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Intellectual courage as the scarcest resource
Were we ever brave?
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Why haven't biologists cured cancer?
It's not because they're not good enough at math
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June 2024

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
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A better version of the "luxury belief" theory
Temperament correlating with politics is a much more satisfying explanation
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The cost of freaking out about things
coming out as an ex-doomer
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May 2024

Autism & the Internet will defeat the Monoculture
Or why the most original ideas in the coming decades will come from the Internet
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April 2024

On Lumina and the need for human trial data
In which I analyse the Lumina data and have to face the inner conflict of supporting self-experimentation but also wanting actual trial data
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Shut up about Luxury Beliefs
Elites have a lot of bad ideas -- but the "luxury beliefs" framework is not helpful
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March 2024

Culture, Policy and Birth Rates: a follow-up
A follow-up to my previous piece based on comments, criticisms and media coverage
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Culture over Policy: The birth rate decline
In which I argue that Culture is often much more powerful than Policy & bring the concrete example of birth rates to argue my case
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February 2024

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