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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  Saving dominates returns early in a career and returns dominate saving later, because compounding is back-loaded.

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  How much you save has a far greater impact than your investments early on in your career. But as your portfolio grows, investment returns swamp your savings because of the wonders of compounding.

  How to Invest When Your Portfolio Gets Biggerawealthofcommonsense.com

Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  Every AI hype cycle produces spectacular demos and very few products, because each breakthrough makes the demo far easier and the tail barely easier.

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  And that's why every hype cycle produces a wave of absolutely spectacular demos and very few real products. And the recurring mistake of every cycle is spending on the demo when you should be saving for the nines.

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  The Wealth Ladder

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  He develops simple, clever, quantitative rules of thumb to guide saving, spending, and investing as you progress through different levels of wealth.

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Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised.

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  Cutting development costs does not cut housing prices, because prices are set by what buyers will pay and the saving is capitalised into land value.

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  As is the case with most businesses, suppliers in the housing industry generally set prices based on market conditions and what buyers or tenants are willing to pay, rather than on production costs.

  Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org

Economist at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute; works on what advanced AI would do to growth, saving and the long-run economy.

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  Even with no redistribution at all, a little saving would rescue a great many people, because the same AI that automates the work makes returns enormous.

  interest rates

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  things have to go really wrong for us to like just get over the threshold of uh you know, capital being productive enough to automate lots of work, but not be productive enough that that the interest rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of people.

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Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.

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  AI datacenter growth makes performance engineering critical for saving the planet, not just cutting costs.

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  The staggering and fast-growing cost of AI datacenters is a call for performance engineering like no other in history; it's not just about saving costs - it's about saving the planet.

  Why I joined OpenAIbrendangregg.com

Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Selling a saving caps what you can charge; selling more of what the buyer already values raises that cap by an order of magnitude.

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  It's just that it caps this price and this value that is they perceive that you do. Whereas if you deliver more of the value that they already value, it's I don't want to say uncapped completely, but like the cap is maybe an order of magnitude higher than saving.

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  USM Haller storage

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  USM Haller storage — long-term investment worth saving for.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  NASA is worth saving.

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  I believe NASA is worth saving.

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Economist at the Hoover Institution; wrote The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and blogs as The Grumpy Economist.

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  The cure for the trade deficit is to tax consumption instead of saving and investment, and to stop borrowing to fund consumption.

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  Cure the disease, not the symptoms. Reform taxes to tax consumption, not saving and investment. Stop funneling borrowed money to consumption.

  Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com

Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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  The Earth does not need saving — the biosphere will outlast us; what is actually at risk is the narrow band of conditions humanity needs.

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  The biosphere is not going away. There's nothing we could do. The idea that we have to save the Earth is a little ridiculous. The Earth is not a furry little bunny that we need to protect. But it's the conditions for us.

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Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  Nobody has driven enough miles to show that robotaxis save lives, so the claim that they already do is not supported by the data.

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  But their latest study is for only 7.1 million miles. They need something like 40 times more data prove they are actually saving lives with statistical confidence (likely even more).

  Waymo's Misleading Claim of Saving Livessafeautonomy.blogspot.com

Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.

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  Ten billion dollars over ten years would deliver most of a list of missing life-saving health technologies, so their absence is a funding choice rather than a scientific limit.

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  With an extra $10 billion over 10 years I’m pretty sure we’d get to 5 or 6 of the 10 on the list, and millions of unnecessary deaths would be prevented.

  10 technologies that won't exist in 5 yearsblog.jacobtrefethen.com

Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money, Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money. Writes essays on investor behavior and posts frequently on X.

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  Unspent money buys freedom and control over your own time, which is what makes saving worth more than whatever it could have bought.

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  Unspent money buys something intangible but valuable: freedom, independence, autonomy, and control over your time.

  A Few Thoughts on Spending Moneycollabfund.com

Professor at Carnegie Mellon working on self-driving-car safety; writes Safe Autonomy on how autonomous vehicles are and are not shown to be safe.

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  The self-driving industry's strategy of answering criticism with 'we are saving lives' has failed, and it will have to change both how it deploys and how it talks.

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  At a higher level, the real event was a catastrophic failure of the industry's strategy of relentlessly shouting as loud as they can "Hey, get off our case, we're busy saving lives here!"

  My Automated Vehicle Safety Prediction for 2024safeautonomy.blogspot.com

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

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  A drug discovery scientist starting today will probably retire without ever having worked on a drug that reached the market.

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  Such prolificacy is unlikely to be repeated any time soon; if current trends hold, a drug discovery scientist starting their career today is likely to retire without ever having worked on a single drug that makes it to market.

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

From one piece How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The more effective altruism has absorbed itself in saving humanity, the less humanistic it has become.

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  Strangely enough, as EA becomes more absorbed in the task of saving humanity, the movement is becoming less humanistic.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com

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  Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.

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  The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.

  How Effective Altruism Lost Its Wayquillette.com