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- <s>Al Fin</s> Original Al Fin blog — Blocked by Google
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- An Audacious Epigone A statistical look at important social issues of the day
- Anthony Watts Independent and irreverent look at the turbulent world of climate change
- Anti Puritan Axel McKibbens Neoreaction Blog
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- The Industry Handbook Quick and useful overview of a number of industrial sectors for investors
- The Law Frederic Bastiat’s classic critique of socialism and democracy
- The Nuclear Energy Option Online Ebook Free online ebook by by Bernard L Cohen
- Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions On Scientific Paradigm Shifts
- Why Wind Won't Work Clear explanation of the many problems with wind energy in a 30 pp PDF document
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- Bjorn Lomborg Getting the facts straight
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
- Grey Enlightenment Conservatively optimistic economics/finance
- John McCarthy: Sustained Progress How Scientific and Technological Progress can be Sustained
- Julian Simon Online works of Julian Simon, eternal optimist
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- Matt Ridley Rational Optimism
- Mike Rowe Works Foundation Correcting the Skills gap
- Patri Friedman and Seasteading Projects of Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton, son of David
- Peter H. Diamandis' website X Prize, Singularity University, Planetary Resources, etc.
- Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil’s Singularity
- Robert Bryce Better Living Through Technology
- Seasteading Institute Quest for Free Living on the Oceans
- The Arts Mechanical An exploration of the technologies that affect our lives
Category Archives: Demographics
High Tax / Low Opportunity States Losing People
States that voted for Hillary are going broke and losing the people and businesses they cannot afford to lose. High-tax states are losing human capital and financial wealth to low-tax states with more personal and regulatory freedom. When people leave … Continue reading
Good, Bad, and Ugly in Putin’s Russia
Incomes are up, but only because government workers’ wages are rising so fast. Bank deposits and the national reserve fund are at their lowest. “… missile factories are almost at a standstill because of shortages of parts and problems with … Continue reading
Why are Today’s Young So Juvenile?
Update: The fantasies of today’s young speak ill of their upbringing and education. Earlier generations took on responsibility at young ages. Benjamin Franklin left school and began his working career at age 10. His writing career began at age 12 … Continue reading
Choose Your Future: Superhuman, or Superfluous Human?
“Relatively small changes in genes, hormones and neurons,” he points out, “were enough to transform Homo erectus — who could produce nothing more impressive than flint knives — into Homo sapiens, who produce spaceships and computers.” Why should we assume … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Future, IQ, Islam's Bloody Borders, Machine Intelligence, Megacities, Slums
Tagged IQ, Megaslums
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Is China’s Goose Cooked? And Other Bedtime Stories
Economically, China needs a powerful recession to get rid of businesses being kept alive by loans. Politically, China can’t afford the cost of unemployment. The re-emergence of a dictatorship in China under President Xi Jinping should be understood in this … Continue reading
Posted in China, Demographics, Donald Trump, Economics, Empire, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Russian Decline
Tagged china bubble, China_Russia, Immigration
A Place Where Rich People Feel Safe
According to New World Wealth, a market research firm based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the number of millionaires moving to another country jumped 28 percent in 2016 from the previous year, reaching the highest level the firm has found in … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Europe
Tagged bric, Demographic Decline, Immigration
War is Coming to Sweden Thanks to Swedish Government
… to accept there is a problem would mean accepting nearly 80 years of liberal thinking was wrong. … Multiculturalism doesn’t work …mass immigration does not lead to integration… Sweden has made a big mistake. Read more: Source Because Sweden … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Demographics, Europe, geopolitics, Government, Islam's Bloody Borders
Tagged Dangerous Child, Demographic Decline, Groupthink, Sweden
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A World Ripe for Disruption
The global economy has been in a state of rapid ferment for several decades. Although the US has operated the world’s largest national economy for the past 127 years, some of the world’s other former economic giants are beginning to … Continue reading
Pity the Accursed Black Man in the Age of White Privilege
Beneath the Blood, Beneath the Bones: The Abiding Curse It is the sad misfortune of African-derived black people to be eternally saddled with a debilitating curse. The curse runs so deeply through the very marrow of black Africans — and … Continue reading
Can a More Rational Polygamy Save the Civilised World?
Polygamy is already legal. But what we have now in modern nations is “irrational polygamy,” where large numbers of low IQ women are married to the welfare state. The state pays these low quality women to have children who are … Continue reading
“We just die out as flies, and nobody remembers us.”
