A few days ago I had dinner with a friend of mine. Briefly, we spoke about buying real estate. I remarked that even if financing was a non-issue, it is too risky to own property in Clown World. The main reason is that you sink a lot of money into a house or apartment, based… Continue reading The Boomer Art of Living
I do not need to go into much depth about r/K selection theory. In short, you can subdivide species into two categories. There are those that produce many offspring but invest very little in them, which is the “r” strategy. In contrast, other species produce relatively few offspring but dedicate a lot of time and… Continue reading Financialization and Democracy as Root-Causes of Western YOLO-ism
One of the most bizarre Clown World stories I recently read is that Harvard, once supposedly the top university in the United States, nowadays offers remedial mathematics courses. Harvard also offers “the most difficult mathematics course in the world”, the infamous Math 55. For non-US-citizens, the content of Math 55 is not too different from… Continue reading Slavery is Freedom, War is Piece, and Edumacation is Education
The effect social policy has on mate selection seems to a taboo subject that the elites want to keep out of sight. In reality, though, social policy has far-reaching influence on mate selection. An easy example is an exuberant welfare state in which even the non-productive members of society can live like millionaires. If economic… Continue reading Social Policy Influences Mate Selection
A few years ago I attended a conference on machine learning. There was a connection due to the company I worked for at that time so we got a few free tickets. The conference itself is not really the point, though. Instead, I want to talk about a most curious side event that perfectly illustrates… Continue reading The Amazing AI Girl
There is the right-wing saying that at the top and bottom of the wealth pyramid consists of an hereditary aristocracy. Let us ignore that the terminology is wrong as the etymological root of “aristocrat” is the Greek aristos, i.e. “the best”. By definition, if you stratify society based on wealth, then the wealthiest end up… Continue reading The Welfare Aristocracy is Real
Following the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is very entertaining. Basically every day they cancel DEI contracts for grifters and kick out huge swatches of Deep State bureaucrats. Looking beyond just the government, however, I had the impression that the impact of his work will be much more far reaching and… Continue reading Will Musk’s DOGE Decimate the IT Services Industry?
I wrote about tech being a clown-world career before. Tech is not the only clown-world career. Clown world is far reaching. I think every company that is not making profits and instead pursues bogus metrics, such as “downloads” or “monthly active users” or “gross merchandise volume” is quite likely a clown-world operation. These companies can… Continue reading Nihilism in Clown World Companies
Arguably the biggest news of the last few days is that the official regime-change operation of the US government, USAID, is getting its wings clipped, with a far-reaching cut in spending and the introduction of adult supervision. Up until very recently, this agency seemed to have operated without any accountability, using US taxpayer money to… Continue reading The Limits of a Superparasitical Economy
I detest a lot about the unhinged left, in particular their never-ending word games. In this article, I point out two instances, one related to immigration and the other to higher education. They are completely obvious, yet we have a multi-billion media apparatus that wants to tell us that blue is akshually red and that… Continue reading Leftist Word Games: Non-Illegal Illegal Immigrants and Non-Free Freedom of Speech
Arguably the currently most important people on the political scene in the West are Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Both have a lot in common: they are billionaires, they come from rich families, and they have had more success than their fathers. In addition, they are if not right-leaning then at the very least against… Continue reading Success Envy and Stupidity: Reflections on the Media Treatment of Trump and Musk
