Wyclif's Dust

Wyclif's Dust

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Is the big tech era ending?
I put on my wizard hat 🧙‍♂️
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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....
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Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters
People today are fighting the temptations of a new economy.
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Incentives in economics are wrong, but how?
We aren’t starving for quantity, we’re drowning in garbage
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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.
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2x2 games will change your life
Game theory is technical, but these simple ideas contain 90% of the insights.
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The Italian city-states as a distant mirror
Two possible images of the future
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Social norms: the downside
"Surely under well-defined circumstances, ye CAN push yer grannie off a bus?"
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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…
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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.
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Your society is lying to you about ethics
I hope you are appropriately grateful
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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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