education, Open Borders, & BBB
Oakton, Virginia Katılım Ocak 2011
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I oppose guardrails for awesome new technologies.
Instead, I favor guardrails for the people who build guardrails for awesome new technologies.
They're the ones with a terrible track record of derailing progress.
Erik Brynjolfsson@erikbryn
Here's our statement on AI and the economy. We Must Act Now A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy 1. AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. 2. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards. 3. Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.
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Full-time employment in the First World is a near-foolproof way to escape poverty, but getting rich takes a lot more.
But just saving and investing 10% of your income from 18 on will make almost any full-time worker in the First World rich by retirement age.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
It is an oversimplification to say that rich people have more money because they work harder. Rich people are also smarter and have more self-control than poor people.
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Watch the entire convo with @coldxman here: youtube.com/watch?is=qRHgy…
And the book is here: amazon.com/Kakistocracy-W…
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I know Nicholas pretty well.
He will make the right person very happy!
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
I am looking for a partner. If you would like to talk, please do reach out! It’d be really wonderful. Link to the date-me doc is below; now pls pls pls pls algorithm send this far and wide!
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"If most aspiring politicians were this numerate, the Great Political Stagnation would already be over."
betonit.ai/p/hes-got-my-v…
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"That UBI will probably end up dwarfing the cost of the seven programs you're abolishing, so it's not even really liberaltarian. Think about the math. Under your plan, a family of 4 would pay no taxes at all until it's earning $290k ($48k/.2 + $50k)." betonit.ai/p/hes-got-my-v…
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"Things started out innocently enough with merit scholarships: You fund outstanding students from poor families to help them shine. Alas, the guilt remained, because outstanding students from poor families are few and far between." betonit.ai/p/self-hating-…
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@captgouda24 No. If you double both sides of a triangle, you double its area, because in both cases it's 1/2*base*height.
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@bryan_caplan Shouldn’t increase as a square, but as half the square?
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It took about a dozen iterations on Chat to get this right. Anyone see any lingering flaws?
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I talked to @coldxman about Kakistocracy.
It was a great conversation about the thesis of the book, with some pushback on what to do about real failures of elites. It's a difficult problem.
But MAGA nihilism isn't the answer. thefp.com/p/conversation…
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I explain the psychology of nationalism.
We already live in a world where people are nationalists and governments worry about their own citizens over others.
But nationalists need to pretend otherwise in order for their worldview to make any sense. richardhanania.com/p/nationalists…
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"If we should hold people in the past to universal moral standards, we should also hold people in the present to universal moral standards, not credulously accept lame, lawyerly excuses like, 'Given their life story, we mustn’t blame them.'" betonit.ai/p/the-best-thi…
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"If you’ve got actual evidence that the murder rate gap is driven by piles of false convictions, by all means share your evidence. But if 'He would have been a gentle soul in a world free of racism' is all you’ve got, spare us."
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"What’s the best thing about wokeness? Simple: Holding people in the past to universal moral standards." betonit.ai/p/the-best-thi…
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This is a good format, and I'm afraid @ezraklein is right about 80% of the time. nytimes.com/2026/06/30/opi…
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