The Curious Engineer

Grey Enlightenment

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2019 248

December 2019

  1. The source of Jewish success
  2. The evolution of the right
  3. The smart-left
  4. Why the Left Hates Trump so Strongly
  5. The Impeachment
  6. Elites , diversity, and unrest
  7. “The greatest investors ever”
  8. The popularity of Slavoj Žižek, explained
  9. Market Update 12/13/2019
  10. Nick is not gonna debate you Vox
  11. Trust the plan, they said
  12. The next 5 years: what happens if Trump wins
  13. Maximum Human Height
  14. The U.S. Economy Keeps Defying the Recession Odds
  15. These people are not that smart (why Bitcoin is guaranteed to be a crappy investment)
  16. SSL certificate is up ..finally
  17. The GCSEs are not a good proxy for IQ

November 2019

  1. Is America becoming more socialist? Depends how you define it
  2. Stock market update: going much higher
  3. Has the internet become dumber or smarter?
  4. Trump has power but choosing to not use it
  5. Explaining America’s Economic Success: The Concentration of Wealth
  6. Three words: Pardon Roger Stone
  7. The bipartisan anger against Uber
  8. Taleb is wrong about IQ and creativity
  9. Are prisons a “good deal?” Possibly
  10. Why debates are pointless
  11. How much of the millennial and gen-z job crisis is self-inflicted?
  12. Fuentes’ Groypers
  13. Mediocrity for all, and the necessity of realism-based education policy
  14. Derek Thompson’s terrible Atlantic article (there is no tech market crash)
  15. update: Trump and Stock Market

October 2019

  1. The Population Crisis
  2. Investing for the ‘Singularity’
  3. Calculating Trump impeachment odds for prediction markets, part 2
  4. Tesla’s huge quarter…right again
  5. Ray Dalio wrong about ‘great sag’
  6. Trump impeachment odds are way over-inflated
  7. Post-opinion era
  8. What does it mean to be iconoclastic?
  9. Using the interest rate cycle to predict the market
  10. The trade deal merry-go-round
  11. But weren’t the tariffs supposed to be inflationary?
  12. Dear dissent right, Trump is just not all that into you
  13. The Crisis
  14. The Chinese Millennial Experience is also an American one, and vice-versa
  15. Drudge Report
  16. Trump and Stock Market Updates
  17. Nihilistic Realism

September 2019

  1. The “alternative media” is often not that much of an alternative
  2. The Greta Thunberg Story
  3. No, WeWork failing is not a failure of capitalism, nor the end of the post-2009 tech boom
  4. Impeachment inquiry: Prediction: Nothing will happen
  5. The Cost of Chinese IP and Trademark Theft (it’s probably not that much)
  6. Teach the Unemployed to Code? yeah right
  7. Politics are overrated? it depends
  8. Why Harvard Is Right to Discriminate Against Asians: Response
  9. Don’t feel too sorry for the Reddit moderators
  10. The opportunity, lost
  11. The intellectual-web, part 2
  12. Why persuasion and negotiation techniques are (probably) useless
  13. The intellectual-web: an emergent online culture
  14. There is no excuse
  15. Hillary would have been worse, but
  16. Does diversity + proximity lead to war? Probably not, as far as the US is concerned
  17. Some things I learned following Trump on Twitter

August 2019

  1. Nassim Taleb is Possibly Wrong about Wealth and IQ
  2. The Trump Stalemate
  3. No recession soon
  4. Don’t expect student loan forgiveness
  5. Joe Rogan’s Huge Popularity
  6. Intelligence is not additive or multiplicative
  7. More Nasssim Taleb lies
  8. The ’90s and now, part 14
  9. Why the tariffs are not hurting the US economy
  10. Additional arguments against economic stagnation
  11. Stop blaming introverts for mass shootings
  12. Left-wing reaction
  13. IQ and wealth, continued
  14. Not worried about latest tariffs
  15. Update on Trump Wall
  16. Taleb is a liberal, continued
  17. Taleb’s latest twitter meltdown

July 2019

  1. Woke capital does not make sense. It is not supposed to.
  2. The ’90s and now, part 13
  3. Past and future trends for the alt-right
  4. The ’90s and now, part 12
  5. Are we in an Era of Stagnation? Likely not
  6. Foreign purchases of American homes fall: separating hype from reality
  7. Don’t Abolish the SAT
  8. The decline and failure of American conservatism
  9. A job is not like slavery , nor higher risk than entrepreneurship
  10. Eric Weinstein on Joe Rogan
  11. The ’90s and now, part 11
  12. Trump’s 2020 odds improve, but victory far from certain
  13. No coming collapse, and predictions for next 10 years
  14. Intellect as Social Currency
  15. Capital rules the world
  16. The ’90s and now, part 10
  17. Studies of Exceptionally Gifted Children
  18. The Debate Over Free Speech Online
  19. The ’90s and now, part 9

June 2019

  1. The Blackpill Files, Part 3
  2. Twilight of the Alt-Right
  3. Sanctions on Iran
  4. Don’t forgive them their student loan debts
  5. The evolution of the online ideological and political landscape
  6. Fail
  7. S&P 500 makes new highs despite tariff concerns
  8. The Blackpill Files, Part 2
  9. Abortion and Crime Revisited
  10. The Blackpill Files, Part 1
  11. The Daily View 6/16/2019
  12. Milo’s bid for relevance
  13. The ’90s and now, part 8
  14. The student loan debate revisited
  15. Media narratives are almost always wrong
  16. Vox Media is probably not going away
  17. Stock market shrugs off Mexico and China tariffs
  18. A deterministic world
  19. The ’90s and now, part 7
  20. The IQ Decline, Part 2
  21. An indictment of the alt-right
  22. Justice Department Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google

May 2019

  1. Can journalists become coders? Probably
  2. Explaining the national debt: why I’m not concerned
  3. MMA proves that science is BS
  4. Tim Pool wrong about tech valuations
  5. Trump & 2020 update
  6. The ’90s and now, part 6
  7. China’s “Social Credit System” is probably coming to the US
  8. The curse of genius
  9. No, teaching blue collar workers to be engineers is not a practical solution
  10. Treating social media as a public utility is not the answer
  11. Tyler wrong about social media censorship
  12. Trump Tariffs Update: Not Worried
  13. The problem is not a lack of competition
  14. Differences between the ‘left and the ‘right’
  15. Clown world meme
  16. The ’90s and now, part 5
  17. No coming collapse of America, and the difficulty of using history to predict the future
  18. Explaining why America’s healthcare is so expensive
  19. Why Ethereum (ETH) is dying
  20. Tesla is not going bankrupt
  21. Not the Real Marxism
  22. The ’90s and now, part 4
  23. Deleted for Truth

April 2019

  1. The trans sports debate
  2. The Myth that Refuses to Die
  3. Affirmative action: much worse than expected
  4. The ’90s and now, part 3
  5. More correct tech & stock predictions
  6. Trump approval rating holds steady
  7. Why the student loan and college ‘bubble’ won’t be bursting anytime soon
  8. Jordan Peterson Zizek Debate
  9. Peter Turchin is (probably) wrong about crisis, again
  10. Were the Victorians smarter? Probably not
  11. The Mueller Report, Part 2
  12. Fake Experts
  13. The Competence Bubble
  14. The ’90s and now, part 2
  15. China’s ‘Fake’ Economic Data: Why I’m Not Concerned
  16. The ’90s and now, part 1
  17. Julian Assange
  18. On the Difficulty of Predicting the Future
  19. The Downfall of Milo and the Rise of the Alt-Middle/Center
  20. The trouble with philosophy
  21. Trump administration nearly doubles H-2B guest visa program
  22. New York elite public schools are not discriminating against blacks
  23. Is MAGA over? It feels like it
  24. The right’s embrace the anti-work movement
  25. The UBI debate: criticism and analysis
  26. Facebook: Standing Against Hate

