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'Tireless endogeneity warrior' --

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    6 hours ago

    Audrey Geisel, who gave so much to UC San Diego, has passed away. Together with her husband, "Dr. Seuss," Theodore Geisel, she supported an upstart university carved out of old eucalyptus groves. While studying there, I loved the Seuss exhibits. RIP.

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    There's more than 1 road to Rome, but I wasn't exaggerating in C 6: Game theory has endless models where patience is key--like the folk theorem. And public goods problems are everywhere. So any tool like IQ that boosts patience & cooperation is a

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  3. 1 hour ago

    Top Trump thread to understand his IMO sincere model of the world:

    Earlier this year, several associates said Trump was obsessed with the wall being see-through. Would bring it up unprompted in phone calls and explain how it had to be see through. Left them perplexed. Maybe you can see through the slats?
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  4. 2 hours ago

    "Audrey Geisel, widow of Dr. Seuss, dies at 97"

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  5. 6 hours ago

    UCSD's Geisel Library: Fantastic, I learned so much there.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    RT for a dark & gritty reboot

    Dec 21, 1984: the film Johnny Dangerously was released in theaters.
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  7. 6 hours ago

    Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own. 2 free chapters here :

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    Cool! What's it called I'll check it out?
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  8. 6 hours ago

    I wrote a book to show that this claim is wrong

    I think very little actually turns, policy wise, on IQ debate: within range of positions I see taken seriously by scientifically informed people re. IQ, I don't think they could be the major empirical premise in a policy argument wherein all ethical premises were acceptable.
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  9. 19 hours ago

    Scott on culture as the 4th branch of government... A branch to which many societies have a...Stubborn Attachment:

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    Dec 20

    Mattis letter essentially counting all the ways his views contrast with Trump:

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  11. Dec 20

    Marketing good governance in democracies is like encouraging patient compliance in medicine: --The expert genuinely knows more on the topic --It's hard to avoid being condescending --People with higher IQs are more likely to follow good advice.

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    Dec 19
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    Might I not-so-humbly suggest that the ancient Greek few weren't actually very good at legitimating their rule to the many (and their Aristotle knew this)?

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    Dec 20
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    It appears that Robert Dahl's book Polyarchy has useful information on how immigration to Argentina may have shaped the nation's economic institutions:

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  14. Dec 18

    Nah, monetary economists since the early 90s have had plans for the level of rates, not the change in rates. As Zeno and John Taylor taught us, people who think only about changes might never get anywhere.

    Economists have all kinds of fancy equations and models, but I think at the end of the day, the way most of them see monetary policy is: If things are good: raise rates If things are bad: cut rates And "neutral" is just whatever feels right based on some point in their past.
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    Dec 16

    Elephant in the Brain made Richard Meadow's "Best [10] Books I Read in 2018". "If you don’t trust my recommendation, trust my mum: I loaned this book to her when I was home in New Zealand, and she stayed up all night reading it."

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  16. Dec 16

    IQ research will continue, though it may be slowed by official hostility. And research into IQ externalities, positive spillovers, is ongoing...something for which I'm grateful. We'll learn more about the nature & causes of the wealth of nations, one inquiry at a time. ~fin~

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  17. Dec 16

    Because I think there are big positive side effects from being around smart people, I think studying average national IQ differences is important to understanding cross-country income gaps. We need to understand group IQ--the Hive Mind--to understand the Wealth of Nations.

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  18. Dec 16

    I quoted this paragraph in Hive Mind: I wanted to show that great scholars, concerned with human flourishing, saw the value of studying national and group average differences in IQ. To make things better, you often need to know why things are the way they are.

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    Dec 16

    I pinned this for a reason:

    The crappy part of freedom is other people having it.
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    Dec 16

    I see this a lot: well-meaning people who want to support individual freedom online but also don't like the impacts. "It's the advertising" or the close-cousin "it's the algorithm" are easy outs. There is no easy out: giving people freedom to express/communicate creates risk.

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