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From Scottie · July 31, 2026
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- Cremieux RecueilThe publication this guide is about
- Experimental HistoryAdds original social-science experiments and methodological reflection.
- Astral Codex TenAdds long-form synthesis, critique, and open debate across psychology and medicine.
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July 31, 2026 · Executive brief
01 / The rundown
- Botswana faces economic contraction as global diamond demand plummets, showing how commodity shocks can overpower decades of sound governance.
- New economic analysis demonstrates that logarithmic income growth steadily increases national happiness, refuting claims that modern wealth fails to improve well-being.
- Demographic and Census data show that data center construction does not drive foreign tech worker migration to surrounding local communities.
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02 / The briefing
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Botswana's Model Economy Hits a Diamond Wall
The takeaway: Despite decades of textbook economic governance and sovereign savings, Botswana faces consecutive years of GDP contraction. Declining global demand for natural diamonds and competition from lab-grown alternatives have severely disrupted its primary export engine.
Concrete details
- Botswana diamond production fell from $4.7 billion in 2022 to $1.98 billion in 2025 as global demand dropped 42%.
- Lab-grown diamonds expanded from 12.5% of US purchases in 2019 to 61% by 2025, driving down natural prices.
Why it matters for this reader: For a policy-focused reader, Botswana highlights how external market shifts can undermine structural economic planning despite disciplined fiscal governance.
Original sourcesCremieux Recueil
02 / main
Height-Increasing Growth Hormone Shows Minimal Longevity Risks
The takeaway: Parents paying for childhood human growth hormone treatments do not appear to shorten their children's lives. Causal analysis indicates that greater height yields net protective health benefits, outweighing mild increases in cell-count-related cancer risks.
Concrete details
- Mendelian randomization shows taller stature provides a net protective effect on overall mortality, especially for males.
- US cancer mortality dropped continuously between 1991 and 2023, saving an estimated five million lives.
Why it matters for this reader: If you analyze health data, this provides clear quantitative evidence on how genetic mendelian randomization separates height correlation from direct causation.
Original sourcesCremieux Recueil
03 / main
Psychology's Replication Crisis Is Mostly Social Priming
The takeaway: Widespread skepticism regarding psychology research is largely overblown. The field's replication crisis centers narrowly on social priming and social psychology, while core disciplines like psychometrics and cognitive science remain methodologically sound.
Concrete details
- Social priming researchers account for just 0.05% to 0.2% of active working psychologists.
- An intro textbook review shows 15 out of 16 core chapters cover subfields entirely outside social priming.
Why it matters for this reader: As a data-focused evaluator of public policy, knowing which psychological findings replicate helps you filter bad behavioral science from solid empirical evidence.
Original sourcesAstral Codex Ten
04 / main
Data Centers Do Not Drive Local Indian Migration
The takeaway: Claims that building local data centers triggers an influx of foreign tech workers are false. Census data reveals that standard facilities employ very few people, while tech professionals cluster in broader metro exurbs based on regional job demand.
Concrete details
- A typical 250,000-square-foot data center employs around 50 people, with roughly half hired as independent contractors.
- Gallup polling shows water use, energy consumption, and utility costs are the top public concerns regarding data centers.
Why it matters for this reader: Your interest in migration patterns and demography benefits from facts that debunk political rhetoric around tech infrastructure and foreign labor influxes.
Original sourcesCremieux Recueil
05 / main
Economic Growth Reliably Increases Human Happiness
The takeaway: Historical data confirms that national happiness scales linearly with logarithmic income growth. Economic output per capita has expanded 225-fold since medieval times, delivering predictable, long-term gains in personal life satisfaction despite recent post-pandemic dips.
Concrete details
- Happiness scores display a 0.98 to 0.99 correlation with log income across income levels from $10,000 to $500,000.
- US GDP per capita rose from $20,000 in the 1950s to $75,000, lifting predicted happiness from 6.0 to 6.5.
Why it matters for this reader: For a reader evaluating economic policy, this logarithmic framework offers quantitative proof that long-term GDP growth consistently improves public well-being.
Original sourcesAstral Codex Ten
06 / main
Youth Risky Behaviors Dropped Dramatically Since 1995
The takeaway: Substance use and crime among teenagers plummeted over the last thirty years without targeted intervention. Rising national prosperity likely drove these long-term behavioral changes well before smartphones or social media transformed youth culture.
Concrete details
- High school alcohol consumption dropped from 50% in 1995, while teen smoking fell from 35% over thirty years.
- Broadband internet reached most American households in 2007, long after youth deviance rates began declining.
Why it matters for this reader: Analyzing demographic shifts in public health reveals how broad economic growth can curb risk-taking behaviors more effectively than deliberate policy interventions.
Original sourcesExperimental History
Action items
- Analyze logarithmic GDP growth models to separate temporary economic dips from long-term well-being trends in public policy datasets.
- Review Census demographic shifts in regional tech exurbs to evaluate migration patterns independently from local infrastructure developments.
- Examine youth demographic trendlines from 1995 to assess how rising national prosperity impacts public health and risk behaviors.
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Botswana and the Resource Curse
- Botswana Did Everything RightCremieux Recueil · Included
Evaluating the Scope of the Psychology Replication Crisis
- Psychology Research Is Mostly FineAstral Codex Ten · Included
Health Impacts of Human Growth Hormone for Height
- Will Making Your Kids Tall Shorten Their Lives?Cremieux Recueil · Included
Public Polling on Data Centers and Immigration Arguments
- Do Data Centers Cause... Indian Immigration?Cremieux Recueil · Included
Economic Growth Per Capita and Political Discontent
- Contra Pritchard On Liberal HappinessAstral Codex Ten · Included
Analyzing the Decline in Risk-Taking Behavior
- The Decline of Deviance 2Experimental History · Included
AI superforecasters conference
- The AI Superforecasters Are HereAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Aid money in Pakistan
- Your Book Review: Breakdown In PakistanAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Stochastic terrorism concept
- Against "Stochastic Terrorism"Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
AI chip regulation
- AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance StateAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Plan A AI proposal
- Introducing Plan AAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
AI safety grantmaking
- Open Thread 441Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Hugging Face incident discourse
- Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face IncidentAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
- The Hugging Face IncidentAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
PFAS exposure study
- Open Thread 443Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
History of lobotomy
- Your Book Review: Great And Desperate CuresAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Blog Post Competition winners
- Blog Jamboree 2026: The WinnersExperimental History · Read, not included
Etymology link collection
- Links For July 2026 (Part 2)Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Hidden open thread
- Hidden Open Thread 444.5Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
- Open Thread 444Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
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- Hidden Open Thread 440.5Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
English word coinages
- Links For July 2026 (Part 1)Astral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Slightly skew boogeymen
- Six Slightly Skew BoogeymenAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
Book of Abraham review
- Your Book Review: The Book Of AbrahamAstral Codex Ten · Read, not included
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- How To Get Cheap OzempicPublic issue[2]
- Botswana Did Everything RightPublic issue[3]
- Do Data Centers Cause… Indian Immigration?Wed, 22 Jul 2026[4]