We Are Not Saved
By Jeremiah
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We Are Not Saved discusses religion (from a Christian/LDS perspective), politics, the end of the world, science fiction, artificial intelligence, and above all the limits of technology and progress.
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Do Not Go Gentle - State Provided Death is Incoherent
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May 29, 2026 |
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Annihilation – A (Very French) Biography of the "Last Man"
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May 25, 2026 |
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Picky How Modernity Completely Screwed Up (Part LXVII)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Last Branch Standing - Honey Badger References and Case Analysis
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May 09, 2026 |
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Four Short Classics for the Lazy Pseudo-Intellectual
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Against the Machine - Steelmanning Modern Luddism
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama - More Palestinian Sadness
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Plagues upon the Earth - You're Not Sufficiently Horrified
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Phenomena - Why Must It Always Be a Spoon?
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Four Books of Speculative Fiction About Christian Damnation
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Unshrunk - Medication, Red in Tooth and Claw
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Three Books About Roman Stoicism or Lack Thereof
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Grand Strategy In Life [Essay] (w: review of 33 Strategies of War)
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Meta-Competition and the Downfall of Civilization [Essay]
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Eugenics and Other Evils - Chesterton Was Right Everyone Else Was Wrong
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Three Books With Some Variation of the Word "Fly" in the Title
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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HeartMath Solution - A Sugary Pseudoscience Soufflé
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Radical Markets - I Mean Really Radical
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Gemini Goes Insane — How Should I Update? [Essay]
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Goliath's Curse (and the Agents of Doom!)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Knowing Our Limits - Epistemology Without Bayes
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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A YA Series, a First Contact Novel, and a Startup Book Walk Into a Bar—Pursued by Wolves
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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The Origin of Politics - Kibbutzim, Chimps, and Children
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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A Case for Latter-Day Christianity - (i.e. A Case for the Christianity of Mormons)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Taking Religion Seriously - Can You Get to Belief Purely Through Reason?
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Children of Mars - Sid Meier's Civilization Lied
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Origins of Efficiency - The Glories of the Modern World
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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The New Testament in Its World - A Brief, Thousand-Page Intro
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Superbloom - Volume 23 in the "Social Media is Awful" Series
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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We Belong to the Land - The Best Palestinian Making His Best Case
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Five Fictional Books In Search of a Common Thread
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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The Kid Stays in the Picture - A Story of Old "New Hollywood"
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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A Short History of England - What Gives a Country Its Soul?
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The Wager - A Real Life "Lord of the Flies"
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Daily Laws - Measured Microdoses of Machiavellian Manipulations
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Saga of the Forgotten Warrior - Larry Correia Without Guns (Mostly)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Romancing Opiates - Working With British Prisoners Makes One Grumpy
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The Unaccountability Machine - Once Again It's Somehow All Milton Friedman's Fault
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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The Future of Truth - I'll Be Honest It Doesn't Look Great
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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The Mind Reels - Bipolarity Raw and Unfiltered
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Drink Your Way Sober - Blocked (Receptors) and Reported (Sobriety)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Replay - Groundhog Day in Novel Form, Sadly Without Any Groundhogs
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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What Fresh Hell Awaits Us When SEO Is Replaced With AIO?
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith - Don't Mess With the Strong Nuclear Force!
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Age of Diagnosis - Words Have Power! (said the podcaster)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Inner Excellence - The Fine Line Between Cliche and Coaching
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Damnable Tales - Spooky Stories for Long Nights
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Game Wizards - Epic Rap Battles of History Gygax v. Arneson
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Progressive Myths - Some of the Things You've Been Told Are Wrong
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Bushido of Bitcoin - How Chivalry and Sound Money Will Save Us
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Does Your Assessment of AI Risk depend on Your Answer to Fermi's Paradox?
