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Robin Hanson: Status and Our Forager Future

From the New World

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Drug Consumption and Deaths of Disdain

Opiate consumption and suicides have been doubling every decade for 50 years, at least in the US. The different kinds of drugs that people have died from have varied quite a lot. And this is something I've noticed in some other areas. That is, often we do have very steady trends where the usual explanations people would give are not steady.

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