This is maybe the most important thing that happened today.

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BLM adopts categorical exclusion for geothermal exploration drilling!!!

This will let geothermal companies avoid multiple NEPA reviews.

Some quick first reactions: 🧵

An excellent article on the progress in Progress Studies: reason.com/2024/04/06/pro…

A feature in reason on the progress movement:

“It celebrates humanity's achievements so far. It judges progress not in technocratic terms but with an eye on outcomes for individual human beings”

Quotes me/The Roots of Progress and Caleb Watney/Institute for Progress

Between just two companies (the College Board and ACT Inc), we have thousands of people focused on building and operationalizing assessments to test students for their cognitive capabilities.

We should aim to develop an ecosystem at least as robust as that for AI evaluations.

'When the vibes change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?'

With the three biggest investments in TSMC, Intel, and Samsung now announced and successfully getting good investment promises in return, we should turn to clearing the hurdles for catalyzing this industry: permitting reform + high skilled immigration. eig.org/chipmakers-vis…

Wrote a short response essay on the ARPA model and the political will to allow failure

The entire criminal justice system is inadequately funded with significant negative ramifications for public safety, protection of constitutional rights of accused, and rehabilitation/reintegration. I rarely call for more govt spending but it's necessary here.
via Charles Fain Lehman

I will die on this hill

On April 25th, I'm hosting the first live Statecraft interview!

Our guest: economist Chris Snyder, who helped design the advanced market commitment for Operation Warp Speed. Call it 'How to Save 700,000 Lives.'

Registration:

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So excited to announce that @natasharsarin and Danny Yagan and I are launching @the_budget_lab at Yale Law School. Budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process and our hope is to bring a new perspective, with a focus on innovation and transparency. 1/

D'Alembert (leading 1700s intellectual) thought a flipped coin was more likely to come up tails if it had previously come up heads. So interesting that such a testable and now-obviously wrong theory was at the time compelling.

From his 'Opuscule Mathematiques':

The federal government spends $200 billion+ on R&D per year.

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Help us shape our funding focus areas Astera Institute (a dedicated synbio residency is coming soon)! We welcome any of your wildest dreams, but short & sweet plz. A few sentences is OK, you can submit as many as you want to compete for $1K

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What an exciting role working with the amazing folks at Institute for Progress who think so carefully about innovation policy that will unlock societal progress!

We're looking for a Chief of Staff (and other roles too!) — come help us build IFP 📈
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