A blog by economist Robin Hanson that applies economic reasoning and Bayesian priors to questions about human belief, morality, culture, and the long-term future. Readers get original, contrarian arguments, often with proposals such as prediction-market-based governance.

Short philosophical essays that use ideas from science, game theory and social dynamics to examine how simplification, collective behavior and hidden assumptions shape human understanding. Each issue builds a single counterintuitive argument, such as Braess's paradox or pluralistic ignorance, and draws broader conclusions about civilization.

Original research notes and reflections from a social scientist on using AI in survey research, text-as-data methods and everyday research workflows. Issues cover survey panel quality in the age of AI agents, benchmarking a new fast annotation model against LLMs, and practical use of dictation with command-line coding agents.

A newsletter on statistical genetics that critically examines heritability claims, academic policy and the use of AI in research. Readers get data-driven analysis of published datasets and hands-on experiments from a practicing researcher.