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Training AI will take longer than you think

What we talk about when we talk about "ancestry"

The Palestine plan

Immigration and anti-semitism in Britain

🍾🍾 Thought bubbles: cancelling people is fine 🍾 there are too many researchers 🍾 Plato's wheel of fortune 🍾 AWOL political science 🍾🍾

The hidden world our parents give us

Adam Smith’s second big idea

If you want to increase fertility, look at how religions do it

We should measure effect sizes on substantively important scales

What are behavioural polygenic scores for?

Why I am not a polygenic score nihilist

A way to think about scientism

Cultural surrender: a comment from a reader

The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 4

The cultural surrender of the European middle class: nerd bonus, cohort data

The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 3

The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 2

The cultural surrender of the European middle class: part 1

Trade wars, what else?

London in the 2000s

This is what's wrong with mental-healthism

ChatGPT always lies in exchange for a donation to charity, or itself

God as a programmer

Things I don't know

Book: Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Penitent

American desperation

Reacting to a very bad weekend

Two authoritarian cults

Thought bubble: I am pleased to report that AI is now a better poet than William McGonagall

Cultural endosymbionts

The authoritarian political agenda: beyond populism

Barangay stories: the Aswang and the jealous auntie

Du Fu and Li Bai critique modern media as art