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ReproFro 2025 party – Yuxi on the Wired

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During 2025-06-10–2025-06-12, the Reproductive Frontiers Summit (ReproFro) convention was hosted in Berkeley. Gwern invited me to the afterparty in Lighthaven, so I went. I wore my serious-business-dress and carried around Behavioral Neurobiology: An integrative approach (Zupanc 2018). Not to read it, but as a comfort object. “… so Bismarck Analysis produces geopolitical analysis subscribed to by billionaires. They have made some seriously wrong analysis, like the one about the Russian military being modernized enough to win wars, but generally pretty good quality.” “Why would billionaires need geopolitical analysis?” “Geopolitical analysis is useful because there are some rare events that could be very important. For example, is it likely that the US would become like Turkey, with Erdogan? So Turkey was a democracy, but Erdogan just took it over step by step, with the media, the newspapers, and the government apparatuses. So a rich person would very well ask, ‘How would this or that c

ReproFro 2025 party – Yuxi on the Wired During 2025-06-10–2025-06-12, the Reproductive Frontiers Summit (ReproFro) convention was hosted in Berkeley. Gwern invited me to the afterparty in Lighthaven, so I went. I wore my serious-business-dress and carried around Behavioral Neurobiology: An integrative approach ( Zupanc 2018 ) . Not to read it, but as a comfort object. US Constitution “… so Bismarck Analysis produces geopolitical analysis subscribed to by billionaires. They have made some seriously wrong analysis, like the one about the Russian military being modernized enough to win wars , but

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