Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's just me reading Scott Alexander's blog posts.

Episode Date
Highlights From The Comments On The Lab Leak Debate
Apr 26, 2024
Links For April 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate
Apr 12, 2024
In Continued Defense Of Non-Frequentist Probabilities
Apr 05, 2024
The Mystery Of Internet Survey IQs
Mar 20, 2024
In Partial Grudging Defense Of Some Aspects Of Therapy Culture
Mar 20, 2024
Verses On Five People Being Killed By A Falling Package Of Foreign Aid
Mar 20, 2024
Mantic Monday 3/11/24
Mar 20, 2024
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024 - Call For Organizers
Mar 20, 2024
How Should We Think About Race And "Lived Experience"?
Mar 15, 2024
ACX Grants Followup Impact Market
Mar 15, 2024
Who Predicted 2023?
Mar 15, 2024
Book Review Contest Rules 2024
Mar 15, 2024
Links For February 2024
Mar 10, 2024
Less Utilitarian Than Thou
Mar 10, 2024
Who Does Polygenic Selection Help?
Mar 10, 2024
Highlights From The Comments On Polyamory
Mar 01, 2024
Mantic Monday 2/19/24
Mar 01, 2024
X Fact Check: Does Gender Integration Moderate Politics?
Mar 01, 2024
Love And Liberty
Feb 16, 2024
Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion
Feb 16, 2024
ACX Grants Results 2024
Feb 16, 2024
Evolution Explains Polygenic Structure
Feb 09, 2024
You Don't Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books
Feb 09, 2024
It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic
Feb 09, 2024
Seems Like Targeting
Feb 09, 2024
Mantic Monday 1/29/24
Feb 09, 2024
The Psychopolitics Of Trauma
Jan 27, 2024
Some Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders
Jan 27, 2024
Should The Future Be Human?
Jan 27, 2024
Subscrive Drive 2024 + Free Unlocked Posts
Jan 27, 2024
Links For January 2024
Jan 22, 2024
Against Learning From Dramatic Events
Jan 22, 2024
AI Sleeper Agents
Jan 20, 2024
Highlights From The Comments On Capitalism & Charity
Jan 14, 2024
The Road To Honest AI
Jan 14, 2024
Singing The Blues
Jan 07, 2024
Does Capitalism Beat Charity?
Jan 07, 2024
In The Long Run, We're All Dad
Jan 02, 2024
Son Of Bride Of Bay Area House Party
Dec 18, 2023
Apply For An ACX Grant (2024)
Dec 18, 2023
Defying Cavity: Lantern Bioworks FAQ
Dec 18, 2023
Beyond "Abolish The FDA"
Dec 13, 2023
Mantic Monday 12/4/23
Dec 13, 2023
Links For November 2023
Dec 04, 2023
Contra DeBoer On Movement Shell Games
Dec 04, 2023
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
Dec 01, 2023
God Help Us, Let's Try To Understand AI Monosemanticity
Dec 01, 2023
Book Review: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Nov 23, 2023
Does Anaesthesia Prove Ketamine Placebo?
Nov 20, 2023
Followup: Quests And Requests
Nov 20, 2023
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate
Nov 16, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Kidney Donation
Nov 16, 2023
Quests And Requests
Nov 14, 2023
Dictator Book Club: Chavez
Nov 09, 2023
Mantic Monday 10/30/23
Nov 07, 2023
My Left Kidney
Oct 28, 2023
Impact Market Mini-Grants Results
Oct 18, 2023
Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate
Oct 09, 2023
How Are The Gay Younger Brothers Doing?
