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Jan 21, 2021
Introducing Astral Codex Ten
Sep 11, 2020
Update On My Situation
Jun 24, 2020
Open Thread 156.75
Jun 23, 2020
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog
Jun 21, 2020
Open Thread 156.5
Jun 17, 2020
Slightly Skew Systems Of Government
Jun 16, 2020
Open Thread 156.25 + Signal Boost For Steve Hsu
Jun 16, 2020
The Vision Of Vilazodone And Vortioxetine
Jun 14, 2020
Open Thread 156
Jun 12, 2020
Wordy Wernicke’s
Jun 11, 2020
The Obligatory GPT-3 Post
Jun 10, 2020
Open Thread 155.75
Jun 8, 2020
Take The New Nootropics Survey
Jun 7, 2020
Open Thread 155.5
Jun 5, 2020
Problems With Paywalls
Jun 3, 2020
Open Thread 155.25
Jun 2, 2020
Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
Jun 1, 2020
Open Thread 155
May 29, 2020
Bush Did North Dakota
May 28, 2020
Creationism, Unchallenged
May 27, 2020
Open Thread 154.75
May 27, 2020
“My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory
May 24, 2020
Open Thread 154.5
May 21, 2020
Links 5/20
May 20, 2020
Open Thread 154.25
May 19, 2020
Coronalinks 5/18/20: When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Starts Looking Like A Dance
May 17, 2020
Open Thread 154
May 13, 2020
Open Thread 153.75
May 13, 2020
Studies On Slack
May 10, 2020
Open Thread 153.5
May 7, 2020
Classified Thread 8
May 6, 2020
Open Thread 153.25
May 6, 2020
Book Review Contest: Call For Entries
May 4, 2020
Open Thread 153
Apr 30, 2020
Predictions For 2020
Apr 29, 2020
Open Thread 152.75
Apr 28, 2020
Give Yourself Gout For Fame And Profit
Apr 26, 2020
Open Thread 152.5
Apr 24, 2020
Employer Provided Health Insurance Delenda Est
Apr 22, 2020
Open Thread 152.25
Apr 21, 2020
The Amish Health Care System
Apr 20, 2020
Open Thread 152
Apr 17, 2020
Depression: The Olfactory Perspective
Apr 15, 2020
Open Thread 151.75
Apr 15, 2020
A Failure, But Not Of Prediction
Apr 12, 2020
Open Thread 151.5
Apr 10, 2020
Coronalinks 4/10: Second Derivative
Apr 9, 2020
2019 Predictions: Calibration Results
Apr 8, 2020
Open Thread 151.25
Apr 8, 2020
Never Tell Me The Odds (Ratio)
Apr 7, 2020
SSCJC: Real World Depression Measurement
Apr 5, 2020
Open Thread 151
Apr 2, 2020
Book Review: The Precipice
Apr 1, 2020
Open Thread 150.75
Apr 1, 2020
SSC Journal Club: MacIntyre On Cloth Masks
Mar 31, 2020
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up
Mar 29, 2020
Open Thread 150.5
Mar 27, 2020
Coronalinks 3/27/20
Mar 25, 2020
Open Thread 150.25
Mar 24, 2020
Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Mar 23, 2020
Open Thread 150
Mar 19, 2020
Coronalinks 3/19/20
Mar 18, 2020
Open Thread 149.75
Mar 17, 2020
Book Review: Hoover
Mar 15, 2020
Open Thread 149.5
Mar 11, 2020
Open Thread 149.25
Mar 11, 2020
For, Then Against, High-Saturated-Fat Diets
Mar 8, 2020
Open Thread 149
Mar 6, 2020
Socratic Grilling
Mar 4, 2020
Open Thread 148.75
Mar 3, 2020
Coronavirus: Links, Speculation, Open Thread
Mar 1, 2020
Open Thread 148.5
Feb 28, 2020
Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work
Feb 26, 2020
Open Thread 148.25
Feb 25, 2020
Book Review: Just Giving
Feb 23, 2020
Open Thread 148
Feb 20, 2020
Links 2/20
Feb 19, 2020
Open Thread 147.75
Feb 18, 2020
Sleep Support: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial
Feb 16, 2020
Open Thread 147.5
Feb 15, 2020
Addendum to “Targeting Meritocracy”
Feb 13, 2020
Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning
Feb 13, 2020
Welcome (?), Infowars Readers
Feb 12, 2020
Open Thread 147.25
Feb 11, 2020
Autogenderphilia Is Common And Not Especially Related To Transgender
Feb 9, 2020
Open Thread 147
Feb 6, 2020
Suicide Hotspots Of The World
Feb 5, 2020
Open Thread 146.75
Feb 3, 2020
Map Of Effective Altruism
Feb 2, 2020
Open Thread 146.5
Jan 31, 2020
Book Review: Human Compatible
Jan 29, 2020
Open Thread 146.25
Jan 28, 2020
Assortative Mating And Autism
Jan 27, 2020
Open Thread 146
Jan 23, 2020
Book Review Review: Little Soldiers
Jan 22, 2020
Open Thread 145.75
Jan 21, 2020
SSC Survey Results 2020
Jan 19, 2020
Open Thread 145.5
Jan 17, 2020
Last Chance To Take The Survey
Jan 16, 2020
Contra Contra Contra Caplan On Psych
Jan 15, 2020
Open Thread 145.25
Jan 14, 2020
2019 Adversarial Collaboration Winners
Jan 12, 2020
Open Thread 145
Jan 9, 2020
What Intellectual Progress Did I Make In The 2010s?
Jan 8, 2020
Open Thread 144.75
Jan 7, 2020
A Very Unlikely Chess Game
Jan 6, 2020
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate (2020)
Jan 5, 2020
Open Thread 144.5
Jan 3, 2020
Why Doctors Think They’re The Best
Jan 1, 2020
Open Thread 144.25
Dec 30, 2019
Please Take The 2020 SSC Survey!
Dec 30, 2019
Open Thread 144
Dec 27, 2019
Please Vote For ACC Winner
Dec 26, 2019
[ACC] How Much Significance Should We Ascribe To Spiritual Experiences?
Dec 25, 2019
Open Thread 143.75
Dec 25, 2019
[ACC] Should You Have A Merry Christmas?
Dec 24, 2019
[ACC] Will Automation Lead To Economic Crisis?
Dec 23, 2019
A Maximally Lazy Guide To Giving To Charity In 2019
Dec 22, 2019
Open Thread 143.5
Dec 20, 2019
[ACC] When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong?
Dec 19, 2019
[ACC] Should Gene Editing Technologies Be Used In Humans?
Dec 18, 2019
Open Thread 143.25
Dec 18, 2019
[ACC] Should We Colonize Space To Mitigate X-Risk?
Dec 15, 2019
Open Thread 143
Dec 13, 2019
[ACC] Does Calorie Restriction Slow Aging?
Dec 12, 2019
[ACC] Is Eating Meat A Net Harm?
Dec 12, 2019
Correction To Circumcision ACC
Dec 11, 2019
Open Thread 142.75
Dec 11, 2019
[ACC] Is Infant Circumcision Ethical?
Dec 10, 2019
2019 Adversarial Collaboration Entries
Dec 8, 2019
Open Thread 142.5
Dec 5, 2019
Symptom, Condition, Cause
Dec 4, 2019
Open Thread 142.25
Dec 2, 2019
Links 12/19
Dec 2, 2019
Open Thread 142
Nov 28, 2019
SSC Meetups Everywhere Retrospective
Nov 27, 2019
Open Thread 141.75
Nov 27, 2019
Mental Mountains
Nov 24, 2019
Open Thread 141.5
Nov 21, 2019
Book Review: All Therapy Books
Nov 20, 2019
Open Thread 141.25
Nov 19, 2019
More Intuition-Building On Non-Empirical Science: Three Stories
Nov 17, 2019
Open Thread 141
Nov 14, 2019
Autism And Intelligence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Nov 13, 2019
Open Thread 140.75
Nov 13, 2019
Book Review: The Body Keeps The Score
Nov 10, 2019
Open Thread 140.5
Nov 7, 2019
Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science
Nov 6, 2019
Open Thread 140.25
Nov 5, 2019
Samsara
Nov 4, 2019
Open Thread 140
Oct 30, 2019
Open Thread 139.75
Oct 30, 2019
New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed
Oct 28, 2019
Financial Incentives Are Weaker Than Social Incentives But Very Important Anyway
Oct 27, 2019
Open Thread 139.5
Oct 25, 2019
Highlights From The Comments On PNSE
Oct 24, 2019
Indian Economic Reform: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Oct 23, 2019
Open Thread 139.25
Oct 22, 2019
The PNSE Paper
Oct 21, 2019
Open Thread 139
Oct 17, 2019
Is Enlightenment Compatible With Sex Scandals?
Oct 16, 2019
Open Thread 138.75
Oct 15, 2019
Book Review: Against The Grain
Oct 13, 2019
Open Thread 138.5
Oct 11, 2019
Irvine Meetup This Friday
Oct 10, 2019
Berkeley Meetup This Thursday
Oct 9, 2019
Open Thread 138.25
Oct 8, 2019
Links 10/19
Oct 6, 2019
Open Thread 138
Oct 4, 2019
Fairbanks Meetup This Sunday
Oct 2, 2019
Open Thread 137.75
Oct 2, 2019
Seattle Meetup This Wednesday
Oct 1, 2019
Portland Meetup This Tuesday
Sep 30, 2019
Austin Meetup This Monday
Sep 29, 2019
Open Thread 137.5
Sep 27, 2019
Chicago Meetup This Saturday
Sep 26, 2019
Ann Arbor Meetup This Thursday
Sep 25, 2019
Open Thread 137.25
Sep 24, 2019
Washington DC Meetup This Tuesday
Sep 22, 2019
Open Thread 137 (+ Meetup Corrections)
Sep 21, 2019
Philadelphia Meetup This Sunday
Sep 21, 2019
NYC Meetup This Saturday
Sep 20, 2019
Boston Meetup This Friday
Sep 19, 2019
Too Much Dark Money In Almonds
Sep 18, 2019
Open Thread 136.75
Sep 16, 2019
Against Against Pseudoaddiction
Sep 15, 2019
Open Thread 136.5
Sep 13, 2019
SSC Meetups 2019: Times And Places
Sep 12, 2019
Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time
Sep 11, 2019
Open Thread 136.25
Sep 11, 2019
SSC Journal Club: Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain
Sep 10, 2019
[Partial Retraction] Age Gaps and Birth Order Effects
Sep 8, 2019
Open Thread 136
Sep 6, 2019
LW Party: Bay Area Invitation
Sep 5, 2019
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Ages Of Discord
Sep 4, 2019
Open Thread 135.75
Sep 3, 2019
Book Review: Ages Of Discord
Sep 1, 2019
Open Thread 135.5
Aug 29, 2019
Meetups Everywhere 2019
Aug 28, 2019
Open Thread 135.25
Aug 28, 2019
Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence
Aug 25, 2019
Open Thread 135
Aug 22, 2019
Don’t Fear The Simulators
Aug 21, 2019
Open Thread 134.75
Aug 20, 2019
Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie
Aug 18, 2019
Open Thread 134.5
Aug 15, 2019
Attempted Replication: Does Beef Jerky Cause Manic Episodes?
