Month: January 2019

One of the ironies of crypto currency is that although the developers are pretty smart, the average speculator or pundit is really dumb. One thing you may notice is that there a lot of people who have money but are stupid…people who hype crypto currencies and other bad investments, as well as those who invest… Continue reading James Altucher Wrong About Crypto Currency

BlogviewRon Unz Archive An Open Letter to the “Alt-Right” and Others Ron Unz is one of the rare specimens of smart empiricists. As I argue, empiricism and materialism are ‘easier’ than rationalism and idealism, because the former can merely defer to manifest reality whereas the latter has to create reality in his or her own… Continue reading Ron Unz on Hispanic Crime

Nassim Taleb is at it again with a Medium post that expounds on his anti-IQ twitter rant, which I critiqued earlier. Taleb’s argument, essentially, is that IQ tests only work on the ‘low end’ and not ‘high end’, and that IQ is not a predictor of above-average ability. Taleb’s post is mostly incoherent. As a… Continue reading Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Wrong again!)

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or… Continue reading The Sam Vimes “Boots” Theory of Economic Injustice

Vox Day put out a really interesting video purporting to give the ‘true’ value of of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s IQ, which he puts at only 115-120. He bases this on Dr. Peterson failing to get into law school, which suggests an unimpressive LSAT score, and on Dr. Peterson’s own GRE scores. For reference, here is… Continue reading Jordan Peterson’s IQ…estimate and Vox Day may be wrong