Archive - Ruxandra's Substack

Pro-progress needs to avoid Trumpian aesthetics

Pro-progress should not become the Gooncave

Sep 11 •

Is progress in medicine too slow?

In which I discuss why people with different backgrounds disagree on this question

Sep 6 •

August 2024

Pro-progress will win when it wins women

On how culture shapes what is considered meaningful, why this impacts women disproportionately and why pro-abundance movements need to pay attention to…

Aug 11 •

Elites are mostly lazily well-intentioned

Conformity and intellectual complacency provide a more plausible explanation for the prevalence of misguided beliefs among elites than deliberate…

Aug 2 •

July 2024

Intellectual courage as the scarcest resource

Were we ever brave?

Jul 8 •

Why haven't biologists cured cancer?

It's not because they're not good enough at math

Jul 6 •

June 2024

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously

Jun 8 •

A better version of the "luxury belief" theory

Temperament correlating with politics is a much more satisfying explanation

Jun 4 •

The cost of freaking out about things

coming out as an ex-doomer

Jun 1 •

May 2024

Autism & the Internet will defeat the Monoculture

Or why the most original ideas in the coming decades will come from the Internet

May 12 •

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

Apr 16 •

Shut up about Luxury Beliefs

Elites have a lot of bad ideas -- but the "luxury beliefs" framework is not helpful

Apr 9 •

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