Coefficient Giving's @mattsclancy explains why San Francisco can lead the AI revolution but still struggle to build the city around it: "If you’re talking about scientific advances in the physical world, I think that’s hard to accelerate just with AI." "The progress we’ve seen in math, I wouldn’t expect necessarily in things that require data and real world iteration." "Your question is getting back to the symptom of these policy blockers we’ve done that have made it hard for a city like San Francisco to build as rapidly as you would expect a city that’s birthing a technological revolution to grow." @coeff_giving

Coefficient Giving's @mattsclancy reveals why America's biggest transportation breakthrough might not be high-speed rail, but cutting massive infrastructure costs: "If we go big on transportation, it’s not a given that it will look like we should all have high-speed rail across the country. It might be more about autonomous vehicles. It might be about congestion pricing." "Probably a big part of it will be about why does it cost so much more to build the same kind of transit infrastructure in the United States than in other countries." "We’re thinking what are the impacts on the ability of people to access the agglomeration benefits of a city cluster, what are the impacts on carbon and climate, what are the impacts on life expectancy, if you think autonomous vehicles are safer than human-operated vehicles." @coeff_giving

Coefficient Giving's @mattsclancy explains why America's 20-year per-capita economic growth has fallen from roughly 60% to 30%, and what housing, energy, and medicine have to do with it: "It’s just become a lot harder to build new houses in America, especially in big cities where you can enjoy agglomeration benefits that have these spillovers for economic growth and innovation." "We’ve invented new kinds of energy generation, but it doesn’t affect anything until you can build it and get it out there on the grid. We invent new drugs, but it takes a really long time to get them approved and out." "On the other side, the engine of scientific progress faces headwinds. The ecosystems that support it have to adapt to overcome things like the burden of knowledge that makes it just harder to make advances with the same amount of resources." @coeff_giving

The @coe Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI) concluded its meeting in Tallinn, chaired by our Undersecretary @KerliVeski. 🇪🇪 Discussions focused on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, accountability for the crime of aggression and compensation for the damage caused by Russia’s war. There must be no impunity for the crime of aggression. Russia’s political and military leadership must be held accountable, and Russia must compensate for the damage it has caused. We must move swiftly to make the Special Tribunal operational and advance work on the International Claims Commission for Ukraine. 🇺🇦