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Class Bullshitters
Imagine two men: Toby and Alex. Toby is the son of a teenage single mother called Jane. Jane dropped out of secondary school, and relied largely on…
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Most advice is pretty bad
I think that lots of advice given is bad - it isn’t practical, it isn’t insightful, and it is often something that is amazingly obvious to the person…
Sam Atis
Dec 23, 2021
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All Placebos are not created equal
Have you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the…
Sam Atis
Nov 16, 2021
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Decoupling as a Moral Decision
You may have heard of the dichotomy drawn between ‘high decouplers’ and ‘low decouplers’. High decouplers are people who are able to isolate an idea…
Sam Atis
Jan 17
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On Income and Happiness
The reporting on the relationship between happiness and income is pretty bad. If you Google ‘happiness + income’, you’ll find a ton of results about a…
Sam Atis
Dec 9, 2021
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The Altruistic Killer
[Note: I’m not super familiar with the literature on the Harm-Benefit Asymmetry so some of this stuff might have been covered a lot by academic…
Sam Atis
Feb 22
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You Have Weirdly Coherent Opinions
The sort of people who read this blog probably already know that their political views are unusual. If you think the amount of immigration should be…
Sam Atis
Mar 17
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The World in 2072
Lots of writing about the future takes one of two forms: Dystopian: everything is awful! Robots/Fascists/Communists/[Insert baddies here] have brought…
Sam Atis
May 20
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How to get Substack subscribers
Noah Smith recently wrote a great post giving advice for people who want to write on Substack. He’s a lot more successful than me, so my advice is less…
Sam Atis
Jul 14
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Why Do Girls Do Better At School?
In most developed countries, girls do better than boys at school. There’s a ton of evidence for this - see here, here, or here. This hasn’t always been…
Sam Atis
May 3
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The Case Against Public Intellectuals
A higher-than-you-might-expect number of people I know have the opinion that education probably basically doesn’t do anything that will benefit society…
Sam Atis
Mar 9
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Good people must suffer
I take more flights than I should. I try to be a good person in other ways, but I definitely take way too many flights. So far in 2022, I’ve been to…
Sam Atis
Aug 5
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