How important is “the scientific method”?
From a recently published paper by Alexander Krauss: Using data on all major discoveries across science including all Nobel Prize and major non-Nobel Prize discoveries,
Wednesday assorted links
1. Model this, cross-state variation in teen suicide rates. 2. What Swedes think about driverless car algorithms and their moral weights. 3. Median voter theorem:
The Left on FDA Peer Approval
Robert Kuttner discovered an excellent treatment for colds while vacationing in France and is rightly outraged that it’s not available in the United States: Toward
What are your favorite non-violent movies?
From Jonathan Birch on Twitter: What are your favourite nonviolent movies? I don’t mean romcoms, I mean movies that in some way exemplify or explore
What I’ve been reading – Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Alexander C.R. Hammond, Heroes of Progress: 65 people who changed the world, with a forward by Steven Pinker. Starts with Gutenberg, of course Norman
What exactly is the national security argument here?
Janet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, has urged the EU to intervene urgently to dampen the growing export levels of Chinese cut-price green technology including
Tuesday assorted links
1. Anthony Edwards jersey for sale at Sotheby’s at 20k. 2. On the disbanding of AI safety operations. 3. On the heritability of fertility, more
Cross-border gunshot arbitrage markets in everything, Jean Baudrillard gone wrong edition
Federal prosecutors on Friday announced charges against five people in connection with a Chicago-based scheme that staged armed robberies so the purported victims could apply
Is the internet bad for you?
A global, 16-year study1 of 2.4 million people has found that Internet use might boost measures of well-being, such as life satisfaction and sense of purpose —
Emergent Ventures, 34th cohort
Kaavya Kumar, 16, Singapore, AI safety. Asher Ellis, Yale, Indonesia studies and Pacific national security. Sohi Patel and Teo Dimov, Yale, to work work on medical