Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Philippe Lemoine, a fellow at CSPI, a philosopher of science trained at Cornell. Lemoine often wades into controversial topics, like whether Chinese COVID data is trustworthy, but recently…
Katherine Brodsky: After 10/7 in Israel, Europe and the US
Anti-Semitism, liberalism and the world’s changing geopolitics
Time Well Spent – 12/12/2023
Holiday Edition
Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses war and diplomacy from 9/11 to 10/7 with Mark Safranski. Safranski is a long-time military affairs and foreign policy commentator who ran the popular weblog Zenpundit beginning in 2003. T…
Cody Moser: the adaptive landscape of cultural evolution
How fragmented social networks might allow us to be more creative
Brent Roberts: let’s talk about personality
Brent W. Roberts On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Roberts explains what personality actually is as a psychological construct, and h…
Brent Roberts: let’s talk about personality
Brent W. Roberts On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib discusses personality with Brent Roberts, professor of psychology at the University of Illinois. Roberts explains what personality actually is as a psychological construct, and h…
Philippe Lemoine: French food and American immigrants
The man who triggered a culinary controversy with a single tweet
Carl Zha: Chimerica to the Thucydides’s Trap
For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. On t…
Cyber Monday 50% discount, and three things I never quit
Substack savings, three years of top posts and stacks of reading recs
Genghis Khan: they don’t make stars like they used to
Manspreading like the ancientsStar phylogenies and the rise and fall of hyper-patriarchy
Mark Safranski: the 21st-century way of war and the exhaustion of the American Empire
Listen now (81 mins) | International relations between 9/11 to 10/7
Browncast on Bangladesh, 2023
Amey, Karol and me review what’s going on in Bangladesh right now.
– Elections in 2025, but an Awami League one party state emerging
– Lack of integration and interaction between West Bengal and Bangladesh
– Geopolitical orient…
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
Today, Razib interviews Nikolai Yakovenko, already a three-time guest on his podcasts (A Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company’s prospects, GPT-3 and the rise of the thinking machines and AI and Biology). An artificial intelligenc…
Nikolai Yakovenko: OpenAI in chaos, the future of artificial intelligence and effective accelerationism
Listen now (84 mins) | OpenAI’s leadership shakeup and its implications for the field of AI
Open Thread – 11/19/2023
A new podcast with Karol is posted on Bangladeshi politics, culture and economics (me and Amey co-host). At one point Karol notes that Sheik Hasina, the Prime Minister, has a son who is being groomed to be heir apparent, but he is married to an American and lives in the DC area and does not … Continue reading Open Thread – 11/19/2023
Curtis Yarvin: reflections on a life of poetry
For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. On t…
Probably only 15 states would restrict most abortion if it was put to a popular vote
A few years ago Pew did a survey on attitudes to abortion by state, and you can see the results below in the table. What I want to focus on […]
Probably only 15 states would restrict most abortion if it was put to a popular vote
A few years ago Pew did a survey on attitudes to abortion by state, and you can see the results below in the table. What I want to focus on […]
Michael Muthukrishna: A Theory of Everyone – The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
For the first time ever, parents going through IVF can use whole genome sequencing to screen their embryos for hundreds of conditions. Harness the power of genetics to keep your family safe, with Orchid. Check them out at orchidhealth.com. On t…