One Link Per Site

I have essay sites I try to keep up with, sometimes reading a post closely, sometimes skimming a few posts. I recommend all of these in general, but decided to pick one from each to make things a little simpler.  I have so many these days, and I'm sure you do too. And I do not even need to be smart anymore, or at least not informed.

I will scrape the October and November links from Astral Codex Ten separately. 

Unsupervised Learning, with Razib Khan.  To Have and Have Not: Genetic Determinants of Social Status. This is Gregory Clark being his usual controversial self. It is only part of the podcast, and you have to be a subscriber to read a copy, but it is about a half-hour, rather than the usual 12-min preview that Razib does. Clark runs the numbers for centuries of England, but the work has replicated in Denmark and Poland.

Anthropologist John Hawks. Among the bonobos, it is the females who hunt, not the males. This was very unexpected.

Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Across 6 million subjects in 118 countries, women experience more pain of all kinds than men. So there.

Exhibit Asterisk Your Lying Eyes.  What magicians teach us about persuasion.

Rob Henderson. Women have become more likely to marry men with less education than them.  In fact, it started happening slowly two decades ago.

David Foster. What, Precisely, Is the Issue With "Elites?'

Steve Sailer  Sailer takes issue with Richard Hanania (who I find more tiresome every day myself) about Indians vs. Israelis. Only the first part is free, but it's got some interesting thoughts in it.

The Age of Arthur by Bernard Mees Who Was Sir Mordred?

Data Republican. Power Argues With Power Just Wow. She has reportedly been identified.  Does she live in New England? She would be welcome here.

Cremieux Recueil He seems to gravitate to mythbusting and counterintuitive knowledge.  Well, Bully for him, then.  Obesity and Poverty Part II Everything you thought you knew is not supported by the data.

Aporia  A challenge to the genetic origin of racial differences in IQ, based on the HSV-1 Hypothesis.  Way over my head, but what I can understand looks like it has something to it.  I will try to be alert to what people smarter than me say about this.

Dead Language Society. What is the AI Accent, and why do we hate it?

In the To Be Continued category.  David Reich has put forward a speculative (for him) preprint about the erosion of the Out-of-Africa hypothesis.  I had thought it was solid. Apparently not. The idea is we have many more Eurasian ancestors, but the out-of-Africa population from 50K y/a brought improvements to enough important genes that it out-competed the Eurasians within the process of interbreeding, not by eliminating them.  It is similar to the idea of explaining "What happened to the Neanderthals/Denisovans?" by claiming that We are the Neanderthals/Denisovans! The O-O-A population interbred with us, bringing better stuff. We remained, but their genes gradually increased in us, so that thousands of years later it looks like they lived and we died. No, we just captured their best genes and kept on living throughout Eurasia.  Not at all what I expected. 

I could probably afford more subscriptions, but I just don't have the time.  When would I daydream? When would I obsess over my terrible fantasy football teams? When would I get irritated waiting for the dog to poop? Not to mention shopping and cooking, going down the rabbit holes of maps, going to doctor's appointments, doing PT exercises and learning my anthems?