🍊 Robert Wright III 🍊 @rjwthree

Writing a clear guide to personal finance on Substack, because I couldn't find it anywhere else. Not tweeting much. rjwthree.substack.com United States Joined February 2017

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion

2 years ago

What should elite universities with billion-dollar endowments do now that the Supreme Court has ended race-based affirmative action? Build feeder schools, argues the Harvard economist Roland Fryer. “Affordability isn’t really a serious question.” nyti.ms/44FFFox

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Adam Mastroianni @a_m_mastroianni

3 years ago

Science ran a big experiment on itself for the last ~60 years. It didn't work out. experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and…

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Madi Hilly @MadiHilly

3 years ago

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:

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Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning

3 years ago

The current system of journals and peer review is not serving science. I have therefore resigned from all editorial roles and will no longer do pre-publication peer review. I explain why in this article and in the thread below. Please consider joining me. neural-reckoning.org/reviewing.html

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Kevin Esvelt @kesvelt

4 years ago

To identify viruses capable of igniting new pandemics is to share blueprints for an arsenal of plagues. In a new @samharrisorg podcast with @Rob_Reid, we explain how @USAID's DEEP VZN program is inadvertently trying to do just that. samharris.org/podcasts/makin…

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Rumtin @rumtin

3 years ago

Really enjoyed (if that is the right word) the @80000Hours podcast with @JoanRohlfing on nuclear risk. The key part for me was where action was needed: near-term risk reduction, designing a better system and creating the political space for change. 80000hours.org/podcast/episod…

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion

4 years ago

“Cooling the planet to reduce human suffering in this century will require carbon removal or solar geoengineering or both,” writes @DKeithClimate, a professor at @Harvard. “The fact that one or both are taboo in some green circles is a dreadful misstep.” nyti.ms/3F51ySd

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Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg

4 years ago

How learning from 1 data point is possible: From a scientific or statistical standpoint, it seems ridiculous to think 1 data point can teach us much. Even a study with 10 data points is laughably small. Yet, 1 data point sometimes teaches us a LOT. But how? 5 ways: [thread]

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Max Roser @MaxCRoser

4 years ago

How can the world produce enough vaccines for people around the world as quickly as possible? Hard to think of a more important question in 2021 than this one. @calebwatney considers several possible options and makes the case ‘technology buyouts’. agglomerations.tech/how-the-us-can…

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Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman

5 years ago

In honor of James Flynn, a dear friend and mentor, I am reposting this chat I had with him on my podcast, in which his towering reason and intellectual bravery is on full display. RIP to a legend. scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/nature…

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells

5 years ago

"That a vaccine was available for the entire brutal duration may be, to future generations trying to draw lessons from our death and suffering, the most salient, and tragic, and ironic, feature of this plague." nymag.com/intelligencer/…