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My Fully Automated Labor Law Research Tool Is Finally Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_GN1jV9eg As I explain in this video, this is what I have been trying to accomplish for the last 2+ years. It wasn't possible until the most recent models and harnesses. But with this skill and the API into my NLRB Research database, you really… Read more →
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What even is an autonomous AI agent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8TK0VA09s I produced this YouTube video tonight about a topic that has irritated me for a while, which is the discourse around so-called "AI agents." I think the way people talk about this is extremely confusing, mystical-sounding, and… Read more →
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Technical Details of My LLM-Generated Book
I released a book today called The National Labor Relations Book , which you can buy over at NLRBResearch.com for $10 ( click here ). The book provides an introduction to the NLRA and NLRB by providing summaries of the 100 most-cited cases in this area of law using the 100 most… Read more →
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Some Thoughts on AI
I am a weird social position when it comes to the discourse over large language models or artificial intelligence more generally. Politically, I align with the socialist left and have since I was a teenager. On the internet, I am most well-known as a left-wing economic policy… Read more →
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The Midwit Theory of Geoff Shullenberger
It's not surprising that Geoff Shullenberger doesn't know very much about me. After all, I only learned of his existence late last month when I tweeted an excerpt of an article in Compact Magazine. In the piece, someone named Zach Mottl argued that MAGA policy should be focused… Read more →
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Desert and Capitalism Again
In high school and college, I became very interested in economic philosophy, specifically theories of distributive justice that seek to establish criteria for determining whether a particular distribution of resources within a society is just. When I started this website in… Read more →
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Dissecting My Recent Argument (Are Error Theories Offensive?)
The discourse is full of argument but mostly devoid of argumentation theory. Most people read arguments impressionistically in much the same way that most people read novels, listen to music, or watch movies. There are people who have learned to technically dissect these forms… Read more →
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The Fertility Question
Societies have grappled with concerns over low or declining fertility since as far back as Ancient Rome . More recently, these concerns have been discussed most intensely in places like Japan, which has had sub-replacement fertility since the 1970s, South Korea, which has the… Read more →
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Yglesias on the Politics of NAFTA
Matt Yglesias has a piece at Slow Boring where he criticizes the idea that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), enacted by Clinton, is a major driver of working class disaffection with the Democratic party. Chronology Yglesias's first critique is about the chronology… Read more →
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Three Years of Solar Panels Reduced My Electricity Bill $8,935
In 2021, I had solar panels installed on my roof. They began generating electricity in January of 2022. In early 2023, I wrote a piece detailing how the finances of all that worked based on the first year of solar production. This is a follow up to that piece but now with three… Read more →
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Election Musings
For me, this election differed from the last two in that my particular policy interests -- a universalist welfare state, mass unionization, and socialization of wealth -- were absent. The Biden administration achieved nothing significant on these fronts. There was no primary… Read more →
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The Stupid Price Gouging Discourse
Ten days ago, Kamala Harris released her Lowering Costs Agenda (LCA), a five-page list of various policy proposals that all ostensibly relate back to lowering prices. The LCA contains the following text about grocery costs: Lowering Grocery Costs Vice President Harris knows that… Read more →
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The Joe Biden Policy Platform
Joe Biden put up an issues page on his campaign website late last month. I have been publicly wondering when, if ever, we would get some kind of formal policy platform from Biden, and so I am happy to see that now there is one. Unfortunately, Biden's list of issues does not… Read more →
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Does The Child Earnings Penalty Actually Exist?
The prevailing consensus in the economics literature is that women suffer a significant earnings penalty after they have children. More precisely, women who have children end up with lower earnings than women who do not, holding all else equal. Recent research using Nordic… Read more →
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A Personal Case for College Admissions Exams
Yale announced today that it will reinstate a requirement that applicants to the school submit scores from a standardized college admissions exam. Yale says that making these tests optional is harming low-income students whose scores could have helped them get in. Over at… Read more →