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Robert Solow quipped, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” What if AI is the same way? What if it changes…
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February 2022

As we drill into the earth from the surface, we travel through layers of sedimentary cover and eventually hit basement rock. Basement rock is ancient…
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July 2021

What would we do with abundant energy? I dream of virtually unlimited, clean, dirt-cheap energy, but lately, we have been going in the wrong direction…
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January 2021

Can a change in the voting system save our country? Start with a simple electoral model: two strong, instrumentally rational parties; one dimension of…
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December 2020

As we start a new decade, it’s a good time to reflect on expectations for the next 10 years. Tyler thinks the Great Stagnation could be ending. Caleb…
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January 2020

For my first post at CGO’s Benchmark blog, I chose to write about the Space Launch System, the rocket that Boeing and other military contractors are…
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October 2019

In a few decades when the reward gets too small, the transaction fee will become the main compensation for nodes. I’m sure that in 20 years there will…
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September 2019

This summer, Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen called for a new science of progress. Let’s study, they say, “the combination of economic, technological…
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August 2019

Let’s be honest. The world’s governments might not coordinate to stop climate change. Between bickering over which country is paying the bill, the fact…
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January 2018

So far, three cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum—have hit a market cap of $100B. Notably, they all did so within three months of each other…
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April 2017

I spent a few days this week at my undergraduate alma mater, Furman University, to participate in a conference at the Riley Institute on national…
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