Stefan Schubert
Effective Altruism and the Human Mind (with Lucius Caviola) is available for free at: academic.oup.com/book/56384
For physical and audiobook versions, see: stefanschubert.substack.com/p/physical-and-audi…
- Since 2001 the number of domestic flights in Sweden has decreased from 170,000 to 71,000. Meanwhile the number of train rides has increased from 139 million to 265 million. Flight ticket prices have increased by 206%, train ticket prices by 84%. www.dagensps.se/foretag/sj-s...
- Sweden (just about) had negative population growth in Q1 2025, according to official data. (Sometimes these figures can be distorted due to administrative corrections, so some caution is warranted.) www.scb.se/hitta-statis...
- Though many green policies are increasingly strict, policies vs woodburning continue to be lax "Last year, a study by the chief medical officer for England, found that even “eco-design” stoves produced 450 times more toxic air pollution than gas central heating" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Bill Gates just announced he'll give away almost all his wealth in the next two decades and close the Gates Foundation in 2045 www.reuters.com/business/bil... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
- "Much of the current knowledge comes from one highly cited, though underpowered (N=8) study from 2007" ...
- Paper finally published in JEP General! Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007: osf.io/preprints/os... A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery... a 🧵 1/8