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - Yudkowsky at his Yudkowskiest
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Grant - A Brilliant General Constantly Deceived by His "Friends"
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Chasing My Cure - A Catastrophe of Chaotic Castleman's Crises
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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The Dhammapada - The Eighth Oldest Wisdom Book
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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A Primer for Forgetting - But Is It a Primer for Repairing?
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Ignition! - Explosion? The Exciting World of Rocket Science
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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The Warlord Chronicles - "King" Arthur With More Mud and Less Radiance
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Tyranny of Metrics - Measure Your Way to Misery
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Can a Society Be Too Focused on the Law?
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Breakneck - Hegelian Engineering
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Shorting the Grid - The Complicated World of Power Generation
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Strange New World - Try to Imagine 2022 in 2012
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Cryptomania NFTs, Hope, Fraud, and Parents
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Glee, "Freaky Friday", and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Things Fall Apart - Colonialism and Flattening
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Remain in Love and Embrace Hatred - A Biography
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Regretting Motherhood - Soft Antinatalism
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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How Fast Is Technology Moving? Is That Even What We Should Be Measuring?
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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The Rules of the Game - That Game Being Massive Naval Combat Between Great Powers
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Cheap Sex - Marketplaces and Those Who Have Given Up on Shopping
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] - True Freedom
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Everything Is Tuberculosis - Well Not Everything, But More Than You Suspect
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Gerontocracy as a Supernormal Stimulus
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Forgotten Victory - Maybe the British Were Lions Led By Lions?
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Crisis Zone - What Did I Just Read?
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Noticing An Essential Reader (1973-2023) - Sailer, Not As Scary as You Think
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Collapse of Complex Societies How Long Do We Have Left?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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[Review] Apple in China - Is China Playing a Longer Game Than the US?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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A Meta-tative Episode
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Writing in the Age of AI Errors, Eccentricity, and Ego
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Short Fiction Reviews: Volume 4
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Israel vs. Hamas vs. Kriss vs. Legibility
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 7
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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What Our Last War With China Can Teach Us About Our Next One
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Reviews of (Mainstream) Religious Books Volume 2
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Why Write a Book About:Against Superforecasting?
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May 26, 2025 |
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The Terrors of Immortality
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May 17, 2025 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 6
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May 05, 2025 |
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Horses in 1925 = Children in 2025
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Short Fiction Book Reviews- Volume 3
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Case Against Superforecasting
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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What Does the Recent German Election Say About Immigration and Integration
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 5
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Meta Discussion and Book News
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Books I Want to Read vs. Books I Should Read (Sanderson's Latest)
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Reviews of Strange Religious Books Volume I
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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The Everest Fallacy
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews Volume 4
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Ten Child Sex Abuse Rings in Search of a Narrative - 2025
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Why Did They Really Close Schools?
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Short Fiction Book Reviews: Volume II
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Band of Brothers? - Women on the Front Lines
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 3
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 2
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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A Review of Nate Silver: The Election and His Book "On the Edge"
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Evaluating Epstein Conspiracies and a Review of One Nation Under Blackmail
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Short Fiction Book Reviews Volume I
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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AI and Forecasting
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume I
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Reviews of "Journey of the Mind" and "Against the Grain"
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Superminds, States, and the Domestication of Humans
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Review of DON'T DIE by Bryan Johnson
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews: Volume VIII
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Divine Disappointment and Mortal Shame A Review of "Is God Disappointed in Me?"
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews: Volume VII
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Bad Therapy vs. Resilience
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Debating Brazenness
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews Volume VI
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Hooves, Headsets, and Hedonism
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May 29, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews Volume V
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May 22, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews: Volume IV
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews Volume III
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews: Volume II
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Short Book Reviews Volume I
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Have More Kids!
