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Archives of the Bayesian Investor Blog

2026
  • May 13 Progress Toward an AI Stock Bubble
  • April 29 The Infinity Machine
  • April 5 FRI’s Forecast of AI Impacts
  • March 2 War Claude
  • February 12 Claude’s Constitution
  • January 26 Defending the Rule of Law
  • January 14 Corrigibility Scales To Value Alignment
  • January 4 The Thinking Machine
2025
  • December 31 Safety Net When AIs Take Our Jobs
  • December 21 What’s the Current Stock Market Bubble?
  • December 3 Beating China to ASI
  • November 3 Red Heart
  • October 28 Food Tidbits 2
  • October 8 IABIED: Paradigm Confusion and Overconfidence
  • September 26 If Anyone Builds It
  • September 6 Comments on MIRI’s The Problem
  • August 28 A Business Model for AI
  • August 21 AI Near-Term Productivity Increases
  • August 1 The Death of Cancer
  • July 21 Future-Generation Government
  • July 20 AI-Oriented Investments
  • July 16 An Optimistic Scenario for Taiwan
  • July 9 Further Thoughts on AI Ethics
  • June 29 Waking up to AGI
  • June 26 Super Agers
  • June 20 Are Intelligent Agents More Ethical?
  • May 27 Insider Trading on Nuclear Regulation?
  • May 1 The Ageless Brain
  • April 25 AI 2027 Thoughts
  • April 15 Should AIs be Encouraged to Cooperate?
  • April 8 Rain of Tariffs
  • March 18 Notes from the TRIIM-X Clinical Trial
  • March 14 AI Markets on Manifold
  • February 16 Retrospective on my Investing Advice
  • February 6 Medical Windfall Prizes
  • February 4 Curb: A GLP-1 Supplement
  • January 23 Uncontrollable
  • January 13 Openwater’s Cancer Treatment
2024
  • December 31 Genesis
  • December 29 Corrigibility should be an AI’s Only Goal
  • December 18 Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
  • December 1 Drexler’s Nanotech Software
  • November 10 Markets and the Election
  • October 29 Criteria for Voting
  • October 18 AI Prejudices: Practical Implications
  • September 30 Peak Human Capital
  • August 30 On the Edge
  • August 5 Recession Watch 2024
  • July 23 The Cancer Resolution?
  • June 27 Situational Awareness
  • June 18 Boycott OpenAI
  • May 26 Everything Is Predictable
  • April 23 Deep Utopia
  • April 5 Exploring Whole Brain Emulation
  • March 2 Self-Resolving Prediction Markets
  • February 1 Manifold Markets
  • January 12 A Theory of Everyone
2023
  • December 28 Dark Skies
  • December 11 The Accidental Superpower
  • November 16 When Will AIs Develop Long-Term Planning?
  • October 13 Disentangling Our Terminal and Instrumental Values
  • October 5 Provably Safe AI
  • September 28 The Coming Wave
  • September 20 Require AGI to be Explainable
  • September 13 Outlive
  • August 25 Will an Overconfident AGI Mistakenly Expect to Conquer the World?
  • July 17 Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
  • June 29 Foom Liability
  • June 20 Two Approaches to Lowering Cholesterol
  • June 14 How the World Became Rich
  • June 6 How to Slow AI Development
  • May 21 Four Battlegrounds
  • April 22 OpenAI’s GPT-4 Safety Goals
  • April 14 On Caring about our AI Progeny
  • April 5 Pause AI Development?
  • March 12 Bank Failures
  • February 24 5 Year Predictions
  • February 14 How Social Science Got Better
  • February 6 Review of AI Alignment Progress
  • January 8 Evidence under Adversarial Conditions
2022
  • December 30 Investing for a World Transformed by AI
  • December 21 BioVie
  • December 7 Investing Amid Low Expected Returns
  • November 26 Review: LOVE in a simbox
  • October 13 Cold War II
  • September 27 Blood Tests
  • September 23 What We Owe the Future
  • September 10 True Age
  • July 29 Drexler’s Nanotech Forecast
  • July 20 The Manhattan Project
  • July 15 QNR Prospects
  • July 6 Cooperation with and between AGI’s
  • July 1 Agenty AGI – How Tempting?
