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The invisible graveyard has far too many stones.

Many European cities expanded drastically in the late C19. Here is the masterplan for tripling the size of Madrid drawn up by the Spanish government in the 1860s. The scheme was largely implemented as planned, as visible in a satellite view today.

Major blind spot in Rawls and followers that they believe they steelman the position of those they disagree with. Chris Freiman argues convincingly Rawls does the exact opposite.

I would be very surprised if this replicates

Temporary stadiums also have the very large advantage of not becoming a white elephant

I love Stefan Dercon but, in line with Blattman's point, Dercon's prescriptions could still be more specific than "have elites come to a mutual understanding for positive sum". Some arrangements make those understandings more likely than others.

Looks very interesting

Ha, I confess I do this quite often

Around a hundred cancer vaccines are in various stages of development 🔬🧫💉

It seems to me betting markets would be great for this kind of problem. Why they aren't more used is still a puzzle for me.

My attempt at solving the puzzle is that electorates are not consistent. They may have said they would like to see experiments, but would not elect people who ran on "I don't know what works but am willing to find out"

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Rationality is an underrated explanation of history and social conditions. It’s largely thanks to rationality that violence has declined, science has progressed, growth has exploded, harmful religious and moral views have been shed (at least in part of the world), etc. ->

Very well done video, but wrong to suggest approval voting solves Marrow's paradox. You know what *does* solve it, though? Vote trading. The thing is, vote trading presumes voters aren't so numerous they can't know each other.

Very well done video, but wrong to suggest approval voting solves Arrow's paradox. You know what *does* solve it, though? Vote trading. The thing is, vote trading presumes voters aren't so numerous they can't know each other.

Maybe tipping is not to induce "good service," but rather to give servers the incentive to get customers out the door and turn the table over (to get more tips).

It's ironic that parents are anxiously sharing on social media how social media is a great risk for inducing anxiety in their kids.

Today I saw ChatGPT do something I think really changes things for me (and lots of other people). I learned some math econ in school but it's rusty, so when I'm reading and don't have too much time, the steps from one equation to the other are far from obvious . Today I did this:

The non-credibiblity restoration keeps making advances