Links for May 2025
– personal
- Progress Studies and Feminization by Arctotherium (2025-04-07).
- When did Europe pull ahead? And why? by Peter Frost (2022-11-21).
- The Biofoundationalism essay series by Dmitry:
- Biofoundationalism I: Moral Foundations Utility Theory & Hypermoralization (2024-12-20).
- Biofoundationalism II: The Moral Genotype (2025-01-24).
- Biofoundationalism III: Verbal Intelligence and Factual Sediment (2025-02-21).
- Biofoundationalism IV: Masculine Because You Have To, Feminine Because You Get To (2025-04-25).
- Other great essays by Dmitry:
- Capitalism, Lions, and the Way of the Beaver (2024-09-16).
- Property Rights, Toilets, and the Way of the Dog (2024-10-07).
- Gain Dependents, Gain Power (2024-10-23).
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences Will Be a Delight for the Human Race (2024-12-28).
- Trashbags of Facts and Insipid Oceans (2025-02-11).
- How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast by Engineer’s Codex (2025-05-10).
- MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters by Addy Osmani (2025-03-27).
- Two lectures by Marcel Dumas Gautreau at two different conferences hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute this year:
- The American Assimilation Myth by Inquisitive Bird (2025-04-09).
- Follow-up article expanding the case to international data: The Assimilation Myth (2025-05-09). This one is paywalled so I haven’t read it entirely.
- Nonlinear Ethnic Niches by Arctotherium (2025-05-03).
- GDP, yes, but GDP per what? by Emil Kirkegaard (2025-05-02).
- Elite Human Capital DEBUNKED by Ubersoy (2025-02-02). A response to the ludicrous ragebait concept of “EHC” promoted by Anatoly Karlin and Richard Hanania.
- What are gigachad’s political views? by Sebastian Jensen (2025-05-30).
- Moldbug Sold Out by Scott Alexander (2025-05-07). What really strikes me is not Yarvin’s hypocrisy/pivot, but how convoluted and ultimately fragile is the system he originally theorized.
- Left Moldbuggism by Mascilbinah (2024-12-10).
- Two in-depth articles by Ubersoy about the Jews:
- Are Jews White? (2025-05-18). Paywalled article, so I haven’t read it entirely. The paywalled part is probably more polemical.
- How Ethnocentric Are Jews? (2025-05-29).
- For more about Jewish genetics but focused only on the scientific evidence, I recommend these articles by Razib Khan:
- Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean (2021-09-18). Paywalled halfway through.
- Under pressure: the paradox of the diamond (2021-10-24). Not paywalled.
- A coat of many colors: medieval-DNA findings detect interwoven strands of Ashkenazi heritage (2022-12-13). Paywalled halfway through.
- More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins (2023-12-28). Paywalled halfway through, but I managed to read it entirely using a free one-month subscription.