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Super fun interview with @asteriskmag.bsky.social in which we talk about "Raised to Obey" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) but also:
- is "indoctrination for democracy" desirable?
- is low education quality driven by "low state capacity"?
and more!
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- is "indoctrination for democracy" desirable?
- is low education quality driven by "low state capacity"?
and more!
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/wh...
What Are Schools For?—Asterisk
The modern education system around the world continues to bear the imprint of mass education’s original goal: obedience.
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May 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Super fun interview with @asteriskmag.bsky.social in which we talk about "Raised to Obey" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) but also:
- is "indoctrination for democracy" desirable?
- is low education quality driven by "low state capacity"?
and more!
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/wh...
- is "indoctrination for democracy" desirable?
- is low education quality driven by "low state capacity"?
and more!
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/wh...
"The primary purpose behind the creation of primary education systems was to convert unruly children into obedient citizens who would respect the state and its laws." asteriskmag.com/issues/10/wh...
What Are Schools For?—Asterisk
The modern education system around the world continues to bear the imprint of mass education’s original goal: obedience.
asteriskmag.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"The primary purpose behind the creation of primary education systems was to convert unruly children into obedient citizens who would respect the state and its laws." asteriskmag.com/issues/10/wh...
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Monday's Most Read # 1 - Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice link.theoverheadwire.com/uw8ka @asteriskmag.bsky.social
Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice—Asterisk
America’s roads are more dangerous than those of almost every country in the developed world. We know how to change that.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Monday's Most Read # 1 - Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice link.theoverheadwire.com/uw8ka @asteriskmag.bsky.social
Research scandals make headlines, but that AI materials science paper is still just the tip of the iceberg
@ryancbriggs.net walks through the gauntlet of issues in the research published in even our most reputable peer-reviewed journals
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@ryancbriggs.net walks through the gauntlet of issues in the research published in even our most reputable peer-reviewed journals
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Can We Trust Social Science Yet?—Asterisk
Everyone likes the idea of evidence-based policy, but it’s hard to realize it when our most reputable social science journals are still publishing poor quality research.
asteriskmag.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Research scandals make headlines, but that AI materials science paper is still just the tip of the iceberg
@ryancbriggs.net walks through the gauntlet of issues in the research published in even our most reputable peer-reviewed journals
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...
@ryancbriggs.net walks through the gauntlet of issues in the research published in even our most reputable peer-reviewed journals
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...
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I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...
May 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...
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Some very depressing forecasts on the impact of USAID cuts in the recent @asteriskmag.bsky.social special edition: asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-...
May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Some very depressing forecasts on the impact of USAID cuts in the recent @asteriskmag.bsky.social special edition: asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-...
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For the past month, @asteriskmag.bsky.social has been working with a group of forecasters for a series on the mortality impacts of the Trump Administration's USAID cuts
5 forecasts, transparent and probabilistic, on PEPFAR, malaria, TB, nutrition, and WASH asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-s...
5 forecasts, transparent and probabilistic, on PEPFAR, malaria, TB, nutrition, and WASH asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-s...
May 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
For the past month, @asteriskmag.bsky.social has been working with a group of forecasters for a series on the mortality impacts of the Trump Administration's USAID cuts
5 forecasts, transparent and probabilistic, on PEPFAR, malaria, TB, nutrition, and WASH asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-s...
5 forecasts, transparent and probabilistic, on PEPFAR, malaria, TB, nutrition, and WASH asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-s...
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California High Speed Rail has had real issues, many of them common to other transportation infrastructure projects, but one of its biggest obstacles has been insufficient funding. Read this deep dive for more of the story: asteriskmag.com/issues/10/re...
Reports of the Death of California High-Speed Rail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated—Asterisk
Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real source of the project’s struggles.
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May 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
California High Speed Rail has had real issues, many of them common to other transportation infrastructure projects, but one of its biggest obstacles has been insufficient funding. Read this deep dive for more of the story: asteriskmag.com/issues/10/re...
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Rare analysis of CAHSR that contextualizes its difficulty/cost in @asteriskmag.bsky.social. Abundance dems should fight to accelerate, not abandon, this project. Complaints about how gov fails at building belies fact that we have *barely even tried*. Funding at less than $1B/year in $4T CA economy!
Reports of the Death of California High-Speed Rail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated—Asterisk
Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real source of the project’s struggles.
asteriskmag.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rare analysis of CAHSR that contextualizes its difficulty/cost in @asteriskmag.bsky.social. Abundance dems should fight to accelerate, not abandon, this project. Complaints about how gov fails at building belies fact that we have *barely even tried*. Funding at less than $1B/year in $4T CA economy!
We hereby declare an end to the "boondoggle" meme asteriskmag.com/issues/10/re...
Reports of the Death of California High-Speed Rail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated—Asterisk
Building a high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco was never going to be easy — but the critics who write it off are missing the real source of the project’s struggles.
asteriskmag.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We hereby declare an end to the "boondoggle" meme asteriskmag.com/issues/10/re...
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Our board president (Bob Fischer) recently published an article in @asteriskmag.bsky.social on the topic of invertebrate sentience. Check it out: asteriskmag.com/issues/09/th...
The Case for Insect Consciousness—Asterisk
The evidence that insects feel pain is mounting, however we approach the issue.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Our board president (Bob Fischer) recently published an article in @asteriskmag.bsky.social on the topic of invertebrate sentience. Check it out: asteriskmag.com/issues/09/th...
