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In defence of a positive discount rate
After the random and unprovoked battery I recieved by a group of men, in my (usually quiet suburban) neighborhood, I have reflected on the nature of…
Feb 20
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Ciaran Marshall
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Mid-February 2026 links
One of the main bottlenecks to AGI is that tasks can't easily be decomposed. AI may substitute or complement some elements of a task but not others, or…
Feb 19
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Ciaran Marshall
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Technocracy satisfies nobody
Singapore shows why technocracy is not a free-lunch nor a likely equilibrium
Feb 14
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Ciaran Marshall
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Rapamycin: an anti-ageing medicine?
The conventional wisdom of protein maximisation is wrong. It's good to be a soyboy
Feb 12
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Ciaran Marshall
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February 2026 links
Heritability of lifespan doubles once accounting for extrinsic mortality, yet extrinsic mortality itself is correlated with traits that also likely…
Feb 3
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Ciaran Marshall
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The most inflammatory post you'll read today
Inflammation is one of the most widely recognised health problems we face today, with its association to chronic age-related disease and its tight links…
Feb 2
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Ciaran Marshall
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January 2026
Multiple unstable equilibria in governance
Dictatorships and democracies compete against each other to attract capital and labour, which in general equilibrium spurs autocracies to liberalise…
Jan 19
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Ciaran Marshall
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I have a sweet tooth: will it bite and kill me?
Unfortunately yes, and more on why virtue is difficult and often suboptimal
Jan 17
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Ciaran Marshall
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Links for mid-January 2026
Dying your hair unnatural colours is associated with depression, even after controlling for a wide range of variables (although some of those may be…
Jan 15
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Ciaran Marshall
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Ageing as reversible epigenetics?
Increasingly, it's becoming apparent that when cloning an animal, one can reverse most signs of ageing, whilst the integrity of the genome is fully…
Jan 13
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Ciaran Marshall
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What I've been reading on Substack
Why is Pakistan one of the poorest nations in the Islamic world? I would also add that economic performance tended to be better with the army in charge…
Jan 12
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Ciaran Marshall
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One longevity ring to rule them all (part IV): senescence
Over fifty years ago, a major discovery in microbiology was announced.
Jan 10
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Ciaran Marshall
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