The progress studies movement helped me understand how NEPA and environmental regs have become an all purpose tool which can indefinitely delay anything. Can't unsee it now.
eg, SpaceX launch site apparently needs another environmental impact study
arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/
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if you interested, here's a good explainer on how NEPA should be reformed.
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James Watt came to BYU and explained same to us around 1990. Real eye-opener for me.
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it is an oddly hopeful realization. A lot of antiprogress is a side effect of wealth. 2023 people are more comfortable than in 1823, so on balance want less change.
But if it's also policy and NEPA....that's something that can be fixed.
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Evidence of modern H sapiens in Laos about 86k yrs ago. We know from genetic/archaeological evidence all humans in eurasia come from expansion ~55k yrs ago.
That is, unsurprising earlier waves. Just that final successful expansion overwrote all previous.
nature.com/articles/s4146
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"What I call a trapped prior - a belief with such a strong gravity well that no evidence can shift you out of it - the authors call canalization, based on the metaphor of a canal having very steep walls and railroading you to a specific destination."
astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-canal-pa
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Kevin Drum posted this chart, which made me realize I was clueless about the Bud Light boycott
wsj.com/articles/bud-l
Here's an explainer. Culture war tends to blow up on such random, hard to predict ahead of time events.
vox.com/money/2023/4/1
"I worry that normal humans are imitating journalists. If a journalist makes 99 people hate them, and 1 person like them enough to like or subscribe or click on their next article, that’s a win."
"But your incentives are not the same as media companies"
astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-incenti
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