The Update | Substack
News that shifts your beliefs. The Update is written by Stefan Schubert. The content and format will evolve over time, but the plan is to cover current events and long-term trends as well as the public discourse around them.
Recent posts
- Social science and common sense
- The limits to progress in psychology
- The roots of cynicism
- The problem with disjunctive existential risk
- The response prior
- Why we’re epistemically flexible but stubbornly self-regarding
- Talk: The case for epistemic discipline
- The Rationality Gap
- The tables have turned on AI sceptics
- Women don’t think 80 percent of men are below average, and the share of children with a secret dad is far below 10 percent