Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Yeah, the director of the gender clinic is one of the leading lights at WPATH.

And Mount Sinai, I will tell you, there was a really tragic case that was written about by a writer from the Manhattan Institute named Christina Buttons.

And I think it's called The Tragic Case of Yarden Silvera.

And it details a young man who was on the autism spectrum, had kind of a troubled life.

Yeah, I have read Worth the Risk, a new book by Alison Schrager.

She's an economist who is a Bloomberg columnist and senior editor, senior policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Worth the Risk is subtitled The Seven Myths That Keep Us From Taking the Chances We Need to Take.

What she essentially argues is that we talk a lot about how risky the world is right now, but that in America and most advanced economies, we've virtually de-risked every part of our lives, and that helps explain why economic growth is stagnant, why individuals are unhappy with their lives and things like that, that we are under a series of myths that if we try anything, it will result in failure.

They would no longer qualify as impoverished.

So where's the money going, question mark? Yes, part of its bureaucratic churn A 2024 report from the Manhattan Institute estimated that about 20% of social welfare spending is, in their words, robbing Peter to pay Paul, i.e.

returning to people money that the government took from them in taxes in the same year.

Web of overlapping anti-poverty programs is difficult for people to navigate and contributes to losses from inefficiency.

All right, back by popular demand, Judge Glock is back on the show, and we don't need to spend six minutes on his name to start off.

He's from the Manhattan Institute, where he's a senior fellow, and he writes extensively on AI from what I feel like is a pretty sober, realistic perspective about where these things are going.

And I set up that premise, Judge, because it feels like finally we started to have the AI doomer conversation that I feel like was coming for the last, I don't know, it feels like a year plus, maybe it's been years in the making.

And it's shaking out in a way that is not surprising to me.

They need help.

I think you give them some insight, Jai.

Let's see if they find yourself at the Manhattan Institute.

You propose an old-school solution to new AI problems, which I know you don't write the headlines, but that is a pretty good one.

There is some evidence to support this assertion.

David Rosado published a computational analysis at the Manhattan Institute in 2024, which found a quote mild to moderate tendency in Wikipedia articles to associate public figures ideologically aligned right of center with more negative sentiment than public figures ideologically aligned left of center, end quote.

However, they also found that this trend is not ubiquitous, and that they couldn't see the same tendency in discussion of UK ministers of parliament or US-based think tanks.

I just have to say the Manhattan Institute is some right wing slop and this is the kind of meaningless bullshit that they exist to cook up and what they characterize as right of center could be like a fucking neo-confederate or a confederate you know in hindsight yes if you were supportive of the chattel slavery movement you're probably not going to be thought of as a positive force of history even in a neutral encyclopedic formula So, like, this is just nonsense.

Yeah, but so to...

Because I read the study to...