Seduction to Matrimony
PUA to Red Pill ... to Manosphere
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Do Humanoid Robots Make Sense?
Musk is building them.
Local Patriotism
The sign, from an Eat ‘n Park that we sometimes eat at on our Pennsic trip, expresses a common sentiment, that it is virtuous to buy from someone who lives close to you instead of from someone farther away, support the economy of your town instead of that of some other town, that it is “just the right thing to do.”
Pattern Recognition
and religion
Leslie Fish
It was dark of the first night of my Pennsic bardic circle this year, people sitting around a fire entertaining each other.
Iran, Economics, Politics
two models of democratic politics
Drugs For Poor Countries
Medical drugs have large fixed costs, the costs of research, development and testing, low marginal cost, the cost of making one more pill. If the company sells the drug at marginal cost everyone to whom it is worth at least the cost of producing the pill gets it but the company never covers the fixed cost; if it keeps doing that it goes out of business.
Income and Mating Patterns
Robert Wright in The Moral Animal, a popular presentation of evolutionary psychology, argues that monogamy tends to be associated with societies that are either very poor, so a man cannot support two families, or have fairly even income distributions, so that half of one man is almost always worth less to a woman than all of another .
Historical Recreation:
U.K. vs U.S. ?
She Who Faces Death by Torture
and other lessons from Kipling
The Economics of Status
They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there You’ll either be a union man Or a thug for J.H.
Texas vs CNBC
a puzzle
Questions
Sports Violence