wild story in 2013, i begged my dad to help me invest in Tesla and Elon Musk. i had never seen a company, product, or more importantly a founder have such a clear vision of the future. i had $1300 saved up from odd jobs and a birthday. he told me he would take care of it and

My pleasure to come on Dwarkesh last week, I thought the questions and conversation were really good. I re-watched the pod just now too. First of all, yes I know, and I'm sorry that I speak so fast :). It's to my detriment because sometimes my speaking thread out-executes my

18 years old?!?

Wow. 40 years ago

Last Thursday, I had an interesting dinner with two prominent economists. Soon, the conversation turned to Joel Mokyr’s work and its relationship with Dan Wang’s recent book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. Mokyr has long argued that Europe’s Republic of

Why are all the same people incompetent and innumerate on both Ukraine and Covid?!?! Very important question.

I’m doing a virtual Cato Institute event tomorrow with Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸 on the Covid-era Obamacare subsidy add-ons, the problems they caused, and options for meaningful policy reform other than more wasteful spending on health insurers. Register here: cato.org/events/craftin… Paragon Health Institute

Good observations from a brilliant guy who AFAIK mostly supported dominant Covid policies. Bottom line: Covid policies interrupted numerous healthy behaviors — social, individual, and economic — and many remain subpar. What about positive changes? I too first celebrated

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Dr. Bowden was doing her job, attempting to do right by her gravely ill patient by prescribing a very safe drug—Ivermectin. In Pierre Kory, MD MPA’s excellent book he recounts an accidental experiment created by the courts: Where the court granted access to the drug, patients

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NOW LIVE: Uncommon Knowledge's most requested guest, Hoover Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell, joins @P_M_Robinson for a very special episode. Rather than discussing his many books, Dr. Sowell shares the full arc of his American story. Watch the full conversation via @UncKnowledge:

Thomas Sowell at 95: On the latest Uncommon Knowledge, a life--a magnificent life--in full.

The great John Cochrane on the great Tom Sowell…

Elite gatekeeper laments erosion of elite gatekeeping. We previously explained how this complacent attitude led the often excellent Steven Pinker down many wrong paths during Covid.

Lots of people have asked me about yesterday's "stop AI" letter and Dean W. Ball has perhaps the best take on it. To put it sharply: when people say we should "pause AI" they mean (a) all major countries should agree and hold up their end of the bargain (b) there will probably

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I created this chart from the data reported in Hall, et al. (NEJM). One year following infection, natural immunity still provided high levels of protection and barely waned even 1-1/2 years after intial infection. nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE… They didn't even report the likelihood