Oct 09, 2023
Links For September 2023
Oct 05, 2023
Book Review: The Alexander Romance
Sep 28, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Elon Musk
Sep 22, 2023
Book Review Contest 2023 Winners
Sep 22, 2023
Book Review: Elon Musk
Sep 22, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Last Week's Model Cities Post
Sep 12, 2023
Vote In The 2023 Book Review Contest
Sep 12, 2023
Contra Kirkegaard On Evolutionary Definitions Of Mental Illness
Sep 12, 2023
My Presidential Platform
Sep 09, 2023
Model City Monday 9/4/23: California Dreamin'
Sep 09, 2023
Your Book Review: Zuozhuan
Sep 05, 2023
Here's Why Automaticity Is Real Actually
Sep 05, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Fetishes
Sep 05, 2023
Mantic Monday 8/28/23
Sep 02, 2023
Your Book Review: Why Nations Fail
Sep 02, 2023
Meetups Everywhere 2023: Times & Places
Aug 30, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Dating Preferences
Aug 30, 2023
More Thoughts On Critical Windows
Aug 30, 2023
Critical Periods For Language: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Aug 30, 2023
What Can Fetish Research Tell Us About AI?
Aug 30, 2023
Your Book Review: The Mind Of A Bee
Aug 24, 2023
Bride Of Bay Area House Party
Aug 20, 2023
In Defense Of Describable Dating Preferences
Aug 20, 2023
Your Book Review: The Weirdest People in the World
Aug 20, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Putin
Aug 18, 2023
Links for August 2023
Aug 18, 2023
Your Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Aug 12, 2023
More Memorable Passages From "The Man Without A Face"
Aug 12, 2023
Dictator Book Club: Putin
Aug 09, 2023
Meetups Everywhere Fall 2023 - Call For Organizers
Aug 09, 2023
Mantic Monday 7/31/23: Room Temperature Superforecaster
Aug 04, 2023
Your Book Review: On the Marble Cliffs
Aug 04, 2023
Bad Definitions Of "Democracy" And "Accountability" Shade Into Totalitarianism
Aug 04, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Social Model Of Disability
Aug 01, 2023
We're Not Platonists, We've Just Learned The Bitter Lesson
Jul 30, 2023
Your Book Review: The Laws of Trading
Jul 30, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On British Economic Decline
Jul 30, 2023
The Extinction Tournament
Jul 25, 2023
Contra The xAI Alignment Plan
Jul 20, 2023
Your Book Review: The Educated Mind
Jul 20, 2023
Contra The Social Model Of Disability
Jul 17, 2023
Why Match School And Student Rank?
Jul 14, 2023
Your Book Review: Secret Government
Jul 13, 2023
Links For July 2023
Jul 13, 2023
Tales Of Takeover In CCF-World
Jul 13, 2023
Your Book Review: Safe Enough?
Jul 06, 2023
Is There An Illusion Of Moral Decline?
Jul 06, 2023
Sure, Whatever, Let's Try Another Contra Caplan On Mental Illness
Jul 02, 2023
Every Flashing Element On Your Site Alienates And Enrages Users
Jul 01, 2023
"Through A Glass Darkly" In Asterisk Magazine
Jul 01, 2023
Your Book Review: Public Citizens
Jun 30, 2023
Davidson On Takeoff Speeds
Jun 25, 2023
Your Book Review: Njal’s Saga
Jun 23, 2023
Your Incentives Are Not The Same As Media Companies'
Jun 18, 2023
The Canal Papers
Jun 18, 2023
Your Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning
Jun 14, 2023
Attempts To Put Statistics In Context, Put Into Context
Jun 09, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On The Academic Job Market
Jun 09, 2023
Your Book Review: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World
Jun 04, 2023
Links For May 2023
Jun 04, 2023
All Medications Are Insignificant In The Eyes Of God And Traditional Effect Size Criteria
Jun 04, 2023
Are Woo Non-Responders Defective?
Jun 04, 2023
Your Book Review: Lying for Money
Jun 02, 2023
Hypergamy: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
May 27, 2023
Mantic Monday 5/22/23
May 25, 2023
Your Book Review: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations/The Question Of Separatism
May 21, 2023
Why Is The Academic Job Market So Weird?
