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I am reblogging this recent post “Redhill Close SIT Estate Walks into History” from one of my favorite specialty blogs, Remember Singapore: By October 2023, a large part of Redhill Close estate has been bulldozed, with only a couple of … Continue reading →

Check out this devastating critique of the so-called “effective altruism” movement (or EA, for short) by Sophie McBain (@SEMcBain), a writer for the New Statesmen who interviewed many EA leaders, including Larissa Hesketh-Rowe, the CEO of the Centre for Effective … Continue reading →

The order of co-authors on an academic article or scientific paper are most often arranged either alphabetically or by the amount of their respective contributions to the paper. (See here, for example.) Why not instead arrange co-authors randomly or, better … Continue reading →

What really caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? (Alternative caption: Big Bang #2)

Among economists and lawyers, the moral hazard problem or MHP has become a textbook illustration of what the late great philosopher of science and language Thomas S. Kuhn once referred to (somewhat enigmatically) as a disciplinary matrix, exemplar, or paradigm, … Continue reading →

Have you made your “ofrenda” yet? More details here, via Ayana Archie (NPR).

Is bitcoin a bubble? This excellent paper by Peter Garber, which was published in the Journal of Political Economy (JPE) way back in 1989, has made me adjust my bitcoin priors. In brief, I used to believe bitcoin was just … Continue reading →