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Habitual Linestepper 🏗 retweeted
President Donald Trump announced that the United States would reduce military exercises it conducts with key regional ally South Korea, citing his positive relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Seoul’s lack of assistance with Iran. cnn.it/3SdZC51
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it’s me. i’m that guy.
building more housing does depress prices (because the housing market uses prices to allocate a scarce good)
building more lanes doesn’t relieve congestion (because highways are free and rely on traffic to allocate scarce roadspace)
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With prices and rents rising this rapidly, every day that San Francisco isn't in the midst of a building boom is a complete and total policy failure.
The AI boom has pushed the bruising race for housing in San Francisco into overdrive, with a lack of supply colliding with sky-high salaries. on.wsj.com/4fY7NdG
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My vague vibe is that OpenAI correctly estimates themselves but underestimates AI, whereas Anthropic overestimates themselves but correctly estimates AI.
By the way, in case people feel that this is a special critique of OpenAI and that Anthropic is better: it is not. My impression is that Anthropic is much worse on this issue because of the lack of open debate and a collective overconfidence in both the company leadership and the company safety culture.
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Closing Market Street without rethinking the layout was the most half-assed urban renewal attempt in history.
Typical SF approach: frankenstein policy that accomodates every niche interest (but no one likes) instead of a bold vision that focuses on outcomes and, most importantly, people’s lives.
Other cities did this, folks. It ain’t hard. 👇👇
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Appreciate Pablo's reporting, but can't endorse the implication that stadium scoreboards have no consumer market. Like many Americans, I frequently purchase Jumbotrons for my home office/podcast studio. Daktonics is a great product, but Kawhi's endorsement put them on my radar.
BREAKING: Kawhi Leonard had a hidden, multimillion-dollar "sponsorship" with Clippers' scoreboard-maker, sources tell @PabloTorre.
"It was 1,000% a way to circumvent the salary cap," insider says.
In our investigation, Daktronics' Ballmer-linked crisis firm raises NBA probe ⤵️
Dray knows him well
Draymond reacts to KD's comments on LeBron joining the Sixers
"You have to understand the way KD view basketball, the way KD view basketball is very Uncle Drew-ish, this game will and always will be about buckets... so he's going to mention the 25-point scorers... He also said the Sixers are better on paper than the 2016-17 Warriors... I don't know that I can agree with that, I don't really think it works."
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A 25% jump in rents year over year should be a five-alarm fire, the sort of thing that happens after a natural disaster and should motivate a bunch of emergency measures to get housing built ASAP, but it's business as usual in San Francisco these days. That's a huge problem.
Habitual Linestepper 🏗 retweeted
there is literally no reason every blue state cant do this
Habitual Linestepper 🏗 retweeted
Some thoughts on the economic importance of intelligence:
noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-…
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You can ban corporate rentals and complain about hedge funds and capitalism all you want, but until we deal with these people and the power they have over local government, we're never fixing our housing crisis
Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront.
@sfchronicle
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As good an illustration as you could ask for of the principle that community meetings aren’t democracy.
slowboring.com/p/community-m…
Hundreds of #SanFrancisco Marina residents turned out this evening for townhall on controversial @Safeway housing plan, which would place what for many is an uncomfortably tall, 22 & 18 story project at the low-slung neighborhood’s waterfront.
@sfchronicle
Habitual Linestepper 🏗 retweeted
Yes! These people have made building in San Francisco so restrictive that OVER HALF of the homes there now are illegal to build today
For SF to get in compliance, 130,860 homes would have to be destroyed
This self-inflicted housing shortage is the city's biggest problem—by far
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Excellent post. Intelligence is very likely not “all that matters”!
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I really liked inclusionary zoning. It seemed like a great way to get deed restricted subsidized housing.
The evidence is in. It’s like rent control. Great in theory, terrible in practice. It does the opposite of its stated goal and is bad policy. We should abolish it.
Some have speculated that IZ may increase housing production by making voters more accepting of new development. See @zoningwonk, @gustavofnovoa & @TMendelberg's recent work (next tweet).
This paper ⤵️ provides strong evidence against that conjecture.
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I was at a workshop yesterday and asked several technologists and economists who had predicted large job market losses from AI model improvement whether they are surprised about this. Models after all have improved in some ways *more* than projections.
Most said “yes”, some are indeed very surprised.
I do think disruption is likely coming, but it is not at all obvious that it will look like mass unemployment.
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There are a few easy-fix-everything buttons in urbanism:
- No need to demonize driving. Just price it (including externalities).
- Land value tax
- Liberalize zoning (à la Japan).
- Insist on public order
- Have amazing public goods (libraries, parks, transit, sidewalks, trees)
