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He is the leader of the Copenhagen Consensus Center https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/ Which does research into the most cost-effective ways to fight global poverty. Absolutely m…

Why not? They have many things in common. For example make they both make you sick, often with similar symptoms. If you're arguing that you shouldn't dismiss the danger of covid be…

I completely agree, I merely meant to point out that making decisions based on the absolute pollution of something will lead you horribly astray. That said a carbon tax certainly d…

no, it is absolutely the marginal numbers that matter. All else equal, starting anywhere but the place with the most pollution per $ produced is a sub-optimal place to start. In a …

We should be concerned about both. That said, whether to spend your energy on global poverty or abolishing factory farming really comes down to how you highly you rank animal suffe…

coordination problem. Europe provides no competitive advantage to any first mover.

If you remove the bay from the equation, the US starts looking much more like the rest of the world. I now live in Copenhagen Denmark but still maintain a decent network in the bay…

Trade agreements don't need to be symmetric to be beneficial for both parties. Even if China didn't buy a single American good, it is beneficial for US to sell to china. Export is …

Spreadsheets and finance has tremendous value!

Or do like apple and charge both!

That was exactly my experience. Sold off every keyboard except one with sentimental value. Typing this from a macbook keyboard.

If India requires twitter murder a child every time someone tweets, I sure hope they don't just say: "Well, I guess that's just their way of life" and continue operating. Obviously…

we torture and kill so many more animals to eat meat and dairy, than we do to conduct science. While I share your view, I think it's important to point out that this really isn't t…

Am I the only one who barely understands anything from that show? Every episode I hear a dozen barely explained confusing terms with quantum this and higgs-field that. I feel like …

I'm Danish and live in Denmark. Please keep your next bigoted comment to yourself, they don't belong on this forum.

This is the same argument often made against prediction markets. I remain unconvinced this is a significant issue, but I'm always open to changing my mind :)

Yeah that's right. I am somewhat torn on where to stand on this. On one hand I do see why we would want regulation against insider trading & pump and dumps, on the other hand I wor…

How is that perverted? Shorting a stock is fundamentally no different than other types of debt. Imagine an economy of 3 people, A, B and C. A has $5. B borrows $5 from A. C borrows…

why is shorting a company perverted? I would argue it's a great asset to society. Eg. those who shorted stock because they expected covid-19 to cause a market dip, sent a giant sig…

No, the opposite. Google aren't allowed to tell you how you can socialize with your colleagues outside of work

What other things were terrible about the biography? It's my favorite biography of all time. I'd love to know better what important parts were left out.

The best steelman I can come up with is that it's very difficult to give away that many billions effectively. Give one billion to every charity on givewell's list, and now those ha…