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Taking crime seriously
A new project taking a first-principles look at crime in America
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Dunstan Ramsay

April 2023

What happened to Islamic terrorism?
Nothing, really
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Dunstan Ramsay

March 2023

LLMs, like people, lie without thinking
The question isn't whether they get stuff wrong, it's how much they do
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Dunstan Ramsay
Why libertarian public intellectuals are rare
At least there's Substack
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Dunstan Ramsay
2

February 2023

Tax the helicopters
A back-of-the-envelope exercise
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Dunstan Ramsay
Are bigger people more likely to win fights?
Maybe, maybe not.
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Dunstan Ramsay
2

December 2022

Do Americans even make friends in high school anymore?
No, Americans aren't getting lonelier in general. But teenagers might be.
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Dunstan Ramsay
1

November 2022

What could people in the past have done for us?
Making sense of longtermism
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Dunstan Ramsay
Cognitive disparities develop early and are very important
Lead, air pollution, structural racism, and the achievement gap
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Dunstan Ramsay
3

October 2022

Put traffic cameras everywhere
Automated traffic enforcement everywhere, all the time
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Dunstan Ramsay
3
Statistical significance and substantive significance are different
Sometimes you can't get around reading the study
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Dunstan Ramsay
Truth cultures and rhetoric cultures
A journey from ancient Greece to the modern newsroom
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Dunstan Ramsay
4
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