Icosian Reflections

…a tendency to systematize and a keen sense

that we live in a broken world.

Reading Feed (June 2022)


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Blog: Cold Takes | The Track Record of Futurists Seems ... Fine

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The marginal value of informal access to health care

Comic: SMBC | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Seeing

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 6/30/22: Vaccine Update Update


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Comic: xkcd | Periodic Table Changes

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Democracy for our Mars colony?

Blog: Astral Codex Ten | What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Blockchains: A Promise Enforcement Engine


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Comic: xkcd | Extended NFPA Hazard Diamond

Blog: Marginal Revolution | More guns, more crime?


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | AlphaZero Ideas

Blog: Market Design | San Francisco's Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne


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Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Book Review: San Fransicko

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 6/23/22: Under Five Alive


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Comic: xkcd | Superintelligent AIs

Blog: JeffTK | Hydrophobic Glasses Coating Review

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Rich people pay higher mark-ups


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Grade non-disclosure agreements


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Claims about artillery

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Saturday assorted links

Blog: Luke.Muehlhauser | Effective altruism as I see it


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Blog: Overcoming Bias | UFOs as US PsychOp

Comic: xkcd | Red Line Through HTTPS

Blog: Shtetl-Optimized | OpenAI!

Blog: Market Design | ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’22), June 28th through July 15th

Comic: SMBC | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Existntial

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital


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Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Peer Review: Nightmares

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 6/16/22: Do Not Hand it to Them

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Against Active Shooter Drills

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Germany is not really with the Western alliance

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Cork notes


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Blog: In the Pipeline | Palladium Ye Shall Have Always With You

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Not From the Onion: Space X and the FAA


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | On A List of Lethalities

Blog: Market Design | Price gouging laws are unpopular with economists


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | New Service Sector Jobs for Economists


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | James Joyce, entrepreneur

Comic: SMBC | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AI


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Blog: JeffTK | Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Stop school shooting drills


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Blog: Ben.Kuhn | 10x (engineer, context) pairs

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 6/9/22: Nice

Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Against "There Are Two X-Wing Parties"


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Blog: The Grumpy Economist | The Phillips Curve


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Difficult-To-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes

Blog: Marginal Revolution | A Bloody Waste


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Blog: Gates Notes | Three cheers for the dull, factually correct middle

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Transcript of a Twitter Discussion on EA from June 2022

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Can Education be Standardized? Evidence from Kenya

Blog: Marginal Revolution | What I’ve been reading


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Insane Wait Times to Get an Appointment for a US Visitor Visa

Blog: Marginal Revolution | When should rhetoric be racially salient?


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Tim Harford covers Talent and parallel design

Blog: The Roots of Progress | Reinventing the wheel


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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Book Review: Talent


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Blog: JeffTK | Another Calming Example

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Those new service sector jobs

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 6/2/22: Declining to Respond

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Moving From Opportunity: The High Cost of Restrictions on Land Use

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Italy is Open


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The new Top Gun movie (no real spoilers)

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Fact Checking Increases Fake News

Blog: JeffTK | Revisiting "Why Global Poverty"