March 2019

  1. No recession despite yield curve inversion
  2. No Coming Realignment
  3. Alex Jones
  4. The Great Miscalculator: Response (why there won’t be a debt crisis in America)
  5. Taxes and Incentives
  6. The IQ Decline
  7. Yang may be anti-white, but they all are
  8. The Trump Black Pill
  9. IQ & Wealth, Part 2
  10. Taleb’s Deception
  11. Entrepreneurism is overrated
  12. Taleb wrong about IQ and wealth & income
  13. College Admissions Scandal: Separating Hype from Reality
  14. Is the first term of the Trump presidency already over?
  15. Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, a year later
  16. The Daily View 3/13/2019
  17. Yang Gang mania
  18. The New 30-Something
  19. Men not working
  20. Not worried about socialism (even though the media keeps talking about it)
  21. Taleb: Dr. Peterson is a charlatan
  22. No trade war
  23. How systems can beat efficient markets
  24. Jordan Peterson is Not a Covert Marxist (response to Milo)
  25. The end of liberal democracy and the American hegemony? hardly
  26. Why America is So Economically Productive
  27. The Declining Relevance of Conservatism

February 2019

  1. Against Social Media
  2. Workism
  3. No such thing as free speech
  4. What Warren Buffett’s shareholder letter says about America
  5. Reforming Public Education: Against Compulsory Schooling
  6. Exchange hacks are good for the price of Bitcoin
  7. Trump analysis
  8. The dumbing-down of Gifted Education
  9. On Having Good Opinions (deconstructing Joe Rogan’s success)
  10. Trump wall disappointment
  11. The Cognitive Aristocracy and the UBI
  12. Are we in a post-truth era? Possibly not
  13. Blackpilling, part 2
  14. The “10,000 Hours of Practice” Myth (Practice makes better, but not perfect)
  15. Paul Krugman Should Not Be Taken Seriously
  16. Peter Thiel’s Success: Luck or Skill?
  17. Gadwell’s Revisionist History
  18. Evolution of Online Political Journalism: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up
  19. The Enlightenment has Won
  20. Why Soys and Virgins Rule
  21. The Benefits of Boredom
  22. The Jewish Advantage
  23. The Capitalism Quality Paradox

January 2019

  1. Explaining America’s Economic and Global Dominance
  2. Secular Calvinism
  3. Criticism of Taleb (about non-IQ stuff)
  4. Trump, wall, and shutdown: what happens next
  5. How popular is gender studies?
  6. Huge Ethereum delay: another correct prediction
  7. Tucker: MAGA hat-wearing students smeared by media
  8. 2019 Predictions, Part 2, and the rise of the alt-middle/center
  9. The Rise of Non-Judgmental Conservatism
  10. Why the stock market is going higher
  11. Video: Re: Stefan Molyneux, Nassim Taleb, Race, IQ, Twitter
  12. The China-U.S. Cultural and Economic Connection
  13. The Daily View 1/16/2019
  14. IQ: Still the Best Predictor of Upward Mobility
  15. What Is Going To Happen In 2019
  16. Why the Federal Reserve cannot do much
  17. Taleb on IQ: more responses, debunking IQ cultural bias, and the philosophy of Taleb’s liberalism
  18. The wall & shutdown
  19. Are millennials really that poor and struggling?
  20. The pundit disconnect
  21. James Altucher Wrong About Crypto Currency
  22. Ron Unz on Hispanic Crime
  23. Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Wrong again!)
  24. The Sam Vimes “Boots” Theory of Economic Injustice
  25. Jordan Peterson’s IQ…estimate and Vox Day may be wrong

2018 318

December 2018

  1. The Descent of Man: Culture vs. Economics
  2. IQ and Politicians
  3. Student loan crisis: putting it in perspective
  4. Christmas Round-Up
  5. Nassim Taleb sticks his foot in his mouth again about IQ research
  6. Free Trade and Migration of Peoples
  7. The daily view 12/21/2018
  8. High-IQ People are Not Being Inappropriately Excluded
  9. America the outlier
  10. Student Loan Debt is Not a Drag on the U.S. Economy and Will Not Lead to Crisis
  11. End of ‘Trumpism’
  12. Aaron Swartz: I Hate the News
  13. Ship of Fools
  14. Does Donald Trump Owns This Stock Market? Maybe
  15. $50 Bitcoin? Possible
  16. The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last?
  17. George Bush
  18. Are Americans Paying Too Much for Healthcare? It’s complicated
  19. Not worried about tariffs, yield curve, and trade war
  20. So where is the wall?
  21. Thomas Sowell Reason Interview
  22. Quitting Social Media
  23. Myth of the limp-wristed liberal
  24. De-motivational talks

November 2018

  1. Trump’s low approval ratings
  2. Lopsided IQ scores
  3. Against ‘badness’
  4. The pro-life left
  5. Trump and immigration: will he act
  6. Bitcoin plunges below 3800
  7. Politics and Crypto Update
  8. Khashoggi murder will Not stain America and Trump
  9. Betting against climate change disaster
  10. Higher level thinking
  11. Amazon will not fail anytime soon
  12. There won’t be a repeat of WW1: a case for stability
  13. Politics may seem bad now, but it used to be much worse
  14. Young people are not having sex
  15. The Mad Rush to College is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit: Analysis
  16. Why America’s mediocre PISA rankings are not a big deal
  17. Nassim Taleb endorses ‘reverse-Darwinism’
  18. Intellectual credibility is the most valuable currency
  19. The threat is Islam, not China
  20. No Red Wave
  21. Improving Ourselves to Death
  22. What happened to the alt-right
  23. Minimum wage
  24. Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable?
  25. Trump and the 14th Amendment
  26. Misconceptions about Student Loans and Student Loan Debt, and How Young People Make Money

October 2018

  1. Intellectual Laziness
  2. “the great compromise”
  3. Another correct Trump prediction (thus far)
  4. Stefan Molyneux: Do the Rich Work Harder?
  5. Tesla posts surprise profit…right again
  6. The genetics of university success: study
  7. Disagreeing with Tyler Cowen about Stagnation and Innovation
  8. Jonah Goldberg wrong again
  9. “the great compromise”
  10. Is Trump too Cozy with Dictators? The evidence shows otherwise
  11. Npcs
  12. Tyler Cowen: Stagnation and Complacency, Part 1
  13. Why we should support Steven Pinker
  14. Economics report: tariffs, inflation, stock market
  15. Crypto-currency report
  16. Khashoggi and Trump
  17. Why philosophy is so popular these days
  18. Notes: Kahneman System 1 and System 2 Thinking
  19. Jordan Peterson vs. Nassim Taleb: Philosophical and Political Differences
  20. Black swans and ongoing stories
  21. Common themes
  22. Your IQ Matters Less Than You Think: Response
  23. Jordan Peterson Cult?
  24. Jordan Peterson Misfires
  25. Deconstructing a viral article: In Praise of Mediocrity
  26. Two correct predictions
  27. Alt Right- Two Variants
  28. The great slow-down

September 2018

  1. A Troublesome Intelligence? Response
  2. notes: The Kavanaugh media circus
  3. Jordan Peterson on Inequality and Hierarchies
  4. The only constant is change? Not really
  5. Lehman crisis-10 years later
  6. Student Loan Misconceptions, Student Loan Debt, and How Young People Make Money
  7. Getting Griggs Wrong
  8. Economists predicting doom again
  9. The millennial search for meaning in a meaningless world
  10. The Coddling of the American Mind, as a precursor to the IDW
  11. Vox Day wrong about trade, GDP
  12. Debunking the media’s smear campaign against Elon Musk
  13. Not worried about Trump tariffs, part 2
  14. Wrong About IQ? | Russell Warne and Stefan Molyneux
  15. Foreign Stocks Don’t Belong in Your Portfolio
  16. Notes: Do you have to be smart to care?
  17. My $100,000 Student Loan Debt
  18. Anti-Trump op-ed
  19. Fukuyama vs. Huntington
  20. The Political Circus
  21. The elite really are different from the rest of us
  22. Blacks and the Media Narrative
  23. Is the U.S. Hostile to Smart People?
  24. Why isn’t inflation higher?

