All That is Solid | Sam Atis | Substack

Lots of writing about the future takes one of two forms: Dystopian: everything is awful! Robots/Fascists/Communists/[Insert baddies here] have brought about the apocalypse, or made most people into their prisoners or slaves. Utopian: everything is amazing…

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Bryan Caplan has written a few times about why he believes mental illnesses are ‘socially disapproved preferences’. His view is that you can distinguish…

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In most developed countries, girls do better than boys at school. There’s a ton of evidence for this - see here, here, or here. This hasn’t always been…

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1) David Nash has started a substack that gives updates on developments in Effective Altruism. 2) This article in The Economist about the economics of…

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I like forecasting. I’m not bad at it, my scores on Good Judgment Open are pretty good. If you’ve read Phil Tetlock’s brilliant book Superforecasting…

Apr 25

On average, right-wing people are more conscientious than left-wing people. This is basically a universal law - it’s true in the UK, it’s true in the…

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I read Sam’s excellent post instructing us to be wary of interesting ideas this week and enjoyed it immensely, despite disagreeing pretty strongly with…

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I have a hunch that may or may not be true. If someone mentions an idea to you, the more interesting it sounds, the less likely it is to be true. By…

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