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Highlights From The Comments On Prison

[Original post here - Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know]

Table of Contents:

1: Comments On Criminal Psychology
2: Comments On Poli…

1 year, 7 months ago

Indulge Your Internet Addiction By Reading About Internet Addiction

Internet addiction may not be as bad as some other forms of addiction, but it’s more common (and more personal). I have young children now and wanted…

1 year, 8 months ago

Friendly And Hostile Analogies For Taste

Recently we’ve gotten into discussions about artistic taste (see comments on AI Art Turing Test and From Bauhaus To Our House).

This is a bit mysteri…

1 year, 8 months ago

Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House

Like most people, Tom Wolfe didn’t like modern architecture. He wondered why we abandoned our patrimony of cathedrals and palaces for a million indis…

1 year, 8 months ago

Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Do longer prison sentences reduce crime?

It seems obvious that they should. Even if they don’t deter anyone, they at least keep criminals locked up w…

1 year, 8 months ago

Against The Generalized Anti-Caution Argument

Suppose something important will happen at a certain unknown point. As someone approaches that point, you might be tempted to warn that the thing wil…

1 year, 8 months ago

How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test?

Last month, I challenged 11,000 people to classify fifty pictures as either human art or AI-generated images.

I originally planned five human and fiv…

1 year, 8 months ago

The Early Christian Strategy

In 1980, game theorist Robert Axelrod ran a famous Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament.

He asked other game theorists to send in their best strate…

1 year, 9 months ago

Book Review: The Rise Of Christianity

The rise of Christianity is a great puzzle. In 40 AD, there were maybe a thousand Christians. Their Messiah had just been executed, and they were on …

1 year, 9 months ago

Congrats To Polymarket, But I Still Think They Were Mispriced

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Polymarket (and prediction markets in general) had an amazing Election Night. They called states impressively early and accurately, kept the site …

1 year, 9 months ago