Interesting Links for 08-08-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Teenage girls are being raped by several boys during their boyfriends' gang initiation

(tags:UK gangs rape )

2. The Dangerous Ideas of "Longtermism" and "Existential Risk"

(tags:morality transhumanism )

3. Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language

(tags:programming Jews funny )

4. Humanities scholarship labor crisis: How the infrastructure of research is falling apart.

(tags:academia Doom research )

5. Why does the Bank of England appear to be ignoring its mandate?

(tags:economics Doom UK viaDanielDWilliam )

6. The terrible, awful, no-good morality of Thomas the Tank Engine

(tags:morality children stories )

7. How the Conservatives are going to crash the UK's most profitable export industry

(tags:uk art Education academia entertainment )

8. Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term with no significant effect on economic growth or unemployment

(tags:tax inequality economics )

9. Finland & Croatia Test Digital Passports

(tags:passport finland croatia )

10. Spain orders public places set air conditioning no lower than 27 degrees Celsius

(tags:spain electricity temperature weather )

Comments

[nancylebov]

If Africans are the last to have widespread education (I'm in favor of them having education), then the proportion of Africans will increase relative to everyone else.

I think that eventually, people will need to find a way to increase the reproductive rate a bit while having widespread education.

[andrewducker]

Maybe eventually, but certainly at the moment all areas have growing populations, so reducing reproductive rate is rather higher on the importance list right now.