Showing posts with label american society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american society. Show all posts
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Elizabeth Carr (first US IVF baby) and Genomic Prediction in WSJ

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Elizabeth Carr (first US IVF baby) and Genomic Prediction in the Wall Street Journal . Elizabeth Carr has always been a living symbol of fe...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Ray McGovern: CIA, JFK, Deep State, and Ukraine Crisis — Manifold #54

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  Raymond McGovern is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, serving from 1963 to 1990.  His CIA career began under President J...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Utah AG Sean Reyes: “Sound of Freedom” and Human Trafficking — Manifold #52

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  Sean Reyes is Utah Attorney General and a producer for the movie “Sound of Freedom.”  Steve and Sean discuss his personal story, human tra...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Upstream podcast with Erik Torenberg: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything

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  Great conversation with Erik, a well-known SV Founder and investor.  TIMESTAMPS:  (00:00) Intro  (02:01) Political polarization in academi...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Hacking State 13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled

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  Alex Murshak is a Michigan State grad working as an AI engineer in Austin TX. This conversation is Episode 13 of his podcast Hacking State...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Meritocracy, SAT Scores, and Laundering Prestige at Elite Universities — Manifold #43

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  I discuss 10 key graphs related to meritocracy and university admissions. Predictive power of SATs and other factors in elite admissions d...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Aella: Sex Work, Sex Research, and Data Science — Manifold #42

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  Aella is a sex worker, sex researcher, and data scientist.  Aella on X: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl   Interviews with ex-prostitutes on...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Richard Hanania & Rob Henderson: The Rise of Wokeness and the Influence of Civil Rights Law — Manifold #39

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  Richard Hanania, Rob Henderson, and I were scheduled for a June 2023 panel as part of the University of Austin (UATX) Forbidden Courses se...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Richard Sander (UCLA Law) on the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling — Manifold #38

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Steve and Richard discuss ...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Katherine Dee: Culture, Identity, and Isolation in the Digital Age — Manifold #33

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  Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.  Steve and Katherine discuss:  0:00 Introduction  1:15 Katherine’s early li...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Marc Martinez: "Dream Big" and the Golden Age of Bodybuilding — Manifold #32

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  Marc Martinez is the director of Dream Big, a documentary about Gold's Gym and the golden age of bodybuilding in Venice and Santa Moni...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

Richard Sander on SCOTUS Oral Arguments: Affirmative Action and Discrimination against Asian Americans at Harvard and UNC (Manifold #23)

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the str...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

SAT score distributions in Michigan

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The state of Michigan required all public HS seniors to take the SAT last year (~91k out of ~107k total seniors in the state). This generate...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

The Future of Human Evolution -- excerpts from podcast interview with Brian Chau

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The transcript excerpts below are from my recent conversation with Brian Chau (aka Cactus Chu) on his podcast. Segments begin at 47m and 1h0...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Rob Henderson: A Journey from Foster Care to the US Military to Elite Academia — Manifold podcast #20

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  Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in California, joined the Air Force at 17, attended Yale on the G.I. Bill, and is currently a Gates ...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Harvard Veritas: interview with a recent graduate (anonymous) — Manifold Episode #18

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  The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

How We Learned, Then Forgot, About Human Intelligence... And Witnessing the Live Breakdown of Academia (podcast interview with Cactus Chu)

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This is a long interview I did recently with Cactus Chu, a math prodigy turned political theorist and podcaster. (Unfortunately I can't ...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Carl Zha: Xinjiang, Ukraine, and U.S.-China relations — Manifold podcast #10

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  Carl Zha is the host of the Silk and Steel podcast , which focuses on China, history, culture, and politics. He is a former engineer now b...
Monday, March 14, 2022

"The Pressure to Conform is Enormous": Steve Hsu on Affirmative Action, Assimilation and IQ Outliers (CSPI Podcast with Richard Hanania)

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  Another great conversation with Richard Hanania.  Some rough timestamps:  Begin: American society, growing up as child of immigrants  18m:...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Manifold Podcast #6: Richard Sander on Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory, and Academic Freedom

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School.  AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the st...