Global human capital flow from analysis of top AI paper authors. Compare PRC, US, India as source of top AI talent.

Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is one of my favourite books. It looks at the danger of listening to direct customer claims and what we can do instead to get closer to the truth In our podcast, MichaelAaron & I interview Seth about some of his key ideas YT: youtube.com/watch?v=H09Dgn…

The trouble with UK potholes.... (a.i)

Robin Hanson Reminds of this Ernest Gellner essay pdcnet.org/collection/fsh…

The right-wing populists are gaining ground…because the cultural liberals…are extremely reluctant to meet the preferences of their median voters. On the immigration issue most of all. And then they wish to talk about threats to democracy! tylercowen marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Update. Tyler Cowen: "right-wing populists are gaining ground in so many countries because the cultural liberals ... are extremely reluctant to meet the preferences of their median voters. ... And then they wish to talk about threats to democracy!" x.com/MargRev/status…

Europeans try to re-invent the air conditioner

This reminded me of another insane stat: 78% of noise complaints lodged against Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were made by a single household.

Fitness cost keeps increasing .

Me - I raised $12M to get hundreds of thousands of people clean water and save countless people from dying! 🥰 Twitter - MrBeast is evil

Before researching this article I'd underestimated how far judicial precedents in the European Court of Human Rights had gone toward undermining free speech. This isn't just paradox-of-tolerance, ban the Nazis stuff. The threshold for what can be criminalized is **much** lower.

Me upon realizing that Anna's Archive is down.

EP is the only GAME in the town !

I'm really impressed by people who are loudly unsurprised by every new empirical finding, congratulations on understanding the entire structure of reality purely a priori.

My latest for The Boston Globe "Manhood is not a biological fact. It’s a social role, built around expectations and obligations. Being male is biological, but in cultures all over the world and throughout history, manhood has been a status one must earn." bostonglobe.com/2025/08/20/opi…

The UK Space Agency had a budget of £611m. Housing illegal migrants in hotels cost £2.1bn last year (3.5x). Windmill subsidies cost £14bn (23x). Choose your future, Britons.

VOMO!

Please go lift weights right now. RIGHT NOW.

"Signal liberal virtues include things like listening to underdogs, eschewing easy answers, investigating controversial people and events in detail, and avoiding hypocrisy. It’s frightening that these are precisely the habits of mind most swiftly effaced by politics itself."

lolz