ou can find a credible study that tracks happiness over time in the United States by ethnicity so that if you could tell, for example, let's say Asian Americans, their happiness line went like this versus white Americans versus Black Americans. You could actually see over time how their arc of their happiness changed. Why doesn't that exist? Seems like just the most important thing you'd ever want to do, doesn't it? Why doesn't that exist?

You know why, right? Now science tells us that baseline happiness doesn't change much and it doesn't even change much based on your circumstances, at least until you get a certain amount of money, right? Like 75,000 a year or something like that. So certainly you can be in such a bad situation that you're unhappy no matter what. But for people who are eating, you know, they can take care of their basics, happiness is pretty similar I think.

So what would happen to the call for reparations if you found out that Black Americans were on average just as happy as white Americans? What problem are you solving, right? It becomes complicated because if you're trying to problem-solve the problem of giving everybody an equal life or at least equal opportunity for a good life, what happens if they're all equally happy already? If everybody's just as happy, don't need to do anything. Or at least you don't need to transfer resources.

But I think there's a reason that we'll never see that study unless you can find it. If you can find it, tweet it at me.

And then lastly I would say that we should stop calling the question of nuclear energy a debate, because I don't believe there are any smart, well-informed people who are opposed to nuclear energy. I don't believe there are any on the right and I don't believe there are any on the left. I don't believe anybody who is well-informed about nuclear energy opposes it in 2021.

Now of course you can find an exception. Watch me use the technique again. But of course I could be wrong. There could be some people who are well-informed and against it, but there'd be very few. So you don't need to show me the one person who's against it, right?

Science as a body is pro-nuclear energy unambiguously. If you're pro-science but you're anti-nuclear energy, well you have some explaining to do because that doesn't make sense. All right, take a side and stick with it. I'm pro-science and so I'm pro-nuclear energy. And anybody who's well-informed knows the same. And maybe we should just treat it that way because there's some things we treat as a difference in opinion and it really isn't. It's just a difference in knowledge.

And so I would like to see polling separated by what demographic groups have more mental illness and by let's say how well-informed people are on a topic. Wouldn't you like to see a poll that only showed what the opinion of well-informed people think, right? How hard would it be? Answer these six questions about nuclear power. If you get all six right, you're a well-informed person. And now let's see what your opinion is. And now let's weight it so that the smart people get more weight on their opinion and then show me the result. That's what I want to see.

Why do I want to see a poll that averages well-informed people's opinions with furniture, pets, and imaginary people, right? I don't need an average of crap. I'd love to see an average of well-informed people. Wouldn't you? It'd be interesting to see an average of uninformed people just to see how different they are. But I don't want to add the well-informed people to the uninformed people and get an average. What the hell is that? It's nothing. All right, it's nothing.

Now there are lots of topics like should you stand for the flag, whatever, that everybody is just as well-informed, right? There's no lack of information that matters. But on nuclear energy it's just how informed you are. That's all that matters to your opinion almost, right?

All right, I gotta go run and do something else right now and I will talk to you tomorrow.