People who truly love a country will face up to its problems, rather than turning their backs and denying the fatal trends that eat away at a nation’s heart. Demographic decline affects all of the developed world, including Europe, the … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Russian Collapse
Tagged Demographic Decline, Russian Decline
Can Donald Trump Stop this Idiocracy from Happening?
Global average human IQ has been declining for decades. Scientists are just beginning to decipher the genetic code for why an Idiocracy is looming on the horizon. A study from Iceland is the latest to raise the prospect of a … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Donald Trump, Fertility, Idiocracy, IQ
Tagged genes and IQ, Idiocracy
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Innovation, Productivity, and Enterprise: Wealth of Nations
Innovation Leads to Greater Productivity and Wealth Both innovation in new products and innovation in new processes tend to contribute to higher productivity for both individual firms — large and small — and for nations. “Disruptive innovation” contributes more than … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Europe, innovation, Technology, Wealth of Nations
Tagged economics
“White Supremacism” Takes on an Odd Complexion
Playing the Victim Proves Impossible to Resist The list of “fake hate crimes” is growing ever longer. People of the third world are being victimised at record rates, if claims are to be believed. But are the claims believable? Only, … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks and crime, Coming Anarchy, Crime, Demographics, Europe, Fertility, Germany, Human Slavery, Islam's Bloody Borders, Propaganda, Racial Myths
Tagged Immigration, race and crime
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Why are Some Nations Rich and Others Poor?
Judging only by wealth per capita, most people might choose to live in Switzerland, Lichtenstein, or Luxembourg. But residency is tightly restricted in the smaller two nations of the three, and gaining permanent residency is Switzerland is not particularly easy. … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Executive Functions, Genetics and Gene Expression, IQ, Wealth of Nations
Tagged economics, Executive Functions, IQ
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Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future
The Three Faces of Challenge Three powerful forces seek to dominate — or conquer — today’s world. Each of the three should be considered deadly enemies to an abundant and expansive human future. The tactics and strategies used to meet … Continue reading
Age of Disintegration, Age of Promise: Opportunities of the Coming Breakup
Dozens of Nations Will Not Be Able to Hold Onto What They Have The globe is crowded with unwieldy, oversized, unstable nations pretending to be something they are not. Winter is coming, and by “winter” I mean a spreading state … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Discontinuities, Dysgenics, geopolitics, Human Slavery, Megacities
Tagged anarchy, dysgenics, Megacities
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MegaCities of the Coming Anarchy
What Would a Preview of Tomorrow’s World Look Like? It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. __ … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Demographics, Doom, Dysgenics, Megacities
Tagged dysgenics, Megacities
Where the People Are; Where They Will Be
Where the People Are: To start, we’ve used 2016 information on population. There are now at least 3.8 billion people living inside the highlighted circle, and that’s not even including the tally from countries that are partially in the circle … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Demographics, Megacities
Tagged Demographic Decline, Megacities
The Gamble
You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, Know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table, There’ll be time enough for countin’ when … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Demographics, Future
Tagged dementia
Imbalance Leads to Instability Leads to War
Weakness Feeds into Imbalance in Positive Feedback Loop Warning: For reasons mentioned in passing below — and for other reasons not mentioned — everything the would-be superpower tries to do to project strength, is simply making it weaker in every … Continue reading
Realities
Realities of Crime Vengeful black mobs roam the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, and other North American cities, killing, looting, raping, in the name of an imaginary genocide. The real colour of crime is of a different hue than is … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Blacks and crime, China, Crime, Demographics, IQ
Tagged islam, race and crime
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WHO’s Afraid of a Little Zika?
Zika can make a pretty photograph, but when spread from mother to fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy, the picture is not so attractive. The World Health Organization (WHO) has its hands full just trying to keep up with … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Demographics, Epidemiology, Zika
Tagged Zika
The Tragic Consequences of Forced Egalitarianism
Different Breeding Populations Evolved Differently When life or death depends on your ability to follow a certain way of life, you are necessarily being selected for certain heritable characteristics. Some of these are dietary—an ability to digest milk or certain … Continue reading
Are Black People World’s Largest Liability?
Not as Individuals, No; Mainly from Dysfunctional Black Cultures and Large Concentrations in Populations Statistical Low Intelligence and Poor Impulse Control of Blacks Puts World Assets at Risk The world’s largest asset class — the American housing market — is … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Blacks and crime, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Dysgenics
Tagged dysgenics, race and crime
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