August 2018

  1. Bullshit Jobs, Part 2
  2. Why we’re not happy
  3. Short-sellers wrong about Tesla
  4. Milo on McCain
  5. When is the next recession? Not for a long time
  6. Charles Murray: How Today’s Elites are a Failed Product of the 60s Counterculture
  7. Trump and social media censorship
  8. Cohen investigation: analysis
  9. Elon Musk Prediction: Nothingburger
  10. The intellectual richness of the ‘right’
  11. Venezuela’s Collapse: Questioning the Media Narrative
  12. Alex Jones De-Platforming Part 2: Jordan Peterson’s Response
  13. Peter Turchin is wrong about Crisis
  14. Alex Jones de-platforming, part 1
  15. Ann Coulter lays off Trump
  16. No dysgenic collapse
  17. The Third Position
  18. Bullshitting with Einstein
  19. Normies and Bugmen
  20. Trump tariffs: experts wrong again
  21. Derek Sivers
  22. Bitcoin crashes …again
  23. The Daily View 8/8/2018
  24. The China-U.S. Intellectual Connection
  25. Vox Day vs. Scott Adams
  26. Bullshit jobs
  27. Ben Shapiro – Is AMERICA on the BRINK of COLLAPSE? No
  28. Tesla Stock Surges on Earnings
  29. Crazy idea: should the US Govt. buyout Microsoft?

July 2018

  1. Jordan Peterson Truth-bombs Everyone about IQ
  2. Meme propagation process
  3. Optimism and The_Donald
  4. Winner-take-all economics
  5. The Wealth Inequality Debate: Why Wealth Redistribution is Not the Answer
  6. The Wealth Inequality Debate: Revolution & Living Standards
  7. The China Test
  8. Putin summit nothingburger
  9. The Stock Market Keeps Going Up: More Correct Predictions
  10. Trump Impeachment Odds Now the Lowest Ever
  11. Is Morality Overrated?
  12. Peter Thiel: What is Multiculturalism Really About
  13. Elon Musk Schools Twitter
  14. Moral Nihilism
  15. Trump updates
  16. Scott Adams gets HBD Wrong
  17. The Craft of Rationality
  18. Why Scott Adams is so popular
  19. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 16
  20. The death of neoconservatism? Unlikely
  21. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 15

June 2018

  1. Thomas Piketty Analysis, and the US Economy
  2. Trump, threats, & the news cycle
  3. Dr. Peterson vs. Jim Jeffries Interview
  4. Trump: he’s still in office as impeachment hopes evaporate
  5. Bitcoin plunges below 6,000
  6. Trump’s immigration bill
  7. Education and workers, part 2
  8. Is the U.S. Education System Designed to Create Obedient Workers?
  9. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 14: the trinity
  10. A we in an Economic Ponzi Scheme?
  11. Fish Farm Economies
  12. Trump and Kim Meeting: Another Correct Prediction
  13. The Great Bitcoin Wealth Transfer
  14. The High-IQ Homo Economicus
  15. The usual suspects are at it again predicting crisis
  16. The college debate, continued
  17. Redstate.com firing of anti-Trump writers is not a free speech issue
  18. The End of History?
  19. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 13

May 2018

  1. Roseanne Barr and the Ambien defense
  2. Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) , part 2
  3. Notes on Trump and Policy
  4. Anti-Peterson desperation
  5. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 12
  6. Elon Musk vs. the left: Twitter War
  7. Bitcoin : Why it won’t be revolutionary
  8. Bitcoin idiot Tom Lee finally outed for being wrong
  9. Are the elites worried about Trump? Not really
  10. Jordan Peterson vs. Michael Dyson on white privilege
  11. ‘Basic Jobs’ vs. Basic Income
  12. Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think
  13. ‘worst HBD article ever’
  14. High-level generators of disagreement
  15. Bitcoin: it’s not decentralized
  16. Nash Equilibrium and cooperative games: example
  17. Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, Take 5
  18. Trump Slipping Backwards On Immigration
  19. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 11 (evolution of online journalism)
  20. Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, take 4
  21. The Intellectual Dark Web
  22. Shoddy reporting from Bloomberg View
  23. Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, take 3
  24. Unknown unknowns
  25. More correct predictions
  26. The Kanye West – Scott Adams media backfire
  27. Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson, part 2

April 2018

  1. Competition necessitates humans
  2. Vox Day vs. Jordan Peterson on Jewish IQ
  3. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 10
  4. Bitcoin crash resumes…new lows coming
  5. A golden age?
  6. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 9
  7. Kevin Williamson responds to his firing
  8. Biggest winners of the Trump administration: centrists, moderates; biggest losers: the far left
  9. The IQ trap: how the study of genetics could transform education, New Statesmen
  10. The accent of the alt-middle/center: how it began
  11. Bitcoin update: it’s going lower
  12. Does the rise of China pose a threat to the U.S.? Likely not
  13. Bitcoin and Rationality, Part 2: Why Bitcoin is not like the lottery, and when to sell
  14. Matthew Yglesias regarding Charles Murray and The Bell Curve
  15. Society’s Invisible Men
  16. Getting the square-cube law wrong
  17. Conveying action is as effective as action
  18. Reconciling Free Will with Biological Determinism
  19. Kevin Williamson’s cold dose of reality
  20. The news carousel
  21. Interesting Jordan Peterson quote
  22. Centrism as a culture
  23. Tariffs: more analysis
  24. James Woods demands that wall be built, or Trump will lose. But will he?
  25. Denying Genetics Isn’t Shutting Down Racism, It’s Fueling It: Andrew Sullivan
  26. Bitcoin Update..it’s sinking
  27. The Trump Disappointment: Analysis

March 2018

  1. Why do people perceive Communism as less evil than Nazism?
  2. Facebook…is the sky falling? Probably not
  3. Review of the review: Dr. Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life
  4. The Economist becomes Woke about IQ
  5. Bitcoin falls again. Another correct call.
  6. The appeal of Communism and similar collectivist ideologies
  7. Trump analysis
  8. Dr. Peterson is really smart
  9. The FTC investigation of Facebook, analysis
  10. The daily view 3/21/2018
  11. The Role of Luck in Life Success
  12. A Scenario for how America Falters
  13. The coin massacre continues
  14. Is America Rome 2.0? Likely not
  15. Some random thoughts
  16. Do the crime, pay the fine
  17. More thoughts on Bitcoin
  18. The cards fall: The Truth About the SAT and ACT
  19. So long and so much for that
  20. Your Antivirus Software is Useless (and what I do instead)
  21. Post-ideological era, part 2
  22. More correct predictions: Trump and China
  23. Bitcoin keeps falling, another correct call
  24. The ‘real’ news is often just as bad as fake news
  25. Bitcoin big down day
  26. Notes: tariffs=nothingburger
  27. Those Overblown Trade Deals
  28. Technology and Job Loss: The Debate Continues
  29. Physical Removal
  30. Kaczynski’s Philosophy