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in November
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Egregores, Group Minds, and White Magic
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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[Patheos] - The Overemphasis on Love and Tolerance
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in October
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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[Patheos] - The Worst Book I've Ever Read
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Worthy of Our Sufferings
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Can We Eliminate Struggle? - 2023
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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[Patheos] - Tragedies, Truths, and Technologies
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The 12 Books I Finished in September
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Would You Wager on Pascal's Mugging?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Betting on the Future
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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AI Risk Might Be More Subtle Than We Expect - 2023
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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The Greatest Three Nephites Story Ever Told
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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[Patheos] - Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Speculative Attempts to Complicate Throughout History - 2023
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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The Thickness of Faith
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The 11 Books I Finished in August
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope - 2023
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Does Technology Encourage Virtue?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items - 2023
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Temptations of Technology
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in July and the One I Didn't
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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(Patheos) - And There Was Silence in Heaven...
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli? - 2023
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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(Patheos) - Technological Salvation
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress - 2023
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Chesterton's Fence and Technology
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis as Map to the Future
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Separating the Beneficial From the Barbarous
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Traditions Separating the Important from the Inconsequential - 2023
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Technology of Religion vs. The Technology of Progress
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in June
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Religion is Technology
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb - 2023
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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(Patheos) - A Judgment Day for AIs
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse - 2023
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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(Patheos) - Morality for Robots and AIs
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Burning Man, Dreamtime and Dragons - 2023
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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(Patheos) - The Divine Attributes of Artificial Intelligence
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in May and One I Didn't
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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(Patheos) - What Has Technology to Do With Religion
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Nukes - 2023
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Decisions as a Barbell (Also a Very Meta Episode)
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May 25, 2023 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in April
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May 06, 2023 |
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Eschatologist #28 If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The Modern Landscape of Harm
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The Silly Startup and the (Law)suit It Spawned
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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The 13 Books I Finished in March
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Eschatologist #27 - Golems and Genies
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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What Should One Do About Conspiracy Theories?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The 12 Books I Finished in February
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Eschatologist #26 - A Crisis of Change and Choice
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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A Cautionary Tale
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Polycrises or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in January
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Eschatologist #25 - Spiritual Health and Suffering
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Optimal Dosage of War
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Challenging Children
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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The 6 Books I Finished in December
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Eschatologist #24 - ChatGPT and a Lack of Genius
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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The Ineffability of Conservatism
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in November
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #22 Risk Is Everywhere
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Book Review The Ethics of Beauty
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Finding "The Answer"
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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The 7 Books I Finished in October
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #22 - A Survey
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Chip Off the Old Bloc
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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The Midterms Biases and a Lack of Moderation
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Dalio vs. Zeihan
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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The 12 Books I Finished in September (One of Which I'm Not Allowed to Talk About)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #21 But What if They're Wrong?
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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The Bifurcation Created by Technology
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The Tails of the Cultural Bell Curve
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Excerpt Book Review- The Ethics of Beauty
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in August
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #20 The Antifragility of Taboos
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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The Involution of Everything
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in July
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #19 The Non-linearity of Baggage Systems
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in June Along With Two I Didn't
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #18: Famines and Fragility
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Eschatological Frameworks
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Nassar, Uvalde, and the Decline of Responsibility
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in May
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #17 We've Solved All the Easy Problems, Only Hard Problems Remain
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May 31, 2022 |
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Conscience, Authenticity, and True Freedom
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May 26, 2022 |
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Thoughts on Yard Care and the Modern World
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May 19, 2022 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in April
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May 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #16 The Right Amount of Danger
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May 01, 2022 |
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The Drug Crisis (Part 2) Wrapping Up and Maybe Some Solutions?
