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The Rise And Fall of Abstraction
Most animals see the world around them in pretty concrete terms.
Dec 3
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November 2025
The Male Gender-War Advantage
Each (of the main two) gender has things that it honestly wants from the other, and also things that it is reluctant to give up to them.
Nov 30
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US War Dept’s Big UFO Lie
UFOs appear to be intelligently-guided artificial physical craft with tech abilities far exceeding those of any known human society.
Nov 29
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Pay Pariah Cults?
When genetic engineering becomes popular, parents are likely to make convergent choices of DNA for their kids.
Nov 25
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Cultural Forces
I’m still early in thinking about culture, and only recently thought to ask about the relative importance of different cultural forces, and how that…
Nov 19
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News Error Markets
I left grad school (physics & phil at U Chicago) back in 1984, to move to Silicon Valley to work on the then AI boom (which I did at Lockheed and NASA…
Nov 16
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Civs Rot
Why do civilizations (civs) rise and fall?
Nov 13
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No-Corner Futarchy
In March 1980, the Hunt Brothers tried but failed to corner the silver market.
Nov 6
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Our Precious
We make our world better and easier with systems.
Nov 5
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Robin Hanson
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Public Opinion Is Culture
Until the last century or two, states had far weaker capacities to intervene in their societies.
Nov 4
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The Big Public Failures
I’ve been adjacent to two literatures for much of my academic career: public choice and govt efficiency. The public choice literature tries to use econ…
Nov 3
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down
Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get folks to care more about making their culture…
Nov 2
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