I'm reading more and more stupid things on the IQ debate. Let's talk basketball. Height matters quite a bit to being good at hoops. Other things matter too Best people are tall AND other stuff. Wemby is 7stdv. Jokic 5, shai 3 But ... no one in NBA below 1stdv height.

Best / most important player on a championship team (whole season including playoffs -- not just FMVP) Count: 11: Russell 6: Jordan 5: Duncan 4: Mikan, Magic, LeBron, Curry 3: Bird, Shaq 2: Kareem, Hakeem, Dr. J, Isaiah Thomas, Kobe, Mel Daniels 1.5: West Wilt

I love how economists have an unofficial “ways to destroy a city” ranking that approximately goes: 1) zoning, 2) bombing, 3) rent control.

For the last 50 years ... best player in pro basketball vs. who people watch/love: Watch: Dr. J, Magic, Jordan, AI, Kobe, LeBron, Curry, ?? Wemby Best: Kareem, Magic, Jordan, Shaq, Timmy, LeBron, Durant, Giannis, Jokic

I wrote a book. Claim: "Truth" was invented in Greece, and evolved over 2600 years. The Euro-Arabic tradition is the only one that failed to suppress "truth" in the service of some other goal. Modernity, Science, Tech follow AFTER Truth. tinyurl.com/5x2s3b2f

I wrote a book. Big history. What made modernity? My Argument: The invention of person-independent explanations about "why's" in the external world, and 2600 years of idea (memetic) evolution. Live today. amazon.com/dp/B0GXQSFKDM/

You don't understand a position until you can explain the other side. Attempt: Blue button: We are in this together. We can save everyone. Red button: I don't want other morons' bad choices deciding whether people important to me survive.

In Thinking fast and slow, Kahneman points out that fast thinking moves questions to nearby, easier questions, and then answers them. I'm pretty convinced that the red-blue-button discussion is that problem.

RT @robkhenderson: The people most committed to communism in the Soviet Union weren’t the workers—it was the educated elite. A retrospecti…

What poeople think regulations do: - Protect consumers from greedy corporations - Ensure product safety and quality - Level the playing field for small business - Prevent market failures and exploitation What regulations actually do: - Create massive compliance costs that only big corporations can afford - Establish regulatory capture where industries write their own rules - Strangle innovation and entrepreneurship in red tape - Build permanent bureaucratic empires that expand regardless of results You're not getting consumer protection. You're getting a cartelization mechanism that happens to sound compassionate.

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"A teacher with one standard deviation higher mean grade inflation reduces the present discounted value of lifetime earnings of their students by $213,872 per year of teaching." econweb.umd.edu/~pope/Grade_…

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

Sometimes you just feel stupid. Sili Valley interview questions are 90% irrelevant to the job, which has annoyed me forever. "Wrong topics, " I said. What are they really? They're IQ Compliance tests. Study useless crap well enough, and you $. @robinhanson @bryan_caplan

Reta -- 18 weeks -- aug 22. 2mg x 10wks (accident, communication) 1mg x 5wks 3 wks skipped 247.5 -> 190.0 No hunger makes a difference. Food for today = 1 slice of costco pizza. Nothing else. Feeling a little stuffed, 3 hours later.

weird off-Reta-for-a-moment observation. 3 months of reta -- I'm on my 3rd week of "only every other week", and on an off week. i'm currently feeling like I ONLY get hungry after I start eating. Not quite true, but within spitting distance.