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Trade Deficits and Solvency: Correlation not Causation
What happens if we apply Elon’s favored “first-principles” approach to trade deficits.
Apr 8, 2025
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Responding to Bryan Caplan on Relative Status vs. Absolute Welfare
Bryan Caplan recently wrote that if people primarily cared about relative income—simply being richer than those around them—they would frequently choose…
Mar 25, 2025
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Against Tit-for-Tat as a Heuristic
This is probably obvious to some of you, but flawed humans like me need reminding
Nov 21, 2024
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Against Open Borders: Building America's Human Capital Portfolio
The US immigration system has almost everything entirely backwards.
Oct 6, 2024
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Morality as Trust at Every Scale - Part 1
Morality often involves the tension between different conceptions of rational self-interest.
Sep 25, 2024
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Hostage Negotiations as Zero Sum Games with Negative Expected Value
A public choice analysis with case studies from Israel and India
Sep 9, 2024
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Vaishnav Sunil
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Liquid vs. Illiquid Careers
Note: This is the first post in a series of posts about career liquidity.
Aug 3, 2024
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Adverse Selection by Life-Saving Charities
GiveWell, and the EA community at large, often emphasize the "cost of saving a life" as a key metric, $5,000 being the most commonly cited…
Jul 10, 2024
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