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@asteriskmag.bsky.social is where the adults are talking about adult stuff asteriskmag.com/issues/09/ab...
Does Abundance Start at Home?—Asterisk
Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.
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April 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@asteriskmag.bsky.social is where the adults are talking about adult stuff asteriskmag.com/issues/09/ab...
We could — if we tried — potentially raise Mars's temperature by 30°C well within this century
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Greening the Solar System—Asterisk
A future where life flourishes beyond Earth is closer than you think. How, precisely, will we get there?
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March 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We could — if we tried — potentially raise Mars's temperature by 30°C well within this century
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We're officially sold out! You can still buy tickets for the livestream starting at 6PM PDT. Donation-based, $1 minimum. Link below! Excited to see everyone in person!
We're nearly sold out in-person for this event! Grab your tickets now!
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March 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We're officially sold out! You can still buy tickets for the livestream starting at 6PM PDT. Donation-based, $1 minimum. Link below! Excited to see everyone in person!
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"What appears to be a deep aversive reaction to sounds that most people don’t like can seem — I speak from personal experience here — like you’re hard to tolerate." @jakee.bsky.social @asteriskmag.bsky.social
The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing - Longreads
"Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?"
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March 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"What appears to be a deep aversive reaction to sounds that most people don’t like can seem — I speak from personal experience here — like you’re hard to tolerate." @jakee.bsky.social @asteriskmag.bsky.social
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Have been reading Longreads well over a decade! A real privilege to be featured
"What appears to be a deep aversive reaction to sounds that most people don’t like can seem — I speak from personal experience here — like you’re hard to tolerate." @jakee.bsky.social @asteriskmag.bsky.social
The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing - Longreads
"Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?"
longreads.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Have been reading Longreads well over a decade! A real privilege to be featured
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We raised the attendance cap on this from 80 to 100 after high demand! Will sell-out! Donation-based! Very important topic! Very interesting questions! Very cool people! I will ask about panpsychism! Can't wait to meet you there!!!
Thrilled to announce that @asteriskmag.bsky.social and I will be hosting a conversation between Rob Long and Kati Devaney on where two tracks in consciousness research — AI and meditation — collide
If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
March 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We raised the attendance cap on this from 80 to 100 after high demand! Will sell-out! Donation-based! Very important topic! Very interesting questions! Very cool people! I will ask about panpsychism! Can't wait to meet you there!!!
We're nearly sold out in-person for this event! Grab your tickets now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
March 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
We're nearly sold out in-person for this event! Grab your tickets now!
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SUCH a good article about misophonia from @jakee.bsky.social. It's so hard for me to articulate my relationship with stimuli such as chewing and repetitive sounds, it's not just that I don't like them it's the uncontrollable full-body aversive reaction. Glad to see more serious research on this.
The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing—Asterisk
Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?
asteriskmag.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
SUCH a good article about misophonia from @jakee.bsky.social. It's so hard for me to articulate my relationship with stimuli such as chewing and repetitive sounds, it's not just that I don't like them it's the uncontrollable full-body aversive reaction. Glad to see more serious research on this.
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Absolute pleasure to speak with Kati Devaney for this issue.
We covered a lot of territory: the deep-end of meditation, the neuroscience of cessation, the concept of "weird," and whether enlightenment is in the Overton window yet
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We covered a lot of territory: the deep-end of meditation, the neuroscience of cessation, the concept of "weird," and whether enlightenment is in the Overton window yet
asteriskmag.com/issues/09/th...
The Science of Woo—Asterisk
A conversation about neuroscience, meditation, and the many paths to insight.
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March 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Absolute pleasure to speak with Kati Devaney for this issue.
We covered a lot of territory: the deep-end of meditation, the neuroscience of cessation, the concept of "weird," and whether enlightenment is in the Overton window yet
asteriskmag.com/issues/09/th...
We covered a lot of territory: the deep-end of meditation, the neuroscience of cessation, the concept of "weird," and whether enlightenment is in the Overton window yet
asteriskmag.com/issues/09/th...
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DOGE wants to cut 'low-impact' science. But important innovations—like mRNA vaccines, PCR, and the internet—once looked pointless, too. Kill the research pipeline, kill future advances. @lgilbert.co and I write about this in @asteriskmag.bsky.social: asteriskmag.com/issues/09/a... /3
A Defense of Weird Research—Asterisk
Government-funded scientific research may appear strange or impractical, but it has repeatedly yielded scientific breakthroughs — and continues to pay for itself many times over.
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February 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
DOGE wants to cut 'low-impact' science. But important innovations—like mRNA vaccines, PCR, and the internet—once looked pointless, too. Kill the research pipeline, kill future advances. @lgilbert.co and I write about this in @asteriskmag.bsky.social: asteriskmag.com/issues/09/a... /3
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Thrilled to announce that @asteriskmag.bsky.social and I will be hosting a conversation between Rob Long and Kati Devaney on where two tracks in consciousness research — AI and meditation — collide
If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
February 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Thrilled to announce that @asteriskmag.bsky.social and I will be hosting a conversation between Rob Long and Kati Devaney on where two tracks in consciousness research — AI and meditation — collide
If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...
There are 3 things one should never discuss in polite company: money, politics, and shrimp.
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Yes, Shrimp Matter—Asterisk
What made a private equity analyst decide to devote his life to tiny aquatic crustaceans?
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February 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There are 3 things one should never discuss in polite company: money, politics, and shrimp.
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