May 19, 2023
Galton, Ehrlich, Buck - An exploding generational bomb
May 19, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Long COVID And Bisexuality
May 17, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Housing Density And Prices
May 14, 2023
Constitutional AI: RLHF On Steroids
May 12, 2023
Raise Your Threshold For Accusing People Of Faking Bisexuality
May 10, 2023
Replication Attempt: Bisexuality And Long COVID
May 10, 2023
Change My Mind: Density Increases Local But Decreases Global Prices
May 08, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Nerds And Hipsters
May 04, 2023
Mantic Monday 4/24/23
Apr 29, 2023
Links For April 2023
Apr 29, 2023
Contra Kriss On Nerds And Hipsters
Apr 22, 2023
[CLASSIC POST] Book Review: The Hungry Brain
Apr 22, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On IRBs
Apr 21, 2023
Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill
Apr 14, 2023
Spring Meetups Everywhere 2023
Apr 14, 2023
Book Review: The Arctic Hysterias
Apr 09, 2023
Most Technologies Aren't Races
Apr 09, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Telemedicine Regulations
Apr 09, 2023
MR Tries The Safe Uncertainty Fallacy
Apr 04, 2023
The Government Is Making Telemedicine Hard And Inconvenient Again
Apr 04, 2023
Turing Test
Mar 30, 2023
Half An Hour Before Dawn In San Francisco
Mar 25, 2023
Why Do Transgender People Report Hypermobile Joints?
Mar 25, 2023
Why I Am Not (As Much Of) A Doomer (As Some People)
Mar 25, 2023
Links For March 2023
Mar 25, 2023
Give Up Seventy Percent Of The Way Through The Hyperstitious Slur Cascade
Mar 09, 2023
Issue Two Of Asterisk
Mar 09, 2023
Kelly Bets On Civilization
Mar 09, 2023
Impact Market Mini-Grants Update
Mar 09, 2023
Against Ice Age Civilizations
Mar 09, 2023
OpenAI's "Planning For AGI And Beyond"
Mar 06, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On Geography Of Madness
Mar 05, 2023
Announcing Forecasting Impact Mini-Grants
Mar 05, 2023
Book Review: The Geography Of Madness
Mar 04, 2023
Grading My 2018 Predictions For 2023
Mar 04, 2023
Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Feb 18, 2023
Trying Again On Fideism
Feb 17, 2023
Contra Kavanagh On Fideism
Feb 15, 2023
Ro-mantic Monday 2/13/23
Feb 15, 2023
Links For February 2023
Feb 13, 2023
Crowds Are Wise (And One's A Crowd)
Feb 07, 2023
Mostly Skeptical Thoughts On The Chatbot Propaganda Apocalypse
Feb 07, 2023
Book Review Contest Rules 2023
Feb 03, 2023
Response To Alexandros Contra Me On Ivermectin
Feb 03, 2023
Mantic Monday 1/30/2023
Feb 01, 2023
Janus' Simulators
Jan 29, 2023
You Don't Want A Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy Of Mental Disorders
Jan 26, 2023
Who Predicted 2022?
Jan 26, 2023
ACX Survey Results 2022
Jan 22, 2023
Which Political Victories Cause Backlash?
Jan 22, 2023
SSC Survey Results On Schooling Types
Jan 19, 2023
2023 Subscription Drive + Free Unlocked Posts
Jan 18, 2023
Conspiracies of Cognition, Conspiracies Of Emotion
Jan 18, 2023
Highlights From The Comments On The Media Very Rarely Lying
Jan 17, 2023
Stage 2 Of Prediction Contest
Jan 11, 2023
Even More Bay Area House Party
Jan 11, 2023
How Do AIs' Political Opinions Change As They Get Smarter And Better-Trained?
Jan 11, 2023
Take The 2022 ACX Survey!
Jan 03, 2023
Sorry, I Still Think I Am Right About The Media Very Rarely Lying
Jan 03, 2023
Links For December 2022
Jan 02, 2023
Selection Bias Is A Fact Of Life, Not An Excuse For Rejecting Internet Surveys
Jan 02, 2023
[Classic] Abraham Lincoln, Ape-Man
Dec 24, 2022
Fact Check: Do All Healthy People Have Mystical Experiences?
