Moritz Wallawitsch

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8Launching: Scaling Knowledge—A new substack about epistemology, AI, startups, and progress4mo

3How productive are our education systems? And how has our education system scaled over the last hundred years?Q6mo

2Human Progress via Intellectual Progress [DRAFT]8mo

2Were hunter-gatherers not able to produce enough calories until age 18?Q10mo

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How can we classify negative effects of new technologies?

Answer by Moritz WallawitschOct 02, 20222

The existence of most of the ones you listed sounds questionable.

How about economic risk exposure (for a given person/city/state)? I think there is already a ton of research on this.

E.g. funding some new nuclear power research could provide a 10000x ROI but .0000X% danger of destroying the city/area of the research facility.

We Should Break Up Elite Colleges

Moritz Wallawitsch10mo2

Sounds reasonable. However, a better long-term strategy seems to be complete privatization. I.e. to remove the subsidies and tax breaks. I think Brian Caplan would support this strategy (see his book on the education system).