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Imagine if someone had thrown a Molotov cocktail at a small pride parade.

You can have a free country or blasphemy laws. You can't have both.

Another exciting DEI initiative from University of Waterloo : Share your pronouns! Buttt .... 1. Pronouns cannot be more than "60 characters" 2. Using the (publicly posted!) pronouns without first getting permission can "devastate" people 3. "Mocking" this exciting system = DEI

Heading to UK for heterodox social science conference rn. If you’ll be there and want to meet up shoot me a message!

People just don’t understand the ability of government procedures, regulations, and judges’ “good ideas” to balloon the difficulty of simple tasks. They think it’s 5% or 15% when it’s really more like 20,000%

Hear me out:

Fine I will read Abundance.

For your information, we had initially given the wrong email address to submit project descriptions on Hexagone's website, so we've decided to extend the deadline to apply to June 15. Please don't hesitate to participate if you have a cool research idea!

Starting a chat with 4o and escalating to o3 has “may I speak with your manager” energy

New from me: Hegel and the AI Mind This is the first in a 2-part series mapping Hegel's system to modern concepts in computer science and machine learning.

Empirical research is often contaminated by publication bias. Our paper in the July issue of Journal of Economic Surveys shows - after correcting for publication bias, empirical effects are typically closer to 0 and may switch signs - relative reduction in effect sizes of 45%-60%

NEW: The Harvard Law Review retaliated against a student for allegedly leaking documents to yours truly—and demanded he request their destruction in the midst of three federal probes. Now the journal is being accused of illegally interfering with a government investigation.🧵

Just asked this girl Hannah how she spells her name and she just said “two of everything darling” iconic

> be apple > richest company in the world, every advantage imaginable > go all in on AI, make countless promises > get immediately lapped by everyone > 2 years into the race, nothing to show for it > give up, write a paper about how it's all fake and gay and doesn't matter anyway

Ontario is a province full of potential We’re not living up to it. We need a conservative renewal to get back on track. Retweet and follow if you agree. projectontario.ca

#HeterodoxConference

This conference was kind of surreal for me. Got to meet so many longtime mutuals + academics and journalists whose work got me interested in social science. Grateful to have been invited and excited to see what comes next.

Just left an excellent conference on Heterodox Social Science at U Buckingham. Among the topics: Critical Woke Studies, the attempt to understand why universities & other institutions lost their minds starting around 2010, abandoning liberalism and reason for censorship and

Inspired by Scott Alexander's Moments of Awakening post, I made a brief survey (≈5 min) about people’s earliest memories. I’m interested in how the age and type of those memories correlate with other factors. L*ink in next tweet: