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1) Some research from about a year ago on the personality traits that predict interest in EA. The finding isn’t very surprising, but the whole thing is…

Jan 30

December 2022

Happy holidays all, and thank you to everyone who donated in response to my matching offer, the full £300 limit was reached (plus quite a bit more)! I…

Dec 31, 2022

November 2022

1) An oldie but a goodie: guess the correlation. 2) I really, really enjoyed this 80k episode on probability. One thing that stood out (and I’ll…

Nov 29, 2022

1) FDB on the odd claim that Kanye West’s recent behaviour could not be caused by his mental illness: There’s a meme that’s arisen in the past few…

Nov 2, 2022

October 2022

1) The Scandinavian Prison Project: The Scandinavian Prison Project seeks to empirically assess what happens when certain practices and principles from…

Oct 3, 2022

August 2022

1) This Raj Chetty study on Social Capital: The share of high-SES friends among individuals with low SES—which we term economic connectedness—is among…

Aug 31, 2022

July 2022

1) Tom Chivers’ piece on the evidence about the advantages of breastfeeding: The study’s authors found “no benefit of a breastfeeding promotion…

Jul 31, 2022

June 2022

1) An article making the case that we all need to stop talking about imposter syndrome [paywalled, FT]: This misnomer is part of a wider trend that too…

Jun 27, 2022

May 2022

1) Jonathan Haidt has lunch with the FT. 2) Practical veganism, in Works in Progress: If you want to reduce your suffering footprint and don’t want to…

May 31, 2022

April 2022

1) David Nash has started a substack that gives updates on developments in Effective Altruism. 2) This article in The Economist about the economics of…

Apr 30, 2022

March 2022

1. Could bicycles be an effective intervention? This Twitter thread (and the paper it refers to) suggests they could be. 2. Caplan launched his new blog…

Mar 27, 2022

February 2022

1. Do longer prison sentences work? Find out here. 2. Already recommended this last month, but I am really enjoying the newsletters I’ve received from…

Feb 28, 2022

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