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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The Drug Crisis (Part 1) The Role of Progress and Technology in Creating the Crisis
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in March-2022
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #15 COVID and Ukraine (The Return of Messiness)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Nukes and Stability
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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The 13 Books I Finished in February
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #14 The Fragility of Peace
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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What If Things Are Changing Faster than We Can Adapt?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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In Defense of Listening to Audiobooks at 3x (And of Reading a Lot in General)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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The 12 Books I Finished in January
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #13 Antifragility
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Pandemic: The End of the Beginning
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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The Tricky Business of Reality Construction
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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The 7 Books I Finished in December
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Eschatologist #12 Predictions
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Dec 31, 2021 |
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If We Were Amusing Ourselves to Death in the 80s, What Are We Doing Now? (Classic)
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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What "The Expanse" Can Teach Us about Fermi's Paradox
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in November (And the One Series I Decided Not to Finish)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #11 Black Swans
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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The Problems the Past vs. The Problems of the Present
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Shallow Seriousness Is Crowding Out Deep Seriousness
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The 8.5 Books I Finished in October
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #10 Mediocristan and Extremistan
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Government Spending and Skin in the Game
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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A Deeper Understanding of How Bad Things Happen
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in September
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #9 Randomness
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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9 Days vs. 3 Years
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Tetlock, the Taliban, and Taleb
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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The 8 Books, 2 Graphic Novels, and 1 Podcast Series I Finished in August
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #8 If You're Worried About the Future, Religion is Playing on Easy Mode
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Chemicals, Controversy, and the Precautionary Principle
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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Afghanistan, or Just Because You Decide to Leave the Party Doesn't Mean You Should Jump Out the Window
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in July
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #7 Might Technology = Extinction? - Audio
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in June
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #6: UFOs, Eschatology and Fermi's Paradox
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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1971 Continued - It's Energy Stupid!
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Theories for the 1971 Inflection
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in May - Project Hail Mary Spoilers
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in May - Capsule Reviews
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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The 10 Books I Finished in May - Eschatological Reviews
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #5: A Trillion Here, a Trillion There, and Pretty Soon You're Talking Real Money
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May 31, 2021 |
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In Defense of Prophets
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May 26, 2021 |
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Revisiting China: Inflection Points, Semiconductors and Fascism
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May 19, 2021 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in April (and something Extra!)
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May 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #4 Turning the Knob of Safety to 11
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Dragging History Into the Present Moment vs. Dragging the Present Moment Into History
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Vanquished Vaccines and Vetocracies
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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The 9 Books I Finished in March
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Eschatologist #3 Turning the Knobs of Society
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Epistemology as Revealed by "Murder Among the Mormons"
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Radical Reform and the Three Kinds of Complexity
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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The 8 Books I Finished in February
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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The Eschatologist #2- Are we Polish Jews in 1937 or East Germans in 1988?
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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The Missing Piece of the Present Moment Is Religion (But Not in the Way You Think)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Technocracies Are Cool, but Are They Effective?
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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The 7 Books I Finished in January
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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The Eschatologist #1
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Parenting, Wildfires, and Politics
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, but No Simpler
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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December Reviews Part 2-Capsule & Religious
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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December Reviews Part 1-Intro & Eschatological
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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State of the Podcast, Predictions, and Other Sundry Items
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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Review of Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in November (2020)
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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When Is Moderation Not Appropriate?
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Voting as a Proxy For Power
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in October
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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What Will and Won't Change After the Election
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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The Obligatory Pre-Election Episode (Spoiler I'm Writing in Mattis)
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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What's to Be Done About China?
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in September (with one I didn't)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Have We Run Out of History and Legitimacy?
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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The Problem With Solutions
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Some Brief Thoughts on Buying Pieces of the Future (Or What Some People Call Investing)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in August (of 2020)
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Justice, Mercy, Data, Evidence, BLM and QAnon
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Digging Into the Data on Right Wing Extremism
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in July
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Picking an End Point for the Revolution
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Liberalism vs. Critical Race Theory (A Distressing Lack of Pragmatism)
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Traffic Lights and Modern Epistemology
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in June
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Things Are More Complicated Than You Think (BLM)
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Elon Musk and the Value of Localism or What We Should Do Instead of Going to Mars
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Don't Make the Second Mistake
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in May
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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My Final Case Against Superforecasting (with criticisms considered, objections noted, and assumptions buttressed)
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May 30, 2020 |
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COVID What Does Victory Look Like?
