Squaring the numbers next to the black and white vectors in the first equation above tells us that if you first measure an ...

Nearly every political movement that taps into mass passions has a villain, and the most energized portion of the left has in the last few years shifted from blaming the white male patriarchy for the ...

When police killings of black men were in the headlines during the 2010s and early 2020s, we would often hear about “the talk” that black parents had to have with their sons. Law enforcement was ...

There are a lot of cross-racial behavioral genetic studies that support hereditarianism, but environmentalists have one 1961 paper they can point to. After World War II, Germany was occupied by the ...

You are a moral reprobate for preferring homogeneity. That makes you a bad person. That is pathological for you to express those preferences. And moreover, it’s pathological and bad for you to pursue ...

It’s getting kind of repetitive pointing out that conservative anti-immigration arguments make no sense and directly contradict other things they say they believe. But indulge me once more. This topic ...

Previously, we learned that measurement influences the state of particles, or at least the impact they have on the physical reality we observe. A particle that has one feature, which might be called ...

In summer 2022, I did a reader survey. Here are Part I, Part II, and Part III of the results. When I last did the survey, I had 1/5th of the readers I have now. I think it would be fascinating to see ...

Some of you were around for my 2022 reader survey (see Part I, Part II, and Part III). I just reran it, and this post will discuss the results. First, allow me to credit ChatGPT. We spend so much time ...

Scott Sumner has some wise words on trying to assess p(doom) as an outsider. In his article, I came across this result of the 2022 chart below on existential risk ...