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There are plenty of links in the article to support specific statements, you can just skip over the parts where he expresses frustration at the damage to an incredible asset the US…

Essentially yes. Companies paid the tariff costs, largely passed this on to consumers via higher prices, and now companies are due the tariff costs back. Consumers of course won’t …

I don’t think LLMs contradict the Pinker description - it just turns out that the output stream embodies a lot of information, and you can construct a model (of some reasonable fid…

I responded to a comment that called progressive taxation a crazy “far left” idea - I’m not sure the second and third order details of taxation policy are really relevant here… But…

It’s very, very basic economics - the marginal utility of money decreases, so progressive taxation is better than regressive taxation.

On point 2 - notice how flat your graph is for the last 6k years? Also, why do you think the impact of past changes on a tiny group of humans living as hunter gatherers is of any r…

Of course humans have a significant effect on climate change - the steelman versions of why that doesn’t matter are: 1) It doesn’t matter because we will figure out some technologi…

We are (for genes, though, not sperm)

Surely you see the difference between working in a development environment and working in production?

The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world - it's just moved into high end manufacturing. One of the difficult things about the current situation is how confidently wro…

America is the richest country in the world. Guess you won’t know how good you have it until you destroy it.

VAT has nothing to do with this.

No, you are simply incorrect, a VAT system does not make it harder for US companies to compete. It's explained well here: https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/stop-saying-a-value-added…

There are different ways to allocate resources in a society. They have different trade-offs and failure modes, and the best systems try to solve problems using the right allocation…

I grew up with an even worse passport than you, so I know first hand how people are treated. Still, the goal should be to treat everyone better, not make things equal by treating e…

There are better and worse governments. Blanket statements like yours only serve to empower the worse governments.

Do you think medical researchers also do all their work in coffee shops?

Debt can’t increase to infinity, true - but that does not mean it can’t be a finite number indefinitely. And the current finite number is nowhere close to causing a crisis for the …

Because the federal government is not in any sense living outside its means. I’m not sure how to explain this to you, really - you’re fundamentally stuck, I think, on the idea that…

The US has debt denominated in its own currency, a large and growing economy, vast natural and human resources, no prospect of a foreign invasion and debt declining relative to GDP…

Your model for the economy is just utterly wrong. The US is in zero danger of hyperinflation, and probably has the smallest debt issues of any country (certainly of any major count…

The WHO is a mechanism to allow a degree of cooperation among the world’s nations on matters of public health. It’s imperfect, as any organisation with such a difficult scope would…

I looked at the paper you referenced. Interestingly, it does not say that the warming trend is not happening, rather they argue that the evidence is insufficient to say for sure if…

Darwin didn’t know anything about genes, or how inheritance actually worked.

True - oxygen is very abundant, though, so its presence is not surprising.