Aug 14, 2019
Open Thread 134.25
Aug 13, 2019
Book Review: Secular Cycles
Aug 12, 2019
OT134: Open Zed
Aug 8, 2019
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Philanthropy
Aug 7, 2019
Open Thread 133.75
Aug 5, 2019
Links 8/19
Aug 4, 2019
Open Thread 133.5
Aug 2, 2019
Squareallworthy On UBI Plans
Aug 1, 2019
Adversarial Collaboration Update
Jul 31, 2019
Open Thread 133.25
Jul 30, 2019
Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy
Jul 28, 2019
OT133: Operon Thread
Jul 25, 2019
Adversarial Collaboration Contest 2019
Jul 24, 2019
Open Thread 132.75
Jul 23, 2019
Book Review: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Jul 21, 2019
Open Thread 132.5
Jul 18, 2019
Know Your Gabapentinoids
Jul 18, 2019
Caution On Bias Arguments
Jul 17, 2019
Open Thread 132.25
Jul 16, 2019
Against Lie Inflation
Jul 14, 2019
OT132: Open Shed
Jul 12, 2019
Do People Like Their Mental Health Care?
Jul 10, 2019
Open Thread 131.75
Jul 10, 2019
Survey Results: Sexual Roles
Jul 9, 2019
Gay Rites Are Civil Rites
Jul 7, 2019
Open Thread 131.5
Jul 5, 2019
Style Guide: Not Sounding Like An Evil Robot
Jul 4, 2019
Some Clarifications On Rationalist Blogging
Jul 3, 2019
Open Thread 131.25
Jul 3, 2019
Editing Unsong
Jul 1, 2019
OT131: Open Pride
Jun 27, 2019
Links 6/19
Jun 26, 2019
Open Thread 130.75
Jun 25, 2019
More Confounders
Jun 23, 2019
Open Thread 130.5
Jun 21, 2019
If Only Turing Was Alive To See This
Jun 20, 2019
Are Sexual Purity Taboos A Response To STIs?
Jun 19, 2019
Open Thread 130.25
Jun 19, 2019
If Kim Jong-Un Opened A KFC, Would You Eat There?
Jun 18, 2019
Followup On The Baumol Effect: Thanks, O Baumol
Jun 16, 2019
OT130: Open Thresh
Jun 12, 2019
Open Thread 129.75
Jun 12, 2019
Highlights From The Comments On Cultural Evolution
Jun 10, 2019
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So D*mn High?
Jun 9, 2019
Open Thread 129.5
Jun 8, 2019
Addendum To “Enormous Nutshell”: Competing Selectors
Jun 7, 2019
Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad
Jun 6, 2019
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Secret Of Our Success”
Jun 5, 2019
Open Thread 129.25
Jun 5, 2019
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success
Jun 4, 2019
[REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness
Jun 3, 2019
OT129: Opaque Thread
May 30, 2019
Bay Area SSC Meetup 6/2
May 29, 2019
Open Thread 128.75
May 29, 2019
Postscript To APA Photo-Essay
May 26, 2019
Open Thread 128.5
May 23, 2019
The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
May 22, 2019
Open Thread 128.25
May 19, 2019
OT128: Opentos Thread
May 17, 2019
APA Meetup This Saturday
May 16, 2019
A Critical Period For Lactation Fetishes
May 15, 2019
Open Thread 127.75
May 14, 2019
Age Gaps And Birth Order Effects
May 12, 2019
Open Thread 127.5
May 10, 2019
Is There A Case For Skepticism Of Psychedelic Therapy?
May 8, 2019
Open Thread 127.25
May 8, 2019
5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
May 6, 2019
OT127: Openinsula Thread
May 3, 2019
Little Known Types Of Eclipse
May 2, 2019
Update To Partial Retraction Of Animal Value And Neuron Number
May 1, 2019
Open Thread 126.75
May 1, 2019
Buspirone Shortage In Healthcaristan SSR
Apr 28, 2019
Open Thread 126.5
Apr 25, 2019
Links 4/2019
Apr 24, 2019
Open Thread 126.25
Apr 23, 2019
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
Apr 21, 2019
OT126: Ovum Thread
Apr 18, 2019
Highlights From The Comments On College Admissions
Apr 17, 2019
Open Thread 125.75
Apr 16, 2019
Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Apr 14, 2019
Open Thread 125.5
Apr 11, 2019
Pain As Active Ingredient In Dating
Apr 10, 2019
Open Thread 125.25
Apr 10, 2019
Short Book Reviews April 2019
Apr 8, 2019
OT125: Opentathlon Thread
Apr 4, 2019
Classified Thread 7
Apr 3, 2019
Open Thread 124.75
Apr 3, 2019
Social Censorship: The First Offender Model
Mar 31, 2019
Open Thread 124.5
Mar 29, 2019
Two Wolves And A Sheep
Mar 29, 2019
Partial Retraction Of Post On Animal Value And Neural Number
Mar 27, 2019
Open Thread 124.25
Mar 27, 2019
[PARTIALLY RETRACTED] Cortical Neuron Number Matches Intuitive Perceptions Of Moral Value Across Animals
Mar 26, 2019
Neurons And Intelligence: A Birdbrained Perspective
Mar 25, 2019
OT124: Opentatonic Thread
Mar 21, 2019
Translating Predictive Coding Into Perceptual Control
Mar 20, 2019
Open Thread 123.75
Mar 19, 2019
Book Review: Inventing The Future
Mar 17, 2019
Open Thread 123.5
Mar 15, 2019
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry
Mar 14, 2019
Does Reality Drive Straight Lines On Graphs, Or Do Straight Lines On Graphs Drive Reality?
Mar 13, 2019
Open Thread 123.25
Mar 13, 2019
Puritan Spotting
Mar 11, 2019
Ketamine: Now By Prescription
Mar 10, 2019
OT123: Oped Thread
Mar 7, 2019
Links 3/19: Linkguini
Mar 6, 2019
Open Thread 122.75
Mar 5, 2019
Prospiracy Theories
Mar 3, 2019
Open Thread 122.5
Mar 1, 2019
Meaningful
Feb 28, 2019
In Mod We Trust
Feb 27, 2019
Open Thread 122.25
Feb 27, 2019
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Feb 26, 2019
Wage Stagnation: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Feb 24, 2019
OT122: Openne Thread
Feb 22, 2019
RIP Culture War Thread
Feb 21, 2019
My Plagiarism
Feb 20, 2019
Open Thread 121.75
Feb 20, 2019
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence
Feb 19, 2019
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits?
Feb 17, 2019
Open Thread 121.5
Feb 14, 2019
The Proverbial Murder Mystery
Feb 13, 2019
Open Thread 121.25
Feb 12, 2019
Open Thread 147.25
Feb 11, 2019
OT121: Openumbra Thread
Feb 8, 2019
Irvine Meetup This Saturday
Feb 7, 2019
Survey Results On SSRIs
Feb 6, 2019
Open Thread 120.75
Feb 5, 2019
Respectability Cascades
Feb 3, 2019
Open Thread 120.5
Jan 31, 2019
Book Review: Zero To One
Jan 30, 2019
Open Thread 120.25
Jan 30, 2019
Links 1/19: Linkguistics
Jan 27, 2019
OT120: Openury Thread
Jan 25, 2019
Predictions For 2019
Jan 24, 2019
Psychiat-List Now Up
Jan 23, 2019
Open Thread 119.75
Jan 22, 2019
2018 Predictions: Calibration Results
Jan 20, 2019
Open Thread 119.5
Jan 18, 2019
Highlights From The Comments On Kuhn
Jan 16, 2019
Open Thread 119.25
Jan 16, 2019
Kernel Of Doubt: Testing Math Preference Vs. Corn-Eating Style
Jan 15, 2019
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy
Jan 14, 2019
SSC Survey Results 2019
Jan 13, 2019
OT119: Openny Thread
Jan 11, 2019
Paradigms All The Way Down
Jan 9, 2019
Open Thread 118.75
Jan 9, 2019
Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
Jan 6, 2019
Open Thread 118.5
Jan 5, 2019
Bay Meetup 1/6 Update
Jan 4, 2019
Preregistration Of Investigations For The 2019 SSC Survey
Jan 3, 2019
Bay Area SSC Meetup 1/6
Jan 2, 2019
Open Thread 118.25
Jan 2, 2019
What Happened To 90s Environmentalism?
Dec 31, 2018
OT118: Threadgorian Calendar
Dec 27, 2018
Please Take The 2019 SSC Survey
Dec 26, 2018
Open Thread 117.75
Dec 25, 2018
Links 12/18: Boughs Of Hollink
Dec 23, 2018
Open Thread 117.5
Dec 21, 2018
Seattle Meetup This Sunday
Dec 20, 2018
Refactoring: Culture As Branch Of Government
Dec 19, 2018
Open Thread 117.25
Dec 19, 2018
Fallacies Of Reversed Moderation
Dec 17, 2018
OT117: Ho Ho Hopen Thread
Dec 13, 2018
Trump: A Setback For Trumpism
Dec 13, 2018
Open Thread 116.75
Dec 11, 2018
Diametrical Model Of Autism And Schizophrenia
Dec 10, 2018
Open Thread 116.5
Dec 6, 2018
Del Giudice On The Self-Starvation Cycle
Dec 5, 2018
Open Thread 116.25
Dec 3, 2018
Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology
Dec 2, 2018
OT116: Opensées Thread
Nov 29, 2018
Open Thread 115.75
Nov 29, 2018
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated
Nov 27, 2018
Is Science Slowing Down?
Nov 26, 2018
Open Thread 115.5
Nov 22, 2018
Impending Survey Discussion Thread
Nov 22, 2018
Open Thread 115.25
Nov 20, 2018
Links 11/18: MayflowURL
Nov 18, 2018
OT115: Oberon Thread
Nov 16, 2018
The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards
Nov 14, 2018
Open Thread 114.75
Nov 14, 2018
Preschool: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Nov 12, 2018
Open Thread 114.5
Nov 9, 2018
Ketamine: An Update
Nov 8, 2018
Open Thread 114.25
Nov 8, 2018
SSRIs: An Update
Nov 7, 2018
Marijuana: An Update
Nov 6, 2018
Preschool: I Was Wrong
Nov 5, 2018
My California Ballot
Nov 4, 2018
OT114: Penelopen Thread
Nov 2, 2018
Working With Google Trends
Nov 1, 2018
Open Thread 113.75
Oct 31, 2018
Sort By Controversial
Oct 29, 2018
Open Thread 113.5
Oct 25, 2018
Open Thread 113.25
Oct 25, 2018
Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff
Oct 23, 2018
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs
Oct 21, 2018
OT113: Opentekonter Thread
Oct 19, 2018
Classified Thread 6
Oct 18, 2018
Open Thread 112.75
Oct 16, 2018
The Chamber of Guf
Oct 16, 2018
Is Science Slowing Down?
