Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYour Book Review: Autobiography Of Yukichi Fukuzawa
I had been living in Japan for a year before I got the idea to look up whose portraits were on the banknotes I was handling every day. In the United …
2 years, 2 months ago
Fake Tradition Is Traditional
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A: I like Indian food.
B: Oh, so you like a few bites of flavorless rice daily? Because India is a very poor country, and that’s a more realistic…
2 years, 2 months ago
Failure To Replicate Anti-Vaccine Poll
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Steve Kirsch is an inventor and businessman most famous for developing the optical mouse. More recently, he’s become an anti-COVID-vaccine activis…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nobody Can Make You Feel Genetically Inferior Without Your Consent
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Lately we’ve been discussing some of the ethics around genetics and embryo selection. One question that comes up in these debates is - are we clai…
2 years, 2 months ago
Unsong Available In Paperback
Seven years ago, I wrote an online serial novel, Unsong, about alternate history American kabbalists. You can read the online version here.
The on…
2 years, 2 months ago
Contra Stone On EA
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Lyman Stone wrote an article Why Effective Altruism Is Bad. You know the story by now, let’s start with the first argument:
The only cities where…
2 years, 2 months ago
Links for May 2024
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in each links…
2 years, 2 months ago
What Is Going On In IFS?
In my book review of The Others Within Us, I wrote:
[An Internal Family Systems session] isn’t supposed to be just the therapist walking you through…
2 years, 2 months ago
A Theoretical "Case Against Education"
There’s been renewed debate around Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education recently, so I want to discuss one way I think about this question.
Educ…
2 years, 2 months ago
Book Review: The Others Within Us
Internal Family Systems, the hot new psychotherapy, has a secret.
“Hot new psychotherapy” might sound dismissive. It’s not. There’s always got to be …
2 years, 2 months ago