Jun 22, 2026 · paid • writings · 0 comments
The Marginal Value of an Average Birth
Are new neighbors harmful?
Jun 11, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Looking at Society Quantitatively
Distributions, decomposition, and fundamental parts
Apr 23, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Financial Markets as Products of Evolution
No intelligent design
Mar 30, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Check out the new & improved Sociobiology.org
Now my main website
Mar 1, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to Read Leon Voß's Writings from 2023 through 2025
A map of my writings
Feb 14, 2026 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Thoughts on Prestige Universities and Alternatives
Build alternatives and attack the current institutions with new laws
Feb 4, 2026 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The Narcissism of Asian Immigrants
Foreigners don't determine status in a country
Feb 1, 2026 · writings • paid · 0 comments
White Elites Need Borders Because of Game Theory
How certain groups of high-performing immigrants defect from the elite white economic cooperation equilibrium
Jan 21, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
Top 10 Reasons Early Marriage is Better than Late Marriage
Are there any even downsides?
Jan 20, 2026 · writings • paid · 0 comments
IQ Communication Range: Not in daily life but in fields of knowledge
There probably isn't any material beyond 145 IQ due to the lack of people over that level to make it
Jan 10, 2026 · writings • free · 0 comments
How much do intelligence and g correlate?
Probably around 0.90
Dec 27, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Errors in Robert Sapolsky's "Behave" Chapter 6
Fake teenage brain stuff from 2017 NYT bestseller
Dec 16, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Understanding IQ qualitatively
Most people can hardly pass middle school algebra
Dec 7, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Kalshi: Decline of the USA?
Is the US economy one big scam?
Nov 17, 2025 · writings • paid · 0 comments
What is the ideal age of consent?
Reacting to Sectionalism Archive
Nov 3, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Measurement error in sibling models
Herasight's correction is correct
Oct 29, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why the Center for Educational Progress won't achieve anything
Only radical overhaul can improve education
Oct 19, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Review of "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows"
And the Aumann Agreement Theorem
Oct 11, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Re Cofnas: Facts and Logic About Woke
Some fights just can't be won
Sep 28, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Fertility Crisis and the Postmodern Marriage Pattern in Germany
First came low marital fertility, then came extremely late marriage
Sep 15, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Reanalysis of the political diversity paper
This paper (pic related above) is floating around X.
Sep 14, 2025 · writings • paid · 0 comments
National Phone Bans in School Are a Bad Idea
They fail to get to the root of the problem and may cause more harm than good
Sep 9, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Signaling in The Case Against Education
Education isn't about signaling, it's about the right tail paying for the median's teenage quality of life
Aug 5, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The possible origins of the Modern Western European Marriage Pattern
Was everyone before 1600 AD a pedophile?
Aug 3, 2025 · misc · 0 comments
European Marriage Patterns in Perspective
The famous article by John Hajnal
Jul 13, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Can we afford classical eugenics?
Yes, but it's still expensive
Jun 5, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Philosophy professors are failing a high school level word problem
May 12, 2025 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Against West Coast Epistemology
Rationalism and neoreaction are just cults
Apr 24, 2025 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Is Money Evolved Biologically?
Man isn't smart enough to invent money
Apr 23, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
What's Wrong with Classical Eugenics?
We're missing 30 IQ points because nobody listened to Galton
Apr 22, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Mean IQ of SMPY Participants is Only 132
I've released a library for estimating latent traits like g from test scores and reliabilities. I apply this to the SMPY.
Apr 20, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to Major in Sociobiology At University
Reading list I would use if I could create a sociobiology department at a university
Apr 17, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Against Aella's "AI Child Porn Will Probably Save Real Children"
Porn probably increases the tendency to seek out the real thing
Apr 15, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Steve Keen's Critique of Neoclassical Economics: Not Far Enough
How to dismiss neoclassical economics from an armchair
Apr 4, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Commentary on "On Entrepreneurial Success"
Are the rich evil?
Mar 28, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Contra Seb Jensen on Mutational Load
I think his article is overall weakly in favor of my theory of mutational load
Mar 25, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Evolution explains regional differences in China best
According to a new paper in Nature
Mar 22, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Are We Smart Enough for Eugenics?
The dysgenic feedback loop: can't do eugenics because we don't have eugenics
Mar 3, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why I am not a Conflict or Mistake Theorist
Both theories are poorly defined and flawed
Feb 23, 2025 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Why are the psychologists BLUPing?
Best case scenario with BLUP is it melts your computer for no reason
Feb 3, 2025 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The Age of Consent as a Battle Against Nature
A higher age means a tougher battle. Is it worth it?
Jan 21, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Chinese Rice Farms and "Culture"
Do rice farms select for collectivism?
Jan 10, 2025 · writings • free · 0 comments
Demystifying Regression to the Mean
Math, genetics, and intuitions on why it happens and when
Dec 30, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Werner Zagrebbi and the Origins of Woke
And why hereditarianism is too complex
Dec 25, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Reply to "Genes, culture, and scientific racism"
Could an article be any more wrong?
