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Writes The Diff, a newsletter on inflections in finance and tech read by hedge fund managers, founders and VCs. Previously worked in finance at SAC Capital/Point72.

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  Time spent on bureaucratic paperwork is a real economic cost even though it doesn't appear in government budgets.

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  it is simply ridiculous that a ruinously expensive policy can be budget-neutral if the expense consists of wasted time rather than wasted money. But that's still a cost!

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US science and technology adviser to the president, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; previously US chief technology officer and chief operating officer of Scale AI.

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  Government work is a bureaucratic slog and is still the place where a technologist can have the biggest impact on the country.

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  I think it can be a slog, it can be bureaucratic, it can be painful, but when the when the outcome actually happens and you deliver the result, there is no place where you can have a bigger impact on on this country.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  This is one of the best-kept secrets in San Francisco, since most people think it’s just a place to drink, but it actually has a very extensive food menu full of creative and excellent cuisine that’s basically a mashup of French, Latin American, Korean, Japanese, and Italian.

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  AI-driven bureaucratic systems will develop their own internal politics and be gamed by the people subject to them.

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  (and it will be gamed - AI bureaucracies will absolutely have their own politics)

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  As AI labs aim for broad, general capability, handling messy real-world bureaucratic tasks is becoming a primary application domain for their models.

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  Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.

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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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  American shipyards are unproductive rather than expensive: their workers are paid about what Korean and Japanese shipyard workers are paid.

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  Labor costs are not an excuse!

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Writes about the biotech industry, drug development and forecasting — “I write to learn, mostly about biotech.”

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  Clinical trials cost what they do because they are complex, bureaucratic and reliant on highly skilled labour.

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  Clinical trials are expensive because they are complex, bureaucratic, and reliant on highly skilled labour.

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