Dec 24, 2022
The Media Very Rarely Lies
Dec 24, 2022
Prediction Market FAQ
Dec 22, 2022
2023 Prediction Contest
Dec 20, 2022
Perhaps It Is A Bad Thing That The World's Leading AI Companies Cannot Control Their AIs
Dec 14, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Bobos In Paradise
Dec 12, 2022
Why I'm Less Than Infinitely Hostile To Cryptocurrency
Dec 11, 2022
Know Your GABA-A Receptor Subunits
Dec 11, 2022
Book Review: First Sixth Of Bobos In Paradise
Dec 02, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Semaglutide
Dec 01, 2022
Can This AI Save Teenage Spy Alex Rider From A Terrible Fate?
Nov 30, 2022
Semaglutidonomics
Nov 25, 2022
"Is Wine Fake?" In Asterisk Magazine
Nov 23, 2022
Mantic Monday: Twitter Chaos Edition
Nov 22, 2022
The Psychopharmacology Of The FTX Crash
Nov 18, 2022
Contra Resident Contrarian On Unfalsifiable Internal States
Nov 13, 2022
Can People Be Honestly Wrong About Their Own Experiences?
Nov 10, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Brain Waves
Nov 09, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
Nov 06, 2022
ACX Grants: Project Updates
Nov 06, 2022
My California Ballot 2022
Nov 06, 2022
Moderation Is Different From Censorship
Nov 03, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Jhanas
Nov 02, 2022
Book Review: Malleus Maleficarum
Oct 29, 2022
Nick Cammarata On Jhana
Oct 29, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Supplement Labeling
Oct 27, 2022
From The Mailbag
Oct 26, 2022
Book Review: Rhythms Of The Brain
Oct 23, 2022
Another Bay Area House Party
Oct 21, 2022
Mantic Monday 10/17/22
Oct 20, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On The Central Valley
Oct 16, 2022
Links For October 2022
Oct 13, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day
Oct 11, 2022
A Columbian Exchange
Oct 10, 2022
[Classic] You’re Probably Wondering Why I’ve Called You Here Today
Oct 09, 2022
LA and San Diego Meetups This Weekend
Oct 08, 2022
How Trustworthy Are Supplements?
Oct 06, 2022
CHAI, Assistance Games, And Fully-Updated Deference
Oct 05, 2022
Universe-Hopping Through Substack
Oct 02, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Unpredictable Reward
Oct 01, 2022
From Nostradamus To Fukuyama
Sep 29, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Replaceability
Sep 23, 2022
Why Is The Central Valley So Bad?
Sep 22, 2022
Janus' GPT Wrangling
Sep 20, 2022
Bay Area Meetups This Weekend (September 17-18 2022)
Sep 17, 2022
Unpredictable Reward, Predictable Happiness
Sep 15, 2022
I Won My Three Year AI Progress Bet In Three Months
Sep 13, 2022
Links For September 2022
Sep 08, 2022
Book Review Contest 2022 Winners
Sep 04, 2022
The Prophet And Caesar's Wife
Sep 04, 2022
Billionaires, Surplus, And Replaceability
Aug 31, 2022
Your Book Review: Kora In Hell
Aug 28, 2022
Meetups Everywhere 2022: Times & Places
Aug 27, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On The Repugnant Conclusion And WWOTF
Aug 27, 2022
Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions
Aug 24, 2022
Book Review: What We Owe The Future
Aug 23, 2022
Your Book Review: 1587, A Year Of No Significance
Aug 22, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Subcultures
Aug 19, 2022
Skills Plateau Because Of Decay And Interference
Aug 18, 2022
Meetups Everywhere 2022 - Call For Organizers
Aug 18, 2022
Mantic Monday 8/15/22
Aug 16, 2022
Your Book Review: God Emperor Of Dune
Aug 14, 2022
Will Nonbelievers Really Believe Anything?
Aug 12, 2022
A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures
Aug 12, 2022
Why Not Slow AI Progress?