  • June 10 The ESG Alignment Problem
  • May 2 Recession Watch
  • April 21 Reward the Non-use of Medicine
  • April 8 The Amish
  • March 10 The Dawn of Everything
  • January 26 The Resilient Society
  • January 16 The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
2021
  • December 31 The Money Illusion
  • December 23 AI Fire Alarm Scenarios
  • December 10 Causes of Low Interest Rates
  • November 18 The Recent Surge in Inflation
  • October 15 Improve Paywalls
  • October 8 Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite
  • September 23 How did the Pandemic Affect Productivity?
  • September 2 Shut Out
  • July 19 The Explanation of Ideology
  • July 1 New Dementia Trial Results
  • June 21 Noise
  • June 13 Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News
  • May 21 Ageless
  • April 15 The Alignment Problem
  • March 10 Functional Medicine
  • February 6 Geography of Thought
  • January 17 Dirt
  • January 10 Notes on WEIRDest People
  • January 2 The Cult of Smart
2020
  • December 26 The End of Alzheimer’s Program
  • December 20 I Lose My COVID Bet
  • December 11 The Flynn Effect Clarified
  • November 28 WEIRDest People
  • November 3 The Precipice
  • October 30 Medical Certainty and Prestige
  • October 21 Age Later
  • October 14 Vote for Competence and Tolerance
  • September 27 Equationizing Market Monetarism
  • September 16 More Evidence for the Paleo Lifestyle
  • September 5 Why is the Stock Market Rising?
  • July 26 October Surprises, Part 2
  • July 26 October Surprises, Part 1
  • July 10 Lifespan
  • June 25 Black Death at the Golden Gate
  • June 17 The Driving Force
  • June 7 COVID-19: The Illusion of Stability
  • May 27 Bond Market Bubble
  • May 14 Depression 2020?
  • May 4 COVID-19: A Tale of Two Cities
  • April 14 Is R0 < 1 yet?
  • April 11 Nutrient Power
  • March 22 Some COVID-19 Notes
  • March 1 The Coronavirus Stock Market Crash
  • February 16 Oura
  • January 28 Move Your DNA
  • January 17 Human Compatible
2019
  • December 29 Baze
  • December 22 Another AI Winter?
  • December 1 The Paleo Cure
  • October 24 The AI Does Not Hate You
  • October 13 The Future of Earning to Give
  • October 6 Mouse Chow Questions
  • September 26 Nifty 50 Stocks
  • September 15 Prediction Machines
  • August 17 Are Blue Zones Healthy?
  • July 31 The Good Gut
  • July 9 Food Tidbits
  • June 17 The Finders
  • May 22 The Longevity Diet
  • April 24 Food Delivery Reviews
  • April 13 the Metabolic Theory of Cancer
  • March 18 Microbial Burden
  • February 25 Ray Dalio’s Principles
  • January 30 Drexler on AI Risk
  • January 17 Bundle your Experiments
  • January 10 Time Biases
2018
  • December 31 Ontological Crises
  • December 20 Evaluating Donations to Cure Aging
  • December 6 Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security
  • November 16 Plant Paradox Diet Update
  • October 28 The Great Stagnation
  • October 14 Where Is My Flying Car?
  • September 20 How Much does Nutrition Matter?
  • July 31 Piketty
  • July 27 UBI via Cryptocurrency?
  • July 6 Pearl’s Book of Why
  • June 29 Continuing Adventures in Optimizing my Health
  • June 20 The Plant Paradox
  • June 7 The Life You Can Save
  • May 11 Fork Science
  • April 1 A Less Anthropomorphic Explanation of the Industrial Revolution
  • March 24 Another housing bubble?
