Wyclif's Dust

There’s a reasonable consensus out there that AI does not yet substitute for human effort.

In a series of posts [1, 2, 3], I have looked at how social liberals in Europe have fewer children.

These two articles looked at the relationship between fertility and social liberalism in Europe: They showed a paradox.

I hate conferences: they bring out the worst in me.

This was inspired by writing a review of this paper, and reuses some material from my review.

The ISSP data The International Social Survey Program has a nice module on gender attitudes.

Yes, I’ve been on hiatus for months.

Are we on our way to superintelligence wiping out humans by 2027?

Eric Turkheimer discusses a new paper examining ancestry-related genetic differences among Mexicans.

Well the first thing to say is obviously, what a change from the era of democratization: 9.

Economists tend to be pro-immigration, and to think of people as following their self-interest.

Everyone has to cancel someone 🍾 I wrote this before Trump was re-elected, not as a defence of right-wing cancellation culture specifically, e.g. in relation to the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

Oana Borcan and I already wrote about the “no difference” theory of modern parenting, which uses evidence from twin studies to argue that parents make surprisingly little effect on their offspring’s outcomes: That article gathers a lot of evidence from di…

Apologies for my European-style long vacation (the younger generation are to blame).

People may want to increase fertility for different reasons.

Both Sasha Gusev and Eric Turkheimer were kind enough to respond to my original post Why I Am Not A Polygenic Score Nihilist, Sasha in a comment on the post, and Professor Turkheimer in his own post.

Warning: technical.

Here is a good, very comprehensive introduction by Scott Alexander to the debate about missing heritability.

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with social scientists in different disciplines.

Why the negativity?

The previous three posts in this series presented a mass of data from the European Social Survey and European Values Survey: Now let’s step back and resolve that data into understandable patterns.