Caleb Watney
@calebwatney
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co-founder @IFP // the US is the R&D lab for the world and we should act like it
Brookland, DC
Joined January 2012
RT @rSanti97: "Only a small number of major cities (notably Las Vegas, and to some extent Phoenix, Boise, and Tucson) could take advantage….
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When we were first imagining @IFP, Employ America was one of the organizations we most looked up too — pound for pound an incredibly effective team! Cool to see their refined vision/mission.
Employ America was launched in 2019 to confront the policy failures in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Policymakers learned from their mistakes and avoided another jobless recovery after COVID, but shortages and inflation have revealed the limits of the old playbook 1/8.
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RT @RuxandraTeslo: In Nov 2024, with @IFP and @RenPhil21, we realized that slow and inefficient trials were a key barrier to medical progre….
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RT @EpochAIResearch: Introducing FrontierMath Tier 4: a benchmark of extremely challenging research-level math problems, designed to test t….
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RT @albrgr: 🚨Open Phil is hiring for some awesome roles to build out our >$120m Abundance and Growth Fund 🚨. Apply for a chance to work wit….
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RT @_brianpotter: The federal government is the largest landowner in the US: of the 2.3 billion acres of US land area, the US government ow….
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very cool that Chinese firms are openly making plans to acquire AI chips they don't legally have access to 🙃
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RT @pietergaricano: Theodore Roosevelt was a great president, and TR island is one of the coolest places in DC. Unfortunately, his memoria….
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RT @mattsclancy: The Abundance and Growth Fund at Open Philanthropy is hiring! We’re looking for 2-4 people to help expand this new $120+ m….
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RT @albrgr: Doesn't this make contemporary cultural stagnation even more disappointing/harder to explain? 10% of human history is since the….
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RT @LukeEure: A single calendar year in 2025 “contains” more human life than a year in 100,000 BCE, simply because today’s population is th….
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I know I'm like 45 years late to the party, but I just started The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and it is damn excellent. Happy 4th of July 🦅🇺🇸.
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RT @nabeelqu: Ok, a few reflections on the book:. 1. qntm defines antimemes as self-erasing information, but this book has a different (but….
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RT @ArnabDatta321: 🚨 Calling transit policy experts: @IFP is seeking actionable, technically sound ideas to reform federal transit policy.….
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RT @MattZeitlin: randy clarke had a good line about this:. "not everyone who fare-evades commits crimes, but almost universally, everyone w….
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RT @anup_malani: I am excited to announce that I am starting a new position this week as Chief Economist at the U.S. Centers for Medicare &….
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