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See also: Substack – a revival of blogging culture / blogs to read in 2020 So far Substack doesn’t appear to censor much from an ideological perspective, but they have a vague, generic hate speech clause that can be used for this purpose any moment they choose: That said, there’s no rule saying I can’t…
Continue ReadingJared asked me if I wanted to summarize recent work in the field, based on a new review article by Ian Deary, Simon R. Cox & W. David Hill. Well, I did: American Renaissance: Genes, Brains, and Intelligence: What’s New?
Continue ReadingGregoire Canlorbe has been kind enough to interview me. It went deep into many topics! Hope you enjoy. The Postil Magazine: Neo-Positive Realism: A Discussion With Emil O.W. Kirkegaard Title should be neo-positivist realism but apparently the editor messed it up. Other interviews in the series, just from 2020-2021: Humans In Society: A Conversation With…
Continue ReadingLast year’s post (2020) and scoring the predictions. These are goals and projections for my various productivity measures. These are all based on ignoring the tail risk of getting banned (which is now substantial across platforms). The method of doing projections is not difficult: gather some prior data, eyeball the data, project with simple models,…
Continue ReadingI wanted to wait until all the US election stuff resolves, but seems like this will take a while for the last few questions, so let’s proceed for now. As mentioned in the Goals for 2020 post, I decided to get into forecasting because I found a funnier website than GJOpen: Metaculus: I also want…
Continue ReadingRecently I read some studies in human resource management that goal setting is good for getting shit done. E.g.: Locke, E. A., Shaw, K. N., Saari, L. M., & Latham, G. P. (1981). Goal setting and task performance: 1969–1980. Psychological Bulletin, 90(1), 125–152. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.90.1.125 Latham, G. P., & Locke, E. A. (1991). Self-regulation through goal…
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