February 2018

  1. The running narrative
  2. US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse
  3. Jordan Peterson’s self-authoring program does not boost college GPAs: study & analysis
  4. Tyranny and Guns
  5. A better investment than crypto currency: FNGU
  6. Predictions for 2023
  7. for every $1 of Bitcoin converted into cash, up to $25,000 of paper wealth is destroyed
  8. Why So Many People Like Jordan Peterson
  9. Philosophical bites: Empiricism vs. Rationalism
  10. Interesting tweet
  11. The four horsemen of the alt-middle/center
  12. Bitcoin idiot Tom Lee at it again (and when it’s time to buy Bitcoin again)
  13. Two nations within a nation
  14. Anti-democracy, part 5
  15. Bare-knuckle boxing/fighting is not safer
  16. Trump tax cuts & deficits: not worried about inflation
  17. Vice Media tries to defame Jordan Peterson, fails
  18. My own 12 Rules for Life
  19. Notes on Trump Military Parade
  20. Stock Market Q&A
  21. How people get rich (it’s not Bitcoin)
  22. The Autonomous Economy
  23. Bitcoin dead cat bounce
  24. Accelerationism as an example of opensource, bottom-up philosophy
  25. Bitcoin ‘experts’ are often clueless
  26. Notes on the ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
  27. Is the ‘deep state’ and Facebook trying to censor Jordan Peterson?
  28. Bitcoin Update 2/4/2018
  29. Studies of exceedingly high IQs
  30. Bitcoin carnage continues
  31. Capital in the Twenty-First Century analysis

January 2018

  1. Trump speech brief analysis
  2. The LessWrong Crypto Autopsy
  3. Notes on writing advice: longer is better
  4. Sam Harris’ takedown of Nassim Taleb
  5. Conflict vs. Mistake Theorists (analysis)
  6. Bad Bitcoin Analysts
  7. Is NRx Dying? No, it’s moving to Twitter (and other thoughts)
  8. Jordan Peterson won’t debate the alt-right
  9. Rise of Jordan Peterson mirrors the decline of alt-right
  10. Rules for rationalism
  11. The govt. depends on the private sector, not the other way around
  12. Notes on Sterilization
  13. Notes on Immigration
  14. The Failed Hero’s Journey
  15. The ‘Motte and Bailey’ fallacy isn’t really a fallacy
  16. Bitcoin update
  17. The post-2009 bull market as restitution for the creative/productive class
  18. Trump and ‘shithole countries’
  19. Michael Wolff book,’Fire and Fury’; Prediction: Nothing-burger
  20. People should stop saying silly things about IQ
  21. Cryptocurrencies are not inflationary, nor is it ‘helicopter money’
  22. The daily view: correct predictions, stock market forecast, accelerationism, and DACA
  23. Jordan Peterson plans to unveil an IQ test
  24. The bitcoin hedge fund rip-off
  25. Notes on Michel Foucault
  26. High-IQ discourse: correctness is more important than consensus
  27. Playing the Financial Bubble Game, by Arnold Kling
  28. Trump, president de jure
  29. Don’t Bet Against Bryan Caplan
  30. Consider Altcoins
  31. Megan McArdle is Wrong About Bitcoin
  32. Criticism of the five-factor (big five) model of personality

2017 388

December 2017

  1. Alt coin trading strategy guide
  2. Bearish Bitcoin Chart Formation
  3. Tuning out of the news cycle
  4. Empiricism , Time Preference, and Economics
  5. 2017: the year in review
  6. Nassim Tooleb Twitter: Best of
  7. Merry Christmas is now ‘hate speech’
  8. Predictions for 2018
  9. The American Tradition of Waging Culture War
  10. Bitcoin SHTF mode
  11. Another correct prediction: wealth inequality
  12. Not worried about AI
  13. Bitcoin analysis
  14. Virtue signaling, part 2
  15. Surging stock market a vote of confidence for Trump, America
  16. Ann Coulter continues to demonstrate her ignorance of politics
  17. Boosting the economy through high-IQ investment
  18. Jordan Peterson’s Bland Conservatism
  19. Virtue Signaling and Purity Spiraling
  20. Jordan Peterson on the power of writing
  21. Exponential correlation of IQ and the wealth of nations
  22. Shared narratives: summary and examples
  23. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 8 (interlude)
  24. The compelling case for working a lot less (if IQ is high enough)
  25. The Flynn Effect vs. the Greatest Minds in History (analysis)
  26. Notes: The Odds of Impeachment Are Dropping
  27. Black pills and tots
  28. Normie Conservatism vs. Alternative Conservatism
  29. Mr. Money Mustache does not understand Uber or libertarianism well
  30. Eliezer Yudkowsky schools the Bank of Japan
  31. Optimism or stagnation? A case for both.
  32. Flynn story; prediction: nothingburger
  33. The configuration of power
  34. The stock market just surged past a record milestone thanks to the GOP tax bill

November 2017

  1. Why bitcoin is so volatile
  2. The media/pundit narrative is almost always wrong, and why
  3. Why Trump is Waffling on Immigration
  4. Two paths to success
  5. notes: The Successor to the United States of America
  6. The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective (analysis)
  7. What to be thankful for: not smoking
  8. Leninism, part 2
  9. How the opioid crisis fixes itself…sorta
  10. Biological Leninism
  11. Cosmopolitanism elite losing power? Hardly
  12. there is an underlying reason for everything that happens
  13. Twitter purge 2.0
  14. How High-IQ Millennials Make Money
  15. There are always at least two possibilities
  16. The Overblown ‘Retail Apocalypse’
  17. The Decline of ‘New Atheism’
  18. The Bell Curve is becoming reality, part 2
  19. Dumbing-down & policy
  20. How to Predict, part infinity
  21. Not Worried About Tech Valuations, the saga continues
  22. Link Round-up Edition
  23. No, the far-left and the far-right are not the same
  24. Is grit the true secret of success? no
  25. Why Intellectuals Like Trump (or at least don’t hate him)
  26. Scott and Postmodernism
  27. Trump: Managers vs. Commanders
  28. Why it does not matter that Tesla is losing money
  29. The Postmodernism Boom
  30. Bitcoin at $7,000
  31. In Praise of Ineffective Government

October 2017

  1. Those worthless humanities papers
  2. Automation and Post-Scarcity
  3. Trump’s polls are falling, but I’m not worried
  4. Another Quarter of Blow-Out Tech Earnings: Not worried about “tech bubble 2.0”
  5. Anti-Trump desperation showing, and the GOP civil war
  6. Media Getting NRx Wrong
  7. Two IQ links by two Scotts
  8. Why 3x S&P 500 ETFs can be held long-term
  9. Raven’s test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance, psychometric properties, and the Flynn Effect
  10. Are Successful Writers The Smartest People Alive?
  11. The “HBD bull market” is unstoppable, and the persuasion technique I used to helped someone make thousands of dollars
  12. Yes, the ‘never-Trumpers’ were wrong, but it doesn’t matter anymore
  13. Kevin Williamson’s Elitism
  14. HBD & Investing, Part 3 (IQ and the concentration of wealth)
  15. How HBD can be used to beat the market, part 2: Predictions & Stock Picks
  16. Just own the damn robots
  17. Jordan Peterson says not to take notes during lectures. Is he right? Probably not
  18. Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Merchandising of White Guilt, and America’s Race Obsession
  19. Why you should not let politics influence your investing decisions (in one tweet)
  20. Trump is still not in power
  21. Evidence America is not (yet) dumbing-down
  22. Internal and external value systems
  23. The Over-hyped Purported Efficacy of Australia’s Gun Laws
  24. To change the world, invest; don’t start a business
  25. Donald Trump Does Not Like to Read (but so what)
  26. Individual Ideological & Philosophical Classification System
  27. Asset-based capitalism
  28. Grey Notes: Liberal Hypocrisy
  29. The revenge-of-the-nerds economy (in 18 charts)
  30. The Devil is in the Comments
  31. Why the right gave up on the culture wars
  32. Why the Trump tax cuts will not be inflationary, Part 2:
  33. The problem with white identity