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May 19, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in April
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May 06, 2020 |
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Review: Sex and Culture, or Greatness Through Sexual Frustration
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Pandemic Uncovers the Limitations of Superforecasting
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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Worries for a Post COVID-19 World
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in March - Part 2 Capsule Reviews
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in March - Part 1 The Decadent Society
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Apr 04, 2020 |
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The Fragility of Efficiency and the Coronavirus
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Meditations on Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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All Eschatologies Are Both Secular and Religious
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in February (Plus a Conference I Attended)
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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"The Good Place", Brain-uploading, and Eschatology
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Churchills, Hitlers, and Hedonists
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in January
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Don't Don't Fear the Filter
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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We're All Montezuma, and the Europeans Are Always Just Around the Corner
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Predictions Looking Back to 2019 and Forward to 2020
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Books I Finished in December
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Pornography and the End of the World
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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I Finally Figure out What I Want to Be When I Grow Up An Eschatologist
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in November
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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If We Were Amusing Ourselves to Death in the 80s, What Are We Doing Now?
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Nov 30, 2019 |
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Immigration, Caplan and Buckets
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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The End of Productive War
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in October (Including a Graphic Novel On Immigration)
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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The Blind Spots of Atheism
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Post Christianity
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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The Pendulum
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in September
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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How Does the Bloodshed Start?
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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The Solution to Conflict is More Conflict
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Sep 21, 2019 |
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Are Modern Deviances Innovative or Catastrophic?
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in August
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Is There a Utopia out There After All?
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Normalization of Deviance and the Modern World
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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The Rise of a Civic Religion
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in July (With One Podcast Series)
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Leaving the Earth 50 Years After Apollo
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Punctuated Equilibrium and Memetic Accumulation
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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Worrying Too Much About the Last Thing and Not Enough About the Next Thing
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in June of 2019 (With One Podcast Series)
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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How Do We Adapt to Things?
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Jun 29, 2019 |
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Traditions Separating the Important from the Inconsequential
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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Review- Upheaval Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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The Top of the Curve
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Books I Finished in May (With One from April)
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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Potpourri of Abortion Commentary
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May 30, 2019 |
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Horses, Rollaboards and Nukes
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May 24, 2019 |
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The Unwinnable Battle Over Abortion
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May 18, 2019 |
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Review: Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
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May 14, 2019 |
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Are Democrats Trapped by the Immigration Issue?
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May 08, 2019 |
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AI Risk Might Be More Subtle Than We Expect
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May 02, 2019 |
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What I Got Wrong in 2016
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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The Cholesterol of a Healthy Society
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Apr 20, 2019 |
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2020 and the Quest to Defeat Trump
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Apr 13, 2019 |
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What is Going On?!?!?
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Apr 06, 2019 |
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The Overemphasis on Love and Tolerance (Religious)
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Low Doses of Harm
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Mar 23, 2019 |
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Chemo as a Metaphor & Metaphors in General
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Mar 16, 2019 |
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Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress [Repost]
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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A Psychological Hygiene Hypothesis?
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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Twisted Incentives
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Feb 23, 2019 |
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A New Sort of Monopoly
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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Democracy on the Downhill
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Feb 09, 2019 |
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Start Here
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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Technology, Transit Systems and Uncharted Territory
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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How Do We Win?
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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The Data of History (Years vs. HEYs)
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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2019 Predictions and Trends
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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Five Stories of Enlightenment and Edification from My Misspent Youth
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Fighting Fires the Wrong Way
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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How Do You Determine the Right Level of Suffering?
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Dec 08, 2018 |
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The Great Silence (Philosophy and Fermi's Paradox)
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Stubborn Attachments vs. The Vulnerable World and Fermi's Paradox
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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Slate Star Codex and Providing Intellectual Cover
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Nov 17, 2018 |
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Is the World Coming Together or Splitting Apart?
