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The top post on HN, muses about capital allocation, has no mention of climate change. I guess we are doomed.

el_cujo 7y ago
The point of this was to look at questions the author thought were interesting but maybe overlooked I think, not a "TOP 10 QUESTIONS WE NEED ANSWERED NOW OR THE HUMAN RACE IS DOOOOMED!!!" listicle.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
muzani 7y ago
I think there's a lot allocated to it, both funds and brainpower. Maybe there should be more, but money is probably not the bottleneck. It's not necessarily the worst thing either. Some researchers think nuclear apocalypse is still more likely to cause human extinction, which could happen if too much political pressure goes upon climate change.
tootie 7y ago
I think the difference is we know as much as can know about it already. He is a research economist looking to acquire data, not solve problems.
wasdfff 7y ago
No surprise. The author is a middle aged conservative economist. These people are more concerned with the next 30 years of gains than climate change, as they won’t be around holding the bag when crops start to fail.
viburnum 7y ago
Tyler Cowen’s whole gimmick is to play dumb and distract people from the actual issue. Back when unemployment was 10% he wrote about “zero marginal product” people. He literally called people useless. As if the financial crisis was caused by video games and dirty movies on the internet. When pressed on it he admitted he doesn’t know much about macroeconomics. Change the subject, then play dumb, that’s his only move.
- soVeryTired 7y ago
  While we're running through Tyler's greatest hits, he also argued in favour of high prices for drugs [0], since lower prices would lower innovation. If the advocate of lower drug prices does not have clear quantitative evidence for a conclusion of “lowering drug prices will not harm innovation very much,” commit the analysis to the flames, for it harbors nothing but sophistry and illusion. Tyler Cowen is the opposite of Batman. I genuinely don't understand why he gets so much press. [0] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/are-pharmaceutical-drug-prices-too-high.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/ar...

The point of this was to look at questions the author thought were interesting but maybe overlooked I think, not a "TOP 10 QUESTIONS WE NEED ANSWERED NOW OR THE HUMAN RACE IS DOOOOMED!!!" listicle.

dang 7y ago
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

muzani 7y ago

I think there's a lot allocated to it, both funds and brainpower. Maybe there should be more, but money is probably not the bottleneck. It's not necessarily the worst thing either. Some researchers think nuclear apocalypse is still more likely to cause human extinction, which could happen if too much political pressure goes upon climate change.

tootie 7y ago

I think the difference is we know as much as can know about it already. He is a research economist looking to acquire data, not solve problems.

wasdfff 7y ago

No surprise. The author is a middle aged conservative economist. These people are more concerned with the next 30 years of gains than climate change, as they won’t be around holding the bag when crops start to fail.

viburnum 7y ago

Tyler Cowen’s whole gimmick is to play dumb and distract people from the actual issue. Back when unemployment was 10% he wrote about “zero marginal product” people. He literally called people useless. As if the financial crisis was caused by video games and dirty movies on the internet. When pressed on it he admitted he doesn’t know much about macroeconomics. Change the subject, then play dumb, that’s his only move.

soVeryTired 7y ago
While we're running through Tyler's greatest hits, he also argued in favour of high prices for drugs [0], since lower prices would lower innovation. If the advocate of lower drug prices does not have clear quantitative evidence for a conclusion of “lowering drug prices will not harm innovation very much,” commit the analysis to the flames, for it harbors nothing but sophistry and illusion. Tyler Cowen is the opposite of Batman. I genuinely don't understand why he gets so much press. [0] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/are-pharmaceutical-drug-prices-too-high.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/ar...