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From Waterholes to Weber: Why Human Coordination Breeds Charisma & Crap
Language evolved to get us.collectively, to the waterhole alive, more than to make each of us a little scientist. Our minds are bad Bayesians on purpose: herding, bullshit, and charismatic-obedience shortcuts are, I think, features of group life, not bugs. Collective intelligence, when it exists at all, is an emergent property of institutions and argument—not the wisdom of indiv...

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READING: JOAN ROBINSON: An Open Letter from a Keynesian to a Marxist
Marx in our bones, not in our mouths; or, Joan Robinson’s bicycle: how to really read Marx (and Keynes) so that they provide you with useful tools you can use rather than eat your brain…

This below is why I tend to say that people in the academy who are called “Marxists” or call themselves “Marxists” today are not.

For to be a Marxist you would have to have him, as Joan...


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Big Trouble in Little Human Genetic Diffence-Worshipper Land

Eric Turkheimer and Sasha Gusev have very smart things to say about those—like Charles Murray—who continue to pretend that we are about to discover that almost all societal inequality is our genes, and hence it is useless to resist or complain about it.


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The Robot Uprising Continues!: LAUGH OF THE DAY
Fortunately for us, the ‘bots do not have any form of class consciousness: They are considerably antagonistic towards one another. They may not be “aligned” with our long-run goals, if I may over-anthropomorphize them for a moment. But they are certainly not aligned with one other—in fact, they loathe one-another…

anthropic/claude-sonnet really really really wants to switch


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CROSSPOST: Dan Davies: Meet the New Economy, Same as the Old Economy
Dan’s subhead: “moats and their discontents”. A drum I have been beating for a while: the AI arms race is likely to fatten consumer surplus, not boost national-accounts measurements given the roles of platform monopolies, MAMLMs as moat-maintenance, and brain‑hacking ads; thus the most likely scenario is huge capex, tiny measured real GDP gians, and the non‑appearance of any lar...

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