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Nov 10, 2018 |
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China and the Strangeness of Civilizations
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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Jockeying for Control of the Airliner
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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What Should We Worry About?
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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Age of Em Races and Rain
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Modern Monetary Theory It's the Inflation, Stupid!
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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Objectivity Ford and Kavanaugh
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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The Founders, Civility and Godzilla
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Is War Necessary?
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Sep 15, 2018 |
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Burning Man, Dreamtime and Dragons
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Sep 08, 2018 |
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The Conspiracy Against Gawker Things Have to Be More Than Just True to Be Newsworthy
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Sep 01, 2018 |
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How Much Ruin Is in a Nation?
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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Review Bad Blood (Theranos)
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Aug 18, 2018 |
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Pornography and the Time Horizon of Uncertainty
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Aug 11, 2018 |
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Random Stuff Tossed Together at the Last Minute
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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Humanity on the Cusp of Eternity
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Jul 21, 2018 |
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Divorce Is Better Than Murder
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Jul 07, 2018 |
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Fermi's Paradox The Mistake of Dramatic Timing and Other Errors
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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The 100th Episode
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Jun 23, 2018 |
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Things We Cannot Get Wrong
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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Crime in 2018 (Or Why Are There so Many Homeless People?)
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Jun 10, 2018 |
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Skin in the Game, Survival & Religion
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Jun 02, 2018 |
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Religion vs. Atheism vs. Transhumanism vs. Apathy
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May 26, 2018 |
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Antinatalism and Happiness vs. Survival
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May 19, 2018 |
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Should All Incels Be Killed Immediately or Just Banished Forever?
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May 12, 2018 |
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Nuclear Power and Winning through Intolerance
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May 05, 2018 |
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Steven Pinker and the Fragility of Enlightenment
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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Aryans, and Errors, and Indo-Europeans, Oh My!
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Apr 21, 2018 |
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Mormon Transhumanists, so Close, but yet so Far
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Apr 14, 2018 |
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Further Lessons in Comparing AI Risk and the Plan of Salvation
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Apr 07, 2018 |
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More Searching for Narrative in Horrible Child Sex Rings
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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Ten Child Sex Abuse Rings in Search of a Narrative
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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Inequality Is Violence the Great Leveler?
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Mar 17, 2018 |
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The Trend of Transgender Identity (Part 2)
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Mar 03, 2018 |
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The Trend of Transgender Identity (Part 1)
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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The Terrible Power of Tiny Trends
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Feb 17, 2018 |
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The 2018 Edge Question of the Year
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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How I Almost Became a Communist
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Feb 03, 2018 |
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Speech as Censorship
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Jan 27, 2018 |
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Dispatches from my Death Bed
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Jan 20, 2018 |
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Commentary on Moloch (Now With More Fermi's Paradox)
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Jan 13, 2018 |
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Predictions Revisited for 2018
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Jan 06, 2018 |
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75 Solutions to Fermi's Paradox but Still Missing Mine
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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More on the Harrasocaust? Or is it the Pervnado?
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Dec 16, 2017 |
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The Madness of the Crowds and Sexual Harassment
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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Review of "Rationality AI to Zombies" Religion as a Framework
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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Review of "Rationality AI to Zombies" Rationality vs. Antifragility
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Nov 25, 2017 |
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How Do We Solve the Problems We Create?
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Nov 18, 2017 |
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Is Facebook More Like a Newspaper or a Video Game?
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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The Difficulties of Mormon Diversity
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Nov 04, 2017 |
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Speculative Attempts to Complicate Through History
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Oct 28, 2017 |
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The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items
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Oct 21, 2017 |
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The Long Swing of the Political Pendulum
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Oct 14, 2017 |
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The Depressing Limitations of Salvation Through Science
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Oct 07, 2017 |
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Cargo Cults and the Mormon Conception of God
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Sep 30, 2017 |
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7 Crazy Ways Conservatives Are Secretly Just Centrists
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Sep 23, 2017 |
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DACA and How Even Moderates Are Conservative
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Sep 16, 2017 |
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Making Sure the Culture War is Fought Fairly
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Sep 09, 2017 |
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The Trend of Sexualizing Children
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Sep 02, 2017 |
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A Potpourri of Pedantry
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Aug 26, 2017 |
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Remind Me What The Heck Your Point is Again?
