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Oversample Elections By Age Political pollsters have a problem. Certain groups in the population are much happier to talk to...
8 months ago
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Political pollsters have a problem. Certain groups in the population are much happier to talk to pollsters than others, so if you call up 1000 people to ask who they're planning to vote for, the results you get won't really represent the voting intentions of the
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Can audio engineering ideas help us deal with life in the city?s
8 months ago
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80/20 Meditation Part of our 80/20 series sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day focus on your sensory experiences...
9 months ago
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Part of our 80/20 series sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day focus on your sensory experiences (touch, sight, smell, sound). Try to perceive them as accurately as possible [1] [2] [3] footnotes: is that really all? on one level, yes -- both in the sense that
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The Mystery Of The Pots Does quantity lead to quality?
10 months ago
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Is This Big? Is This New? A surprisingly helpful thing I've started doing: when faced with a choice or decision, I ask myself:...
7 months ago
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A surprisingly helpful thing I've started doing: when faced with a choice or decision, I ask myself: is this big? is this new? If the answer is "yes", I do my absolute best to go find someone who has dealt with it before and get their
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Anti-Rivalrous Goods the rivalrousness s-curve
7 months ago
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The Al Capone Problem Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion, and didn't go to prison for tax evasion.
a year ago
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The Hand-Squeegee Philosophy After showering, many people "hand-squeegee" some of the water off themselves before using a towel.
a year ago
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How To Make Decisions Under Stress (To be clear: I don't know how to make good decisions under stress)
a week ago
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Dogs That Don't Bark I once had to end a very nice person's freelance work contract for a role which they were doing...
8 months ago
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I once had to end a very nice person's freelance work contract for a role which they were doing quite badly. I wrote them an email that tried to say only things that were both nice and true, such as some version of "we're wanting
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I Have Opinions About The Production Of Pizza The low-hanging fruit of pizza happiness, possibly
a year ago
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A Nice Little Party Gimmick for your friends to make more friends
6 months ago
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Conversation-Catalysing Events There's a famous British politics quote where the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, aka...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
There's a famous British politics quote where the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, aka Supermac, is asked the hardest thing about government and replies “Events, dear boy, events”. This probably never happened and is absolutely irrelevant to this blogpost regardless, but I...
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It's Hard To Hit First You don't want to hit someone unjustifiably. But the upshot is, you lose.
a year ago
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If Not Could Not Suppose you're hiring for a sales job. In the first interview, the candidate says: "I'm very good at...
9 months ago
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Suppose you're hiring for a sales job. In the first interview, the candidate says: "I'm very good at selling things." Well, that's nice: the job is all about selling things, so someone good at selling things would indeed be a good fit.
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Magic Cutoffs There's nothing magic about six berries, specifically
a year ago
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My Personal Electoral College Total Would the states you've visited be enough to win the electoral college? Find out....
11 months ago
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Short Posts Why are posts so long?
11 months ago
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The Chimp-Pig Hypothesis My great-great-grandmother wasn't a chimp (she was a pig)
a year ago
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80/20 Cooking In short: Salt, fat, acid, heat
a year ago
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Alien Intelligence I regularly commune with an alien intelligence (my cat)
5 months ago
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Incumbency Advantage What if good candidates just win against bad ones?
5 months ago
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Intuitions for Georgism Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
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Additive Domains, Multiplicative Domains 1 and 1 and 1 is 3, unless you're multiplying
4 months ago
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Spaced Repetition Through Newsletters Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, we occassionally re-issue a favorite...
4 months ago
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Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, we occassionally re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. If you'd like to share or comment on this post,
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Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
3 months ago
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Jethro Tull: A Beginner's Guide To Turnips for Science
a month ago
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Baby Money Index - Reader Comments North Korea, PPP and Why TFR is Squared
a month ago
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Even Good People Make Teams Go Slower A simple model of a sad fact
3 months ago
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Keyword Conversations No really, I'd love to know what's happening here.
2 months ago
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It's Not A Bad Restaurant, It's A Bad Dish You go to a restaurant with great reviews, but find the food completely mediocre. What happened? Of...
a year ago
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a year ago
You go to a restaurant with great reviews, but find the food completely mediocre. What happened? Of course there's lots of options: other people have bad taste, the reviews are fake, the place went downhill. But I think an underrated explanation is that there's high variance
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New Game: Nomido With one of my other hats on, I made a new online word puzzle game called Nomido. The goal is to...
a month ago
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With one of my other hats on, I made a new online word puzzle game called Nomido. The goal is to construct words out of two-letter tiles. I think it's great fun, and hope you will too – please give it a look! Nomido Share this on X
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Optimal Suffering If suffering makes us stronger, shouldn't we try to suffer more?
a year ago
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There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like it What makes Israel, Qatar, and the Faroe Islands so great?
2 months ago
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Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...
2 months ago
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On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...
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Modern Noble Lies The high price asked for harmony
a month ago
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The "Rice Knuckle Rule" Rule If you didn't actually follow the rule you said you followed, what use was the rule?
a month ago
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Sleep Setup in case you were wondering
a month ago
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Progress Studies Conference - I'll Defend Fusion The progress studies conference didn't have anyone to defend fusion energy, so I will.
2 months ago
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Release Valve Principles The choices you make when you can't make a choice.
a year ago
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I Rarely Saw The Plots Resolve What (doesn't) happen next will shock you
2 months ago
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Modelling People Smarter Than Me Models of models of models
3 weeks ago
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You (Were) The Top Eighty years later, how many things are still considered Top?
a year ago
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80/20 Will Writing It's not as hard as you think
2 weeks ago
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Making Sense Of Life Through Reincarnation Again the melody returns
3 weeks ago
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Did the Cybertruck Bomber Have CTE? In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism...
a month ago
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In what currently appears to be two unconnected events, two veterans committed acts of terrorism within just a few days. The Cybertruck bombing, in particular, is notable because the alleged perpetrator was in the US Army special forces. This suggests two things about him: He...
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Enfeebling Supports Well I'm strong enough to know / you gotta go
a year ago
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80/20 Strength Training or, weightlifting for lazy people
a year ago
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Developing An Intuition For Georgism WIRED published our weird ramblings on Land; here's the even weirder ramblings.
a year ago
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Regrets List / Things I Did Good List Noticing the patterns of your personal life-lessons
a year ago
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Sometimes, You Should Ignore The Studies (And Just Try The Thing) For certain kinds of topics, average impact doesn't really matter.
over a year ago
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My Cousin Went To Greece Once How relevant does your anecdote have to be before you'll mention it in a conversation?
over a year ago
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Everything At Once Sometimes it feels like all your problems loop together.
a year ago
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Carrot Problems It's not the crime, it's the coverup.
a year ago
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New Book: Book It's a book about being a book. Book book book book.
a year ago
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Say my name, say mye naym I have a name that a lot of people find hard to pronounce
a year ago
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Unfairly Angry Do we get angry at people *because* we've wronged them?
a year ago
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Doing Things Differently The salience of different-ness gets in the way of doing things differently.
a year ago
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Privileges and Obligations Unfortunately they often come bundled together
a year ago
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Why And How We Preschedule Posts a self-indulgent meta-post about the process of blogging
4 days ago
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Spaced Repetition Through Newsletters Some newsletters just tell you the same few concepts again, and again, and again
a year ago
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Alien Intelligence Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
a year ago
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Evidence (p=.05) that ≥15% of Super-intelligences are Safe? It’s strange but at least temporarily come with me to crazy town.
a year ago