Dec 6, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Why I don't Like BLUP
Down the rabbit hole into bizarre 20th century statistics
Nov 8, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
How Much Would the Ideal Dataset Cost?
Dear JD Vance: Please Spend $500 billion on gene sequencing every American
Nov 4, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Causation and Human History
What is a proper answer to "what caused the demographic transition?" and similar questions
Oct 27, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
What do SNP Heritabilities Really Tell Us?
That you can explain a lot of phenotypic variance with a surprisingly small fraction of the human genome
Oct 8, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
New Meta-Analysis of GWAS Highlights Missing Heritability Problem
Also debunks most of Sasha Gusev's claims about IQ not being like height
Sep 26, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How much information are parental phenotypes expected to provide about offspring genotypes?
Not much, on average
Sep 21, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
The Eugenic Origins of Modernity
Why evolution probably drives history
Sep 15, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Does Molecular Data Overturn IQ Twin Studies?
Replying to "No, intelligence is not like height"
Sep 10, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Estimating the IQ Distributions of Languages
Will high IQ people switch to German as the new language of high culture?
Aug 31, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Estimating Mutational Pressure on IQ through the Effect of De Novo Mutations in the Exome on Intellectual Disability
Molecular data shows the mutational pressure on IQ is significant
Aug 25, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Elites don't control public opinion
Why elites can't control what you believe
Aug 11, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Does "Cultural" Transmission Bias Twin Studies?
An environmentarian called Sasha Gusev has recently written a critique of classical twin studies, claiming that their design is biased and cannot tell us about the heritability of traits.
Aug 8, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Top 5 2024 Olympics HBD Moments
Race & sex differences in the Olympics
Aug 5, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How genetically similar are siblings compared to their peers?
It depends on assortative mating
Jul 20, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How genetically similar are family?
Assortative mating hardly matters for sibling similarity
Jul 5, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Dogpiling on an Education System Supporter
Why he's full of it
Jul 4, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why the United States Sucks and Europe is Better
Democracy sucks, demographics, dysgenics
Jun 28, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Was Biden's Debate Debacle Planned?
Coordination vs. emergence
Jun 27, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The Top 5 Reasons HBD is True
Is HBD unconvincing? Responding to an HBD criticism
Jun 23, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How does Breastfeeding affect IQ?
The literature is unclear
Jun 7, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Should you circumcise your son?
It's hard to find a good reason to...
May 23, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why Demanding Years of Experience in Tech is Age Discrimination
Civil Rights Law should be expanded to ban age discrimination against people under 40
Apr 26, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Birth Order: Mutational Load or Environment?
Responding to Cremieux
Apr 23, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How White Demographic Decline is Driven By Low Fertility
Immigration is a distraction compared to having an extra baby
Apr 8, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Was Moldbug Right about the Cathedral?
No reason to think so
Mar 31, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Review of "The Anxious Generation"
Extremely over-exaggerated claims. Boys are fine, girls less so
Mar 25, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Do parents make a difference?
Responding to "Inquisitive Bird"
Mar 16, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Sociobiological Analysis of North Korea
Reviewing "The Real North Korea"
Mar 12, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
America's elite is mostly a meritocracy
Nepotism is overstated
Mar 4, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Can the right become the elite?
Probably not, the dysgenics are too bad
Feb 24, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why Biology and Math are Key: Commenting on Keith Woods vs Academic Agent, 2024
Internet history repeats. Where are we 16 months later?
Feb 21, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
How Effective Will Embryo Selection Be?
Quick post on embryo selection math
Feb 20, 2024 · writings • free · 2 comments
The Extinction of the Dark Elves
Based high IQ people are dying out
Feb 12, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Theory of Democracy
Race, wealth, democracy, and the limits of mainstream political science
Jan 19, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Everything I read in 2023
And my take on the book-question
Jan 16, 2024 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The pagan roots of memeticism
The memetics idea is just a throw-back to folk-stories about the harvest
Jan 8, 2024 · writings • free · 0 comments
Leftism has happened before
Examining the evidence for the leftism cycle
Dec 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why can't leftism be genes?
3 common misconceptions people have about the genetic nature of political change
Dec 16, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Is memeticism a pyramid scheme?
What would a completely cynical money-maxxing politics blogger blame leftism on, in theory?
Dec 12, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why can't it be genes?
Addressing bias against genetic hypotheses
Dec 6, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How much do Big Tech companies discriminate against white people?
It depends how many white people they hire and whether open borders is discrimination
Nov 30, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
What grade should a 145 IQ 10 year old be in?
He could be getting a PhD
Nov 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to compute mutational pressure
Without purifying selection
Nov 19, 2023 · research · 0 comments
On Evolutionary Pressure and General Leftism
Blank slatism made untenable by Bayesian analysis.
Nov 14, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Selection pressures on IQ, leftism, and other traits
Selection pressures can produce significant changes in a few generations
Nov 13, 2023 · research · 0 comments
A Paternal Age Effect on Leftism is Detectable with Continuous Measurements
Paper replicating the woke paternal age effect with a continuous measure for woke.
Nov 10, 2023 · 0 comments
It's the mutations, stupid | Podcast at Aporia
How many people have political agency? Where does elite theory go right and wrong? Is leftism caused by mutational load?