September 2017

  1. Debunking IQ Denial-ism
  2. Deterministic society & economy
  3. What is going on with the alt-right
  4. The Backlash Grows
  5. Capitalism, part 2: Status as Currency
  6. Reconciling capitalism with HBD
  7. Meditations on millennials (and gen. z)
  8. Brain Volume Strongly Correlated with IQ
  9. The Puritanical-Left
  10. Not Worried About the Fed Balance Sheet Unwind
  11. “Simple Systems”
  12. Grey notes: The Triumph of Capital
  13. Daca Disappointment
  14. Estimating the decay parameters of leveraged & inverse etfs
  15. Is ‘musicgate’ payback for ‘memo/Google-gate’?
  16. Based Kevin D. Williamson
  17. Nassim Taleb spreading more BS about intelligence research
  18. They are seeking leadership
  19. Equifax Hack: Analysis
  20. Debate: Vox Day vs. Andrew Anglin
  21. Everyone is a Realist
  22. Corporate virtue signaling and holiness investing
  23. The Permanent Ascendance of ‘Bobos’
  24. Bret Stephens: Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers
  25. Why do some countries fail and others succeed?
  26. You Are the Product: Analysis
  27. Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux discuss IQ
  28. Hurricane Harvey Analysis
  29. Getting the correct story is hard

August 2017

  1. The ‘Metamodern Condition’
  2. Debunking more white v. black discrimination
  3. Jared Taylor truth bombs everyone
  4. War with North Korea is certain. The question is when.
  5. Anti-activism going mainstream
  6. Black-White wage gap
  7. On a ‘general theory’ of social behavior and government
  8. The left comes full circle
  9. Zuck for president?
  10. James Damore, STEM celebrity
  11. The wall: it ain’t happening
  12. Taleb: How to be Rational about Rationality: Analysis
  13. The Bell Curve is Becoming Reality
  14. Charlottesville: Poor Security To Blame?
  15. Defending Economics
  16. blackpilling
  17. Charlottesville: Why You Cannot Trust the Video Footage
  18. Verbal…Harder than Math? Part 2
  19. In Defense of the Journalistic Method
  20. Putting Charlottesville in perspective
  21. Debunking more STEM sexism
  22. Grey Notes: Forget Computer Science…Why are men underrepresented in psychology?
  23. The 99% vs. 1%…who is exploiting whom
  24. North Korea : What Happens Next
  25. Not Worried about North Korea
  26. The Google Memo, Part 2: James Damore and Jordan Peterson discuss the memo
  27. Will Silicon Valley’s Tech Fortunes Dissolve like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt Fortunes? No
  28. James Damore firing…what happens next
  29. The Google Anti-Diversity Memo: Why is it such a big deal?
  30. Tyranny advances under the banner of freedom
  31. America’s ‘Cold War Philosophy’
  32. Bitcoin at $3,000
  33. Trump is here to stay
  34. Whose Sexism?
  35. The story of history is a power struggle between elites
  36. Christianity, Science, Values, and Morality

July 2017

  1. Free Speech and Its Limitations
  2. Jordan Peterson and the Evolution of Marxism
  3. Patreon CEO Jack Conte Disingenuous Explanation for Lauren Southern Banning
  4. Silicon Valley is Eating the World
  5. Not Worried About Tech Bubble (and how HBD can be used to beat the market)
  6. The Meritocracy Analysis, Part 2:
  7. Grey Notes: Debunking STEM Sexism
  8. U.S. home sales to foreigners surge 49% to new record
  9. How the Media Sells Fear and Outrage for Profit
  10. Targeting the Meritocracy : Response
  11. Economics and Unintended Consequences
  12. The Fumigation Begins
  13. Activism and the Imperial Mindset
  14. The Four Anomalies
  15. How Did Jordan Peterson Become So Successful?
  16. Taxation, Libertarianism, and Wealth
  17. Status, Universities, and the Elites
  18. Updating old posts
  19. Neoliberalism and Capitalism
  20. IQ, Education, and Upward Mobility
  21. The Culture War Is Inescapable
  22. Trump Jr. Email Recap: Not Much to be Worried About
  23. Postmodernism: It’s about Facts, not Values
  24. Murderism and Racism
  25. More Commanding and Less Managing
  26. High Drug Prices…Putting Things in Perspective
  27. Comparative Advantage and IQ
  28. Late Stage Capitalism, Part 2
  29. ‘Athlete genes’ exist…so why not genes for IQ
  30. Late Stage Capitalism, Part 1
  31. Jordan Peterson: 12 principles for a 21st century conservatism (analysis)
  32. Steelmanning

June 2017

  1. Trump Travel Ban…not much to get excited about
  2. The War on Sensemaking
  3. Jordan Peterson, The Shadow, and Power
  4. Four Jordan Peterson Lectures
  5. Pharisees of the alt-right
  6. The Healthcare ‘Cost Disease’ Demystified
  7. The Atlantic: How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration
  8. Political Violence Is a Game the Right Can’t Win, But There is Hope
  9. Do big words make you look dumb? How BS spreads on the internet
  10. Has democracy become too expensive for capitalism? Part 2
  11. What a Bet Shows
  12. Has democracy become too expensive for capitalism? Part 1
  13. The Boomer Backlash, Part 2
  14. Today in stupid: math edition
  15. Jordan Peterson, SJWs, and Postmodernists
  16. The Necessity of Power, Part 2: weak politicians = stronger state
  17. A competent but boring presidency
  18. Grey Notes: The great self-esteem con
  19. Next Financial Crisis?
  20. The Polgar Prodigies–Is Genius Born or Made
  21. HBD-as-Destiny Thesis (part 5 of predicting series)
  22. Defending Postmodernism
  23. Belated election analysis: was it just luck?
  24. Jordan Peterson and Postmodernism
  25. Is Free Trade worse than Communism?
  26. The Permanent Ascendance of the Status Quo

May 2017

  1. The importance of IQ
  2. Stuck in the quicksand of philosophy
  3. System-based rationalism, part 2
  4. The Atomic Bomb as a Hungarian High School Science Fair Project? Hardly
  5. A systems-based approach to rationalism
  6. How the GOP ‘Establishment’ Lost Its Way
  7. Bryan Caplan and Dave Rubin: Anarcho-Capitalism, Economics, and Immigration (Full Interview)
  8. The Inescapable Pull of Biology
  9. How much should a philosopher be blamed for the consequences of his beliefs
  10. Collapse
  11. Bitcoin is an asset class first and a currency second
  12. Anti-democracy, part 4
  13. Mole in the White House
  14. Another low-IQ country bites the dust
  15. Not Worried About Comey Memo
  16. Accelerationism
  17. Masculinity and Risk Taking
  18. Silicon Valley’s Reality Check
  19. Professional vs. Amateur Writing
  20. Clarification of Principles
  21. Snapchat and Bitcoin
  22. Bitcoin Update: $20,000/coin target
  23. Why Stoicism
  24. Donald Trump’s IQ is 115
  25. Postmodernism: not just for liberals
  26. Society Needs its Weirdos and Nerds
  27. Peter Schiff Wrong as Always: How the Trump Tax Cuts may actually be Deflationary
  28. Trump disillusionment, part 2
  29. Bryan Caplan’s “IQ With Conscience”
  30. Don’t call yourself a libertarian
  31. The Healthcare Debate, Part 3: Why America Cannot Be Like Singapore

