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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  The most recent ANES shows White Americans with zero ingroup bias.

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  Everyone likes to share that chart about White Americans having negative ingroup bias, but the most recent ANES shows Whites with zero ingroup bias.

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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.

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  When someone gets the same negative reaction from many different people, the more likely explanation is their own behavior, not everyone else's.

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  If you consistently get the same particular negative reaction from people, it's best to model your own affect/behavior as the cause.

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  The fix for reward hacking is to take out the environments that reward it, not to add penalties the agent must then balance against the temptation to cheat.

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  Like it's a more fragile and scary situation to have agents on the one hand be reinforced to desperately find cheats and hacks and on the other hand try to balance that against desperately trying to avoid negative penalties for like being caught doing these things. You ideally want their training to just not push them in the direction of cheating and hacking in the first place.

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Professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus at Yale. Author of Against Empathy, The Sweet Spot and Psych, and writer of the Small Potatoes newsletter.

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  Social media may really be harming teenagers even though the studies find almost nothing, because everyone is exposed and the studies compare harmed children with harmed children.

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  I think it’s entirely plausible that screens have a real negative effect on teenagers, but studies can’t find them because (a) the effects need not be dose-dependent (maybe two hours on your phone isn’t worse than one hour), and (b) given that everyone else is on social media, giving it up can have a negative effect.

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Business had become politics without anyone noticing, which is why almost everything said about a company a decade ago was negative.

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  the media landscape 10 years ago, 90% of what was said was very negative. Business had become politics and we didn't know it.

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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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  Organisations say they want disagreement but charge social capital for it, until people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

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  we say we want disagreement, but every disagreement costs the person making it a little social/political capital. do it often enough and you become the negative person. people stop evaluating the argument and start evaluating the source.

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Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  Fear of others' negative judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.

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  And this fear of judgment is a significant risk factor for anxiety and depression.

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  The maritime order goes unappreciated because its objectives are negative: you can never prove you prevented anything.

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  But the maritime world is about negative objectives. It's preventing things from bad things from happening. And um you can never prove that you prevented anything.

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Builds developer tools — SST, and now OpenCode at Anomaly. Posts constantly on x.com and writes almost never; the blog stopped in 2021.

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  Every hyped business attracts negative sentiment nobody has an incentive to correct — and inference makes sense as a business long-term, whatever the training costs are.

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  There's always negative sentiment that exists for any business that's getting hyped. They have no incentive to correct it. Um so again it's complicated because I know the training costs are a big part of it. Uh the R&D department is is hugely expensive but long-term inference makes sense as a business and I think it it always will.

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  Nearly every widely distributed technology produces negative second-order effects.

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  There will be negative second-order effects of almost every widely distributed technology.

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Programmer based in Vancouver who writes at scattered-thoughts.net about databases, programming language design and developer tools; author of the Imp, Dida and Zest language experiments.

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  Ultra-processed foods have epidemiological evidence of harm comparable to what existed for smoking.

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  There's strong epidemiological evidence associating ultra-processed foods with a range of negative health outcomes, at least on par with the evidence we had for smoking.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Social media is built so that maximum hyperbole wins, and the negative direction pays better than the positive.

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  And unfortunately, social media in general is designed in such a way where the maximum hyperbole works, and that’s how you get the most points is by being max hyperbolic.

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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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  Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.

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  The robot arm base case saves some hourly labor at the expense of adding more skilled labor, and can easily be negative if it needs reprogramming more than a few times per year.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Richer countries have fewer children than poor ones, but within a country a boom raises births and a bust lowers them.

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  Although the cross-sectional relationship between national income and fertility is negative, the longitudinal relationship between national income and fertility is positive: economic booms create baby booms, economic busts create baby busts.

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  Earning more does not make a woman less likely to have children, except at the very bottom of the income distribution.

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  the shift from 50th to 99th percentile earnings has no negative effect on women’s fertility, and unearned income for women has a neutral-to-positive effect

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Chief executive of Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004 and led Chrome and Android before taking over in 2015.

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  Whatever the term, by 2030 AI progress will be so dramatic that the world will be dealing with its consequences, good and bad, in a big way.

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  I almost feel the term doesn't matter, what I know is by 2030 there'll be such dramatic progress. We'll be dealing with the consequences of that progress, both the positive externalities and the negative externalities that come with it in a big way by 2030. So that I strongly feel.

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  Humans together in a shared world are a naturally empathetic medium, while typing messages at each other is a self-reinforcing negative dynamic.

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  I think the lesson from all of that is that humans talking to humans and being together in the real world or a virtual world, is a naturally empathetic medium, which naturally leads to bonding, and though conflict sometimes occurs, it's just generally so much more promoting of our social norms and good interactions between people and positivity promoting.

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Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  American aid spending has been flat in real terms since 1945 even as the American economy grew tenfold.

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  Even as GDP has grown tenfold, US aid budgets have remained basically flat in real terms—the result (one might guess) of a delicate balancing act between bipartisan consensus among elites and a wariness of attracting too much negative attention.

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  The Nobel Prize is probably a net good for the world and a net negative for science, because it makes scientists want to win a Nobel Prize.

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  I think that Nobel Prize has enormous problems. I think it’s probably a net good for the world because it brings attention to good science. I think it’s probably a net negative for science because it makes people want to win the Nobel Prize.

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Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.

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  Public hostility to immigration comes from fusing “who may work here” with “who becomes one of us”, and separating the two dissolves it.

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  When you separate those two questions in public dialogue, the negative attitudes disappear.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  When safe interest rates are expected to remain below growth rates for a long time, rolling over public debt without later tax increases is feasible and public debt may carry no fiscal cost.

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  If the future is like the past, this implies that debt rollovers—that is, the issuance of debt without a subsequent increase in taxes—may well be feasible. Put bluntly, public debt may have no fiscal cost.

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  Across advanced economies, the celebrated ( r - g ), i.e., the difference between the interest rate and the growth rate, appears to have durably changed sign or, at a minimum, to have gone from a substantially negative number to a number closer to zero.