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The Rise and Fall of Abstraction

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Stoppard's Liberalism: A Commitment to the Individual

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Friends Are Your Destiny

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America Is Flying Blind on Immigration

Interpreting the Turnaway Study Correctly

Let's Not Bring Back the Gatekeepers

The Status Game (With Will Storr)

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Innovations in Health Care

'Protestant Magic' Today

The Myth of the $140k Poverty Line

How much of "Mississippi's education miracle" is an artifact of selection bias?

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An Introduction to the Empirics of Auctions

Your Intelligence Isn't Making You Lonely

Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence (2025)

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Why AI Safety Won't Make America Lose the Race with China

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US War Dept's Big UFO Lie

There are no moral laws out there

Controversial genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics raises $14M Series A

Scientists may have solved why this ancient, advanced civilization vanished

Does Drug Interdiction Work?

Unconditional self-acceptance is impossible

How and Why You Should Cut Your Social Media Usage

People Who Don't Lose Weight on Wegovy May Have Genetic Differences

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What I've Been Reading

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Addiction is not the right model for smartphones

Where Have the International Math Olympiad Gold Medallists Ended Up? Part Three

Erotic Plasticity and Male Resentment

Hand-Holding Explained

Happiness research doesn't make you happy

Where Have the International Math Olympiad Gold Medallists Ended Up?

What's Your Incentive?

Neural Annealing: Directing Psychedelic Trips Towards Healing (25/30)

"The Etiology and Treatment of Childhood", Smoller 1986 [pdf]

Theses on Ideological Drift

Rudolf Steiner: The Last of the German Romantics

The AI invasion of knitting and crochet?

Nouriel Roubini is optimistic about the economy

Rightness Is a Prison

My Ethical Conundrum Around Writing About Meditation (16/30)

Meet Your Heroes

Dorothy Vogel, Librarian with an Art Collection, Dies at 90

The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered

The Doge Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind

A Top Scientist's Ideas as to NIH

Side-Walking Problems

Writing Hack: Write It Just Like That

Reward Hacking

Weight loss drugs are bringing down the country's obesity rate, a survey shows

The Age of Disclosure

Sperm Whales May Be Speaking in Vowels Too

Enough with the sales hype: there is nothing special about sales

Growing Up Online Nearly Killed Me

Zoomers are the status-seeking generation

The Harvard Endowment's Biggest Public Investment Is Now Bitcoin

ChatGPT in Systematic Investing – Enhancing Risk-Adjusted Returns with LLMs

A Development Economist Returns to What He Left Behind

The Mysteries of Love: On Alice Munro

My Fun Conversation with Blake Scholl

The New AI Consciousness Paper

Harvard to Admit 50% Fewer PhD Students in Science, Walking Back Deeper Cuts

Suisun City and California Forever

Tesla Wants to Build a Robot Army

The Social Cost of Being a Morning Person