Oct 15, 2018
Open Thread 112.5
Oct 12, 2018
Anxiety Sampler Kits
Oct 11, 2018
Open Thread 112.25
Oct 9, 2018
Links 10/18: +1 Insiteful
Oct 8, 2018
Kavanaugh: A Probability Poll
Oct 7, 2018
OT112: Opentagon Thread
Oct 5, 2018
Nighttime Ventilation Survey Results
Oct 5, 2018
Open Thread 111.75
Oct 4, 2018
Next Door In Nodrumia
Oct 3, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On NIMBYs
Oct 2, 2018
Steelmanning The NIMBYs
Sep 30, 2018
Open Thread 111.5: Announcements And Surveys
Sep 27, 2018
Adversarial Collaboration Contest Results
Sep 27, 2018
Open Thread 111.25
Sep 25, 2018
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Sep 23, 2018
OT111: Ophion Thread
Sep 21, 2018
Treating The Prodrome
Sep 19, 2018
Open Thread 110.75
Sep 19, 2018
Book Review: The Black Swan
Sep 16, 2018
Open Thread 110.5
Sep 14, 2018
The Omnigenic Model As Metaphor For Life
Sep 13, 2018
Open Thread 110.25
Sep 12, 2018
In The Balance
Sep 10, 2018
OT110: Opendragon Thread
Sep 8, 2018
[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition?
Sep 7, 2018
[ACC Entry] Should Childhood Vaccination Be Mandatory?
Sep 6, 2018
Open Thread 109.75
Sep 6, 2018
[ACC Entry] Are Islam And Liberal Democracy Compatible?
Sep 5, 2018
[ACC Entry] Does The Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students?
Sep 4, 2018
Reminder: Bay Area SSC Meetup 9/8
Sep 3, 2018
This Week: Adversarial Collaboration Entries
Sep 3, 2018
Open Thread 109.5
Aug 31, 2018
Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient
Aug 30, 2018
Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)
Aug 30, 2018
Open Thread 109.25
Aug 29, 2018
Links 8/18: URLin Wall
Aug 28, 2018
Elegy For John McCain
Aug 26, 2018
OT109: Opulent Thread
Aug 24, 2018
Open Thread 108.75
Aug 23, 2018
Carbon Dioxide: An Open Door Policy
Aug 21, 2018
Practically-A-Book Review: EA Hotel
Aug 20, 2018
Open Thread 108.5
Aug 17, 2018
The Parentheses Riddle
Aug 16, 2018
SSC Survey: Scattered Negative Results
Aug 16, 2018
Open Thread 108.25
Aug 14, 2018
SSC Survey Results: ADHD And Rejection Sensitivity
Aug 12, 2018
OT108: Opangolin Thread
Aug 9, 2018
SSC Meetups 2018: Times And Places
Aug 9, 2018
Open Thread 107.75
Aug 7, 2018
Before You Get Too Excited About That Trigger Warning Study…
Aug 5, 2018
Open Thread 107.5
Aug 3, 2018
Open Thread 107.25
Aug 2, 2018
Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Jul 31, 2018
Links 7/18: URL Mountains
Jul 29, 2018
OT107: Kaleidoscopen Thread
Jul 27, 2018
Meetups Everywhere 2018
Jul 26, 2018
Open Thread 106.75
Jul 26, 2018
Verses Composed Upon Reading A Review From TripAdvisor
Jul 24, 2018
Value Differences As Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics
Jul 23, 2018
Open Thread 106.5
Jul 20, 2018
Sentimental Cartography
Jul 19, 2018
Open Thread 106.25
Jul 19, 2018
The Whole City Is Center
Jul 18, 2018
Fundamental Value Differences Are Not That Fundamental
Jul 15, 2018
OT106: Alexios I Commentos
Jul 12, 2018
Did A Melatonin Patent Inspire Current Dose Confusion?
Jul 11, 2018
Open Thread 105.75
Jul 11, 2018
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Jul 9, 2018
Open Thread 105.5
Jul 6, 2018
The Craft And The Codex
Jul 5, 2018
Open Thread 105.25
Jul 4, 2018
SSC Journal Club: Dissolving The Fermi Paradox
Jul 1, 2018
OT105: Ethelthread The Unthready
Jun 28, 2018
Open Thread 104.75
Jun 28, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On Piketty
Jun 27, 2018
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Capital In The Twenty-First Century
Jun 25, 2018
Book Review: Capital In The Twenty-First Century
Jun 25, 2018
Open Thread 104.5
Jun 21, 2018
Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective
Jun 20, 2018
Open Thread 104.25
Jun 20, 2018
Contra Caplan On Arbitrary Deploring
Jun 19, 2018
The GATTACA Trilogy
Jun 17, 2018
OT104: Antelopen Thread
Jun 13, 2018
Open Thread 103.75
Jun 13, 2018
Links 6/18: Linkonberry Jam
Jun 10, 2018
Open Thread 103.5
Jun 6, 2018
HPPD And The Specter Of Permanent Side Effects
Jun 6, 2018
Open Thread 103.25
Jun 3, 2018
OT103: The Curse Of Tutancomment
May 31, 2018
In Search Of Missing US Suicides
May 30, 2018
Open Thread 102.75
May 29, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On Basic Jobs
May 27, 2018
Open Thread 102.5
May 24, 2018
Should Psychiatry Test For Lead More?
May 23, 2018
Open Thread 102.25
May 23, 2018
Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced?
May 21, 2018
OT102: Difference Of Openion
May 17, 2018
Open Thread 101.75
May 17, 2018
Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia
May 14, 2018
Open Thread 101.5
May 10, 2018
Links 5/18: Snorri URL-uson
May 9, 2018
Open Thread 101.25
May 8, 2018
Varieties Of Argumentative Experience
May 6, 2018
OT101: Threadversarial Collaboropen
May 3, 2018
Classified Thread 5: Classified Never Sinned
May 2, 2018
Open Thread 100.75
May 1, 2018
Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society
Apr 30, 2018
Adversarial Collaboration Contest: Loose Ends And Registration
Apr 29, 2018
Open Thread 100.5
Apr 26, 2018
Open Thread 100.25
Apr 26, 2018
Call For Adversarial Collaborations
Apr 26, 2018
Mental Health On A Budget
Apr 23, 2018
OT100: One Hunthread
Apr 20, 2018
Gupta On Enlightenment
Apr 19, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On Survey Harassment Rates
Apr 18, 2018
Open Thread 99.75
Apr 18, 2018
SSC Survey Results: Sexual Harassment Levels By Field
Apr 15, 2018
Open Thread 99.5
Apr 13, 2018
Recommendations vs. Guidelines
Apr 12, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On DC Graduation Rates
Apr 11, 2018
Open Thread 99.25
Apr 11, 2018
Why DC’s Low Graduation Rates?
Apr 9, 2018
OT99: Alpine Thread
Apr 5, 2018
Links 4/18: Siter Plate
Apr 5, 2018
Adult Neurogenesis – A Pointed Review
Apr 4, 2018
Open Thread 98.75
Apr 4, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On Twelve Rules
Apr 3, 2018
Are The Amish Unhappy? Super Happy? Just Meh?
Apr 1, 2018
The Hour I First Believed
Apr 1, 2018
Open Thread 98.5
Mar 28, 2018
Open Thread 98.25
Mar 27, 2018
Book Review: Twelve Rules For Life
Mar 25, 2018
OT98: Vauban Thread
Mar 23, 2018
Navigating And/Or Avoiding The Inpatient Mental Health System
Mar 21, 2018
Open Thread 97.75
Mar 20, 2018
The Dark Rule Utilitarian Argument For Science Piracy
Mar 18, 2018
Open Thread 97.5
Mar 14, 2018
Open Thread 97.25
Mar 11, 2018
OT97: Dopen Thread
Mar 10, 2018
Response To Current Affairs On Against Murderism
Mar 8, 2018
SSC Journal Club: Friston On Computational Mood
Mar 7, 2018
Open Thread 96.75
Mar 5, 2018
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy
Mar 4, 2018
Open Thread 96.5
Mar 2, 2018
SSC Meetup: Bay Area 3/3
Feb 28, 2018
Open Thread 96.25
Feb 27, 2018
Links 2/18: Link Biao Incident
Feb 27, 2018
SSC Journal Club: Cipriani On Antidepressants
Feb 26, 2018
OT96: Snopen Thread
Feb 23, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On Technological Unemployment
Feb 22, 2018
Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories
Feb 21, 2018
Open Thread 95.75
Feb 20, 2018
Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Feb 18, 2018
Open Thread 95.5
Feb 16, 2018
Five More Years
Feb 15, 2018
Even More Search Terms That Led People To This Blog
Feb 14, 2018
Open Thread 95.25
Feb 14, 2018
More Testimonials For SSC
Feb 13, 2018
We’ve Got Five Years, What A Surprise
Feb 12, 2018
OT95: Zoetropen Thread
Feb 8, 2018
Guyenet On Motivation
Feb 7, 2018
Open Thread 94.75
Feb 6, 2018
Predictions For 2018
Feb 4, 2018
Open Thread 94.5
Feb 1, 2018
Powerless Placebos
Jan 31, 2018
Open Thread 94.25
Jan 31, 2018
The Invention Of Moral Narrative
Jan 30, 2018
Highlights From The Comments On Conflict Vs. Mistake
Jan 29, 2018
OT94: Isotopen Thread
Jan 26, 2018
SSC Survey Data On Models Of Political Conflict
Jan 25, 2018
Conflict Vs. Mistake
Jan 24, 2018
Open Thread 93.75
Jan 22, 2018
Links 1/18: Helink Of Troy
Jan 21, 2018
Open Thread 93.5
Jan 18, 2018
Practically-A-Book Review: Luna Whitepaper
Jan 17, 2018
Open Thread 93.25
Jan 17, 2018
Bundles Of Joy
Jan 16, 2018
Maybe The Real Superintelligent AI Is Extremely Smart Computers
Jan 15, 2018
OT93: Giant Threadwood
Jan 12, 2018
Self-Serving Bias
Jan 10, 2018
Open Thread 92.75
Jan 8, 2018
Fight Me, Psychologists: Birth Order Effects Exist And Are Very Strong
Jan 7, 2018
Open Thread 92.5
Jan 4, 2018
Book Review: Madness And Civilization
Jan 4, 2018
SSC Survey Results 2018
Jan 3, 2018
Open Thread 92.25
Jan 3, 2018
2017 Predictions: Calibration Results
Dec 31, 2017
OT92: Ocean Thread
Dec 28, 2017
Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Dec 27, 2017
Open Thread 91.75
Dec 26, 2017
A History Of The Silmarils In The Fifth Age
Dec 26, 2017
Preregistration Of Hypotheses For The SSC Survey
Dec 24, 2017
Open Thread 91.5
Dec 22, 2017
Please Take The 2018 SSC Reader Survey
Dec 20, 2017
Open Thread 91.25
Dec 19, 2017
Links 12/17: Silent Site, Holy Site
Dec 18, 2017
OT91: Opaean Thread
Dec 13, 2017
Open Thread 90.75
Dec 13, 2017
Classified Thread 4: Vinson Classif
Dec 10, 2017
Open Thread 90.5
Dec 8, 2017
What To Make Of New Positive NSI-189 Results?
