Washington State
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Washington State is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between October 13, 2021 and January 17, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Washington State proposed a carbon tax a few years ago”; “especially from Washington State residents”; “Both Huang’s aunt and uncle were recent immigrants to Washington state”. It most often appears alongside COVID, Elon Musk, FDA.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: October 13, 2021
- Last seen: January 17, 2025
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- COVID (2 shared issues)
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- Elon Musk (2 shared issues)
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- FDA (2 shared issues)
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- Nathan Young (2 shared issues)
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- Pennsylvania (2 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (1 shared issues)
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- 2016 Washington carbon tax ballot initiative (1 shared issues)
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- @GoodSciProject (1 shared issues)
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- @metaforecast (1 shared issues)
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- @standupecon (1 shared issues)
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- @tamaybes (1 shared issues)
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- @venturetwins (1 shared issues)
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Third, I’m not sure how to think about this particular issue. Washington State proposed a carbon tax a few years ago, and it failed 56 to 44. Suppose that a bunch of pro-carbon-tax activists equal to 7% of the population moved in the next day. How would this change politics? Would the climate change activists propose something even more ambitious, so that chance of success is held constant? And is there a binary distribution here, such that “carbon tax” is going to offend some people and excite others no matter what the rate is, and so it’s hard to get something that is “like a carbon tax but appeals to 6% more voters”?
Troy Davis, $10,000, to help fund his campaign for approval voting in Seattle. Approval voting is one of the approximately 100% of voting systems better than the one we currently use, with the potential to defuse partisanship and let people support outsider candidates without "wasting their vote". Campaigns to switch to alternative voting systems have recently succeeded in several US cities, most notably St. Louis, and Troy thinks Seattle's time has come. You can read more about his efforts at Seattle Approves or see the discussion here. He wants your help getting this on the November 2022 ballot, especially from Washington State residents (email, donation link)
Yoram Bauman, $50,000, to help fund his campaign for economically literate climate change solutions. Bauman was the sponsor of the 2016 Washington carbon tax ballot initiative, which failed by a small margin. Now he's built up a coalition of economists, environmentalists, and friendly politicians to try to get climate measures passed or on the ballot in seven states by 2024. Bauman is the world's only “stand-up economist”, and also on track to be the world's only person to win a bet with Bryan Caplan. You can follow or donate to the effort he’s part of in Utah at CleanTheDarnAir.org, connect via email or twitter to chat about Nebraska, South Dakota, Arizona, Michigan, or your favorite state (yoram@standupeconomist.com, @standupecon), or sign up for overall updates and see comedy videos at https://standupeconomist.com/videos/.
Both Huang's aunt and uncle were recent immigrants to Washington state; they accidentally enrolled him and his brother in the Oneida Baptist Institute, a religious reform academy in Kentucky for troubled youth,mistakenly believing it to be a prestigious boarding school. Jensen's parents sold nearly all their possessions in order to afford the academy's tuition […]