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Training AI will take longer than you think
Are we on our way to superintelligence wiping out humans by 2027? Or are we in a bubble of hype? My take:
Oct 17, 2025
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What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"
Political decisions versus scientific descriptions; ancestry versus ethnicity; ancestry proportions versus individual variants
Oct 14, 2025
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The Palestine plan
It shows how much the West has changed since Iraq
Oct 12, 2025
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Is the big tech era ending?
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No wait stop it matters how you raise your kids
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Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters
Sep 24, 2022
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Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?
Jun 11, 2021
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The emperor's new clothes
Nov 20, 2021
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2x2 games will change your life
Feb 24, 2024
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Immigration and anti-semitism in Britain
Economists tend to be pro-immigration, and to think of people as following their self-interest.
Oct 8, 2025
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🍾🍾 Thought bubbles: cancelling people is fine 🍾 there are too many researchers 🍾 Plato's wheel of fortune 🍾 AWOL political science 🍾🍾
Short pieces from the windmills of my mind, about pile-ons, political science and Plato
Oct 3, 2025
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The hidden world our parents give us
An intuitive reason I disbelieve the "parents make no difference" thesis
Sep 24, 2025
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Adam Smith’s second big idea
Liberalism is challenged by gains from scale
Sep 22, 2025
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If you want to increase fertility, look at how religions do it
People may want to increase fertility for different reasons.
Jul 23, 2025
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We should measure effect sizes on substantively important scales
Why I'm still not a polygenic score nihilist
Jul 12, 2025
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What are behavioural polygenic scores for?
Warning: technical.
Jul 2, 2025
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