Dec 8, 2017
Tax Bill 3: Don’t Mess With Taxes
Dec 7, 2017
Response To Comments: The Tax Bill Is Still Very Bad
Dec 6, 2017
Open Thread 90.25
Dec 5, 2017
The Tax Bill Compared To Other Very Expensive Things
Dec 5, 2017
Against Overgendering Harassment
Dec 4, 2017
OT90: Telescopen Thread
Dec 1, 2017
Book Review: Inadequate Equilibria
Nov 29, 2017
Open Thread 89.75
Nov 28, 2017
A Completely Accurate Map With No Distortion At All
Nov 26, 2017
Open Thread 89.5
Nov 23, 2017
Links 11/17: Sri Linka
Nov 22, 2017
Open Thread 89.25
Nov 22, 2017
Contra Robinson On Public Food
Nov 20, 2017
OT89: Omen Thread
Nov 16, 2017
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Nov 15, 2017
Open Thread 88.75
Nov 14, 2017
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Nov 12, 2017
Open Thread 88.5
Nov 9, 2017
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Nov 8, 2017
Open Thread 88.25
Nov 8, 2017
Does Age Bring Wisdom?
Nov 7, 2017
Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice
Nov 6, 2017
OT88: Homage To Threadalonia
Nov 3, 2017
Non-Expert Explanation
Nov 2, 2017
Postmodernism For Rationalists (my attempt)
Nov 1, 2017
Open Thread 87.75
Oct 31, 2017
Links 10/17: Martin LuthURL
Oct 29, 2017
Open Thread 87.5
Oct 26, 2017
Against Rat Park
Oct 25, 2017
Open Thread 87.25
Oct 25, 2017
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably?
Oct 24, 2017
Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning
Oct 22, 2017
OT87: Ulpian Thread
Oct 18, 2017
Open Thread 86.75
Oct 17, 2017
Highlights From The Comments On Dark Ages
Oct 16, 2017
Were There Dark Ages?
Oct 15, 2017
Open Thread 86.5
Oct 13, 2017
SSC Meetup: Bay Area 10/14
Oct 11, 2017
Open Thread 86.25
Oct 10, 2017
SSC Journal Club: Serotonin Receptors
Oct 10, 2017
In Favor Of Futurism Being About The Future
Oct 9, 2017
OT86: Utopen Thread
Oct 6, 2017
SSC Survey Results On Trust
Oct 4, 2017
Open Thread 85.75
Oct 3, 2017
Different Worlds
Oct 1, 2017
Open Thread 85.5
Sep 28, 2017
Against Individual IQ Worries
Sep 27, 2017
Open Thread 85.25
Sep 26, 2017
Links 9/17: HURLy-bURLy
Sep 24, 2017
OT85: L-DOPEN Thread
Sep 21, 2017
Meditative States As Feedback Loops
Sep 20, 2017
Open Thread 84.75
Sep 19, 2017
Book Review: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha
Sep 17, 2017
Open Thread 84.5
Sep 14, 2017
Classified Thread 3: Semper Classifiedelis
Sep 13, 2017
Open Thread 84.25
Sep 13, 2017
Toward A Predictive Theory Of Depression
Sep 10, 2017
OT84: Threadictive Processing
Sep 8, 2017
How Do We Get Breasts Out Of Bayes Theorem?
Sep 7, 2017
Predictive Processing And Perceptual Control
Sep 6, 2017
Open Thread 83.75
Sep 6, 2017
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty
Sep 3, 2017
Open Thread 83.5
Sep 1, 2017
Highlights From The Comments On My IRB Nightmare
Aug 31, 2017
Links 8/17: Exsitement
Aug 30, 2017
Open Thread 83.25
Aug 29, 2017
My IRB Nightmare
Aug 28, 2017
Contra Askell On Moral Offsets
Aug 27, 2017
OT83: Slippery Slopen Thread
Aug 25, 2017
Open Thread 82.75
Aug 22, 2017
Partial Credit
Aug 21, 2017
Open Thread 82.5
Aug 17, 2017
Open Thread 82.25
Aug 16, 2017
Fear And Loathing At Effective Altruism Global 2017
Aug 13, 2017
OT82: Threado Quia Absurdum
Aug 10, 2017
Brief Cautionary Notes On Branded Combination Nootropics
Aug 10, 2017
Open Thread 81.75
Aug 10, 2017
The Lizard People Of Alpha Draconis 1 Decided To Build An Ansible
Aug 8, 2017
Links 8/17: On The Site Of The Angels
Aug 8, 2017
Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
Aug 7, 2017
Open Thread 81.5
Aug 4, 2017
Why Not More Excitement About Prediction Aggregation?
Aug 3, 2017
Open Thread 81.25
Aug 3, 2017
Where The Falling Einstein Meets The Rising Mouse
Aug 2, 2017
Is It Possible To Have Coherent Principles Around Free Speech Norms?
Aug 2, 2017
Gender Imbalances Are Mostly Not Due To Offensive Attitudes
Jul 31, 2017
Book Review: Raise A Genius!
Jul 30, 2017
OT81: Open Djed
Jul 30, 2017
Against Signal-Boosting As Doxxing
Jul 28, 2017
Djoser Joseph Osiris
Jul 27, 2017
Why Is Clozapine So Great?
Jul 27, 2017
Open Thread 80.75
Jul 26, 2017
Don’t Blame Griggs
Jul 25, 2017
Highlights From The Comment Thread On Meritocracy
Jul 24, 2017
Targeting Meritocracy
Jul 24, 2017
Open Thread 80.5
Jul 20, 2017
Classified Thread 2: Best In Classified
Jul 20, 2017
Open Thread 80.25
Jul 19, 2017
Links 7/17: URL of Sandwich
Jul 17, 2017
OT80: OPEC Thread
Jul 14, 2017
Can We Link Perception And Cognition?
Jul 13, 2017
SSC Meetup: Salt Lake 7/14
Jul 13, 2017
Open Thread 79.75
Jul 10, 2017
Change Minds Or Drive Turnout?
Jul 10, 2017
Open Thread 79.5
Jul 8, 2017
Two Kinds Of Caution
Jul 6, 2017
Open Thread 79.25
Jul 3, 2017
OT79: Open Road
Jul 3, 2017
To The Great City!
Jul 1, 2017
SSC Meetup: Chicago 7/2
Jun 29, 2017
Why Are Transgender People Immune To Optical Illusions?
Jun 29, 2017
Open Thread 78.75
Jun 27, 2017
Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility
Jun 26, 2017
Open Thread 78.5
Jun 22, 2017
To Understand Polarization, Understand Conservativism’s Failures
Jun 22, 2017
Open Thread 78.25
Jun 22, 2017
Against Murderism
Jun 19, 2017
OT78: Oprah Thread
Jun 15, 2017
Open Thread 77.75
Jun 14, 2017
Links 6/17: Silinks Is Golden
Jun 13, 2017
What Is Depression, Anyway?: The Synapse Hypothesis
Jun 12, 2017
Open Thread 77.5
Jun 9, 2017
SSC Journal Club: AI Timelines
Jun 8, 2017
Open Thread 77.25
Jun 6, 2017
Is Pharma Research Worse Than Chance?
Jun 4, 2017
OT77: Opium Thread
May 31, 2017
Open Thread 76.75
May 30, 2017
Hungarian Education III: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Budapestians
May 30, 2017
Hungarian Education II: Four Nobel Truths
May 29, 2017
Open Thread 76.5
May 26, 2017
The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project
May 25, 2017
Those Modern Pathologies
May 25, 2017
Open Thread 76.25
May 22, 2017
Classified Ads Thread
May 22, 2017
OT76: Extropenism
May 19, 2017
Postmarketing Surveillance Is Good And Normal
May 18, 2017
Polyamory Is Not Polygyny
May 18, 2017
Open Thread 75.75
May 17, 2017
Bail Out
May 15, 2017
Open Thread 75.5
May 14, 2017
SSC Meetups: Berkeley, San Diego, Irvine
May 12, 2017
Silicon Valley: A Reality Check
May 11, 2017
Open Thread 75.25
May 9, 2017
Links 5/17: Rip Van Linkle
May 8, 2017
OT75: The Comment King
May 5, 2017
Getting High On Your Own Supply
May 4, 2017
Open Thread 74.75
May 2, 2017
Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle
Apr 30, 2017
Open Thread 74.5
Apr 27, 2017
Open Thread 74.25
Apr 27, 2017
Anorexia And Metabolic Set Point
Apr 25, 2017
Book Review: The Hungry Brain
Apr 23, 2017
OT74: Copan Thread
Apr 21, 2017
SSC Journal Club: Childhood Trauma And Cognition
Apr 20, 2017
Open Thread 73.75
Apr 18, 2017
Learning To Love Scientific Consensus
Apr 17, 2017
Open Thread 73.5
Apr 14, 2017
Open Thread 73.25
Apr 14, 2017
Chametz
Apr 12, 2017
Clarification To “Sacred Principles As Exhaustible Resources”
Apr 12, 2017
Sacred Principles As Exhaustible Resources
Apr 10, 2017
OT73: I Lik The Thred
Apr 7, 2017
Yes, We Have Noticed The Skulls
Apr 6, 2017
Open Thread 72.75
Apr 5, 2017
The Case Of The Suffocating Woman
Apr 5, 2017
Determining Consent
Apr 4, 2017
SSC Meetups Everywhere: Times And Places
Apr 3, 2017
Open Thread 72.5
Apr 1, 2017
G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk
Mar 30, 2017
Links 3/17: Relinkquishment
Mar 30, 2017
Open Thread 72.25
Mar 27, 2017
SSC Meetup: Everywhere
Mar 27, 2017
OT72: Commentaschen
Mar 24, 2017
Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons
Mar 24, 2017
Open Thread 71.75
Mar 22, 2017
[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother
Mar 20, 2017
Open Thread 71.5
Mar 17, 2017
SSC Survey 2017 Results
Mar 16, 2017
Open Thread 71.25
Mar 16, 2017
Book Review: Seeing Like A State
Mar 13, 2017
OT71: I Don’t Open Things
Mar 9, 2017
Links 3/17: Siteochrome P450
Mar 9, 2017
Open Thread 70.75
Mar 7, 2017
Book Review: Behavior – The Control Of Perception
Mar 6, 2017
Antidepressant Pharmacogenomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Mar 6, 2017
Open Thread 70.5
Mar 3, 2017
Open Thread 70.25
Feb 27, 2017
A Modern Myth
Feb 27, 2017
SSC Journal Club: Analytical Thinking Style And Religion
Feb 27, 2017
OT70: Cyclopen Architecture
Feb 23, 2017
Some Groups Of People Who May Not 100% Deserve Our Eternal Scorn
Feb 23, 2017
[REPOST] The Non-Libertarian FAQ
Feb 23, 2017
Open Thread 69.75
Feb 20, 2017
Open Thread 69.5
Feb 17, 2017
Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease
Feb 16, 2017
Open Thread 69.25
Feb 14, 2017
Links 2/17: Site Your Sources
Feb 13, 2017
OT69: The Open Of Akhnai
Feb 10, 2017
Considerations On Cost Disease
Feb 9, 2017
Albion’s Seed, Genotyped
Feb 8, 2017
Open Thread 68.75
Feb 7, 2017
Notes From The Asilomar Conference On Beneficial AI
Feb 6, 2017
Open Thread 68.5
Feb 3, 2017
[GUEST POST] The International Refugee Assistance Project
Feb 2, 2017
Open Thread 68.25
Jan 31, 2017
Book Review: Eichmann In Jerusalem
Jan 30, 2017
Link: Taubes Contra Guyenet on Sugar
Jan 30, 2017
Dogs And Wolves: In Defense Of Some Past Posts
Jan 29, 2017
OT68: Necronomicomment
Jan 26, 2017
Link: Guyenet On Taubes
Jan 26, 2017
Open Thread 67.75
Jan 24, 2017
Links 1/17: Inaugurl Address
Jan 23, 2017
SSC Survey 2017
Jan 22, 2017
Open Thread 67.5
Jan 18, 2017
Open Thread 67.25
Jan 18, 2017
Watch New Health Picks
Jan 17, 2017
Another Followup To “Economists On Education”
Jan 16, 2017
OT67: Comment Core
Jan 15, 2017
Should Buzzfeed Publish Claims Which Are Explosive If True But Not Yet Proven?
