Will Rinehart

RIA Browser Agency → Regulation → Documents Loading… Browse — Choose an agency, then click a regulation title to see its RIA documents.

I thought it would be helpful for my students (and for me) to have a cheatsheet of all the best public policy resources.

I’m fascinated with time, the history of wrist watches, how the clock made the modern world, how our modern months and days got their names, the concept of time keeping, the psychology of time, time’s importance in economics, discounting, and so on.

Ever since I was a wee kid, I have been fascinated in military and space technologies.

Years ago, Bill Gates wanted to tax robots.

Fiscal notes are a mundane part of the state budget process but I have begun wondering if they could be reformed.

This is a scratchpad of sorts for economists wanting to use ChatGPT.

I have been writing a lot about the abundance agenda.

You’ve got questions, I’ve got data.

Notes for Young Voices’s Feb 16, 2023 event: “The World with ChatGPT: Will Humanity Fit In?”

One criticism of higher education, older than the current issues of DEI, was developed by the Marxists sometime in the early 2000s.

Since publishing some work earlier this year about vetocracy, I have been thinking about how we might be able to reverse the trends.

About a year ago, I stumbled upon this Reddit thread: I’ve been reading Foucault’s ‘Discipline and Punish’ in which he details a ‘genealogy’ of the prison, punitive, and judicial systems and it made me start wondering if anybody has done a similar work re…

There are various forms of knowledge.

America is changing.

In the leadup to the passage of the infrastrucutre bill, a WSJ article cited two studies “showing that expanding high-quality internet access could have significant economic benefits.”

Because I have so much work in broadband, I thought a compilation might be helpful.

Reddit user BainCapitalist has a great explanation of why MMT doesn’t work in practice.

China wouldn’t be putting the money into the moon if they thought it was just a land grab.

I was recently walking through research with a student on the James Webb Telescope (JWST) and the costs involved in the project.

In my little circle of the world, the debate between Jonathan Haidt and Robby Soave on the impact of social media has been making the rounds.

All Internet service providers are required to file data with the FCC twice a year (Form 477) describing where they offer Internet access service at speeds exceeding 200 kbps in at least one direction.

Musk has been consistent with his statements.

I like to collect stories that subtly prove we live in a simulation.

Governments and social media platforms should not rely on content removal for combatting harmful scientific misinformation online, a report by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has said.

Veritasium posted a really great video about clickbait a while ago that I have never been able to shake.

Congress has spent at least \$17.34 billion to get people online in the past two years.

A decade ago, the hype over automation took off.

Politics and political institutions The United States has among the highest influenza vaccination rates in the OECD.

From Reddit, a list of transhumanist papers: Future minds: Transhumanism, cognitive enhancement and the nature of persons I am a Cyborg: Identity, Peripheral Reflexivity and Transhumanism Cochlear implantation, enhancements, transhumanism and posthumanism:

This essay was originally sent out via CGO’s email newsletter.

Chapter 4 of Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments has long stuck with me, but it has always left me wanting for more.

All of my old Substack essays before the new format.

This bibliography includes Communication theory The digital Philosophy Political economy and regulation Perception and cognition Journals, outlets and esoterica Wikiholes Communication theory Technological or Media Determinism by Daniel Chandler Socioling…

Gabel, David, Joan Nix, and Bruce Mcnevin.

Late last month, I was on CSPAN’s Communicators, talking with Randy May about cancel culture.

I don’t know who wrote these, but here are notes on Marshall McLuhan’s The Gutenberg Galaxy.

“Algorithm appreciation: People prefer algorithmic to human judgment” Even though computational algorithms often outperform human judgment, received wisdom suggests that people may be skeptical of relying on them (Dawes, 1979).

Document outline Everyone needs tools to deal with technology use.

From an Astral Codex Ten comment, details about online community migration: The rise of 4chan is actually an interesting story of its own.

I’m working on a series of posts on tech philosophy, but before diving into the relationship between technology and the self, I think it will be helpful to lay out some fundamental theorems of cognition and technology as it relates to us as social beings.

Are Millennials going to end up worse than their parents?

Short-termism is the excessive focus on short-term results to the detriment of long-term interests.

This piece was previously sent out in a CGO email.

Why hasn’t 3D printing come to clothes?

Regulation chills minor (but not radical) technological innovations.

Over a decade ago, Tyler Cowen penned a post simply titled, “What I think I am nearly certain about.”

The United States has a problem with construction costs; building a mile of road or train track costs a lot more here than in either Europe or Japan.

Once the dust has settled on COVID and life resumes, some trends that began in the pandemic might stick while others might simply pass.