  • March 5 Surfing Uncertainty
  • February 19 Predictions
  • January 31 The Elephant in the Brain
  • January 22 Warnings
  • January 16 Cryptocurrencies
  • January 5 Feeding Everyone No Matter What
2017
  • December 28 Ashwagandha and thyroid hormones
  • December 21 Moore’s Law and AGI Timelines
  • November 24 Inadequate Equilibria
  • November 9 The Causes of War
  • October 19 The End of Alzheimer’s
  • September 29 Seasteading
  • September 22 Peak Fossil Fuel
  • September 13 Dealism
  • September 4 Into the Gray Zone
  • August 14 Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony
  • July 28 Ems Evolve
  • July 14 The Hungry Brain
  • July 4 Why Don’t AI Researchers Panic?
  • June 15 Daring Greatly
  • June 1 Do AI Experts Exist?
  • May 16 Seeing like a State
  • April 27 Be Yourself
  • April 13 State, Economy, and the Great Divergence
  • March 31 The Measure of All Minds
  • March 15 Political Order and Political Decay
  • February 20 Other Minds
  • February 15 Neural Networks are rather Transparent
  • February 2 Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation
  • January 25 Superforecasting
  • January 7 Rationality Quotient
2016
  • December 22 The AI Safety Landscape
  • December 14 Models of Willpower
  • November 27 Doing Good Better
  • November 9 Market Reactions to the Election
  • October 19 Anxiety Anxiety
  • September 30 The Vital Question
  • September 25 Science as Compression
  • September 14 Logical Induction
  • September 7 The Moral Economy
  • August 28 AI Phase Change?
  • August 18 Morning Pages
  • August 4 Financial Procrastination
  • July 21 Smart Animals?
  • July 8 Childhood’s Em
  • June 20 Made-Up Minds
  • June 8 AGI Timelines
  • May 24 The Age of Em
  • May 24 Probably Approximately Correct
  • May 6 The Midas Paradox
  • April 17 The Human Advantage
  • April 13 The Secret of Our Success
  • March 24 Inflation targeting compared to NGDP targeting
  • February 25 Fed Policy and Inflation Forecasts
  • February 19 Sense of Style
  • January 26 Ethical Diet Reviewed
  • January 15 Observing Neuron Behavior
  • January 2 Hive Mind
2015
  • December 18 Eureka Factor
  • December 6 How much Diversity of AGI-Risk Organizations is Optimal?
  • November 6 Uploaded Bonobos
  • October 12 Mirror Neurons
  • September 30 Conversational Spontaneity
  • September 24 Upside-Down Index Investing Strategies
  • September 12 War! What Is It Good For?
  • August 17 Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach
  • August 6 Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
  • July 28 Advice for Buy-and-Hold Investors
  • July 24 Being Mindful of Beeminder
  • July 7 Sense of Structure
  • June 25 Alternate Day Calorie Restriction Update
  • June 7 Aletheia
  • May 17 Mission: Heirloom (Berkeley)
  • April 29 The Measure of Civilization
  • April 14 Masters of the Word
  • March 26 Dietary Zinc/Copper Ratio
  • March 12 The Charisma Myth
  • February 8 Alternate Day Calorie Restriction
  • January 8 Ethical diets
  • January 5 A Universe from Nothing
2014
  • December 20 Fragile by Design
  • December 10 Poor Economics
  • November 29 How China Became Capitalist
  • November 10 Bonds That Make Us Free
  • October 21 Value-Focused Thinking
  • October 4 Noise Cancelling Headphone
  • September 8 How the West Won
  • August 25 The Depths
  • August 14 Folate
  • July 31 AGI Foom
  • July 28 Superintelligence
  • July 17 Crickets
  • June 30 The Hidden Reality
  • June 16 Rule of the Clan
  • June 2 Ambronite
  • May 15 Drugs without Patents
  • April 14 Our Mathematical Universe
  • March 21 Nutritional Meals
  • March 2 The Great Degeneration
  • February 13 Our Final Invention
  • January 3 The Intense World Syndrome Hypothesis of Autism
2013
  • December 21 Wedding
  • November 20 Self Comes to Mind
  • October 15 Quantified Self Conference
  • September 25 Reinventing Philanthropy
  • August 31 War
  • August 9 Singularity Hypotheses
  • July 23 I’ve Moved
  • June 26 The Origins of Political Order
