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"Lewis has assembled a book around a category error. Her problem isn't with "genius" per se, it's that we (society) make allowances and create indulgences for high status individuals. This is an aspect of basic human behavior. All the justifications are post hoc anyway. Dissecting them is like trying to chase down shadows. No one thinks Trump is an actual genius but normal political rules do not obtain." — 4 hours, 55 min ago
"Lewis has assembled a book around a category error. Her problem isn't with "genius" per se, it's that we (society) make allowances and create indulgences for high status individuals. This is an aspect of basic human behavior. All the justifications are post hoc anyway. Dissecting them is like trying to chase down shadows. No one thinks Trump is an actual genius but normal political rules do not obtain." — 4 hours, 55 min ago
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"Moyn appear to be working from a cult of youth type of position that is characteristic of leftist. I think we should sideline both the elderly and the youth. Political power should be greatest for the bourgeois (e.g. tax paying, property owning, working households of married parents with children). These types have the most skin in the game in the present and future." — Jan 16, 2026 12:35PM
"Moyn appear to be working from a cult of youth type of position that is characteristic of leftist. I think we should sideline both the elderly and the youth. Political power should be greatest for the bourgeois (e.g. tax paying, property owning, working households of married parents with children). These types have the most skin in the game in the present and future." — Jan 16, 2026 12:35PM
Jim Greenwood, the CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO).
“But at some point – a point I think we are well past, given the body of research – the
weight of the evidence is so strong that the most reasonable conclusion is that even
if there were some unobservable differences between single and married parents,
the thing staring at us from the data is overwhelming: having a second parent in the
home, with the added resources (money, time, etc.) that second parent brings, is, on
average, beneficial for children’s outcomes.”
― The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
weight of the evidence is so strong that the most reasonable conclusion is that even
if there were some unobservable differences between single and married parents,
the thing staring at us from the data is overwhelming: having a second parent in the
home, with the added resources (money, time, etc.) that second parent brings, is, on
average, beneficial for children’s outcomes.”
― The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
“The United States used to be, like China, an engineering state. But in the 1960s, the priorities of elite lawyers took a sharp turn. As Americans grew alarmed by the unpleasant by-products of growth—environmental destruction, excessive highway construction, corporate interests above public interests—the focus of lawyers turned to litigation and regulation. The mission became to stop as many things as possible. As the United States lost its enthusiasm for engineers, China embraced engineering in all its dimensions.”
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
“Chinese leaders were just enough exposed to the West to absorb [their] neo-Malthusian doomerism, without being exposed enough to the Western pushback against it.”
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
― Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
“If the mothers who are not married are not married precisely because the men with
whom they have fathered children would not meaningfully contribute positive
resources to the raising of their children, then the observed marriage gap in children’s outcomes is not a good approximation for what their children would gain
from parental marriage.”
― The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
whom they have fathered children would not meaningfully contribute positive
resources to the raising of their children, then the observed marriage gap in children’s outcomes is not a good approximation for what their children would gain
from parental marriage.”
― The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
“The uniquely human things you do are thanks to the chatter of spikes in your cortex. This outer layer of the brain contains more neurons in you than in any other animal, ever. So many in fact that we have to divide the cortex into a constellation of areas, each with its own name, to make sense of it all. (Few of these names are exciting—the area with the most neurons that talk directly to the spine, and so has the most control over movement, is called the primary motor cortex; the areas next door are the premotor cortex and, wait for it, the supplementary motor area. Inspired.) These areas all share the same types of neurons but do wildly different things with the spikes sent between them.”
― The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
― The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
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