Aug 09, 2022
Your Book Review: Exhaustion
Aug 07, 2022
Absurdity Bias, Neom Edition
Aug 05, 2022
Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries
Aug 05, 2022
Model City Monday 8/1/22
Aug 03, 2022
Your Book Review: Viral
Jul 30, 2022
Links For July '22
Jul 30, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism
Jul 29, 2022
Forer Statements As Updates And Affirmations
Jul 27, 2022
ELK And The Problem Of Truthful AI
Jul 27, 2022
Your Book Review: The Society Of The Spectacle
Jul 23, 2022
Criticism Of Criticism Of Criticism
Jul 20, 2022
Your Book Review: The Righteous Mind
Jul 18, 2022
Impact Markets: The Annoying Details
Jul 17, 2022
Book Review: The Man From The Future
Jul 14, 2022
Mantic Monday 7/11/22
Jul 13, 2022
Your Book Review: The Outlier
Jul 10, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike
Jul 08, 2022
Nobody Knows How Well Homework Works
Jul 07, 2022
Study: Ritalin Works, But School Isn't Worth Paying Attention To
Jul 07, 2022
Your Book Review: The Internationalists
Jul 04, 2022
Links For June
Jul 03, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On San Fransicko
Jul 02, 2022
What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?
Jul 02, 2022
Model City Monday 6/27/22
Jul 01, 2022
Your Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
Jun 29, 2022
Book Review: San Fransicko
Jun 28, 2022
Your Book Review: The Future Of Fusion Energy
Jun 18, 2022
Peer Review: Nightmares
Jun 16, 2022
Mantic Monday 6/13/22
Jun 14, 2022
Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything
Jun 12, 2022
Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling
Jun 11, 2022
Against "There Are Two X-Wing Parties"
Jun 10, 2022
Which Party Has Gotten More Extreme Faster?
Jun 09, 2022
My Bet: AI Size Solves Flubs
Jun 08, 2022
Your Book Review: The Castrato
Jun 06, 2022
Birth Order Effects: Nature vs. Nurture
Jun 01, 2022
A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows
May 31, 2022
Your Book Review: The Anti-Politics Machine
May 28, 2022
In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement
May 26, 2022
California Gubernatorial Candidates From Z to Z
May 25, 2022
Willpower, Human and Machine
May 24, 2022
Your Book Review: Making Nature
May 22, 2022
Lavender's Game: Silexan For Anxiety
May 19, 2022
Link: Troof On Nootropics
May 18, 2022
Contra Dynomight On Sexy In-Laws
May 18, 2022
Your Book Review: Consciousness And The Brain
May 14, 2022
Book Review: The Gervais Principle
May 11, 2022
Mantic Monday 5/9/22
May 10, 2022
Berkeley Meetup This Saturday
May 06, 2022
Why Do People Prefer My Old Blog's Layout To Substack's?
May 06, 2022
Every Bay Area House Party
May 04, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Xi Jinping
Apr 29, 2022
Book Review: A Clinical Introduction To Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Apr 27, 2022
Initial Conditions
Apr 23, 2022
Contra Hoffman On Vitamin D Dosing
Apr 22, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On "Sadly, Porn"
Apr 20, 2022
Mantic Monday 4/18/22
Apr 19, 2022
Irvine Meetup This Monday
Apr 16, 2022
Links For April
Apr 15, 2022
Obscure Pregnancy Interventions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Apr 13, 2022
Men Will Literally Have Completely Different Mental Processes Instead Of Going To Therapy
Apr 12, 2022
Deceptively Aligned Mesa-Optimizers: It's Not Funny If I Have To Explain It
Apr 12, 2022
Spring Meetups In Seventy Cities
Apr 12, 2022
Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping
Apr 12, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Self-Determination
Apr 12, 2022
Yudkowsky Contra Christiano On AI Takeoff Speeds
Apr 05, 2022
The Low-Hanging Fruit Argument: Models And Predictions
Apr 02, 2022
Idol Words
Apr 01, 2022
Who Gets Self-Determination?