  • June 24 More Ancestral Diet Evidence
  • June 8 Radical Abundance
  • May 27 The Motivation Hacker
  • May 10 Automated Market Makers and Liquidity
  • April 26 Paleofantasy
  • April 12 Charity for Corporations
  • April 2 Color Enhancement
  • March 16 Why Nations Fail
  • March 3 Anti-Paleo Diet
  • February 8 Error Statistics
  • January 10 Talking20
2012
  • December 28 How to Measure Anything
  • December 18 The Automated Self
  • December 4 Food and Western Disease
  • November 26 CFTC Sues Intrade
  • November 11 Willpower
  • October 29 The Signal and the Noise
  • October 10 Quantified Self Conference
  • September 22 Cholesterol, Saturated Fat and ApoE4
  • September 5 Eating Insects
  • August 18 Omega-6 Revisited
  • July 27 The Righteous Mind
  • July 22 Sleep Improvements
  • July 3 The Intelligence Paradox
  • June 21 Seasteading Conference 2012
  • June 10 Mysterious Radiation Burst in 774 or 775
  • May 27 Omega-6
  • May 10 Auditory Integration Training
  • April 20 The Beginning of Infinity
  • April 8 Personalized Life Extension Conference 2012
  • March 26 Neanderthal Brains and Eye Size
  • March 9 The Institutional Revolution
  • February 25 Inside Jokes
  • February 12 Manias, Panics and Crashes
  • January 29 1493
  • January 15 Thinking, Fast and Slow
2011
  • December 28 Islands of Genius
  • December 15 3 Idiots
  • December 7 Protein
  • November 23 The Better Angels of Our Nature
  • November 23 Kratom Update
  • November 7 The Taylor Rule
  • October 28 Bitcoin
  • October 19 Kratom
  • October 10 RNA in our food
  • September 26 Interplay
  • September 5 Alexithymia
  • August 23 Expected Returns
  • August 8 European financial crisis
  • July 25 The Ego Tunnel
  • July 6 The Frequency of Wars
  • June 18 The Rational Optimist
  • June 5 Beyond Boundaries
  • May 25 Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
  • May 1 The Honor Code
  • April 15 War and Peace and War
  • April 6 Bay Area Waterfalls
  • March 9 Avoid News
  • February 15 Ashkenazi and the Industrial Revolution
  • February 2 Assorted Links
  • January 24 How To Win Friends and Influence People
  • January 20 Trans-fats in commonly sold plant oils
  • January 16 Going Inside
2010
  • December 28 Sex at Dawn
  • December 23 Doctors and Smart Drugs
  • December 15 Counterclockwise
  • December 2 Relational Mobility and Self-Disclosure
  • November 19 Snowball Earth and Complex Life
  • November 8 Wired for War
  • November 4 Leadership and Self-Deception
  • November 3 The bacterial part of our bodies
  • October 27 Prizes
  • October 20 Switch
  • October 14 Doctor/Hospital ratings
  • October 5 Choke
  • September 26 Brainiac Dating
  • September 14 Brain Preservation Prize
  • August 31 Drive
  • August 26 Memory and the Flynn Effect
  • August 17 Quantifying Artificial Intelligence
  • August 12 Disadvantages of Stories
  • July 31 Probability Theory
  • July 20 Hierarchy in the Forest
  • July 8 Breakdown of Will
  • June 21 An Improved Automated Market Maker
  • June 3 Awakening Giants
  • May 11 Stock Market Liquidity
  • April 30 Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
  • April 20 Happiness from the Inside Out
  • April 13 Drive Slower
  • April 2 ADHD and Autism
  • March 11 This Time is Different
  • March 2 The Chimera Hypothesis
  • February 22 Diamond Trees for Carbon Sequestration
  • February 12 A Splendid Exchange
  • January 29 Impro
  • January 19 Foresight 2010
  • January 9 City of Gold
2009
  • December 27 Moral Machines
  • December 23 The Value of Cute Kittens
  • December 12 What Intelligence Tests Miss
  • December 1 Finding Alpha
  • November 18 Outliers
  • November 11 Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
  • October 28 Medical Tourism Seasteads
  • October 18 Life Expectancy and the Business Cycle
  • October 4 The 2nd Seasteading Conference
  • September 25 Turning the Repugnant Conclusion into Utopia
  • September 14 Assorted Links
  • August 28 Meltdown
  • August 26 Depression Economics
  • August 21 Create Your Own Economy (?)
