Annoying

Ridge-id

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Political Economy

NIMBYs have made all of us significantly poorer compared to what could have been. One economist estimated that GDP would be 30% higher without NIMBY evil. I think that is probably correct, though I suspect the real number could be as much as 50% larger if we’d crushed NIMBYs when we should have (during the 1970s). Preventing people from living where productive work and economic prosperity is located has all sorts of follow-on effects that are difficult to account for.

Areas with year-round good weather like San Diego and its immediate surroundings should probably have a population of 20+ million.

AI Write Right

Chill Annoying, Tech

This is already happening. One of my team members did his year-end self-review. I read it (am his manager) and it seemed like it sounded AI-ish. I asked him if he’d used AI to create it and he said he hadn’t, though I know he uses ChatGPT for other things. He’s honest and I believe him that he didn’t use AI for this particular item. But the review is written in that style, likely because he has been using AI for other mundane tasks so it has lodged in his brain. I’ve also seen the same in emails from other people that I’m pretty sure were not actually AI-generated.

I do not like this.