Mar 30, 2022
Information Markets, Decision Markets, Attention Markets, Action Markets
Mar 29, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Justice Creep
Mar 25, 2022
Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring
Mar 23, 2022
Mantic Monday 3/21/22
Mar 22, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Zulresso
Mar 18, 2022
Justice Creep
Mar 17, 2022
Mantic Monday 3/14/22
Mar 15, 2022
Ukraine Thoughts And Links
Mar 12, 2022
Progesterone Megadoses Might Be A Cheap Zulresso Substitute
Mar 11, 2022
Advice For Unwoke Academic?
Mar 11, 2022
Zounds! It's Zulresso and Zuranolone!
Mar 09, 2022
What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality?
Mar 04, 2022
Microaddictions
Mar 03, 2022
Ukraine Warcasting
Mar 01, 2022
Austin Meetup Correction
Feb 26, 2022
Biological Anchors: A Trick That Might Or Might Not Work
Feb 24, 2022
Links For February
Feb 23, 2022
Play Money And Reputation Systems
Feb 22, 2022
Austin Meetup Next Sunday
Feb 19, 2022
The Gods Only Have Power Because We Believe In Them
Feb 18, 2022
Book Review: Sadly, Porn
Feb 18, 2022
Mantic Monday: Ukraine Cube Manifold
Feb 15, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Motivated Reasoning And Reinforcement Learning
Feb 13, 2022
ACX Grants ++: The Second Half
Feb 11, 2022
So You Want To Run A Microgrants Program
Feb 10, 2022
Heuristics That Almost Always Work
Feb 09, 2022
Two Small Corrections And Updates
Feb 09, 2022
The Passage Of Polymarket
Feb 08, 2022
Book Review Contest Rules 2022
Feb 05, 2022
ACX Grants ++: The First Half
Feb 04, 2022
Why Do I Suck?
Feb 03, 2022
Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning
Feb 02, 2022
Predictions For 2022
Feb 01, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On Health Care Systems
Jan 28, 2022
Against That Poverty And Infant EEGs Study
Jan 27, 2022
Bounded Distrust
Jan 27, 2022
Grading My 2021 Predictions
Jan 26, 2022
Resubmit And Summarize Your Proposals For Grants ++
Jan 22, 2022
Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?
Jan 20, 2022
Practically-A-Book Review: Yudkowsky Contra Ngo On Agents
Jan 19, 2022
There's A Time For Everyone
Jan 13, 2022
Highlights From The Comments On "Don't Look Up"
Jan 07, 2022
Movie Review: Don't Look Up
Jan 05, 2022
Lewis Carroll Invented Retroactive Public Goods Funding In 1894
Jan 04, 2022
Links For December
Dec 31, 2021
ACX Grants Results
Dec 29, 2021
Mantic Monday: Dogs In Wizard Hats
Dec 28, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Diseasonality
Dec 24, 2021
Addendum To "No Evidence" Post
Dec 23, 2021
Addendum To Luvox Post
Dec 23, 2021
The FDA Has Punted Decisions About Luvox Prescription To The Deepest Recesses Of The Human Soul
Dec 23, 2021
Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That For You
Dec 21, 2021
The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
Dec 18, 2021
Ancient Plagues
Dec 15, 2021
Does Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value be Accurately Assessed Separately From Buildings?
Dec 12, 2021
Does Georgism Work? Part 2: Can Landlords Pass Land Value Tax on to Tenants?
Dec 10, 2021
Does Georgism Work? Is Land Really A Big Deal?
Dec 09, 2021
Diseasonality
Dec 08, 2021
Model City Monday 12/6/21
Dec 07, 2021
Book Review: Lifespan
Dec 03, 2021
MM: Omicron Variant
Nov 30, 2021
[Classic] The Virtue of Silence
Nov 28, 2021
Links For November
Nov 26, 2021
Pascalian Medicine
Nov 25, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Ivermectin
Nov 24, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On The FDA And Paxlovid
Nov 24, 2021
When Will The FDA Approve Paxlovid?