Jan 13, 2017
Why Do Test Scores Plateau?
Jan 12, 2017
Heuristics Work Until They Don’t
Jan 11, 2017
Open Thread 66.75
Jan 8, 2017
Open Thread 66.5
Jan 6, 2017
Predictions For 2017
Jan 5, 2017
Open Thread 66.25
Jan 3, 2017
Trump And The Batman Effect
Jan 1, 2017
OT66: Thread Lang Syne (+ Irvine Meetup)
Jan 1, 2017
2016 Predictions: Calibration Results
Dec 31, 2016
Addendum To “Economists On Education”
Dec 31, 2016
Contra NYT On Economists On Education
Dec 29, 2016
Book Review: Mount Misery
Dec 28, 2016
Open Thread 65.75
Dec 25, 2016
Open Thread 65.5
Dec 24, 2016
Links 12/16: The Site Before Christmas
Dec 21, 2016
Open Thread 65.25
Dec 17, 2016
OT65: The Early Thread Gets The Worm
Dec 15, 2016
SSC Journal Club: Mental Disorders As Networks
Dec 14, 2016
Open Thread 64.75
Dec 13, 2016
Might People On The Internet Sometimes Lie?
Dec 11, 2016
Open Thread 64.5
Dec 7, 2016
Open Thread 64.25
Dec 7, 2016
Links 12/16: Site Makes Right
Dec 6, 2016
Thin Air
Dec 5, 2016
OT64: Openn Thread
Dec 4, 2016
Highlights From The Comment Thread On School Choice
Dec 2, 2016
Contra Robinson On Schooling
Nov 30, 2016
Open Thread 63.75
Nov 27, 2016
SSC Journal Club: Expert Prediction Of Experiments
Nov 27, 2016
Open Thread 63.5
Nov 23, 2016
Open Thread 63.25
Nov 20, 2016
OT63: Open Pit Mining
Nov 17, 2016
The Alzheimer Photo
Nov 17, 2016
You Are Still Crying Wolf
Nov 16, 2016
Open Thread 62.75
Nov 13, 2016
Open Thread 62.5
Nov 11, 2016
Book Review: House of God
Nov 9, 2016
Open Thread 62.25
Nov 7, 2016
Tuesday Shouldn’t Change The Narrative
Nov 7, 2016
OT62: Five Thready Eight
Nov 5, 2016
The Pyramid And The Garden
Nov 3, 2016
SSC San Jose Meetup 11/4
Nov 2, 2016
Open Thread 61.75
Nov 2, 2016
Links 11/16: Site Unseen
Oct 31, 2016
How Does Recent AI Progress Affect The Bostromian Paradigm?
Oct 30, 2016
Open Thread 61.5
Oct 26, 2016
Open Thread 61.25
Oct 25, 2016
AI Persuasion Experiment Results
Oct 24, 2016
OT61: Turn-Based Threadegy
Oct 21, 2016
The Heart Has Its Reasons That Reason Knows Not Of
Oct 20, 2016
AI Persuasion Followup Survey
Oct 19, 2016
Open Thread 60.75
Oct 18, 2016
The Moral Of The Story
Oct 16, 2016
Open Thread 60.5
Oct 14, 2016
More Hardball Debate Questions
Oct 12, 2016
Open Thread 60.25
Oct 11, 2016
Somewhat Against Psychiatric Conditions As Domestication Failure
Oct 10, 2016
OT60: Openitentiary
Oct 5, 2016
Open Thread 59.75
Oct 5, 2016
Links 10/16: New URLeans
Oct 2, 2016
Open Thread 59.5
Oct 1, 2016
He Kept Us Out Of War?
Sep 29, 2016
SSC Endorses Clinton, Johnson, Or Stein
Sep 28, 2016
Open Thread 59.25
Sep 26, 2016
OT59: Comment Sutra
Sep 23, 2016
AI Persuasion Experiment
Sep 21, 2016
Open Thread 58.75
Sep 18, 2016
Open Thread 58.5
Sep 15, 2016
Links 9/16: URL Of The Chaldees
Sep 14, 2016
Open Thread 58.25
Sep 14, 2016
Some Context For That NYT Sugar Article
Sep 12, 2016
It’s Bayes All The Way Up
Sep 12, 2016
OT58: Opepipen Thread
Sep 8, 2016
Reverse Voxsplaining: Brand-Name Drugs
Sep 7, 2016
Open Thread 57.75
Sep 4, 2016
Open Thread 57.5
Sep 1, 2016
Terrorists Vs. Chairs: An Outlier Story
Aug 31, 2016
Open Thread 57.25
Aug 30, 2016
Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs vs. Chairs
Aug 29, 2016
OT57: Chopin Thread
Aug 27, 2016
Links 8/16: On My Right Hand Michael; On My Left Hand URL
Aug 26, 2016
Devoodooifying Psychology
Aug 24, 2016
Open Thread 56.75
Aug 23, 2016
The View From Ground Level
Aug 21, 2016
Open Thread 56.5
Aug 17, 2016
Open Thread 56.25
Aug 16, 2016
Tolerance Troubles
Aug 15, 2016
OT56: Spur Of The Comment
Aug 13, 2016
Links 8/16: Ode On A Grecian URL
Aug 12, 2016
Book Review: PiHKaL
Aug 10, 2016
Open Thread 55.75
Aug 7, 2016
Open Thread 55.5
Aug 3, 2016
Open Thread 55.25
Aug 1, 2016
OT55: Thready For Hillary
Jul 29, 2016
Links 7/16: Grad, Div, and URL
Jul 28, 2016
Post-Partisanship Is Hyper-Partisanship
Jul 27, 2016
Open Thread 54.75
Jul 26, 2016
How The West Was Won
Jul 24, 2016
Open Thread 54.5
Jul 21, 2016
Things Probably Matter
Jul 20, 2016
Open Thread 54.25
Jul 19, 2016
Pushing And Pulling Goals
Jul 18, 2016
OT54: Threadical Doctor
Jul 13, 2016
Open Thread 53.75
Jul 12, 2016
3/4
Jul 10, 2016
Open Thread 53.5
Jul 8, 2016
Links 7/16: Peter Linklage
Jul 6, 2016
Open Thread 53.25
Jul 4, 2016
OT53: Pel-open-esian War
Jun 29, 2016
Open Thread 52.75
Jun 29, 2016
Survey Results: Suffering Vs. Oblivion
Jun 28, 2016
I Wrote A Blog Post, But Did Not Adjust For The Fact That The Title Would Be Too L
Jun 26, 2016
Open Thread 52.5
Jun 26, 2016
Book Review: Unlearn Your Pain
Jun 22, 2016
Open Thread 52.25
Jun 22, 2016
Links 6/15: URLing Toward Freedom
Jun 20, 2016
OT52: Once Open A Time
Jun 17, 2016
Against Dog Whistle-ism
Jun 15, 2016
Open Thread 51.75
Jun 14, 2016
Three More Articles On Poverty, And Why They Disagree With Each Other
Jun 12, 2016
Open Thread 51.5
Jun 8, 2016
Open Thread 51.25
Jun 8, 2016
Ketamine Research In A New Light
Jun 6, 2016
OT51: Alien Vs. Threadator
Jun 3, 2016
Links 6/16: Linkandescence
Jun 1, 2016
Open Thread 50.75
May 31, 2016
Ascended Economy?
May 29, 2016
Open Thread 50.5
May 28, 2016
Book Review: Age of Em
May 25, 2016
Open Thread 50.25
May 24, 2016
Three Great Articles On Poverty, And Why I Disagree With All Of Them
May 23, 2016
OT50: Opentecost
May 19, 2016
Teachers: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
May 18, 2016
Open Thread 49.75
May 16, 2016
Open Thread 49.5
May 15, 2016
Skin In The Game
May 12, 2016
Solidarity
May 10, 2016
Links 5/16: Linko de Mayo
May 8, 2016
OT49: Open Secret
May 8, 2016
Hidden Test Post
May 5, 2016
Myers’ Race Car Versus The General Fitness Factor
May 3, 2016
Be Nice, At Least Until You Can Coordinate Meanness
Apr 29, 2016
Why Were Early Psychedelicists So Weird?
