This article went viral on Hacker News: I have forgotten how to read This post is not about the content of the article itself but rather what its viralness signifies. The fact it went viral on Hacker News (abut also on Reddit) agrees with the…
US Power Will Decline Under Trump, Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse Galtung has also accurately predicted the 1978 Iranian revolution; the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989 in China; the economic crises of 1987, 2008 and 2011; and even the 9/11 attacks—among other events, according…
An NBER study Goal Setting, Academic Reminders, and College Success: A Large-Scale Field Experiment, which demonstrates that goal-setting programs do not boost college GPAs, went viral, having been shared and up-voted many times on Reddit. The paper was published in August 2017, but didn’t get…
In the wake of Florida school shooting and the renewed debate on gun control, this 4chan post from 2017 went viral: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Even though I support the 2nd amendment, I’m skeptical that guns are a bulwark against tyranny. Gun ownership…
Let’s face it…Bitcoin, as well as all crypto currencies, suck as an investment. Every time it looks like it is recovering, it drops $400-600+ for no reason: It goes up a lot for a brief period of time, a tiny number of people make money,…
Scott posts his predictions for 2023: FIVE MORE YEARS Those yearly “predictions for next year” posts are starting to reach the limit of their usefulness. Not much changes from year to year, and most of what does change is hard to capture in objective probabilistic…
Bitcoin continues to demonstrate how bad of an investment it is, losing 15% of its value in under 36 hours: A $1000 point drop in just a few hours and a $500 point drop in just a few minutes. Some will respond, “But…but…it’s up 1000%…
Even though /r/the_Donald posters tend to be much further to the ‘right’ than Dr. Peterson himself, he is still immensely popular there. But not just on /r/The_Donald; he’s popular among intellectual types of all political stripes, from rationalists who lean left, to reactionaries on the…
There’s a popular YouTube channel titled ‘Bite-sized Philosophy,’ which as its name suggests provides concise summaries pertaining to philosophical matters. Here is my bite-sized summary of Empiricism vs. Rationalism. Consider a cooking range that has four or more individual stove tops. There is also a…
This tweet went viral a few weeks ago: If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn't learn to walk without going to school. — Geoff Graham…