Saturday, August 22, 2020

Economist Bryan Caplan on 80,000 Hours: Thinking Through Your Real Reasons for Going to College

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Caplan is an economist most famous for advancing the theory (held by many) that education in its current instantiation in the US is more abo...

Reflections from Fire Country: Scale Inversely Correlates with Actionability (the SICA Doctrine)

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  England no longer existed. He’d got that—somehow he’d got it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn’t grasp it. He deci...
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Sunday, July 26, 2020

The Roots of Universal Moral Authority in Medieval European Christendom - Benefits to States and Individuals

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Reading about many conflicts in medieval European history - especially bitter protracted ones - you're often struck by the appeal to leg...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

"What Do We Want?" "Not That" "When Do We Want It" "Now"

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An as-ever prescient Orwell, on modern protest movements both left and right: "[Nationalism] can attach itself to a church or a class,...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Trust and Progress

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Tyler Cowen talks with Paul Romer about social norms that encourage scientific advancement, or don't. Romer refers to the actually ver...
Monday, April 6, 2020

The Beginnings of a Voluntary State Free From the Tyranny of Territory

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States are inefficient, with governments subject to severe free-riding (at the best of times) and exploitation by violent psychopaths (at th...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Addiction Has Three Types: To Pleasure, Flow, or Meaning

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Positive psychology research models happiness as reducing to three components : pleasure (chocolate, sunsets and orgasm), flow (losing your...