I came across a very interesting review of the book Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop. I haven’t read the book itself, but the…
Society, Politics and History
Imagine Scientific Author Lists as Film Credits
In Academia author lists are source of endless contention. The current system is undeniably unfair. Almost all of the credit go to the first and…
Infering Political Orientation From a Single Picture
In a new paper called Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial image, researchers took a data set of roughly 1m pictures…
Republicans Should Become the Party of the Working Class
Scott Alexander just published a piece titled A Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word “Class” and I really like it. It paints a proposal…
Bottlenecks in the Covid Vaccine Supply Chains
If you are interested in how complicated the supply chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines are, this article by Jonas Neubert is what…
Effects of Protestantism and Catholicism in Modern Germany
There is a very interesting episode of freakonomics on the protestant work ethic. In it, they claim that even today Protestants work longer hours than…
Gamestop and Wallstreetbets
GME goes stonks – exciting times. If you’re interested in a deep dive on what’s going on, I found Eliezer Yudkowsky’s post, /r/WallStreetBets is trying…
You Should (Probably) Sell Your Cryptocurrencies
Yesterday, I sold almost all of my cryptocurrencies, securing a decent 20% margin for *checks notes* a net gain of 33 Euros and 78 cents….
Anti-Aging – Overview of the State of the Art
On Lesswrong JackH posted a very interesting overview of aging and the scientific progress made to reverse it. If we think about aging as a…
Three Months of Crowd-Forecasting Covid-19
Note: I posted this on the LessWrong Forum on December 31st 2020. It is somewhat related to this post I made about the project previously….