In case you missed the dialogue / webinar on ideology between Oliver Traldi & myself (hosted by Anthony Morgan of The Philosopher) a video version has been posted. I thought there were many interesting moments in the exchange ... Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=o1uBc2…

If this happened, every faculty member on campus would be calling the cops and demanding arrests every night on msnbc

You know all those surveys showing how people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in their country?

This working paper shows that if you drop people who are clearly rounding (5, 10, 15, ...) you end up with highly precise estimates!

cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/hand…

I would have read a New York Magazine piece just about these forty seconds.

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New York's hottest club is The Encampment. This place has everything

How gullible are people? If you’ve been following Twitter recently (or um…The New Yorker?) you might have seen that lots of people think: not so much!

In a forthcoming paper (philarchive.org/rec/PORBDC), Eric Mandelbaum and I argue for the opposite view:

Belatedly posting: A few months ago I went to the Central African Republic, on what was supposed to be the first stop of a trip about small-time gold mining. This piece, out now in Granta, is about what ended up happening

granta.com/wagner-in-afri…

same tbh

My general theory is that silent majorities are more likely to exist when small groups have gained control of institutions and have tended to impose social or professional penalties on earnest speech.

This image will resolve the man vs. bear in woods discourse.

Two online book events today: at 12PM Eastern, with Interintellect 🧭; at 7PM Eastern, with The Philosopher. I hope you'll join!

Dropped by this Interintellect 🧭 salon with Oliver Traldi on his new book ‘Political Beliefs’, hosted by Bronwyn Williams📚

We’re discussing prediction markets, academic freedom, wokeness, unpopular opinions, epistemology, values, experts, social currency, consensus + much more!