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A big silent intellectual change of the past quarter century. The West got rich because Westerners are different. People from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic societies are WEIRD. The most important argument: this came from the Catholic church, which banned cousin marriage.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/books from astralcodexten.substack.com
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1 year ago by neolib to /s/books from astralcodexten.substack.com
Your Book Review: Public Citizens. Today, pundits across the political spectrum bemoan America’s inability to build. What if there was a single person we could blame for this entire state of affairs, someone whom we could all point to and say, “It’s that guy’s fault!” Ralph Nader.
How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World. Financial instruments (and other aspects of the economy) are things that are best understood in the breach: in the process of teaching us the various ways in which financial systems can break, Davies also teaches us how they work.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/Psychology from astralcodexten.substack.com
Francis Galton’s ideas led to several hundred thousand forced sterilizations. Paul Ehrlich’s ideas - with his full support and consent - led to several million forced sterilizations. Our society can’t bring itself to care at all about coercive sterilizations at all when eugenics isn’t involved.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/DownTheMemoryHole from astralcodexten.substack.com
Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. Since we already know women will (on average) be absolutely educationally hypogamous and absolutely financially hypergamous most of the rest of this post will be focusing on relative hypergamy.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/MGTOW from astralcodexten.substack.com
My theory is: hipsterism and nerdism are both forms of trying to invest your identity in a cultural product. If there’s no competition, you become a hipster; if there’s high competition, you become a nerd.
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from astralcodexten.substack.com
Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. Is Sperm Count Declining? Swan’s point is that if sperm counts get too low, presumably it will be hard to have babies (though IVF should still work). How long do we have?
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/science from astralcodexten.substack.com
Book Review: The Geography Of Madness. Around the wide world, all cultures share a few key features. Anthropologists debate the precise extent, but the basics are always there. Language. Tools. Marriage. Family. Ritual. Music. And penis-stealing witches.
Even More Bay Area House Party. “What, please tell me, is the right branding for gaining immortality by becoming a sexually-transmitted cardiac tumor?” Max thinks for a moment. “What about: live on forever in the hearts of those who loved you?”
1 year ago by Chipit to /s/whatever from astralcodexten.substack.com
David Brooks’ Bobos In Paradise. The American aristocracy replaced itself in the 1950s-60s. "There was a real, and to millions of people catastrophic, breakdown in the social order, which can be measured in the stunning rise in divorce, crime, drug use, and illegitimacy rates."
What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike? New analysis says the BLM riots.
2 years ago by iamonlyoneman to /s/news from astralcodexten.substack.com
What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike? Evidence points to the Black Lives Matter protests and subsequent police pullback. It very clearly started in late May, not mid-March. My specific claim is that the protests caused police to do less policing in predominantly black areas.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/Crime from astralcodexten.substack.com
Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy. As the subtitle How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy suggests, American foreign policy is driven by special interest groups, which results in millions of deaths for no good reason.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/books from astralcodexten.substack.com
Book Review: San Fransicko “Why Progressives Ruin Cities”. It builds off the kind of stories familiar to most Bay Area residents. Things haven’t always been like this. San Francisco used to be one of the safest and most beautiful cities in the world.
Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling
2 years ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from astralcodexten.substack.com
Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster? He concludes that, contra the image where the Right stays in the same place and the Left moves, both Republicans and Democrats have “changed a lot” since 2008.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/politics from astralcodexten.substack.com
Every Bay Area House Party. “I don’t think saying ‘we should be able to unperson whoever we want’ helps your case that this is valuable and non-creepy.’ "And how many others were dissuaded from murder or other abominable acts because of the fear of erasure? And now that tool is lost to us forever.”
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/Satire from astralcodexten.substack.com
Suppose you're a liberal who doesn't trust FOX News. FOX News reports that a mass shooter just shot twenty people in Yankee Stadium. There’s live footage from the stadium with lots of people running and screaming. Do you believe this?
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from astralcodexten.substack.com
Against That Poverty And Infant EEGs Study. A recent paper claims to have found an Impact Of A Poverty Reduction Intervention On Infant Brain Activity. People want to discover a link between poverty and cognitive function *so bad*.
2 years ago by Chipit to /s/science from astralcodexten.substack.com
The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication. Every single one of these statements that had “no evidence” is currently considered true or at least pretty plausible.
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. Dozens of teams published studies saying ivermectin definitely worked. Then most scientists concluded it didn’t. But did you really develop a low-level understanding of what was going on? What a great opportunity to exercise our study-analyzing muscles!
It's a pattern that has repeated throughout history and around the world, one of naturalist art executed with great skill being deliberately replaced with highly abstract art not requiring as much skill.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/Art from astralcodexten.substack.com
Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014 is about how social-media-connected masses are revolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what he considers wild speculation is now obvious fact. It might as well just say "open your eyes and look around".
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/books from astralcodexten.substack.com
I have a friend who studied the history of fascism. She gets angry when people call Trump (or some other villain du jour) fascist. "Words have meanings! Fascism isn't just any right-winger you dislike!" She says Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India, is absolutely, literally, a fascist.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/OpinionPieces from astralcodexten.substack.com
Details Of The Infant Fish Oil Story. In my recent post on the FDA, I mentioned a story about a fish-oil-based infant nutritional fluid called Omegaven. The FDA took too long to approve it, and lots of infants died.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/science from astralcodexten.substack.com
Your Book Review: Humankind. Bregman doesn't just want to show that our best side comes out under air raids. He wants to show that virtue is fundamental to our species. He starts by arguing that the superpower that has allowed humanity to take over the globe is co-operation.
Book Review: A Brief History Of Neoliberalism. Around 1970, something went wrong. The global economy, after twenty-five years of good post-war growth, suddenly blipped.
Comment of the week on AstralCodexTen explaining why the Georgia voting reform law doesn't say any of the things the media told you it says.
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/politics from astralcodexten.substack.com
A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word "Class" - Astral Codex Ten. From a very smart blogger you should listen to. The New York Times tried to cancel him last week.
Book Review: The Cult Of Smart. DeBoer starts with the standard narrative of The Failing State Of American Education. Students aren't learning. The country is falling behind. He argues that every word of it is a lie.
NY Times publishes hit piece on blogger. "As soon as they got an excuse they would publish something as negative as possible about me, in order to punish me for embarrassing them. The sentence he chose was the one that was crossed out and included a plea for people to stop taking it out of context."
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/media_criticism from astralcodexten.substack.com
Statement on New York Times Article
3 years ago by muellermeierschulz to /s/whatever from astralcodexten.substack.com
Treating ADHD with amphetamines was hardly a new invention. Psychiatrists had been doing it since the 1930s, albeit with slightly different drugs. So why was it Adderall - a weird combination of four different salts selected kind of at random by a sketchy diet pill company - that caught on?
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/Drugs from astralcodexten.substack.com
Still Alive
The writer of the awesome blog SlateStarCodex got doxxed by the New York Times, who cruelly refused to honor his request to stay anonymous. He lost his day job, five figures in Patreon income, and got emails from 4 NYT journalists who explained NYT policy, all of them different.
