Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each
question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on
four things from 1 to 5:
directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow),
precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted
mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange
scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean.
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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5.
An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression.
The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the
cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only
toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 5 4.75
Q talked in your book, your new book, a lot about how there's three types of capital that raw materials and energy, but people have ignored a third type, which is knowledge. And my question from just an economic perspective is how does this tie into how we think about growth? Especially given what you just talked about, this need to enlarge the pie in order to avoid war and violence.
A It's often thought that there is a limit to the potential growth of the economy because there is a limit to the amount of energy and raw material we have access to. But this is, um, I think the wrong approach. We have a third kind of asset, which is knowledge. And the more knowledge you have, the more energy and raw materials you also have because you discover new sources of energy and new sources of raw materials. I don't think that we are going to bump into a limit in terms of, oh, there is not enough oil in the world. There is not enough coal in the world. This is not the problem. The problem is probably going to come from the direction of climate change and ecological degradation, which is something very different. People tend to confuse the two problems, not enough raw materials and the problem of climate change, but they are very different.
AI assessment note: “the more knowledge you have, the more energy and raw materials you also have”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q talked in your book, your new book, a lot about how there's three types of capital that raw materials and energy, but people have ignored a third type, which is knowledge. And my question from just an economic perspective is how does this tie into how we think about growth? Especially given what you just talked about, this need to enlarge the pie in order to avoid war and violence.
A It's often thought that there is a limit to the potential growth of the economy because there is a limit to the amount of energy and raw material we have access to. But this is, um, I think the wrong approach. We have a third kind of asset, which is knowledge. And the more knowledge you have, the more energy and raw materials you also have because you discover new sources of energy and new sources of raw materials. I don't think that we are going to bump into a limit in terms of, oh, there is not enough oil in the world. There is not enough coal in the world. This is not the problem. The problem is probably going to come from the direction of climate change and ecological degradation, which is something very different. People tend to confuse the two problems, not enough raw materials and the problem of climate change, but they are very different.
AI assessment note: “the more knowledge you have, the more energy and raw materials you also have”
