Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYour Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work
As a blogger, I hear about lots of projects to "solve debate", or "disagree better", or "map arguments". Often these are ACX grant applications. I al…
3 months, 1 week ago
Links For April 2026
[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…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Half A Month Of Consolation Writing Advice
This month, rationalist institution Lighthaven is running their second Inkhaven, a bootcamp for aspiring bloggers. Participants have to publish a pos…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Orban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness
Viktor Orban, __________ of Hungary for sixteen years, lost his re-election bid earlier this week.
The simplest phrase to put in the blank is "prime…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Against The Concept Of Telescopic Altruism
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"Telescopic altruism" is a supposed tendency for some people to ignore those close to them in favor of those further away. Like its cousin "virtue…
4 months, 1 week ago
A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
In 1917, some Portuguese children started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin told them she would enact a great miracle on a certain day in…
4 months, 1 week ago
How Natural Tradeoff And Failure Components?
Michael Halassa: Did John Nash Really Have Schizophrenia? is a good article on the genetics of psychosis. Previous research found that schizophrenia…
4 months, 1 week ago
Every Debate On Pausing AI
SUPPORTER: America needs to start talking to China to come up with a bilateral agreement to pause AI. The agreement would need to be transparent, mut…
4 months, 1 week ago
Being John Rawls
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John Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, 1921. Not John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher (or, rather, John Rawls the famous…
4 months, 1 week ago
Support Your Local Collaborator
Every few weeks, a Trump administration official comes up with an insane plan that would devastate some American industry, region, or demographic. Ma…
4 months, 1 week ago