Archive - Gabriel Weinberg

May 2025

How science funding literally pays for itself

By growing the economy enough that future tax revenues exceed initial expenditure.

May 31 •

Will the AI backlash spill into the streets?

The answer hinges on how severe and prolonged the economic disruption becomes—particularly for jobs.

May 24 •

Americans’ tolerance for lengthy economic disruption due to tariffs is seemingly very low.

A potential pitfall for future “short-term pain, long-term gain” economic policy proposals.

May 17 •

Science funding was already way too low.

Restoring the status quo is not good enough; we should increase federal research funding to something like three times the previous level.

May 10 •

Rule 1: Reality is always more complicated.

I’ve always been drawn to characters with “rules.”

May 3 •

April 2025

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