Media Getting NRx Wrong

The Moldbug Variations Yarvin believes there is no such thing as democracy—and Thiel has said as much, as well. Yarvin’s stunted political imagination prizes strict hierarchies—despotisms, monarchies, and experimental new feudalism via a “patchwork” of corporate fiefdoms managed by absolute dictators who might be appointed by a vote of property-owning “shareholders.” Unlike some advocates of… Continue reading Media Getting NRx Wrong

Two IQ links by two Scotts

From Vox, by Scott Alexander: So you’ve learned you’ve got a “pitifully” low IQ. How worried should you be? and Scott Aaronson: Also against individual IQ worries Aaronson as a 4-year-old ‘only’ scored 106 on an IQ test, which as he says himself, seems too low and incommensurate with his academic achievements: I sometimes get… Continue reading Two IQ links by two Scotts

Why 3x S&P 500 ETFs can be held long-term

Many articles argue that one shouldn’t hold leveraged ETFs long-term. Like many things, it depends on the situation. For certain leveraged ETFs that have high volatility, that is prudent advice, but for underlying asset classes with low volatility and long-term positive returns (such as the S&P 500), 2x and 3x versions can be held long-term.… Continue reading Why 3x S&P 500 ETFs can be held long-term

Raven’s test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance, psychometric properties, and the Flynn Effect

This is pretty interesting: Raven’s test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance, psychometric properties, and the Flynn Effect Abstract: This paper presents a systematic review of published data on the performance of sub-Saharan Africans on Raven’s Progressive Matrices. The specific goals were to estimate the average level of performance, to study the Flynn Effect in African samples,… Continue reading Raven’s test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance, psychometric properties, and the Flynn Effect

Are Successful Writers The Smartest People Alive?

Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is among many high achievers whose measured IQ was not as high as you’d expect. Kevin Fleming / Contributor, Source: Vox Richard Feynman is regarded as one of the most brilliant physicists who ever lived. That’s why it came as a surprise (to me at least) that his two books… Continue reading Are Successful Writers The Smartest People Alive?

The “HBD bull market” is unstoppable, and the persuasion technique I used to helped someone make thousands of dollars

The stock market (or what I call the HBD bull market, because high-IQ people are the main beneficiaries of the expansion, but also high-IQ businesses like Google and Microsoft are contributing the most too it, too) is relentless. What is perhaps the greatest wealth creation boom in the history of human civilization, is unfolding before… Continue reading The “HBD bull market” is unstoppable, and the persuasion technique I used to helped someone make thousands of dollars

Yes, the ‘never-Trumpers’ were wrong, but it doesn’t matter anymore

Milo dumps on Ben Shapiro and the ‘never-trumpers’: Ben Shapiro & Milo Yiannopoulos ROASTING each other “Ben Shapiro has been cast into the media wilderness!” As the trite saying goes, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I don’t like either of these figures much, but Milo is not as big as he… Continue reading Yes, the ‘never-Trumpers’ were wrong, but it doesn’t matter anymore

Kevin Williamson’s Elitism

The White-Minstrel Show Kevin Williamson’s message of self-sufficiency is mostly correct, although he belabors his dislike of Trump to the point that it distracts from anything useful he has to say. In invoking Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his report The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, Kevin argues that whites need to save themselves,… Continue reading Kevin Williamson’s Elitism

HBD & Investing, Part 3 (IQ and the concentration of wealth)

A question that I didn’t address in part 1 is, why is IQ so important for investing? What is the mechanism that explains why high-IQ stocks, assets, industries, and countries do so well compared to average & low-IQ ones. The answer has to do with how wealth is concentrated, in that high-IQ entities concentrate wealth… Continue reading HBD & Investing, Part 3 (IQ and the concentration of wealth)