But isn’t also true—based on large-N studies from Denmark etc—that we *can* rule out small effect sizes? (i.e. confidence intervals may include zero but imply small effects even at the high end)

A. Love me some narwhal.

Good stuff, article & comments. I always get hung up on the starting logic of the SCC: “maximize the discounted sum of utility across generations.” Hold up. Why are we (maybe) taking from the intergenerational poor to make the rich “richer enough” after discounting? Why not a maximin objective, eg?

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I will say, this particular vein of speakers was out of sync with the protest signs in the crowd, which were 99% anti-authoritarian.

They could easily have spun it as a free speech issue: “You may not agree with my stance on X, but no one should be jailed for their political speech.” But no. Disappointing.

And there it is, instantaneously ousted as the most cited environmental economist in my department by a factor of 40x

You quite conspicuously did not say *on the first try* 🤣