Deputy Editor @HumanProgress ✍🏻📈 Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity @CatoInstitute Views own.
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Today marks the official publication of my first-ever book!
Heroes of Progress: 65 People Who Changed the World is the result of years of work, and it's now available in all good bookshops. I truly can’t wait to hear what people think of it.
Please consider picking up a copy today:
heroesofprogress.com/
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En la era de la IA, los seres humanos siguen siendo el recurso más valioso, dado que hay una diferencia entre saber que algo funciona y saber por qué.
@AlexanderHammo ✍️ elcato.org/las-maquinas-pued…
¡Yo, en español!
Las máquinas pueden procesar números, pero los humanos aún necesitan entenderlos.
@AlexanderHammo ✍️ elcato.org/las-maquinas-pued…
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AI can solve math problems and predict how DNA works. But humans must check the answers and know why they’re right. Humans are essential to turning AI answers into real progress, says @AlexanderHammo.
cato.org/commentary/machines…
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When was it the last time you thanked Big Pharma for a steady stream of miracle drugs that save millions of lives?
Kristian is one of the best think tankers out there. The "liberty" movement, and the IEA, owes him a huge debt.
On to bigger and better things!
I know this isn't LinkedIn, but nonetheless, some professional news.
After 18 years, five books, three dozen papers and thousands of articles, presentations, podcasts, videos, media appearances etc etc – I am leaving the IEA in a few weeks' time.
I am, however, neither joining Novara Media, nor the Guardian, nor SOAS. I am not starting a podcast with Gary Stevenson either.
I'll continue to promote extremely uncool, cringey low-status opinions in other ways. Watch this space.
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Out today!
Before you romanticize the past, read The Grim Old Days by Cato’s @chellivia.
Unthinkable poverty. Bloodletting. Streets turned into open sewers. The preindustrial world was more gruesome than modern minds can fathom.
Order now: ow.ly/NL8j50ZY9JW
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@rootsofprogress is a beacon of optimism in a world where many fear or reject progress: psychology.humanprogress.org…
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Half a century ago, economist Julian Simon called human beings “the ultimate resource.”
Today, AI can produce mathematical proofs and scientific predictions at astonishing speeds. Has Simon been proven wrong?
Not quite.
The bottleneck to innovation still lies with us.
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A mother of four, Cato's @chellivia knows firsthand how expensive raising kids is. Government programs meant to help just pass the costs to other taxpayers. Spending more isn't the answer. So what is?
Cato's Handbook on Affordability offers real solutions.
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AIs can crunch statistical correlations, draw on what humans already know, and generate prescriptive knowledge far faster than any human mind can convert the output into something verified, trusted, and useful.
In other words, we need more educated minds, not fewer.
What does AI mean for Simon's 'ultimate resource', Ridley's 'collective brain', and Mokyr's 'propositional knowledge'?
My latest in @dcexaminer:
washingtonexaminer.com/in_fo…
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Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
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I greatly enjoyed signing pre-release copies of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘮 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 at the Progress Conference co-hosted by @HumanProgress. – at Berkeley, CA
