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Glenn Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Brown University. Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a Wi...

ALGOS BAD!!!  ... and these instances prove it ... ;-)

Federal R&D, which skews more toward basic research , is typically somewhat less than 1% of US GDP (~$100 billion per annum). See fig...

This is a thoughtful discussion of OBOR and TPP. @44min and following, an insider's account of economic rapprochement between the US a...

Let's see if any other media outlets cover this very essential part of the trial -- the cross examination of each side's statist...

Ask and ye shall receive :-) In an earlier post I recommended a talk by Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI (part of an MIT AGI lecture series). In ...

David Goldman writes the Spengler column for the Asia Times. He has been a keen observer of geopolitics, economics, and finance in the A...

I recently noticed this lecture series at MIT, focusing on AGI. This talk by Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI) is very good. There are several more ...

Note Added  in response to 2020 Twitter mob attack which attempts to misrepresent my views : This is not my research. I do not work on popu...

See you in San Diego! American Society of Human Genetics . My schedule is so booked with meetings that I wonder whether I will be able to...

Now that the Harvard Asian American discrimination trial has started, let me share some previous correspondence with NYTimes reporters w...

See also Population-wide Genomic Prediction of Health Risks . The approach to predictive medicine that is taking genomics research by stor...

Almost every student who attends a decent high school will be exposed to Special Relativity. Their science/physics teacher may not really...

The UK is ahead of the US in the application of genomics in clinical practice. Part of this is due to their leadership in projects like t...

I thought Khabib's grappling would dominate McGregor's striking. Tony Ferguson would have given him a tougher fight. The finish...

Apologies, I've been super busy lately. Below are some links of interest. Genomic prediction of cognitive traits in childhood and adol...

Webpage / Program / Abstracts . My opening remarks: On behalf of Michigan State University it is my pleasure to welcome all of you ...

Iain McGilchrist , author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World , in conversation with Jor...

I came across this interview with Fields Medalist Alain Connes  (excerpt below) via an essay by Dominic Cummings (see his blog here ). ...

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this documentary, but I suspect the opinions of the people interviewed -- white collar mom with high...

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, interviewed by Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s Editor-in-chief (Open Future festi...

First ~9min: Trump, the US Left and Right, Identity Politics @10min: IQ @24min: Harvard and Asian admissions. "The Asians are the...

Illumina International Summit on Population Genomics 2018 The aim of this meeting is to bring together individuals, initiatives, and p...

Seems like Elon might have been high before the interview even started 8-) Early discussion focused on AI, Neuralink, Singularity risk, et...

About one in ten babies born in Denmark now is an IVF baby (8% in 2015). In many countries the fraction is roughly one in twenty. A million...