Nov 23, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Great Families
Nov 19, 2021
Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Nov 18, 2021
Mantic Monday 11/15
Nov 16, 2021
Apply For An ACX Grant
Nov 12, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Orban
Nov 11, 2021
Secrets Of The Great Families
Nov 10, 2021
Model City Monday 11/8/21
Nov 09, 2021
Dictator Book Club: Orban
Nov 05, 2021
Non-Cognitive Skills For Educational Attainment Suggest Benefits Of Mental Illness Genes
Nov 04, 2021
Mantic Monday 11/1/21
Nov 02, 2021
Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem
Oct 29, 2021
Epistemic Minor Leagues
Oct 26, 2021
Chilling Effects
Oct 20, 2021
Links For October
Oct 15, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Kids And Climate Change
Oct 14, 2021
Please Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change
Oct 12, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture
Oct 05, 2021
Book Review: The Scout Mindset
Sep 29, 2021
Whither Tartaria?
Sep 24, 2021
Links For September
Sep 21, 2021
Lisbon Meetup This Saturday
Sep 18, 2021
Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public
Sep 17, 2021
Book Review: Modi - A Political Biography
Sep 14, 2021
Washington DC Meetup This Saturday
Sep 11, 2021
The Unbearable Semiheaviness Of Being
Sep 09, 2021
Too Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts
Sep 07, 2021
New York Meetup This Monday
Sep 06, 2021
Boston Meetup This Sunday
Sep 04, 2021
Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Sep 03, 2021
On Hreha On Behavioral Economics
Sep 01, 2021
Berkeley Meetup This Saturday
Aug 27, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Missing School
Aug 27, 2021
If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor Of California?
Aug 27, 2021
Carbon Costs Quantified
Aug 26, 2021
Meetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places
Aug 25, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Aducanumab
Aug 22, 2021
Links For August
Aug 19, 2021
Kids Can Recover From Missing Even Quite A Lot Of School
Aug 19, 2021
Blindness, Schizophrenia, and Autism
Aug 15, 2021
Contra Hanania On Partisanship
Aug 14, 2021
(Outdoor, Careful) Meetups Everywhere 2021 - Seeking Organizers
Aug 12, 2021
Eight Hundred Slightly Poisoned Word Games
Aug 11, 2021
Contra Drum On The Fish Oil Story
Aug 10, 2021
Details Of The Infant Fish Oil Story
Aug 08, 2021
Highlights From The Comments On Acemoglu And AI
Aug 07, 2021
Adumbrations Of Aducanumab
Aug 06, 2021
What Should We Make Of Sasha Chapin's Claim That Taking LSD Restored His Sense Of Smell After COVID?
Aug 05, 2021
Model City Monday 8/2/21
Aug 04, 2021
Updated Look At Long-Term AI Risks
Aug 02, 2021
When Does Worrying About Things Trade Off Against Worrying About Other Things?
Jul 30, 2021
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Against Overgendering Harassment
Dec 05, 2017
Book Review: Inadequate Equilibria
Dec 01, 2017
Contra Robinson on Public Food
Nov 22, 2017
List of Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Nov 16, 2017
Book Review Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Nov 14, 2017
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Nov 09, 2017
Does Age Bring Wisdom?
Nov 08, 2017
CONCEPT-SHAPED HOLES CAN BE IMPOSSIBLE TO NOTICE
Nov 07, 2017
NON-EXPERT EXPLANATION
Nov 03, 2017
POSTMODERNISM FOR RATIONALISTS (MY ATTEMPT)
Nov 02, 2017
AGAINST RAT PARK
Oct 26, 2017
HOW DID NEW ATHEISM FAIL SO MISERABLY?
Oct 25, 2017
KOLMOGOROV COMPLICITY AND THE PARABLE OF LIGHTNING
Oct 24, 2017
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COMMENTS ON DARK AGES
Oct 17, 2017
WERE THERE DARK AGES?
Oct 16, 2017
SSC JOURNAL CLUB SEROTONIN RECEPTORS
Oct 11, 2017
IN FAVOR OF FUTURISM BEING ABOUT THE FUTURE
Oct 11, 2017
SSC SURVEY RESULTS ON TRUST
Oct 11, 2017
DIFFERENT WORLDS
Oct 11, 2017