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In a massively viral article, The Atlantic ponders why Joe Rogan is so popular. A common misconception is that Rogan’s listenership is right-wing and pro-Trump, but it’s not necessarily left-wing or right-wing, but rather appeals to what can be described as a sort of secular, fatalistic nihilistic morality among a lot of young people today… Continue reading Joe Rogan’s Huge Popularity

Saw these two interesting posts from the IQ-blogger Pumpkin Person: The IQ of Chimpanzees What does it mean to be twice as smart? And I am going to relate these posts to why the 10,000 ‘rule’ is bullshit and why practice is hugely insufficient for attaining top performance for g-loaded activities, or any activity in… Continue reading Intelligence is not additive or multiplicative

A few days ago he re-tweeted yet another Tulsi tweet: This is definitive proof that Taleb is a social justice warrior, which I have suspected for years. This is not 4-d chess, nor is he doing this ironically, but rather this is an unequivocal endorsement of the left. Taleb likely never supported Trump in 2015-2017,… Continue reading More Nasssim Taleb lies

But also, unlike in the ’90s, there are many more ways to make money in spite of supposed economic hardship, such as in the stock market and option trading [as the huge popularity of /r/wallstreetbets shows, where 20 and 30-year-olds frequently make (and also lose) huge sums of money], crypto currency, live-streaming on YouTube or… Continue reading The ’90s and now, part 14

Some people, both on the ‘left’ and the ‘right’, get mad when you argue that the Trump tariffs and supposed trade war have not, and will not, have any negative affects on the US economy. “If the two biggest economies in the world are in a trade war, how can it not have a negative… Continue reading Why the tariffs are not hurting the US economy

All over the internet, people are asking if the economy has peaked or when to sell their stocks, especially given the unprecedented duration and magnitude of the post-2009 economic expansion and stock market boom, which as of 2018 has surpassed all prior records. Given that interest rates are so low , I think this wealth… Continue reading Additional arguments against economic stagnation

From Quillete The Deadly Boredom of ‘A Meaningless Life’ And Mel Magazine What Do We Do About the Violence of Lonely Young Men? The shootings in Denver and El Paso are an invitation for internet armchair psychologists and pundits everywhere to rehash the same tired narrative to explain the epidemic of mass shootings by young… Continue reading Stop blaming introverts for mass shootings

The tweet below struck me as neo-reactionary, as an indictment of America’s puritan cultural bedrock, despite being composed by someone who is otherwise left-wing: Americans will never, ever lose their hunger and thirst for tattling on each other and getting one another fired. It worked for the Puritans and it works for us. Good for… Continue reading Left-wing reaction

Some people get annoyed by the idea that wealth and IQ are strongly linked. They say “look at all those smart people who are not rich!” At the low-end of IQ, such as around 80-95, people have fewer career choices, and the correlation between wealth and IQ is stronger. Someone with a high IQ can… Continue reading IQ and wealth, continued

The S%P 500 fell 3% yesterday and is off 5% from the highs over trade war fears. My prediction for these latest round of tariffs (five and counting) is that nothing will happen. There will be no meaningful uptick in inflation as measured by CPI. The market has done this many times since Jan 2018… Continue reading Not worried about latest tariffs