Wyclif's Dust

Wyclif's Dust

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Is the big tech era ending?
I put on my wizard hat 🧙‍♂️
No wait stop it matters how you raise your kids
To parents besieged by expert advice, a new scientific idea offers relief: it’s no big deal how you raise your children....
Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters
People today are fighting the temptations of a new economy.
Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?
We aren’t starving for quantity, we’re drowning in garbage
The emperor's new clothes
One day, the all-wise Emperor decided to test the perspicacity of his advisers, and he announced that he was having a new set of clothes made.
2x2 games will change your life
All insight. No maths.
The Italian city-states as a distant mirror
Two possible images of the future
Social norms: the downside
"Surely under well-defined circumstances, ye CAN push yer grannie off a bus?"
Thought bubble: I am pleased to report that AI is now a better poet than William McGonagall
Others may use objective, science-based tests like Humanity’s Last Exam. I prefer a more artistic question: can AI write a good poem on the Tay Bridge…
Thought bubble: why DEI is bad, even if you like diversity, equity and inclusion
So let me try to explain to you why university DEI requirements are bad.
The hidden world our parents give us
An intuitive reason I disbelieve the "parents make no difference" thesis
Our new working paper: trading social status for genetics in marriage markets
(Deep breath) OK, new working paper is out. If I seem excited, I’ve been planning this since 2007….
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