Latest for steven.noble:
- One of the most moral things one can do is to sustainably grow the economy.
- The public would be better served and more informed if news stories were selected based on the aggregate impact of all similar incidents, rather than by the novelty and drama of rare outlier events. For example, mass shootings will affect far fewer people than suicides by gun.
- To promote knowledge work productivity, it is better for an organization to try to avoid wasting time and effort than to encourage people to work longer hours.
- A tax regime that replaced capital gains taxes on domestic property and financial securities with a 1 or 2 percent wealth/property tax would be superior to both the current regime and a universal wealth tax. This would also apply to primary residences which are often capital gains exempt.
- For devices that use Alexa, OK Google, Siri, etc., with voice recognition and always-on microphones, the risk to privacy and the potential for abuse (intentional or not) outweighs the benefits.
- Customers should cancel their Prime accounts due to the way Amazon treats warehouse laborers, delivery contractors, etc.
- An individual or organization that releases open source software has some obligation to serve its users.
- Assuming that it’s possible to make a simulation as complex as our observable universe, it’s highly likely that we are living in such a simulation.
- Most individual conservation acts, such as recycling or composting, don’t have a meaningful impact on climate change. Instead, they can give people the false sense that they are making a difference.
- It's a net positive to have a tax deduction for charitable giving.
- People are right to be concerned about economic inequality because, while wealth is not a zero sum game, the political power that the wealthy can exert *is* a zero sum game.
- Other than in extreme cases of abuse or neglect, almost all of the long-term impact that parents have on their children’s long term life outcomes (happiness, income, intelligence, health, etc), can be explained via genetics rather than parenting style.
steven.noble replied:
I sometimes wonder if there’s a business in grading media organizations on metrics like this. Getting the aggregate data for frequency of impactful events isn’t that hard; at least reasonable estimates. eg there’s a lot in this table alone https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html.
Categorizing the stories for each organization seems laborious. And I don’t know who would pay for it.