I think this is an unnecessarily negative response to an announcement post. Zvi’s been posting regularly for some time now about his thoughts on many of the areas he talks about in this post, including ideas for specific reforms. You’ve picked on a couple of the areas that are most high-profile, and I agree that we’d need extraordinary evidence to believe there’s fruit in arm’s reach in NEPA or NRC.
At the same time, I know Zvi’s interested in repealing the Foreign Dredge Act, and that act didn’t even have a Wikipedia article until one of his blog posts inspired me to make one. It seems to me he’s doing a breadth-first search. I doubt he’s going to land on an area where he doesn’t bring anything to the table. I’m personally excited to see what Balsa comes up with.
That’s fair, I could have phrased it more positively. I meant it more along the lines of “tread carefully and look out for the skulls” and not “this is a bad idea and you should give up”.
I think this is an unnecessarily negative response to an announcement post. Zvi’s been posting regularly for some time now about his thoughts on many of the areas he talks about in this post, including ideas for specific reforms. You’ve picked on a couple of the areas that are most high-profile, and I agree that we’d need extraordinary evidence to believe there’s fruit in arm’s reach in NEPA or NRC.
At the same time, I know Zvi’s interested in repealing the Foreign Dredge Act, and that act didn’t even have a Wikipedia article until one of his blog posts inspired me to make one. It seems to me he’s doing a breadth-first search. I doubt he’s going to land on an area where he doesn’t bring anything to the table. I’m personally excited to see what Balsa comes up with.
That’s fair, I could have phrased it more positively. I meant it more along the lines of “tread carefully and look out for the skulls” and not “this is a bad idea and you should give up”.