Geoffrey Miller
Psychology professor; wrote The Mating Mind, Spent, Mate, & Virtue Signaling. Agnostic centrist into evolution, sex, sentience, freedom & future.
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Sex Differences in Intimacy Levels in Best Friendships and Romantic Partnerships
Objectives Close romantic and friendship relationships are crucial for successful survival and reproduction. Both provide emotional support that can have significant effects on an individual’s health and wellbeing, and through this their longer term...
Capitalism is in crisis. To save it, we need to rethink economic growth.
Even before the covid-19 pandemic and the resulting collapse of much the world’s economy, a crisis in capitalism was plainly evident. Unfettered free markets had pushed inequality of income and wealth to extremely high levels in the United States....
An Open Letter on Campus Culture
Academics speak out against the threat of censorship.
Multivariate genomic analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genes related to addiction, antisocial behavior, and health
Behaviors and disorders related to self-regulation, such as substance use, antisocial conduct, and ADHD, are collectively referred to as externalizing and have a shared genetic liability. We applied a multivariate approach that leverages genetic...
Partisans in the U.S. increasingly divided on whether offensive content online is taken seriously enough
Americans have grown more divided on whether offensive content online is taken seriously enough and on which is more important online, free speech or feeling safe.
AlphaZero - Wikipedia
Geoffrey Miller
@glukianoff How AlphaZero beats humans at chess and go
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Aboriginal Tasmanians - Wikipedia
Geoffrey Miller
@ConceptualJames FWIW, population of Tasmania (26k sq miles) before British contact was less than 15,000 people, or less than 0.5 people/sq mile, given their 'permaculture'.
Population density of ancient Egypt along the Nile given agriculture: 5,000 people/sq mile
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10 Blue Yves Klein Masterpieces You Must Know | DailyArt Magazine
Blue masterpieces of Yves Klein, author of the International Klein Blue, belong to the most characteristic works created in the 20th century.
Economic Growth
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of an economy is a measure of total production. More precisely, it is the monetary value of all goods and services produced within a country or region in a specific time period. While the definition of GDP is...
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@benshapiro @AP4Liberty GDP per capita over the last 2,000 years.
HT ourworldindata.org/economic-growth pic.twitter.com/ig882a3xsU
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An evolutionary explanation for ineffective altruism
People donate billions each year, yet giving is often ineffective. Five experiments tested an explanation for inefficient giving based on evolutionary game theory, ruling out alternative accounts based on cognitive or emotional limitations.
Tether car - Wikipedia
Geoffrey Miller
TIL there's a sport called tether car racing where people build tiny cars that go around in circles at over 200 mph.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_car
youtu.be/sKTeWIw7Y5Y
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Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (2015 Remaster)
Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Warner Records Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (2015 Remaster) · Van Halen Van Halen ℗ 1978 Warner Records Inc. Drums: Alex Van Halen C...
The puzzle of monogamous marriage
Henrich, Joseph, Robert Boyd, and Peter J Richerson. “The puzzle of monogamous marriage.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no. 1589 (2012): 657-669.
Dr. Jordan Peterson appears in good health in Thanksgiving post
Mikhaila Peterson tweeted a Thanksgiving photo and update on Sunday, showing Dr. Peterson in good health.
Reddit’s Censorship of The Great Barrington Declaration
"Silencing debate and demonizing those who disagree with you have more of a place in the Spanish Inquisition than it does in the halls of science. Public policy is informed not just by experimental theories but real-world observations and input from...