Nov 10, 2023 · writings · 0 comments
8 amazing things we could fund by stopping pointless schooling!
For $149 billion per year, we could have free job training, college, and embryo selection. This leaves about $81 billion leftover per year!
Nov 10, 2023 · research · 0 comments
Evidence for a Paternal Age Effect on Leftism
New paper! We find a paternal age effect for leftism using a binary metric, indicating mutational pressure in the leftist direction.
Nov 7, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How to compute selection pressures
Part 1 of a series on evolutionary pressures and leftism
Oct 27, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Want to be rich? Drop out of school
Billionaires drop out more and get PhDs less adjusted for IQ
Oct 4, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The rise and fall of "cultural evolution"
Why cultural evolution is fake
Sep 18, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Review of "The Origins of Woke"
In his book, Hanania gets a lot of things right, while missing the bigger picture
Sep 17, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
What is Elon Musk's IQ?
How would the richest man in the world score on an IQ test?
Aug 29, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Against Turchin on power: proposing a better model
Turchin's model fails to be sufficiently empirical or quantitative
Aug 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Is everything liberal?
Things are more conservative than talking-points indicate
Aug 2, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Want to succeed on Right-wing Twitter and Substack? Make 'simple' content
This audience sphere rewards simpler, verbal content over sophisticated thought and research
Jul 3, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Voters are mostly rational: a response to Keith Woods
Voters are only random within a small range of policies
Jun 29, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Don't ban affirmative action: abolish university instead
Banning affirmative action is educational perestroika. We need total privatization and decentralization instead.
Jun 25, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Decline in Conservatism Between Generations Correlates Highly with Potential Signals of Mutational Load
What do left handedness, MS rates, Crohn's disease rates, youth cancer rates, autism rates, homosexuality rates, and conservatism rates all have in common?
Jun 24, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Brief Critique of Keith Woods' "Why Democracy is Fake"
Keith Woods, please abandon idealism
Jun 21, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
How important is the elite in wokeism?
Is woke just increasing mutational load or do the elites need to be considered?
Jun 17, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
HBD Twitter is Entirely r-selected
Extreme frequency is rewarded, original work is not
Jun 17, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
A Critique of the Unabomber’s Ideology
Ted Kaczynski was probably just insane
Jun 12, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The Costs of Diversity: Contra Hanania on Immigration
Non-white immigration causes negative externalities
May 30, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Pareto vs. Mind Viruses: As Predicted, Stated Belief does not Predict Costly Behavior among the Woke
New study falsifies mind virus theory and vindicates Paretian memetics
Apr 28, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Debunking "How to Argue with a Racist" by Adam Rutherford, Part 3
In part 3 of his book, Rutherford non-sequiturs his way to stating that race differences in sport are merely "cultural".
Apr 15, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Calculating the Plausibility of the "Long March Through the Institutions"
Jordan Peterson dogma deboonked?
Mar 25, 2023 · writings • free · 0 comments
Why "Philosophy" is Invalid
And what is wrong with people who call themselves "philosophers?"
Mar 15, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Estimating Recognition, Advocation, and Implementation Capacities of the General Population
1st scientific study!
Mar 10, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
On the Origins of Civil Rights Law
Applying exousiology to historical analysis
Feb 26, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
How selfish is man?
Reviewing the literature on the dictator game and the ultimatum game.
Jan 6, 2023 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Classical Athenians Tolerated Homosexuality
Why the Ancient Greeks were gay
Dec 31, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
The Process of Political Agency
Defining the concept of political agency more rigorously
Dec 28, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Against status feedback loops: an exousiological critique of Richard Hanania
Contra "A Psychological Theory of the Culture War" and "How Status Competition Created the Culture War."
Dec 24, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Jewish IQ, Ethnocentrism, Dissident-Right Discourse Quality, and Ubersoy vs. Leather Apron Club
Clarifying why Ashkenazi IQ and ethnocentrism are trivial issues, and critiquing what the DR pays attention to (not enough exousiology)
Nov 9, 2022 · writings • free · 0 comments
Debunking "How to Argue with a Racist" by Adam Rutherford, Part 2
The core “argument,” if it can be called that, of part II of Adam Rutherford’s How to Argue with a Racist, is that race is not real because everyone is related.
Nov 2, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Computers as IQ shredders
Instead of furthering human knowledge, many of our brightest are addicted to intellectual computer games
Oct 26, 2022 · writings • free · 0 comments
Debunking "How to Argue with a Racist" by Adam Rutherford, Part I
Rutherford is a dishonest activist and his book is terrible
Oct 19, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Estimating the number of people with political agency
Why democracy isn't real and can't be real with this gene pool, according to the data
Oct 14, 2022 · writings • free · 0 comments
About
Links to other content, what this Substack is for, how to support, etc.
Jan 14, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Is Ageism Against Youth Rational?
Can we justify age discrimination against the young in a tolerant world?
Jan 3, 2022 · writings • paid · 0 comments
Striking Gold: When does the brain reach maturity?
A shorter summary of the latter parts of An Empirical Introduction to Youth