  • August 2 More on the Flynn Effect
  • July 21 The Law Market
  • July 10 Human Enhancement
  • July 4 Confusing S&P Index Earnings Numbers
  • June 23 Greatness
  • June 15 Why He Didn’t Call You Back
  • June 4 Sitting is unhealthy?
  • May 20 Historical Dynamics
  • May 5 Economics of Piracy
  • April 28 Good and Real
  • April 17 Evidence-Based Technical Analysis
  • April 8 Hollywood Economics
  • April 3 Paranoid Debating
  • March 27 Autism and Rationality
  • March 15 The 10,000 Year Explosion
  • March 4 Stroke of Insight
  • February 26 Influence
  • February 16 Livejournal
  • February 6 The Spriggan Mirror
  • January 29 Body Language
  • January 21 Honest Signals
  • January 14 Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism
  • January 7 A Different Kind of Boy
2008
  • December 29 This Is Burning Man
  • December 23 Commons and Transaction Costs
  • December 15 The Soulful Science?
  • December 11 Chinese Stock Risks
  • December 4 The Indian Clerk
  • November 29 Convergence08
  • November 20 Global Catastrophic Risks conference
  • November 13 Automated Market Maker Results
  • November 6 Intrade versus FiveThirtyEight
  • November 1 Automated Market Maker Changes
  • November 1 Stock Market Crashes
  • October 26 Automated Market Maker Problems
  • October 21 None of the above for president
  • October 14 Seasteading08
  • October 5 Misbehavior of Markets
  • September 29 Wall Street vs Intrade
  • September 25 Global Catastrophic Risks
  • September 17 Moral Hazard with Credit Default Swaps
  • September 14 “Junk DNA” is important
  • September 7 Intrade Notes
  • August 30 Monkeyluv
  • August 28 Oil Volatility
  • August 21 Let Their People Come
  • August 17 Archaic Science Fiction
  • August 12 Human Accomplishment
  • July 31 Ending Aging
  • July 24 How to spend $10 trillion
  • July 18 Infotopia
  • July 10 Why Humans Cooperate
  • July 4 Reasonable Rx
  • June 26 Evolutionary stability of homosexuality
  • June 19 Cultural Difference
  • June 13 Bad Samaritans
  • June 4 Counting Sheep
  • May 28 Cult of Statistical Significance
  • May 11 Negative Interest Rates
  • April 29 Disease influences Science?
