.David Deutsch: The faculty of creative explanation evolved not for making creative explanations, but for preserving existing knowledge, preserving existing culture. Ever since then, there has been an inherent conflict in the human condition, both individually and in society,

This is the last straw for me. It's time to shut down academia until we can figure out once and for all what these monsters are teaching our children.

Speaking in Qatar, Iranian-American investor Omeed Malik boasts about his investment in Tucker Carlson’s new network (December 2024).

A large part of what we do focuses on trading flow within the U.S. equity derivatives market, with a strong bias towards being long volatility and making money when markets become volatile. Our approach is built around understanding how different types of flow interact,

Backstory to CZ's pardon Nov 2023 Binance and CZ plead guilty, $4B+ fine Mar 2025 Trump WLFI launches stablecoin USD1 Mar 2025 $2B investment into Binance by MGX May 2025 $2B investment was paid for in USD1 May 2025 CZ admits he applied for a pardon Oct 2025 CZ gets a pardon

Remember that HyperLiquid whale that shorted the market and made $190m because of Trump tweets a few hours later? A polymarket account linked to it called "bigwinner01" placed bets that CZ would be pardoned. Looking like obvious insider knowledge. 👀

After a 2-day conference at Stanford's Hoover Institution honoring my friend, the economist Thomas Sowell, I was fortunate to have lunch with Tom, going strong at 95! 🧵 hoover.org/events/sowell-…

I just read this again and it's a masterpiece of popular science: mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/CE8/Cha…

Hard to say what's going to win: China's massive and growing lead in energy production, or their cratering TFR.

Ok, finally finished collecting some thoughts on LLMs and whether they can actually engage in reasoning. Surprisingly, I ended up changing my views during the process of writing this. Hope people find it interesting! medium.com/@entropychase/…

Joe Lonsdale Joe is 💯% correct that this pardon makes it look like massive crypto fraud is happening around President Trump. The President is not only aiding and abetting this fraud but actively participating in and financially benefiting from it.

To all the haters commenting on this, you guys just don't get quant finance. It used to be that when you dug the soil for gold, you would be able to unearth entire gold bars. The game has changed. Now when you dig the soil for gold, you get only gold dust particles. Quant

I understand that many investors make decisions based on macroeconomic themes and fundamental projections. But if you’re a trader, that type of forecasting is largely irrelevant. The only thing that truly matters in the near term is flow and positioning because those directly and

Indeed you mustn't, if doing your own research means looking at sources and deciding which to believe. Imagine if a PhD student did that and wrote up the result as a thesis! That's not research. We need to evaluate the modes of criticism that have been applied to a conclusion.

The Economist is the Jim Cramer of covers so probably bad news for Beijing?

Rhiannon Skye Whyte wasn’t the first woman to be attacked as a result of our borders policy, and she won’t be the last as long as it continues. An entirely preventable loss of life. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/2…

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More often than not, you see scientifically illiterate people advancing naive, alternative explanatory theories, who believe they're applying some sort of logical criticism... Of course, they're lacking the meta-level awareness to reflect on the problem with this approach.