A warning about my own reliability before we begin:
A little learning is a dangerous thing ;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
But sadly, there is not just one Pierian spring, and who has time to drink deeply from all of them? Certainly not I, but I remain tempted to sample each spring. In other words, I’m a fool come to fill your brain with errors, and if you’re not careful I’ll succeed. I know a fair bit of philosophy & psychology, and a reasonable chunk of economics, everything beyond this is thin.
AI
AI does not merely abide: Contra the Lebowski Theorem
Amateur hour Political Science:
Americans are Generally Conflict Theorists
Heading Left: The Stories of People who Have Moved From the Political Right to the Left
The Class Composition of Voters for Front National, A French Far Right Party
Internet Searches Increasingly Favour the Left Over the Right of Politics
Let’s End the Myth That Poor and Working Class People don’t Support Redistribution
If Anything Black Democrats are More Passionate About Economic Justice than White Democrats
Amateur Hour Sociology
What I wish Science-Fiction Authors Understood About Disasters
Googling Habits Suggest We are Getting a Lot More Anxious
Suicide Rates and Artistic Tastes, Google as a Window to the Soul
Money Makes the World go Round: The Case for Materialist Explanations in Social Science
Amateur hour Studies of Religion:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Origins of Religion
Life advice, applied interpersonal ethics etc.
Marxism, communism the left generally and political theory
The egalitarian past (and future?) of politics
Philosophy- general:
Carving up the philosophical terrain around personal identity a little differently
Philosophy- Normative social epistemology project:
The Paradox of the Crowd and a Social Solution
Money and the Sceptic: A social-epistemological case for taking left-wing economics seriously
Philosophy- Philosophy and OCD
OCD: What I learned fighting mind-cancer
Poetry:
Political strategy and practical politics:
Mistaken Identity and misunderstood interests: Haider and identity politics
The Disciplinarian and the Reformer
Psychology
Statistics
Things not entirely serious:
Thoughts and Summary Statistics on the Record of “Actually Existing Socialism”
The Economic Record of Command Economies in Perspective
Inequality and the Soviet Union
Welfare Economics & economics of inequality
The Effects of Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency in an Oligarchy
The Cost of Not Redistributing Money
Median Incomes Aren’t Keeping up with Growth, However Hard you Look
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