Archive - David Friedman’s Substack

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Mar 18

How does one explore a complicated issue when you believe that many of the experts are biased and you do not know which are not? Past posts dealt with…

Mar 16

My view, as I have mentioned before, is that climate change is real and probably in large part due to humans but that it will have both positive and…

Mar 14

on my lab leak post

Mar 13

A Bayesian Approach

Mar 11

In December of 2021 I had an online debate with Walter Block comparing the approaches to economics associated with the Chicago and Austrian schools…

Mar 8

What an ordinary person does — as consumer, voter, or participant in public discussions — is too inconsequential to affect either the climate or…

Mar 6

Moral realism is the view that there are facts of the matter about which actions are right and which wrong, and about which things are good and which…

Mar 5

I start, for readers who want to grade themselves on the questions in the previous post, by giving my answers. Other people might want to add more…

Mar 2

February 2023

a simplified version

Feb 28

A Fermi Estimate

Feb 26

Stone Age Humans

Feb 25

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