April 2017

  1. On Progress and Historical Change: Response
  2. Post-2008 wealth creation boom: recap and why it will continue
  3. Jordan Peterson – Controversial Facts about IQ: analysis
  4. Teaching Students Failure by Failing Them
  5. Classification of groups, and the meme propagation process
  6. Notes on Philosophy versus Politics
  7. The Merging of Economics with Physics
  8. Even an inept king is better than a revolving door of good and bad politicians.
  9. Jordan Peterson – IQ and The Job Market
  10. The Slow Presidency
  11. The Philosophy-STEM alliance
  12. Michael Huemer and Terrorism
  13. How to Predict, Part 3: HBD, Rationalism, and Trusted Sources
  14. Trump and China Relations Strengthen: Another Correct Prediction
  15. Law and Morality
  16. Most debates are over semantics, not issues
  17. Why to Always Short UVXY Instead of VXX
  18. Geopolitical Recap & Predictions
  19. Grey notes: Why Scientology succeeds even though everyone hates it
  20. Intellectualism culture and intersectionality
  21. New York Times: The Gig Economy’s False Promise
  22. The Misplaced Logic of Attacking the Rich
  23. French Election
  24. Biology, especially as it pertains to IQ, is still the ‘third rail’ of the social sciences.
  25. Saving consequentialism and utilitarianism from the trolley car
  26. Jordan Peterson on Rejection
  27. The Tyler Cowen-Rationality feud is getting out of hand
  28. The Trump Syria Disappointment
  29. The ‘Earnership Society’
  30. The Real Truth about NYC’s Elite High Schools
  31. Reactionary Future, MacIntyre, and Communitarianism
  32. IQ: More Than a Number, Part 3
  33. Gnon’s Wager
  34. Global ‘Power Vacuum’ Will be Filled by America and China
  35. Defining and Understanding Rationalism

March 2017

  1. SJWs, Jordan Peterson, and Democracy
  2. Summary: The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
  3. Implementation of HBD-based Policy
  4. Tyler Cowen the Neoreactionary?
  5. YouTube Censorship
  6. Is college a big waste of time and money? It depends
  7. Guided by the ‘correctness’ of our opinions
  8. Upward Mobility Linked to Genes
  9. How To Predict, Part 2: The Downfall of the Popular IPO
  10. And Fear No Darkness
  11. Trump and Neocons
  12. Stocks vs. Real Estate Debate, Part 3 (answering objections)
  13. Scott Adams is Wrong about Snapchat
  14. Malcom Gladwell: poster child of mediocrity
  15. Jordan Peterson Discusses IQ
  16. Shared Experiences
  17. SJW/liberal Cathedral vs. Tehnocommercialism Cathedral
  18. Real Estate vs. Stocks, Part 2 (why homes win, and why rent sucks)
  19. Josh Barro’s Bad Day
  20. Why Gold Fails as a Hedge Against Inflation (and when it works)
  21. The Alt-Right Punches Way Above Its Weight
  22. Why the Customers Don’t Have Yachts, and Why it Doesn’t Matter
  23. Bifurcated Inflation
  24. Who is to blame: society or the individual
  25. Malcolm Gladwell Continues to Lose Credibility
  26. Why it seems like many high-IQ people ‘underachieve’
  27. Why Robots Won’t Take All The Jobs
  28. Grey Notes: Your phone or your life
  29. A Monstrous Mess (collapse & shared narratives)
  30. Math, Physics, and Philosophy: Linked Together
  31. Grey Notes: Trump is ‘Junk’
  32. Tyler Cowen’s The Complacent Class: Reviews and Discussion
  33. Is the World Becoming Smarter or Dumber?
  34. The Industry of Gaslighting Our Culture
  35. Disturbing New Facts About American Capitalism
  36. Crying Wolf: Holding the Pundits and Media Accountable for Being Wrong about Snapchat and Web 2.0
  37. Grey Notes: Protestantism and Holiness Spiraling
  38. There is No Such Thing as the ‘Intellectual Left’
  39. Snapchat goes public: another correct prediction
  40. Trump’s State of the Union Speech – Analysis
  41. China and America: Closer Than Ever

February 2017

  1. Why Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor?
  2. The Advantages of Real Estate over Stocks
  3. Does America owe its success to exploitation, genocide and slavery?
  4. The Decline of ‘Low Information’ Conservatism
  5. Why Bitcoin Keeps Going Up: Analysis
  6. Grey Notes: No Trump Impeachment
  7. Another Correct Prediction: Tesla
  8. How To Predict
  9. Much Ado About Milo
  10. Grey Notes: The Futility of Activism
  11. The Best of Times or The Worst of Times?
  12. Make The Stock Market Great Again
  13. Mark Zuckerberg: a Modern-day Progressive
  14. The Healthcare (and Student Loan) Debate, Part 2…Why is everything so expensive?
  15. The Healthcare Debate: Confronting Reality (End of Life Care and Costly Chronic Diseases)
  16. Rule by signaling
  17. Materialism and Empircisim are Easy; Idealism is Hard
  18. Trump Presidency Predictions and Significance: Economics, Immigration, Culture, and Endgame
  19. A Letter to ‘Trump Haters’
  20. Avoid Individual Stocks
  21. The Trump Disillusionment?
  22. Why conservatives always lose
  23. The Free Trade Debate, Part 2
  24. Getting the Berkeley Riots Wrong
  25. Why There Isn’t More Civil Unrest in America, and Why I’m Not Worried
  26. The ‘Universal Person’
  27. ‘Surprisingly Uneventful’
  28. Why a Wealth Tax is a Bad Idea

January 2017

  1. Why Foreign Real Estate is a Bad Investment
  2. Trump’s Muslim ‘Ban’
  3. Smart, Optimistic Millennials
  4. Doomsday prep for the super-rich
  5. The American Dream Still Exists–If You’re Smart Enough
  6. Stagnant Inflation-Adjusted US Wages: Putting Things in Perspective
  7. Why NRx is Popular on Reddit
  8. Trump Presidency: Sober Expectations
  9. A Skeptic’s View of Fred’s IQ Artilce
  10. The ‘New World Order’
  11. Debunking the 90% Eisenhower Income Tax Myth
  12. Why Choose Pacifism
  13. Trump and the Alt-Right: A Return to ‘Localism’
  14. The Long Peace, and the Slowdown
  15. Inaction and Indifference as Rebellion
  16. Idiocracy in America? Probably not
  17. Never Apologize to Liberals
  18. Why Choose Traditional Publishing Over Self-Publishing
  19. Black Lives Commit More Crime
  20. The Sweet, Boring Middle
  21. Intellectuals choose correctness over consensus
  22. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 7
  23. Freedom vs. Liberty
  24. The Post-2008 ‘Philosophy Boom’
  25. Inevitablism
  26. What People Fight and Die For
  27. Our morally ambiguous times
  28. Maths and reading skills found to be 75 per cent genetic
  29. The power of the alt-right is not to directly influence policy but rather to influence sentiment
  30. Internet Journalism in a Post-2013 Era: Writing Articles that Go Viral
  31. The Necessity of Power
  32. 2017 Predictions and Reflections

2016 350

December 2016

  1. Alt Right Power Struggle
  2. More Tooleb Nonsense Debunked
  3. Drugs and Tariffs
  4. Thomas Sowell Retires
  5. Identity, IQ, and Incoherence of the Alt-Right
  6. In Defense of Millennials, Part 2
  7. Time Management and The Celebration of the Mundane
  8. Explaining America’s Economic and Social Stability, Part 2
  9. No paradigm shifts or changes to status quo
  10. Fallacy of Composition
  11. Reaction, Pacifism, and Realism
  12. The Left’s Favorite Books, Debunked
  13. Small-Government Ethno-States
  14. New ‘Alts’
  15. Wealth Creation as the New American Religion
  16. The Value of Republican Moderates
  17. Trump Presidency Analysis
  18. Understanding the far-left
  19. Nassim Tooleb Loses His Temper Again
  20. HBD-Nationalism Conundrum
  21. Advice to Ignore
  22. NRx Concepts: A Review
  23. The Trump ‘Coming Together’ Moment
  24. Carrier Deal and Govt. Boeing Contracts are Not the Same Thing
  25. Basic Income Alternatives
  26. Corporatism with Nationalism
  27. Trump’s Foreign Policy Milestone
  28. NRx: What it is and Isn’t
  29. Alt-Right War of Words
  30. Was Charles Darwin Slow-Witted?

