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My colleague Bryan Caplan has some comments on the topic, here is also Robin Hanson here and here.  I think both are trying to fit the Covid battle too much into a framework of equating marginal benefit and marginal cost.  While that MB = MC condition is true tautologically for my views as well, I […] The post The non-linearity of Covid-19 response appeared...

The clock has hit midnight in Las Vegas! Here’s the crowd waiting to get into @theDlasvegas in #DTLV. 🎰 pic.twitter.com/sp6gNwsVPz — FOX5 Las Vegas (@FOX5Vegas) June 4, 2020 What might be some alternate (if possibly slightly unfair) titles?  How about “A Swede by Any Other Name” or “America > Sweden”? “Refuting Friedman-Savage, convexity all over” […] The post Solve for the equilibrium appeared first...

Let us assume that you, for reasons of choice or necessity, are spending time in close quarters with another person.  You are then less inclined to visit corona-dangerous locations.  In part you are altruistic toward the other person, and in part for selfish reasons you do not wish to lower the common standard of care.  […] The post Tethered pairs and locational extremes appeared...

Put aside the people with small (and not so small) children at home, and observe whether the pandemic has boosted or destroyed their productivity.  That is one measure for how they handle stress, and whether you might wish to trust them with a start-up or some other major project requiring quick adaptation and performance under […] The post The world is running a disturbing...

With all those fools going to bars and concerts, or running marathons, it is evident we still need to solve the problem of entertainment, as I argue in my new Bloomberg column. It is instructive to look back to the days of World War II. The U.S. government played a critical role in encouraging Hollywood to make […] The post Robert Browning and Ingmar Bergman in...

Time spent on social media has been blamed for increased suicides and depression, just as were other new technologies and pastimes such as phones and Dungeons and Dragons. … but is social media the real culprit? Or are we engaged in a moral panic, perhaps not understanding the root of the problem? One major limitation […] The post Do Social Media Harm the Mental...

Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day. Based on breathing rates (which triple during competition), blood pressure (which elevates) and muscle contractions before, during and […] The post The chess diet appeared first on...