Archive - Data Taboo

Response to the comments on Two-Parent Privilege

Answers to your questions.

Mar 23 •

Book Review: "The Two-Parent Privilege"

An economist looks at the surge of single parent families.

Mar 5 •

January 2024

2024 Predictions

Twelve predictions on AI and culture.

Jan 1 •

September 2023

Modeling p(doom) with TrojanGDP

How long will ape derived brains remain dominant?

Sep 22, 2023 •

July 2023

Forecasting the College Enrollment Gender Gap

Will male enrollment continue to decline?

Jul 26, 2023 •

June 2023

Journalism in the Age of Many-to-Many Communication

A review of Batya Ungar-Sargon's book, 'Bad News.'

Jun 11, 2023 •

May 2023

Is Bisexuality a Political Statement?

After the 2016 presidential election, a massive surge of liberal young women began identifying as bisexual. But won't have sex with other women.

May 10, 2023 •

Interview with David Auerbach and Review of 'Meganets'

A lot of people are worried that AI will take over the world, but Auerbach’s new book raises the specter of a different threat: what if we’ve already…

May 7, 2023 •

March 2023

Forecasting Authoritarian and Sovereign Power uses of Large Language Models

What will the Chinese Communist Party do with a Large Language Model?

Mar 13, 2023 •

February 2023

Postmodern Faith and Police Violence

Tyre Nichols’ brutal killing highlights how woke oppressor-oppressed narratives determine the tragedy of Nichols' death not by the skin color of the…

Feb 5, 2023 •

January 2023

Geometric Intuition for why ChatGPT is NOT Sentient

I've been aggressively asked the last few weeks if ChatGPT is sentient. Thinking about language as geometry explains why it is not.

Jan 22, 2023 •

A Statistical Book Review for "Of Boys and Men" by Richard Reeves

Reeves' book makes a number of questionable statistical claims so I’ve reached out to him and suggested we do a predictive modeling competition to…

Jan 10, 2023 •

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