Apr 27, 2016
Book Review: Albion’s Seed
Apr 24, 2016
OT48: Open Your Heart
Apr 15, 2016
Links 4/16: They Can’t Link Our Dick
Apr 14, 2016
SSC Bay Area Meetups 2016
Apr 11, 2016
OT47: OpenAI
Apr 8, 2016
A Theory About Religion
Apr 5, 2016
The Ideology Is Not The Movement
Apr 3, 2016
Beware Regional Scatterplots
Mar 31, 2016
Book Review: My Brother Ron
Mar 28, 2016
OT46: Open Rebellion
Mar 26, 2016
Links 3/16: Klapaucius And URL
Mar 24, 2016
The Price Of Glee In China
Mar 19, 2016
Book Review: The Art Of The Deal
Mar 17, 2016
Non-Shared Environment Doesn’t Just Mean Schools And Peers
Mar 14, 2016
OT45: Opal Thread
Mar 10, 2016
Links 3/16: Rulink Class
Mar 8, 2016
Reverse Voxsplaining: Prison and Mental Illness
Mar 7, 2016
Against Interminable Arguments
Mar 2, 2016
2016 Nootropics Survey Results
Feb 29, 2016
OT44: Open Primary
Feb 25, 2016
Two Attitudes In Psychiatry
Feb 21, 2016
Nonfiction Writing Advice
Feb 17, 2016
Links 2/16: N-Acetyl Selink
Feb 15, 2016
OT43: Roses Are Thread…
Feb 13, 2016
Before You Get Too Excited About That GitHub Study…
Feb 9, 2016
Testimonials for SSC
Feb 8, 2016
OT42: Thread Anniversary
Feb 7, 2016
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Superforecasting”
Feb 5, 2016
Book Review: Superforecasting
Feb 1, 2016
OT41: Having Your Mind Involuntarily Thread
Jan 30, 2016
Staying Classy
Jan 28, 2016
Links 1/16: Shaolink
Jan 26, 2016
Predictions For 2016
Jan 21, 2016
Side Effects May Include Anything
Jan 18, 2016
OT40: Martin Luthread King
Jan 15, 2016
Lies, Damned Lies, And The Media (Part 6 of ∞)
Jan 14, 2016
Links 1/16: Link A Thief In The Night
Jan 12, 2016
Schizophrenia: No Smoking Gun
Jan 10, 2016
Slow But Steady
Jan 10, 2016
Guns and States 2: Son of a Gun
Jan 7, 2016
Guns And States
Jan 4, 2016
OT39: Appian Thread
Jan 2, 2016
2015 Predictions: Calibration Results
Dec 31, 2015
Introducing Unsong
Dec 30, 2015
Links 12/15: Link-Manuel Miranda
Dec 28, 2015
Things That Are Not Superintelligences
Dec 25, 2015
How Bad Are Things?
Dec 19, 2015
OT38: Brighter Than Threaday
Dec 18, 2015
Links 12/15: Winter Wond-URL-and
Dec 17, 2015
Should AI Be Open?
Dec 13, 2015
OT37: One Horse Open Sleigh
Dec 11, 2015
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Hive Mind”
Dec 9, 2015
Book Review: Hive Mind
Dec 8, 2015
Links 12/15: Ma’oz Tz-URL
Dec 5, 2015
OT36: Nes Threadol Hayah Sham
Dec 3, 2015
Product Recommendations 2015
Dec 2, 2015
Setting The Default
Dec 1, 2015
College And Critical Thinking
Nov 28, 2015
Links 11/15: Linksgiving
Nov 25, 2015
OT35: Boston Comment
Nov 21, 2015
Reporter Degrees Of Freedom
Nov 19, 2015
SSC New England Meetup And Presentations Schedule
Nov 17, 2015
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate
Nov 15, 2015
OT34: Subthreaddit
Nov 12, 2015
Links 11/15: Alinkxander Hamilton
Nov 11, 2015
2D:4D Ratio And Psychological Traits: Results From The LW/SSC Survey Sample
Nov 10, 2015
Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth
Nov 9, 2015
OT33: Opeth Thread
Nov 5, 2015
2014 SSC Survey Results
Nov 4, 2015
What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?
Nov 1, 2015
OT32: When Hell Is Full The Thread Will Walk The Earth
Oct 30, 2015
Links 10/15: Bride of Linkenstein
Oct 28, 2015
Meat Your Doom
Oct 27, 2015
Contra Huemer On Morals
Oct 24, 2015
OT31: Open Water
Oct 23, 2015
A Whiter Shade of Candidate
Oct 21, 2015
Contra Simler on Prestige
Oct 19, 2015
Links 10/15: Take Back Your Link
Oct 18, 2015
OT 30: Comment Knowledge
Oct 16, 2015
It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue
Oct 13, 2015
Against Against Autism Cures
Oct 8, 2015
Contra Caplan on Mental Illness
Oct 6, 2015
OT29: Popen Thread
Oct 2, 2015
Swifties 3: The Race Is Not To The Swifty
Sep 29, 2015
Links 9/15: Linkua Franca
Sep 25, 2015
The Problems With Generic Medications Go Deeper Than One Company
Sep 23, 2015
Vegetarianism for Meat-Eaters
Sep 22, 2015
Beware Systemic Change
Sep 19, 2015
OT28: Where In The World Is Comment Sandiego?
Sep 17, 2015
Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers
Sep 15, 2015
Links 9/15: Linker Tailor Soldier Spy
Sep 12, 2015
Book Review: Manufacturing Consent
Sep 6, 2015
If You Can’t Make Predictions, You’re Still In A Crisis
Sep 4, 2015
Theses On Trump
Sep 3, 2015
OT27: A Comment Appears
Sep 1, 2015
Magic Markers
Aug 31, 2015
Links 8/15: Linkering Doubts
Aug 28, 2015
Mysticism and Pattern-Matching
Aug 25, 2015
Probabilities Without Models
Aug 21, 2015
On Overconfidence
Aug 20, 2015
OT26: Au Bon Thread
Aug 17, 2015
The Goddess of Everything Else
Aug 16, 2015
Links 8/15: Linkety-Split
Aug 15, 2015
My Id On Defensiveness
Aug 13, 2015
Figure/Ground Illusions
Aug 13, 2015
Stop Adding Zeroes
Aug 11, 2015
Book Review: Chronicles Of Wasted Time
Aug 9, 2015
Contrarians, Crackpots, and Consensus
Aug 7, 2015
Links 8/15: A Link In The Armor
Aug 5, 2015
OT25: Obon Thread
Aug 4, 2015
Contra Hallquist On Scientific Rationality
Aug 2, 2015
Stalin and Summary Statistics
Jul 29, 2015
Non-Dual Awareness
Jul 25, 2015
Links 7/15: From Link, Where Rocky Peaks Climb Bleak And Bare
Jul 24, 2015
The General Factor Of Correctness
Jul 23, 2015
Freedom On The Centralized Web
Jul 20, 2015
OT24: Hopen Change
Jul 18, 2015
Reverse Psychology
Jul 16, 2015
CBT In The Water Supply
Jul 13, 2015
Things That Sometimes Work If You Have Anxiety
Jul 9, 2015
Links 7/15: Link-Carbon Battery
Jul 8, 2015
Cultural Evolution 2: Thanks For The Meme-Rise
Jul 7, 2015
The Argument From Cultural Evolution
Jul 4, 2015
OT23: Thread, White, And Blue
Jul 4, 2015
The Case Of The Famous Physicist
Jun 30, 2015
Reflections From The Halfway Point
Jun 24, 2015
Links 6/15: Monsters, Link
Jun 19, 2015
OT22: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Thread
Jun 17, 2015
NYC Meetup 6/21
Jun 16, 2015
Fifty (More) Swifties
Jun 15, 2015
Fearful Symmetry
Jun 14, 2015
(Late) Predictions for 2015
Jun 10, 2015
Michigan Meetup 6/13
Jun 9, 2015
Links 6/15: Everything But The Kitchen Link
Jun 6, 2015
Against Tulip Subsidies
Jun 3, 2015
…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes
Jun 2, 2015
OT21: Master And Commenter
May 31, 2015
That Chocolate Study
May 30, 2015
No Time Like The Present For AI Safety Work
May 25, 2015
Links 5/15: Link Floyd
May 22, 2015
AI Researchers On AI Risk
May 20, 2015
Beware Summary Statistics
May 18, 2015
Bicameral Reasoning
May 15, 2015
OT20: Heaven’s Open
May 12, 2015
California, Water You Doing?
May 9, 2015
Links 5/15: Tall And Linky
May 8, 2015
Growth Mindset 4: Growth Of Office
May 7, 2015
The Future Is Filters
Apr 30, 2015
Prescriptions, Paradoxes, and Perversities
Apr 27, 2015
OT19: Don’t Thread On Me
Apr 25, 2015
Nefarious Nefazodone And Flashy Rare Side Effects
Apr 23, 2015
Growth Mindset 3: A Pox On Growth Your Houses
Apr 22, 2015
Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person
Apr 21, 2015
Links 4/15: Link And You’re Dead
Apr 20, 2015
Blame Theory
Apr 18, 2015
Polemical Imbalance
Apr 16, 2015
Trouble Walking Down The Hallway
Apr 14, 2015
OT18: Istanbul, Not Constantinopen
Apr 11, 2015
Michigan Meetup 4/14
Apr 10, 2015
I Will Never Have The Ability To Clearly Explain My Beliefs About Growth Mindset
Apr 9, 2015
No Clarity Around Growth Mindset
Apr 8, 2015
No Physical Substrate, No Problem
Apr 7, 2015
Links 3/15: Duke of URL
Apr 5, 2015
Chemical Imbalance
Apr 1, 2015
Rational Orthography
Mar 30, 2015
OT17: Their Hand Is At Your Threads, Yet Ye See Them Not
Mar 28, 2015
Highlights From My Notes From Another Psychiatry Conference
Mar 27, 2015
Extremism In Thought Experiment Is No Vice
Mar 26, 2015
Is Everything A Religion?
Mar 24, 2015
Links 3/15: Linksmanship
Mar 21, 2015
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Machinery Of Freedom”
Mar 19, 2015
Book Review: The Machinery Of Freedom
Mar 17, 2015
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Willpower”
Mar 15, 2015
Answer to Job
Mar 13, 2015
OT16: Avada Threadavra!
Mar 12, 2015
Book Review: Willpower
Mar 12, 2015
Too Good To Be True
Mar 8, 2015
Links 3/15: URL Of Great Price
Mar 7, 2015
Effective Altruists: Not As Mentally Ill As You Think
Mar 6, 2015
A Cascade Of Dunbar Numbers
Mar 4, 2015
A Series Of Unprincipled Exceptions
Mar 1, 2015
California Meetups (Rererevised)
Mar 1, 2015
Early Intervention: You *Might* Get What You Pay For
Feb 24, 2015
California Meetups
Feb 20, 2015
OT15: Open Relationship
Feb 19, 2015
Links 2/15: Land of Linkin’
Feb 18, 2015
Pharma Virumque
Feb 17, 2015
Did Falling Testosterone Affect Falling Crime?
Feb 15, 2015
How Likely Are Multifactorial Trends?
Feb 14, 2015
Drug Testing Welfare Users Is A Sham, But Not For The Reasons You Think
Feb 13, 2015
Money, Money, Everywhere, But Not A Cent To Spend
Feb 12, 2015
Black People Less Likely
Feb 10, 2015
OT14: Tragedy Of The Comments
Feb 8, 2015
The Efficacy Of Everything In Psychiatry In One Graph Plus Several Pages Of Dense But Necessary Explanation
Feb 6, 2015
Everything Not Obligatory Is Forbidden
Feb 4, 2015
Links 2/15: Linkconceivable!
Feb 3, 2015
Practically-A-Book Review: Dying To Be Free
Feb 2, 2015
Talents Part 2: Attitude vs. Altitude
Feb 1, 2015
The Parable Of The Talents
Jan 27, 2015
OT13: Thread, The Blood Of Angry Men
Jan 25, 2015
A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop
Jan 24, 2015
Perceptions Of Required Ability Act As A Proxy For Actual Required Ability In Explaining The Gender Gap
Jan 21, 2015
These Are A Few (More) Of My (Least) Favorite Things
Jan 17, 2015
Links 1/2014: Link, For You Know Not Whence You Came Nor Why
Jan 16, 2015
Depression Is Not A Proxy For Social Dysfunction
Jan 14, 2015
The Influenza Of Evil
Jan 13, 2015
The Physics Diet?