November 2016

  1. Understanding Marx
  2. American Libertarianism vs. European Libertarianism
  3. ‘I don’t think that candidate is who you think he is’
  4. Trump stimulus is not important
  5. The MSM is ‘fake news’
  6. Overton Bubble
  7. Hail to the easily offended
  8. Alt-Right Twitter Purge
  9. Real news or fake news? Give me the fake news
  10. Why Progressives Lose Their Minds When They Lose Elections
  11. The rise of ‘concern liberalism’ and the decline of ‘identity liberalism’
  12. Why the left is losing, as summarized by a Reddit post
  13. It’s Not Okay
  14. How the GOP has evolved
  15. Jobless America, Part 2
  16. Jobless America
  17. Small Criticisms of Trump’s Economic Platform
  18. Holiness Spirals
  19. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 6
  20. Big Spender Donald Trump
  21. Another Correct Prediction: Trump Wins, Stocks Surge
  22. The ‘Zen’ of NRx
  23. Make America Something Again
  24. Nate Silver defends his methodology as Trump surges
  25. Low voter turnout, low enthusiasm portents to Clinton loss
  26. Election Outcomes and Market Response
  27. No, a Trump victory will not doom the US economy and stock market
  28. Trump as Nixon

October 2016

  1. The Gender Gap in Extreme Math Intelligence
  2. Hillary’s 12 point lead shrinks down to just ONE POINT
  3. Clinton crashing and burning as vote nears
  4. Corrupt Democracies
  5. Michael Moore Endorses Trump?
  6. Despite indoctrination, a college degree may still be the best path out of poverty
  7. Why Post-Election Revolt and Crisis is Unlikely, Part 2
  8. Liberal Media Trying to Prematurely Declare Hillary Winner
  9. Individualism vs. the State
  10. Post-election rioting and crisis: It’s not going to happen
  11. Non-aggression principle, and where it fails
  12. Who Is in Charge?
  13. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 5 (intellectualism)
  14. SJW Narrative Collapse, Part Infinity
  15. ‘Show, don’t tell’
  16. Tim Ferriss, Nootropics, and Accelerated Learning
  17. The Financial Media: It’s Still Useless
  18. Simulation Hypothesis: Some Thoughts
  19. The ISIS Presidential Debate
  20. Where Did It All Go Wrong?
  21. Trump’s Lewd Comments: Some Things to Keep In Mind
  22. Intellectualism as a ‘Passport’
  23. Why ‘Elites’ Don’t Care About Transparency
  24. The Internet Stands With Elon Musk
  25. For the Left, It’s About Power and Control, Not Free Speech
  26. Social Theory and Economics Questions
  27. The Elites
  28. Analysis of Mark Spitznagel Tail Hedging, Part 2
  29. Hooey and Phooey from John C. Wright
  30. Era of the Introvert, and the demise of ‘Careerism’
  31. Reading list
  32. Does Tail Hedging Work? It Depends
  33. Introverts, again
  34. Post-Pundit era and decentralization

September 2016

  1. SEO is a Waste of Time and Money
  2. The Problem With User Contributed Content
  3. Media Mistakingly Attributing Stock Market Rally to Hillary Win
  4. Debate Scorecard
  5. Trump v. Clinton Debate Prediction
  6. Solving the Student Loan/Debt Crisis: A Plan That Can Work
  7. Introverts Rule the World
  8. Putting White on Black Murders in Perspective
  9. Flight 93 Election (analysis)
  10. Amazon, Google, and Facebook: Bigger is Better
  11. Millennials and Misconceptions
  12. How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (response)
  13. Tooleb becomes self-aware, part 2
  14. Behavioral Psychology and Influence
  15. Post-Pundit Era
  16. James Altucher’s Top 1% Advisory Report Review (Don’t Bother)
  17. In Defense Of A Boring, Comfortable Life (analysis)
  18. Cambrian explosion’ of intellectualism
  19. Does algorithmic trading work?
  20. Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Supersmart Children
  21. Obama Cancels Meeting With Philippine President After Being Called Vulgar Name
  22. Alt Right: Consumerism, Crony Capitalism, and Immigration
  23. To make money online, don’t write about weight loss; write about physics
  24. Alt-Right and Internet Journalism
  25. Good Podcasts
  26. Economics Misconceptions, Part 2
  27. Gatekeepers and Scarcity Will Always Exist
  28. Alt Right & NRx: End Game and Action Plans
  29. The FOMO Stock Market

August 2016

  1. Ep-Ep-EpiPen
  2. American Exceptionalism: America vs. Britain
  3. Intellectualism, Individualism, and Wealth, Part 4 (philosophy of millennials)
  4. Alt-Right: Classifications and Significance
  5. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 3
  6. Did Hillary Commit Insider Trading?
  7. American Exceptionalism
  8. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 2 (the obsession with finance)
  9. Heuristics for the Post-2008 World, Part 1
  10. ‘Shared Narratives’ is not bi-partisanship
  11. Wealth, Intellectualism, and Individualism, Part 1
  12. Neoliberalism
  13. Philosophy as a STEM Subject
  14. Defining ‘Progress’
  15. Why HBD?
  16. Politico, Politica
  17. The NRx Review
  18. Slavoj Žižek-NRx Connection
  19. Evidence of Bubbles and other ‘Anomalies’ Does Not Disprove the Efficient Market Hypothesis
  20. Slow Economic Growth Not a Big Deal
  21. Khizr Khan story: Much Ado About Nothing
  22. Gnon Index (turning $10k into $95k)
  23. Why They Support Trump
  24. Airbnb Files to Raise $850 Million at $30 Billion Valuation
  25. Trump the ‘Inarticulate Orator’
  26. U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad
  27. Why Thomas Sowell Never Got a Nobel Prize
  28. Thomas Sowell Ignores Biology
  29. Right Again: Tech Companies Keep Posting Blowout Earnings

July 2016

  1. Debunking Libertarian-Socialist Nonsense
  2. ‘Culture Wars’ give way to ‘Shared Narratives’
  3. Why So Many Millennials Are Struggling
  4. The Genius of Ross Douthat
  5. Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 5
  6. RE: History tells us what may happen next with Brexit & Trump
  7. Peter Thiel
  8. How it’s Possible for the US Economy to Be Strong Even if Many are Not Fully Participating
  9. Ross Douthat Having a Meltdown on Twitter
  10. Artificial Intelligence…or Just Software?
  11. Reign of Terror Begins: Twitter Bans Milo
  12. Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 4
  13. Robert Shiller…Wrong About Real Estate
  14. Malcolm Gladwell – Bait and Switch
  15. The Trajectory of America
  16. Liberal Smugness, or Something Else
  17. Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 3
  18. Fixing the Student Loan Debt Crisis and Reforming Edcuation
  19. Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 2
  20. Post-2008 Wealth Creation: A Guide, Part 1
  21. There is No Systemic ‘War on Blacks’ by Police
  22. The Persistence of the Black-White IQ Gap
  23. Correct Predictions, Part 3
  24. Why the News Is Still Mostly Pointless
  25. Anaysis of Latest memo from Howard Marks: Economic Reality
  26. Anti-Democracy Sentiment Going Mainstream
  27. Moldbug on Libertarianism, Neocameralism
  28. Scott Aaronson Sees the Light…sorta
  29. Why Did Entrepreneurship Become So Difficult?
  30. How NRx has Evolved
  31. NRx Implementation

