WEIRD research, 50% GMU-shaped:

There’s already been a couple of studies about this. *White* liberals are smarter than *white* conservatives. Once you average everyone together, conservatives and liberals boast similar IQ.

Waterloo grads are unbelievably cracked software engineers. Has anyone written up an essay on what they’re doing there? Would be interested to read.

Peter Singer: project-syndicate.org/commentary/cam…

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3rd option: women freeze their eggs and/or embryos while they are young and don’t have to pause on their ambitions until it’s convenient for them

Older fathers also contribute damaging genetic mutations as they age, freeze sperm too!

'These sentences imply that at [Cambridge University's] Emmanuel College, freedom of expression does not include the freedom to challenge its DEI policies, and that challenging them may be grounds for dismissal.'
--Peter Singer at Project Syndicate

Taken Summer 2023.

Small French town, honoring their unironic, no-caveats liberator.

The correlation between (people who don’t understand stock buybacks) and (people who hate stock buybacks) is ~1

Last night I watched for the thousandth time Branagh's immortal version of the St. Crispin's day speech.

Today, for the first time, I read a more important speech:

Patton's Speech to the Third Army.

Absolutely not safe for undergraduate courses, will not excerpt here.

What is all this technology doing to the children?

Turning them into adults.

It's underrated that inflation has helped government debt (yes it has other harmful effects)

Hagia Sophia, study of light
Photos possibly by Pierre Iskender (1936/1948)
Byzantine Institute Dumbarton Oaks fieldwork records and papers Dumbarton Oaks

Garett Jones Harvard admissions should select for Heinlein like competent men and women whose brilliance and versatility lead us into heaven on earth.

What should Harvard's admission policy attempt to maximize?

This is in line with Garett Jones's excellent *10% Less Democracy*.

Citizen journalism is often defended on the grounds that it's democratising.

But just like in government, established institutions tend to be superior.

There's too much underdog fever.

What should Harvard's admission policy attempt to maximize?

NEW! @caltech will now require SAT in undergraduate admissions for 2024-25 cycle (90+% of 2023 students took it anyway).
caltech.edu/about/news/cal…

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