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David Hugh-Jones

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My book is out! https://​​www.amazon.co.uk/​​Wyclifs-Dust-Western-cultures-printing/​​dp/​​B0B5PPXSQH/​​

I’m a social scientist in an economics department in Britain. Two of my interests are experimental economics and the social causes of genetic variation. I have a newsletter at https://​​wyclif.substack.com.

Why I am not a poly­genic score nihilist

David Hugh-JonesJul 3, 2025, 1:38 PM
6 points
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Five toy wor­lds to think about her­i­ta­bil­ity

David Hugh-JonesJun 28, 2024, 1:11 PM
13 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
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Or­di­nary hu­man life

David Hugh-JonesDec 17, 2022, 4:46 PM
24 points
3 comments14 min readLW link
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Self-Con­trol Se­crets of the Pu­ri­tan Masters

David Hugh-JonesSep 26, 2022, 9:04 AM
67 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
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A mar­ket is a neu­ral network

David Hugh-JonesSep 15, 2022, 9:53 PM
7 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Wy­clif’s Dust: the miss­ing chapter

David Hugh-JonesJul 22, 2022, 6:27 PM
9 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
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A re­view of Nate Hilger’s The Par­ent Trap

David Hugh-JonesJul 15, 2022, 9:30 AM
15 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
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On effec­tive al­tru­ism, util­i­tar­i­anism and localness

David Hugh-JonesJun 3, 2022, 10:34 AM
14 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
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An aca­demic jour­nal is just a Twit­ter feed

David Hugh-JonesMay 27, 2022, 11:14 AM
14 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
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