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Many of you are familiar with urban scaling, the idea that outcomes such as innovation and crime grow super-linearly with city size. But what if I told you that the "network of cities" was better at explaining some of these outcomes?
In a new paper led by @xiaofanliang we explore this hypo... See more
According to the logic of game theory, in-group oriented nonwhites and immigrants are bound to outcompete whites who extend trust and fairness to everyone irrespective of race and religion.
White universalists emphasize equal rules, contracts based on individual self interest, and impartial legal and educational standar... See more
Kremer illustrates this by showing that as the population of the earth has increased, the rate of population growth has increased rather than declined. Had humans been a burden consuming resources, then the larger the population, the lower the quantity of resources available to each individual and the lower the rate of economic growth and thus popu
... See moreSaifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
I'll enjoy watching the West drop its shackles. But I no longer expect this to be a game-changer.
My main reason to underrate China was… esoteric: ignoring population stratification. I thought they're an avg 104 IQ nation. That they'll be *on par* in producing elite performers. https://t.co/80Z3oHaxa5
Nathaniel Joselson
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Scientific models that seek to predict the consequences of human actions with some reasonable accuracy—such as game theoretical models of economic behavior—for the most part ignore human individuality in favor of aggregated outcomes.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
'the age of the base of the overlying mid-Middle Palaeolithic Layer C..ranges between 204 ± 18 ka & 192 ± 14 ka. Consequently, the Tabun C2 mandible discovered at the base of..C may prove to be among the oldest H. sapiens fossils found outside Africa' https://t.co/Yxy6hkCWJS
Chris Stringerx.com