June 2016

  1. On Writing
  2. Re: Kids can’t use computers
  3. A bloc unified against ‘low information’
  4. Nicholas Nassim Taleb Becomes Self-Aware
  5. Difficulty of NRx Cohesion
  6. Brexit Happens
  7. Brexit Vote: A Bigger Deal Than the US Presidential Election
  8. He’s Right Again
  9. Welcome To the Working Class Nick Denton!
  10. Correct Predictions, Part 2
  11. Conspiracy Theories
  12. FOMC Stupidity
  13. The Physics Police
  14. Preventing Bad Policy
  15. Religion of Peace Strikes Again
  16. Measuring the Influence of NRx Bloggers
  17. Real World Risk Institute
  18. Tyler Cowen: What is neo-reaction?
  19. Consider Protestantism
  20. Job Report: Much Ado About Nothing
  21. Intellectual Solvent, Part 3
  22. Ascended Economies
  23. Gawker’s Power: The Symptom of a Bigger Problem
  24. Society is Failing Men (or how men are failing at society)

May 2016

  1. Inevitability and Pacifism
  2. Correct Predictions
  3. The Stark Realities of Self-Publishing
  4. Coding as the ‘New Literacy’.
  5. Deconstructing a Viral Article
  6. Taleb’s CV
  7. Jobs, Basic Income, Post Scarcity, and all that Jazz
  8. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Thin-Skin In The Game
  9. Theranos: The Cards Fall
  10. Entering the ‘Grey Zone’
  11. Chinese nationals pour more than $150 billion over five years into US real estate
  12. Lessons From the Trump Surge: What We Learned
  13. Coming to Terms With Our New Economy
  14. Genes for IQ finally found…what’s next
  15. Ingroup/Outgroup Dynamics
  16. Bay Area Rent Is Surging
  17. The Economics Debate: Jobs and Automation
  18. Why Do The Rich Need So Much Money?
  19. Biology as a Sorting Mechanism
  20. Alt Right, Part.. Whatever
  21. I Can Tolerate Anything Except Factual Inaccuracies
  22. Donald Trump Wrong About Treasury Bonds
  23. Guest/User-Contributed Content is Clogging Google
  24. The Biotech/Heathcare Scam Bubble Bursts
  25. The Logical Inconsistency of Collapse-ism
  26. Zerohedge
  27. Failed Predictions of the Demise of the EU
  28. Adulting
  29. Getting Around the Reverse-Flynn Effect
  30. Bill Clinton vs. Sanders
  31. Nihilism and the Black Pill
  32. Improving Society and Policy

April 2016

  1. Our Less Particpatory Times
  2. Hacker News Rankings: More Than an Algorithm
  3. Neoconservatism
  4. Utilitarianism and Consequentialism
  5. The Daily View: NRx Activism, Do You Live in a Bubble, Math Education, Contrarianism
  6. Vox Explains the ‘Alt Right’
  7. Diagnosing Democracy
  8. Millennials Make a Killing Day Trading on Reddit
  9. Education and the Blank Slate: Setting Realistic Expectations
  10. The UBI Revisited
  11. The Facade of Democracy
  12. Intellectualism Signaling
  13. The Economic Calm
  14. Social Taxonomy
  15. Millennials and Intellectualism Culture, Part 2
  16. RE: How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization
  17. The Wealth Inequality Obsession
  18. Post-2008 Themes
  19. The Daily View: Dumbing-Down, Poverty in Africa, Space-X, Job Creation, Race & Crime
  20. Universal Basic Income – Why It Can’t Work in America
  21. The Minimum Wage Debate
  22. Thomas Hobbes and the Seeds of Liberalism
  23. The Gift of Autism
  24. Sharing Economy Dying? Debunking Salon.com Hype
  25. Not Smart Enough to Succeed: IQ Inequality = Income Inequality
  26. The Daily View: Prescriptivism , Populism, and Why Democracy Doesn’t Work
  27. Voters and Skin in the Game

March 2016

  1. Against the Elite
  2. The Daily View: Economics and Finance Edition
  3. Against IQ-ism (response to Moldbug post)
  4. The Intellectual Solvent, Part 2
  5. Against Intellectualism
  6. All Roads Lead To What We Have Now
  7. The Fate of Gawker – What Happens Next
  8. NRx vs. HRx
  9. Explaining America’s Economic and Social Stability
  10. Abortion and Crime Revisited
  11. In Search of Fulfillment
  12. Defending ‘Academic’ Writing
  13. The Second ‘Great Experiment ‘
  14. What Martin Shkreli Says About America
  15. He’s Right, Part 2
  16. Marshmallow ‘deferers’ vs. ‘eaters’
  17. National Review Writer: Working-Class Communities ‘Deserve To Die’
  18. IQ: It Still Predicts A lot
  19. Stock Bull Market Continues, Seven Years Later
  20. NRx and Capitalism
  21. The ‘Great American Article’
  22. The Daily View 3/8/2016
  23. In Search of ‘Reset’
  24. SJW-backlash continues
  25. Zerohedge, Trump and Anti-Establishment Liberalism
  26. Pencil Pushers and The Miracle of Capitalism
  27. Order – Right vs. Left
  28. The Daily View: Trump and Meta-narratives
  29. Virtue Signaling and Status

February 2016

  1. Age of Abundance? It Depends
  2. What Comes Next
  3. Family and Individualism
  4. Math Note #1 (option pricing and GR)
  5. Free Speech and Twitter
  6. The Daily View: In a Loop, MGTOW, and The Elite
  7. Individualism Vs. Thede
  8. Social Skills and Political Correctness
  9. ‘Low Information’ Sanders
  10. The Daily View: Math Resurgence, Economic Growth, Student Loans
  11. Scott, Utilitarians, The Rational Middle, Scientism, and Liberals
  12. Negative Interest Rates
  13. Trump’s America
  14. Is America Really ‘Dumbing Down’?
  15. Intellect: The Universal Solvent
  16. Web 2.0 & the Economy: It’s Different This Time, Part 2
  17. The Esoteric Celebrity
  18. Defending ‘Theory’ and Rationalism
  19. He’s Right
  20. Millennials leading the alt-right
  21. NRx and Positivism
  22. The Internet Stands Behind Richard Dawkins
  23. ‘Peak Everything’ and the ‘winner-take-all’ market

January 2016

  1. The Writing Boom
  2. Moderates
  3. NRx Ideology & Endgame, part 2
  4. Centrism
  5. Trump skipping the debates: a smart move
  6. Bernie the Brainiac?
  7. Four Years Later, Taleb Still Holding Grudge Against Pinker
  8. Alt Right Part 2, and the NRx Endgame
  9. The Daily View: Today in Stupid
  10. Free Speech, Democracy, and Crime
  11. Not Worried About Tech Valuations: Why It May Be Different This Time
  12. The Alt Right
  13. Nerd Culture: Here to Stay
  14. Debunking More IQ Denialism
  15. Time to Retire MLK
  16. The Daily View: 1/17/2016 (lots of stuff)
  17. Cancer: The Mid-life Killer
  18. The Daily View : Stocks Plunge, RIP American Dream, Why Prescription Drugs are so Expensive
  19. Classification of Ideologies
  20. Collapse Can Wait, Part 2
  21. The Daily View: ‘Longest Depression’, Basic Income, Pinterest
  22. The Moral Decay Conundrum
  23. Does the Nation Make the Genius?
  24. Better or Worse?
  25. Soros: It’s the 2008 crisis all over again
  26. The Millennial Backlash Against The Baby Boomers
  27. Active Management Continues to Lag Indexes
  28. Re: Wealth Inequality
  29. The China Shop in the Bull
  30. In Defense of Smart People
  31. Paul Graham: Economic Inequality and The Refragmentation
  32. What libertarians can learn from the fed. government
  33. Digital slueths expose ‘fat acceptance’ hypocrisy
  34. Fairy Tales

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