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Frank’s Book Of Little Aliens
In his new book Little Book of Aliens, astrophysicist Adam Frank says that we now know almost nothing about aliens, but we will soon learn much more…
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After Eating It, Software Will Bite The World
Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at…
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Choose: Cultural or Bayesian Morality
One of humanity’s key superpowers is our cultural plasticity: we change our species by each of us as kids copying the adults around us. We can…
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Honing Fertility Fall Theories
Richard Hanania has done me the honor of carefully thinking through my & other fertility theories, finding consequences and data tests I didn't think…
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Robin Hanson
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Bow To Our Future Overlords
The political left and right each have a big long term problem about which they cry most. For the left it is global warming; for the right fertility…
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Fertility Fall From Selection Neglect
In the novel Pot Luck by Zola, a middle class woman in 1862 explains why she had only one kid, Marie, & wants Marie to have only one kid: ‘Children, you…
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Ancient Fertility Quotes
This graph of European urban population over history shows some dramatic declines, suggesting that there may have been historical analogue to our…
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Overcoming Bias
Overcoming Bias
This is a blog on why we believe and do what we do, why we pretend otherwise, how we might do better, and what our descendants might do, if they don't all die.
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