Jan 12, 2015
The Phatic And The Anti-Inductive
Jan 10, 2015
OT12: Openness To Threadxperience
Jan 7, 2015
Links 1/2015: An Extraordinary URL In An Ordinary World
Jan 6, 2015
Chronic Psychitis
Jan 5, 2015
Ethics Offsets
Jan 2, 2015
2014 Predictions: Calibration Results
Jan 2, 2015
Untitled
Dec 28, 2014
Links 12/14: Auld Link Syne
Dec 26, 2014
Book Review: What’s Wrong With The World
Dec 24, 2014
There Are Rules Here
Dec 19, 2014
OT11: Openezer Scrooge
Dec 19, 2014
Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
Dec 18, 2014
The Toxoplasma Of Rage
Dec 13, 2014
Debunked And Well-Refuted
Dec 12, 2014
Beware The Man Of One Study
Dec 9, 2014
Links 12/14: Come Ye To Bethlinkhem
Dec 7, 2014
A Story With Zombies
Dec 4, 2014
OT10: We Thread Kings
Dec 3, 2014
Framing For Light Instead Of Heat
Dec 2, 2014
Book Review: On The Road
Dec 1, 2014
Cyber Monday Product Recommendations
Nov 28, 2014
Such Mixed Feelings About Crazymeds
Nov 27, 2014
Why I Am Not Rene Descartes
Nov 26, 2014
Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Nov 24, 2014
Links 11/14: I Link, Therefore I Am
Nov 22, 2014
OT9: The Thread Pirate Roberts
Nov 21, 2014
The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories
Nov 21, 2014
Prisons Are Built With Bricks Of Law And Brothels With Bricks Of Religion, But That Doesn’t Prove A Causal Relationship
Nov 18, 2014
Republicans Are Douchebags
Nov 16, 2014
Ley Lines Of The Midwest
Nov 14, 2014
The Dark Side Of Divorce
Nov 13, 2014
How To Use 23andMe Irresponsibly
Nov 11, 2014
OT8: Love Is An Open Thread
Nov 9, 2014
More Links For November 2014
Nov 8, 2014
Growing Old
Nov 6, 2014
The Right To Waive Your Rights
Nov 5, 2014
Ethnic Tension And Meaningless Arguments
Nov 4, 2014
All In All, Another Brick In The Motte
Nov 1, 2014
Links For November 2014
Oct 31, 2014
Michigan Meetup 11/9
Oct 29, 2014
Open Thread 7: The Hunt For Thread October
Oct 26, 2014
Alcoholics Anonymous: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Oct 24, 2014
Book Review: A Future For Socialism
Oct 21, 2014
In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous To Fifteen People
Oct 18, 2014
More Links For October 2014
Oct 16, 2014
Five Case Studies On Politicization
Oct 12, 2014
Five Planets In Search Of A Sci-Fi Story
Oct 10, 2014
Open Thread 6: Open Renewal
Oct 8, 2014
Tumblr on MIRI
Oct 6, 2014
Links For October 2014
Oct 5, 2014
Prediction Goes To War
Oct 2, 2014
Simpler Times
Oct 1, 2014
The Battle Hymn
Oct 1, 2014
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
Sep 29, 2014
Even More Links For September 2014
Sep 28, 2014
Bottomless Pits Of Suffering
Sep 27, 2014
Cuddle Culture
Sep 26, 2014
Why No Science Of Nerds?
Sep 25, 2014
Streetlight Psychology
Sep 24, 2014
Book Review: Red Plenty
Sep 23, 2014
SSC Gives A Wedding Speech
Sep 19, 2014
Open Thread 5: My Best Friend’s Threadding
Sep 19, 2014
More Links For September 2014
Sep 18, 2014
Joint Over- and Underdiagnosis
Sep 16, 2014
[Ozy] A Response to Spandrell
Sep 15, 2014
Does Class Warfare Have A Free-Rider Problem?
Sep 14, 2014
Book Review: Singer on Marx
Sep 12, 2014
What The Hell, Hegel?
Sep 11, 2014
Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable
Sep 9, 2014
Links For September 2014
Sep 8, 2014
Open Thread 4: The Quick And The Thread
Sep 6, 2014
Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me A Map
Sep 5, 2014
Cooperation Un-Veiled
Sep 4, 2014
The Guardian vs. Induction
Sep 1, 2014
Book Review and Highlights: Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Sep 1, 2014
Radicalizing the Romanceless
Aug 30, 2014
Michigan Meetup 9/7
Aug 28, 2014
More Links For August
Aug 27, 2014
If The Media Reported On Other Dangers Like It Does AI Risk
Aug 25, 2014
The Invisible Nation – Reconciling Utilitarianism And Contractualism
Aug 23, 2014
Nobody Likes A Tattletale
Aug 21, 2014
Ozy’s Anti Heartiste FAQ
Aug 19, 2014
Open Thread 3: Threads Are Like Parachutes
Aug 18, 2014
Links For August 2014
Aug 17, 2014
An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology
Aug 16, 2014
Burdens
Aug 15, 2014
Fifty Swifties
Aug 14, 2014
Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor
Aug 13, 2014
Does Race Exist? Does Culture?
Aug 12, 2014
Does the Glasgow Coma Scale exist? Do comas?
Aug 11, 2014
Getting Eulered
Aug 9, 2014
Friendship Is (Still) Countersignaling
Aug 7, 2014
Random Noise Is Our Most Valuable Resource
Aug 6, 2014
Negative Creativity
Aug 3, 2014
Unspoken Ground Assumptions Of Discussion
Aug 2, 2014
Misperceptions On Moloch
Jul 30, 2014
Meditations On Moloch
Jul 28, 2014
Weird Psychiatric Ads Of The Seventies
Jul 26, 2014
More Links For July 2014
Jul 25, 2014
Some Antibiotic Stagnation
Jul 22, 2014
The Other Codex
Jul 22, 2014
No Skyscraper Stagnation
Jul 21, 2014
Promising The Moon
Jul 19, 2014
Open Thread 2: Free Minds, Free Threads
Jul 18, 2014
HeartMath Considered Incoherent
Jul 17, 2014
Psychotropic Base Rates: The Argument From Antibiotics
Jul 15, 2014
A Paradox of Ecclesiology
Jul 14, 2014
Growing Children For Bostrom’s Disneyland
Jul 11, 2014
Links For July 2014
Jul 8, 2014
SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Jul 7, 2014
Social Justice And Words, Words, Words
Jul 6, 2014
List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Two-Income Trap”
Jul 4, 2014
Ozy vs. Scott on Charity Baskets
Jul 3, 2014
How Common Are Science Failures?
Jul 1, 2014
Medicine, As Not Seen On TV
Jun 30, 2014
Invisible Women
Jun 29, 2014
Book Review: The Two-Income Trap
Jun 26, 2014
SSC Gets World Cup Fever
Jun 25, 2014
The Placebo-Singers
Jun 24, 2014
Court-ing Disaster
Jun 21, 2014
The Art Of Writing Randian Monologues
Jun 20, 2014
Ground Morality In Party Politics
Jun 20, 2014
Money On The Ground
Jun 19, 2014
More Links For June 2014
Jun 16, 2014
Things That Sometimes Help If You Have Depression
Jun 15, 2014
Fish – Now By Prescription
Jun 15, 2014
Living By The Sword
Jun 12, 2014
List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”
Jun 10, 2014
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
Jun 9, 2014
Minutes From The Michigan Rationalist Meetup
Jun 8, 2014
Map-Territory Distinctions
Jun 7, 2014
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
Jun 6, 2014
Don’t Be An Asch-Hole
Jun 5, 2014
Open Thread
Jun 4, 2014
Asches to Asches
Jun 3, 2014
Southeast Michigan Meetup 6/8
Jun 3, 2014
Links for June 2014
May 31, 2014
The Wonderful Thing About Triggers
May 29, 2014
Don’t Fear The Filter
May 27, 2014
On Types of Typologies
May 27, 2014
Compound Interest Is The Least Powerful Force In The Universe
May 26, 2014
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
May 25, 2014
Nydwracu’s Fnords
May 24, 2014
SSC Gives A Graduation Speech
May 20, 2014
Nerds Can Be Bees, Too
May 17, 2014
You Kant Dismiss Universalizability
May 15, 2014
More Links For May 2014
May 14, 2014
Getting A Therapist
May 13, 2014
Weak Men Are Superweapons
May 11, 2014
Infinite Debt
May 9, 2014
Vote On Values, Outsource Beliefs
May 7, 2014
Not Even A Real Links Post, Just A Blatant Ad
May 7, 2014
Evening Doc
May 6, 2014
Not Even A Real Links Post, Just A Link
May 5, 2014
Emotionally Valent Links Post
May 3, 2014
Causal Models At Work
May 2, 2014
Utopian Science
May 1, 2014
Links For May 2014
Apr 29, 2014
The Control Group Is Out Of Control
Apr 27, 2014
Stop Confounding Yourself! Stop Confounding Yourself!
Apr 26, 2014
Metaphors Be With You
Apr 24, 2014
Friendship Is Countersignaling
Apr 23, 2014
Right Is The New Left
Apr 22, 2014
The Economics Of Art And The Art Of Economics
Apr 19, 2014
Plutocracy Isn’t About Money
Apr 18, 2014
Confounder Of The Day: How Sexy Your Parents Were
Apr 18, 2014
Someone Writes An Anti-Racist FAQ
Apr 17, 2014
Do You Believe Me, Doc?
Apr 16, 2014
The Cowpox of Doubt
Apr 15, 2014
Links For April 2014
Apr 12, 2014
Going Loopy
Apr 11, 2014
Dermatology Quiz: Answers
Apr 10, 2014
Dermatology Pop Quiz
Apr 9, 2014
Housekeeping Post April 2014
Apr 7, 2014
My New OKCupid Profile
Apr 3, 2014
The Study of Anglophysics
Mar 31, 2014
Wheat: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Mar 29, 2014
The Character’s Complaint
Mar 26, 2014
E-Cig Study: Much Smoke, Little Light
Mar 25, 2014
Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?
Mar 22, 2014
More Links for March 2014
Mar 21, 2014
Typical Mind and Disbelief In Straight People
Mar 20, 2014
Michigan Meetup and Memory Workshop, 3/23
Mar 18, 2014
What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It?
Mar 16, 2014
Can It Be Wrong To Crystallize Patterns?
Mar 14, 2014
Five Years and One Week of Less Wrong
Mar 11, 2014
Semite Times: The Bible In Palindromes
Mar 9, 2014
The Slate Star Codex Political Spectrum Quiz
Mar 7, 2014
Links For March 2014
Mar 4, 2014
Book Review: The Perfect Health Diet
Mar 3, 2014
Do Life Hacks Ever Reach Fixation?
