Jan 28, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-health
I’m experimenting with making this more structured this time, so:
Section I: Collection of comments on US health
care
Section II: Drug pricing, and does the US
subsidize the rest of the world?
Section III: Why are health economics so...
Jan 27, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/against-that-poverty-and-infant-eegs
A recent paper claims to have found an Impact Of A Poverty Reduction Intervention On Infant Brain Activity. It’s doing the rounds of the usual media sites, like Vox and the New York Times:
Jan 27, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bounded-distrust
I.
Suppose you're a liberal who doesn't trust FOX News. One day you're at the airport, waiting for a plane, ambiently watching the TV at the gate. It's FOX News, and they're saying that a mass shooter just shot twenty people in Yankee Stadium. There’s...
Jan 26, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/grading-my-2021-predictions
At the beginning of every year, I make predictions. At the end of every year, I score them. Here are 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
And here are the predictions I made for 2021 (in April; I was really late). Bolded statements happened,...
Jan 22, 2022
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/resubmit-and-summarize-your-proposals
https://forms.gle/xhVTebsZgSEQ7BpeA
I promised you all that once I was done with the main round of ACX Grants, I would run Grants ++, where I publish the proposals that didn't get funded here, so readers could look at them, see if they’re...