A Labour council celebrating the rejection of 867 homes in the middle of a housing crisis is nothing less than shameful. Every blocked scheme means higher rents, longer commutes and more young people priced out of the city they grew up in. And they’re calling it “a great day”.

I've spent the last 15 years of my career researching how to find the best career. This book is the culmination of everything I've learned. It's called 80,000 Hours, and it launches in a week.

Today, I'm co-launching a new center to refine & advance a progressive vision for an economy in which AI has replaced & disrupted a large number of jobs My fellow advisors incl. @dylanmatt @joshhendler @davidshor @goldman @katz_morris @maidinoff

Very excited to launch a project I've been helping out with the last couple months.* The Center for Shared AI Prosperity is an attempt by an, other than me, very impressive team (so far including @davidshor, @katz_morris, @StefFeldman, @maidinoff, Lindsay Lamont, Jesse Stinebring, @joshhendler, @goldman, and Lilah Penner Brown) to force DC policy elites to take the impending economic impacts of advanced AI more seriously. We do not think this is a normal economic shock, though we are deeply uncertain about what kind of economic shock it will be. We could be left with a world of extreme power and wealth concentration, increasing political instability arising from that growing inequality, and deep questions about how to fund governments that have for a century-plus relied on income and payroll taxes. Our main purpose as an organization is to surface tractable ideas to reform and grow the safety net to meet the moment; to restructure the labor market so workers are still valued and fairly paid; to remake the tax code so that the gains from AI are shared widely; and to experiment with ways of giving average Americans concrete shares in the AI surplus. To that end, we're running a Request for Ideas, and we're offering $3,000 for the best proposals. Top ideas will get rigorous polling from Blue Rose Research to see how Americans feel about them. We are trying to solicit submissions from a wide pool, and purposefully don't want to just ask the usual think tanks, economists, academics, etc. (Though we want them too!) If you have ideas that you think could be useful, please don't hesitate to apply. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the program. Read more here: *Obligatory disclaimer: I'm doing this on my personal time, not in my capacity at Coefficient Giving. Nothing I or CSAIP say necessarily reflects CG's views.

Very cool new GMO: the Philippines just approved a high-iron variety of rice that could provide 30-50% of the recommended daily allowance of iron. About a quarter of people around the world are anemic, mostly in developing countries

New AGF blog: Tokyo is the world's most affordable megacity--and they're still permitting homes at many times the pace of NYC, London, Paris Yet land prices are still very high! A 1-acre suburban home in Chiyoda would cost over $100M before you nail the first board Tokyo shows structures can be affordable if you stack enough of them on pricey land. It also shows that YIMBYism will not crash land markets or impoverish land-rich homeowners in attractive areas Tokyo also heightens the contradictions of the profit-focused version of the Homevoter Hypothesis: In the highest-demand neighborhoods of the US, the homevoters prioritizing "Boomer suburb vibes" are not just hurting renters, they're costing *themselves* billions of dollars of land value

We're hiring 10+ grantmakers and senior generalists across our GCR teams. Most of our capital is bottlenecked on a tiny number of people working to identify, vet, and generate strong funding opportunities. Apply here by May 24: