My conversion story, or a brief autobiography
I sometimes get asked how it is that I got into this unusual field. Of course, as with all autobiographies, there will be some distortions and poor memory along the…
Eulogy for Richard Lynn (1930-2023)
Richard Lynn passed away a few days ago in his sleep. His health had been in decline for some time, so his passing was expected. Still, it offers us a…
Oliver D. Smith gets his day in City Journal
City Journal has just published its piece a piece on notorious online stalker Oliver D. Smith: The Cancel-Culture Troll with a Neo-Nazi Past. Readers of this blog may be familiar…
Forecast results for 2022 (Metaculus)
Like all the other cool kids, I set some personal goals every year, and also make some forecasts about these. So let's look at how my forecasts for 2022 went,…
Substack 1st anniversary, statistics, reader survey, and a new video
My Substack is growing a lot faster than I anticipated, and we've hit 2000 2100. It took about one year, as my first post was 11th October 2021: Paid subscribers…
Substack vs. Magazines: growth
Substack is doing well. They have successfully avoided being woke censors so far, even avoided COVID censorship while everybody else was toeing the party line. Back in January, they published…
Will the real Emil please stand up?
Since is there yet another character and cancellation attempt on me, I thought it might be useful to write a post about my actual politics, which could then stand in…
Helmuth Nyborg interviewed for his 85th birth day (English translation)
Helmuth Nyborg, my friend and the other main naughty Danish intelligence researcher, turned 85 years old yesterday on 5th January. Due to this, a journalist did a portrait interview with…
Substackmaxxing
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…
“Genes, Brains, and Intelligence: What’s New?” in AmRen
Jared 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,…