  • April 22 Seasteading Institute
  • April 15 Predictocracy (part 2)
  • April 15 Predictocracy (part 1)
  • April 8 The Birth of Plenty
  • April 1 Greenspan’s Age of Turbulence
  • March 25 Steve Omohundro on AI Risks
  • March 18 Futarchy Mailing List
  • March 11 Seeing Red
  • March 4 Iraq policies
  • February 24 Carbon Sequestration Prizes
  • February 11 Electability of Clinton, Obama
  • February 5 Poverty and Discrimination
  • January 25 The Fed’s Surprise
  • January 18 More on Presidential Decision Markets
  • January 14 The First Word
  • January 4 Subsidized Intrade Contracts Conditional on Presidential Election
2007
  • December 18 The Execution Channel
  • December 11 AI Motivated by Compassion and Respect
  • December 2 Rebelling against our genes
  • November 14 Cool It
  • November 6 Help oil smugglers to slow down global warming
  • October 31 Drug Prizes instead of Patent Exclusivity
  • October 23 Chinese Stock Bubble
  • October 22 Support the Troops
  • October 16 Cuban Health
  • October 8 Flynn Effect Explained
  • October 1 Farewell to Alms
  • September 27 Life expectancy national variations
  • September 19 Causes of African Poverty
  • September 18 Trans-Simianism
  • September 7 Beyond AI
  • August 30 How to Survive a Robot Uprising
  • August 24 How Is Quantum Field Theory Possible?
  • August 16 The Bottom Billion
  • August 7 Origin of Global Warming Theory
  • July 31 Parfit’s Reasons and Persons
  • July 25 Business Fairy Tales
  • July 23 Gourmet Fast Food
  • July 14 Black Rednecks
  • June 29 Astronomical Waste
  • June 20 Why Not?
  • June 12 How to Spend $50 Billion
  • May 31 The Purchase of Intimacy
  • May 28 Peer Review
  • May 17 Ending Romantic and Employment Relationships
  • May 7 Jury Incentives
  • April 30 Mindless Eating
  • April 24 Salt
  • April 18 Voluntary Slavery
  • April 10 Minimizing the harm of nanotech regulation
  • March 27 Good Intentions
  • March 19 Smolin’s Trouble With Physics
  • March 6 Whose Freedom?
  • February 24 Charity and ideology
  • February 14 Dying to Win
  • February 10 Virgin Earth Challenge
  • February 5 Caffeine and the CYP1A2 gene
  • January 31 Money buys happiness?
  • January 29 Iraq compared to other revolutions
  • January 24 Information Markets
  • January 21 LibraryThing
  • January 15 Wisdom of Crowds
  • January 12 Szabo on Global Warming
  • January 8 Should Wikipedia run ads?
  • January 5 An Inconvenient Truth
2006
  • December 16 Making Complex Things from DNA
  • December 11 Shaming versus Prison
  • December 11 New blog
  • December 8 Fiji Coup Postponed due to Rugby
  • December 2 Asteroid Risks
  • November 27 God Hates Figs
  • November 27 Envy
  • November 19 Voter Rationality
  • November 10 Electing to Fight
  • November 2 Social Mindscapes
  • October 26 Singing Neanderthals
  • October 25 Synthetic Worlds
  • October 18 Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations
  • October 11 Happiness
  • October 3 No Two Alike
  • September 26 AI Risks
  • September 22 Expert Political Judgment
  • September 20 Evolution’s Rainbow
  • September 12 Stumbling on Happiness
  • September 4 A Stock with a Strange Price History
  • September 3 Undercover Economist
  • August 24 Time
  • August 16 Tradesports Claim Definition
  • July 25 Kanzi
  • July 18 Daughters Affect Legislators’ Votes
  • July 10 Net Neutrality
  • June 28 Last Well Person
  • June 21 Unusual Bodies
  • June 17 How to Weight Holdings in Stock Funds
  • June 14 1491
  • June 9 King George Watch
  • June 2 Human Enhancement Conference
  • June 2 Government Versus Wetlands
  • May 27 Operation Yao Ming
  • May 20 Gold and the Great Depression
  • May 11 Race, Evolution, and Behavior
  • May 5 Unconventional Sex, Gender
  • April 28 The Party of Death?
  • April 21 Diet and the Environment
  • April 16 Quantum Computing
  • April 12 When Genius Failed
  • April 5 The End of Faith
  • March 29 Nanotech Breakthrough, Stock Price Reaction
  • March 23 The Ethical Slut
  • March 15 Fantastic Voyage
  • March 14 The Printing Press and the Industrial Revolution
  • March 6 Adapting Minds
  • February 27 China’s Sexual Imbalance
  • February 20 Cover-up in air marshal shooting?
