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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.

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  making intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  This Hour, Our Vigil

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  If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work, that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to spare.

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Economist, senior research fellow and director of the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, working on housing and land use.

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  Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent.

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  Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Buying spare compute is cheaper than buying backup generators, because the servers cost fifty times what the generator does.

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  Installed generators cost ~$800/kW, and the data center capital cost, including servers, is ~$40,000/kW, so adding 1% more makeup compute capacity is money ahead of purchasing generators.

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Environmental researcher; writes on land use, agriculture and whether decoupling human welfare from nature is possible.

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  Believing that higher yields do not spare land would push investment away from the thing that actually protects wild habitat.

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  Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.

  Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Landthebreakthrough.org

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  Whether higher yields spare land or take more of it depends on how open the market for the crop is, so staples spare land and globally traded crops often do not.

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  Therefore, land sparing is more likely to take place, even at the local level, when yields of staples go up. The situation is different for some internationally traded products like soy and palm oil.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  John Maynard Keynes is best understood as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, not primarily as an economist.

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  I don’t view Keynes primarily as an economist, rather I see him as a British aesthete rationalist who did economics in his spare time, and fortunately he had lots of spare time.

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