Icosian Reflections

…a tendency to systematize and a keen sense

that we live in a broken world.

Reading Feed (December 2019)


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Who were the two most powerful and effective orators of the decade?

Blog: Marginal Revolution | What to think about Modi these days


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Blog: JeffTK | Folding Couch Monitor

Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Conversation with Abhijit Banerjee

Blog: Gates Notes | What I’m thinking about this New Year’s Eve

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Imperfect Competition

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Capital and Ideology, by Thomas Piketty


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Perfect Competition

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Extreme Aging

Blog: Market Design | U.S medical school enrollments by sex: women outnumber men for the first time


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Blog: World Optimization | Thoughts on 2019 donations:Here are my current thoughts on 2019 donations. These aren’t final and I...


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Blog: Malcolm.Ocean | “Systems vs Goals” is silly. Have both!

Blog: Marginal Revolution | “What will you do to stay weird?”

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Countries where the average person was richer in 2009


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Conversations with Tyler, year-end retrospective

Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | NIPS vs. NeurIPS: guest post by Steven Pinker


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | A Maximally Lazy Guide To Giving To Charity In 2019

Blog: Marginal Revolution | FDA Dual Track Legislation Advances


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe


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Blog: The ANOVA | to live forever or

Blog: JeffTK | Should We Still Fly?

Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Portal podcast with Eric Weinstein

Blog: Marginal Revolution | 10% Less Democracy

Blog: Market Design | International kidney exchange between Israel and Czech Republic

Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | Quantum Dominance, Hegemony, and Superiority

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The new, revamped, and expanded Museum of Modern Art


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Conversation with Esther Duflo

Blog: Open Philanthropy | Suggestions for Individual Donors from Open Philanthropy Staff - 2019

Blog: JeffTK | One Million Dollars


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | [ACC] Should We Colonize Space To Mitigate X-Risk?

Blog: JeffTK | Big Community Solstice

Blog: Marginal Revolution | China trade negotiation fact of the day


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Blog: JeffTK | Voluntourism


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Economics Book

Blog: Compass Rose | Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

Blog: JeffTK | Boston Solstice 2019 Retrospective

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Christopher Balding on the new China trade deal


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Saturday assorted links


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Blog: JeffTK | Eggy Waffles

Comic: xkcd | Brussels Sprouts Mandela Effect


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Thursday assorted links

Blog: Marginal Revolution | We need more indices


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | [ACC] Is Eating Meat A Net Harm?

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Sweden recovers in the PISA tables

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Non-cognitive skills and earnings in Canada


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | [ACC] What Are The Benefits, Harms, And Ethics Of Infant Circumcision?

Blog: The ANOVA | you already live with eugenics (maybe)

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Paul Volcker’s Latin American legacy

Blog: Open Philanthropy | 2019 Allocation to GiveWell Top Charities

Blog: GiveWell | Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2019


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Blog: Market Design | Unraveling has made investment banks the farm teams of private equity...

Comic: xkcd | Data Error

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Claims about polarization


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | My debate with Žižek


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Blog: JeffTK | Ungendered Spanish


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Is Cebu the most typical city in the world?


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Blog: GiveWell | New research on moral weights

Blog: Slate Star Codex | Links 12/19