  • February 13 Deliberation Day
  • February 6 Chinese Capitalists
  • January 30 The World Is Flat
  • January 25 China’s Politburo
  • January 20 The Armchair Economist
  • January 17 Oil Futures
  • January 9 More on the Housing Bubble
2005
  • December 27 “Infant discovered in barn, Child Protective Services launch probe”
  • December 27 Underground Education
  • December 20 Accelerando!
  • December 18 Betting on Sex
  • December 13 Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
  • December 6 Prediction Markets Summit
  • November 29 You are what you eat
  • November 23 The Great Divergence
  • November 17 U.S. Aid to Al Qaeda
  • November 7 Yes on California Prop 77
  • November 6 Intellectual Pseudo Property
  • November 2 Judicial Bias
  • October 26 Kurzweil and Human Capital
  • October 25 Gay Marriage
  • October 18 The God Gene
  • October 17 CFTC and Tradesports
  • October 17 Unconventional Success
  • October 14 Traffic Cops
  • October 7 Serenity
  • September 29 Housing Bubble Peaking?
  • September 26 Accelerating Change Conference
  • September 20 The Singularity Is Near
  • September 14 Credibility of Hurricane Warnings
  • September 13 Hedge Fund Risks
  • September 9 Shooting government agents in Louisiana
  • September 6 Gas Price Controls
  • September 5 New Orleans Automobility
  • September 1 OkCupid
  • August 18 Intuition Error and Heritage
  • July 29 Nanofuture
  • July 21 Freakonomics
  • July 14 Terrorism Futures
  • June 30 Dubai
  • June 24 Blank Slate
  • June 17 Flynn Effect Ending?
  • June 14 Problems with Democracy
  • June 9 Smell
  • June 2 Contrary Views on Medicine and Parenting
  • May 27 Fixing Social Security
  • May 19 Intangibles
  • May 16 Buy the Yuan?
  • May 11 Misers, Markets, and Philanthropists
  • May 4 Animals in Translation
  • April 27 FAB
  • April 19 Does democracy work?
  • April 15 Afghanistan report
  • April 13 Delicious Library
  • April 7 Change in blog software
  • April 1 On Intelligence
  • March 24 Truth and Human Nature
  • March 16 Anthropic Bias
  • March 3 Natural resource price expectations
  • March 2 Book Review: Hubbert’s Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
  • February 25 Book Review: America’s Secret War, by George Friedman
  • February 21 Web form inefficiency
  • February 15 VeganEssentials
  • February 8 What a Futarchy should maximize
  • February 8 Autism
  • January 31 Who’s the enemy in Iraq?
  • January 31 Alarmism
  • January 26 Iraqi Elections
  • January 22 Entrepreneurial Economics
  • January 19 Catastrophe
  • January 9 Foreign Aid
  • January 5 Vacations help my stock market performance?
2004
  • December 23 Happy Newtonmas
  • December 23 Chinese wages
  • December 17 Imperial Hubris
  • December 16 Hunger
  • December 15 What is Thought?
  • December 15 Commodifying Communism
  • December 9 Innovation and Its Discontents
  • December 3 The Paper Dollar
  • November 29 Report from the Foresight Conference, part 2
  • November 25 The Dangers of Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice
  • November 19 Market Reaction to the Election
  • November 18 Charity Angels
  • November 17 Book Review: Rare Earth by Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee
  • November 11 Accelerating Change Conference
  • November 3 Tradesports compared to the pollsters
  • November 2 Paper versus plastic voting
  • November 1 Senators and Intelligence
  • October 29 Manipulating futures markets
  • October 29 Seasteading
  • October 29 Badnarik for President
  • October 26 Report from the Foresight Conference, part 1
  • October 21 Greenspan and bubbles
  • October 19 California Senate Race
  • October 17 Efficiency of presidential election futures markets
  • October 14 Idea Futures markets obsolete?
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