Mar 3, 2014
The Comment Policy Is “Victorian Sufi Buddha Lite”
Mar 2, 2014
[CORRECTION] Mountain View Meetup 3/4
Mar 2, 2014
Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs
Feb 28, 2014
Unteachable Things Hard To Teach, Study Suggests
Feb 26, 2014
Fix Science In Half An Hour
Feb 26, 2014
Suggest A Comments Policy
Feb 25, 2014
More Links For February 2014
Feb 24, 2014
In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
Feb 20, 2014
Effects Of Vertical Acceleration On Wrongness
Feb 20, 2014
God Bless Longecity
Feb 18, 2014
Proposed Biological Explanations For Historical Trends In Crime
Feb 18, 2014
Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞)
Feb 16, 2014
Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
Feb 14, 2014
Bad Dreams
Feb 13, 2014
Housekeeping Post February 2014
Feb 12, 2014
Blogging The Anissimov – Smith Reaction Debate
Feb 10, 2014
Links for February 2014
Feb 8, 2014
Seeming and Being Empathetic
Feb 4, 2014
More Search Terms That Have Led People To This Blog
Feb 2, 2014
Based on your findings, which theory about alien thickness seems most valid or most accurate?
Jan 29, 2014
Wirehead Gods On Lotus Thrones
Jan 28, 2014
Predictions For 2014
Jan 26, 2014
More Links For January
Jan 25, 2014
Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations
Jan 20, 2014
Genetic Testing and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Jan 15, 2014
Ten Things I Want To Stop Seeing On The Internet In 2014
Jan 13, 2014
Aretaeus On Bipolar Disorder
Jan 13, 2014
A Response To Apophemi on Triggers
Jan 9, 2014
Links for January
Jan 5, 2014
Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Jan 2, 2014
Two Dark Side Statistics Papers
Dec 29, 2013
The Spirit Of The First Amendment
Dec 29, 2013
A Comment I Posted On “What Would JT Do?”
Dec 28, 2013
Meetup: Southeast Michigan
Dec 24, 2013
[REPOST] A Christmas Poem
Dec 24, 2013
We Are All MsScribe
Dec 23, 2013
Public Awareness Campaigns
Dec 19, 2013
Less Wrong, More Rite (II)
Dec 18, 2013
Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance
Dec 13, 2013
More Links For December
Dec 12, 2013
Papal PR
Dec 9, 2013
A Something Sort Of Like Left-Libertarianism-ist Manifesto
Dec 5, 2013
The Logician And The God-Emperor
Dec 3, 2013
More Fictional Drugs Banned By The FDA
Dec 2, 2013
Links for December
Dec 1, 2013
Empire/Forest Fire
Nov 28, 2013
The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story
Nov 26, 2013
A Letter I Will Probably Send To The FDA
Nov 22, 2013
November Housekeeping Post
Nov 20, 2013
Genetic Russian Roulette
Nov 18, 2013
More Links for November
Nov 11, 2013
Highlights From My Notes From A Forensic Psychiatry Conference Last Week
Nov 9, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞)
Nov 5, 2013
List of Reasons Why Gunpowder Treason Should Be Forgot
Nov 3, 2013
The Witching Hour
Nov 2, 2013
Links for November
Nov 1, 2013
The Poor You Will Always Have With You
Oct 26, 2013
List of Fictional Drugs Banned By The FDA
Oct 25, 2013
Some preliminary responses to responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ
Oct 20, 2013
The Anti-Reactionary FAQ
Oct 1, 2013
Links for Octember
Sep 29, 2013
Sleep – Now By Prescription
Sep 26, 2013
The Trend Evaluation Of All Values
Sep 24, 2013
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the past
Sep 22, 2013
The Thin Blue Line That Stays Strangely Horizontal
Sep 20, 2013
Scientific Freud
Sep 19, 2013
Inefficient Hot Dogs
Sep 15, 2013
Giving and Accepting Apologies
Sep 13, 2013
The Life Cycle of Medical Ideas
Sep 3, 2013
Links for September
Aug 30, 2013
Military Strikes Are An Extremely Cheap Way To Help Foreigners
Aug 30, 2013
Fake Euthanasia Statistics
Aug 26, 2013
Fake Consensualism
Aug 23, 2013
Things I Don’t Understand About Genetics (A Non-Exhaustive List)
Aug 18, 2013
Fermat’s Last Stand: Soundtrack and Adventure Log
Aug 15, 2013
Extreme Mnemonics
Aug 10, 2013
Science & Medicine Links for August
Aug 6, 2013
On first looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”
Aug 1, 2013
Holocaust Good For You, Research Finds, But Frequent Taunting Causes Cancer In Rats
Jul 29, 2013
Links for July
Jul 25, 2013
I Myself Am A Scientismist
Jul 18, 2013
Who By Very Slow Decay
Jul 10, 2013
I Aten’t Dead
Jul 1, 2013
The Lottery of Fascinations
Jun 26, 2013
Nature Is Not A Slate. It’s A Series Of Levers.
Jun 25, 2013
The Hospital Orientation
Jun 23, 2013
Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower
Jun 19, 2013
A New Chapter In The Codex
Jun 18, 2013
The What-You’d-Implicitly-Heard-Before Telling Thing
Jun 17, 2013
Can Atheists Appreciate Chesterton?
Jun 15, 2013
The Virtue of Silence
Jun 13, 2013
Arguments From My Opponent Believes Something
Jun 13, 2013
Biodjinnetics
Jun 11, 2013
Medical and Psychological Studies for June
Jun 11, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 3 of ∞)
Jun 10, 2013
All Debates Are Bravery Debates
Jun 6, 2013
Moments Of Awakening
Jun 4, 2013
Links for June
Jun 4, 2013
Hasta La Victorians Siempre
Jun 2, 2013
Literally Inconceivable: Contraceptives And Abortion Rates
May 31, 2013
Wisdom of the Ancients, Redux
May 31, 2013
Hansonian Optimism
May 30, 2013
Fetal Attraction: Abortion and the Principle of Charity
May 28, 2013
Transhumanist Fables
May 27, 2013
The World Is Flat And Intensively Farmed
May 25, 2013
Going From California With An Aching In My Heart.
May 23, 2013
The Wisdom of the Ancients
May 22, 2013
Apart From Better Sanitation And Medicine And Education And Irrigation And Public Health And Roads And Public Order, What Has Modernity Done For Us?
May 19, 2013
Can You Condition Yourself?
May 19, 2013
Against Bravery Debates
May 17, 2013
Newtonian Ethics
May 16, 2013
Links For May
May 15, 2013
Overheard In The Box, Part II
May 15, 2013
Index: Posts on Raikoth
May 15, 2013
Raikoth: History, Religion
May 13, 2013
Raikoth: Economics, Relationships
May 12, 2013
Overheard in the Box
May 12, 2013
Raikoth: Symbolic Beads
May 11, 2013
Raikoth: Cities, Land
May 9, 2013
Raikoth: Corruption, Priesthood
May 6, 2013
Raikoth: Laws, Language, and Society
May 5, 2013
Ambijectivity
May 4, 2013
Selection bias and atheist stereotypes
May 2, 2013
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics
May 1, 2013
Utility Weight Results
Apr 30, 2013
Yellow Journalism In The War On Science
Apr 27, 2013
Utilitarianism for Engineers, Part II
Apr 26, 2013
Links for April
Apr 25, 2013
In Defense of Psych Treatment for Attempted Suicide
Apr 24, 2013
Product Recommendation: FB Purity
Apr 22, 2013
Implicit Association Tests and Suicidality
Apr 21, 2013
Search Terms That Have Led People To This Blog
Apr 20, 2013
Social Justice For The Highly-Demanding-Of-Rigor
Apr 20, 2013
I do not understand “rape culture”
Apr 19, 2013
Arguments About Male Violence Prove Too Much
Apr 18, 2013
Floor Employment
Apr 15, 2013
Things I Learned By Spending Five Thousand Years In An Alternate Universe
Apr 14, 2013
Proving Too Much
Apr 13, 2013
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less
Apr 13, 2013
Last Thoughts On Virtue Ethics
Apr 12, 2013
Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%
Apr 12, 2013
Virtue Ethics: Not Practically Useful, Either
Apr 11, 2013
Read History Of Philosophy Backwards
Apr 10, 2013
Book Review: After Virtue
Apr 8, 2013
Whose Utilitarianism?
Apr 7, 2013
RPG emergency!
Apr 7, 2013
Polyamory Is Boring
Apr 6, 2013
Poor Folks Do Smile…For Now
Apr 5, 2013
Investment and Inefficient Charity
Apr 4, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 2 of ∞)
Apr 4, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 1 of ∞)
Apr 3, 2013
Against Anton-Wilsonism
Apr 2, 2013
A good pun is its own reword
Mar 29, 2013
Thank you for doing something ambiguously between smoking and not smoking
Mar 26, 2013
My Thoughts On The First 40 Pages Of Alastair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue”, Expressed In The Form Of A Slightly Modified XKCD Comic
Mar 24, 2013
The death of wages is sin
Mar 23, 2013
Book Review: Infinite Jest (alternate title: “Look At Me! I Read Infinite Jest!”)
Mar 22, 2013
If opposites attract, why is my sister so pretty?
Mar 18, 2013
Links for March
Mar 18, 2013
My objections to “objectification”
Mar 17, 2013
Not just a mere political issue
Mar 15, 2013
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus officium!
Mar 13, 2013
Valleys have two sides
Mar 11, 2013
Fermat’s Last Stand: Game Rosters
Mar 10, 2013
Good vibrations and subjective temporal granularity
Mar 9, 2013
Hitting Below The (Bible) Belt
Mar 8, 2013
We Sail Tonight For Singapore
Mar 7, 2013
We Wrestle Not With Flesh And Blood, But Against Powers And Principalities
Mar 6, 2013
Yet Another Parable On The Importance Of Controlling Your Experiments
Mar 4, 2013
A Thrive/Survive Theory Of The Political Spectrum
Mar 3, 2013
Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell
Mar 2, 2013
Sleep
Feb 28, 2013
Pope and Change: An Atheist’s Guide To Vatican Decision 2013
Feb 27, 2013
MetaMed launch day
Feb 27, 2013
Fermat’s Last Stand Coordination Thread
Feb 25, 2013
People! It turns out capitalism is actually a thing!
Feb 24, 2013
Links for February 2013
Feb 23, 2013
Dungeons and Discourse Third Edition: The dialectic continues
Feb 22, 2013
A defense of logical positivism (yes, really)
Feb 20, 2013
Future tense
Feb 19, 2013
I liked Lovecraft countless primaeval aeons before it was cool
Feb 18, 2013
Typical mind and gender identity
Feb 18, 2013
90% of all claims about the problems with medical studies are wrong
Feb 16, 2013
Google Correlate does not imply Google Causation
Feb 15, 2013
You cannot serve both God and Mammon, but you can serve Mammon by predicting who will serve God
Feb 14, 2013
Abraham Lincoln, Necromancer
Feb 13, 2013
Abraham Lincoln, Ape-Man
Feb 12, 2013
You’re probably wondering why I’ve called you here today