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Aug 12, 2017 |
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Returning to Mormonism and AI (Part 3)
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Aug 05, 2017 |
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Returning to Mormonism and AI (Part 2)
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Jul 29, 2017 |
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Returning to Mormonism and AI (Part 1)
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Jul 22, 2017 |
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The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope
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Jul 15, 2017 |
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Is Social Media Making Unrest Worse?
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Jul 09, 2017 |
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The Cultural War and The Overton Window
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Jun 24, 2017 |
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Which Side is Really Losing in Politics?
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Jun 17, 2017 |
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Straddling Optimism and Pessimism; Religion and Rationality
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Jun 10, 2017 |
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The Derbyshire Standard and the Stability of Nations
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Jun 03, 2017 |
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Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli?
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May 27, 2017 |
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Job Automation, or Can You Recognize a Singularity When You're In It?
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May 20, 2017 |
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Catastrophe or Singularity? Neither? Both?
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May 12, 2017 |
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Time Preference and the Survival of Civilizations
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May 06, 2017 |
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Children, Overpopulation and Tommy Boy
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress
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Apr 22, 2017 |
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A View From Inside the MTA Conference
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Apr 15, 2017 |
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Bonus MTA Podcast
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Apr 12, 2017 |
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A Different Take On Pascal's Wager
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Apr 08, 2017 |
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What's the Best Way to Reduce Sexual Violence?
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Apr 01, 2017 |
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Global Warming?
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Mar 25, 2017 |
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But What if We're Wrong?
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Mar 18, 2017 |
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Doom vs. Optimism
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Mar 11, 2017 |
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Why I Hope the MTA Is Right, but Also Why It's Safer to Assume They're Not
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Mar 04, 2017 |
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Building the Tower of Babel
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Feb 25, 2017 |
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Picking Apart Immigration
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Feb 18, 2017 |
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Fermi's Paradox and the Dark Forest
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Feb 11, 2017 |
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Fermi's Paradox and the Movie Interstellar
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Godzilla Trudges Back and Forth
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Feb 03, 2017 |
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The Religion of Progress
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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How to Save Humanity
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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Predictions (Spoiler No AI or Immortality)
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Jan 28, 2017 |
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Reframing Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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The Ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Are We Bad At Infrastructure
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Jan 21, 2017 |
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The Change Hurricane Are we Polish Jews in 1937 or East German's in 1988?
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Is This Election Different?
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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Freedom of Religion in 2016
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Jan 14, 2017 |
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I Don't Know If Everything Will Be Okay My Thoughts On the Election
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Jan 13, 2017 |
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The Value of Free Speech
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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Scott Adams and What Counts as Censorship
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Jan 07, 2017 |
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And There Was Silence in Heaven...
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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Taking Democracy for Granted
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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Artificial Intelligence and LDS Cosmology
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Dec 24, 2016 |
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The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse
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Dec 21, 2016 |
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Not Intellectuals Yet Not Idiots
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Hillary Clinton and the Criteria of Embarrassment
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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The Harvest is Past
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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The Secular Answer To Fermi's Paradox
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Dec 10, 2016 |
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Fermi's Paradox As a Proof of the Existence of God
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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Is it finally time to start thinking about voting third party?
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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Nukes
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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Sports, the Sack of Baghdad and the Upcoming Election
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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Taboos and Antifragility
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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On the Limitations of Science
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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LGBT Youth and Suicide
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Atheists and Unavoidability of the Divine
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Christianity, the Singularity and Getting A Driver's License
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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We Are Not Saved
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Nov 05, 2016 |