I like the sentiment of the call to "Make Birth Free!" but at the Institute for Family Studies, Patrick Brown and I are the wet blankets pointing out this proposal wouldn't help the most vulnerable mothers. For the poorest moms, birth is already free, at least in theory, but there are other gaps to close.… Read More
Month: January 2023
Embracing Amateurism in the Face of AI
As Chat-GPT and other machine learning models make it easier to generate text and art, I wrote in praise of doing something yourself, even if you do it badly, in Deseret. When you choose to be bad at something, you get to experience the joy of being an amateur in the classical sense. Today, “amateur”… Read More
Books I Hope to Read in 2023
2022 had the most babies and the fewest books read, both in total, and off of my "to read" list for the year. This was predictable. I read 7/11 of my "to read" books, and 85 books/26k pages across the year. Nothing earlier than 1950, either, I think (though Goodreads gets this wrong if I… Read More