You're Probably Wondering Why I've Called You Here Today

Episode 412

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/youre-probably-wondering-why-ive

 

Welcome to Astral Codex Ten! Some of you are probably veterans of my old bl…

5 years, 7 months ago

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Still Alive

Episode 411

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

 

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This was a triumph
I'm making a note here, huge success

No, seriously, it was awful. I deleted…

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[Classic] Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower

Episode 410

Mark Twain:

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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[Classic] Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%

Episode 409

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/

 

Beware of Phantom Lizardmen

I have only do…

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[Classic] We Are All MsScribe

Episode 408

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/23/we-are-all-msscribe/

 

AskReddit asked recently: If you could only give an alien one thing to help them underst…

5 years, 8 months ago

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[Classic] Why Were Early Psychedelicists So Weird?

Episode 407

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/28/why-were-early-psychedelicists-so-weird/

 

[Epistemic status: very speculative, asserted with only ~30% confid…

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[Classic] The Influenza Of Evil

Episode 406

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/13/evil-is-anti-inductive/

 

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A recent Cracked piece: Five Everyday Groups Society Says It’s Okay To Mock. It be…

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[Meetup Audio] Professor Stuart Russell - Human Compatible

Episode 405

Stuart Russell is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Di…

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[Classic] Reporter Degrees of Freedom

Episode 403

Reporter Degrees Of Freedom

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A sample of Thursday’s talk at Yale

 

These are four headlines describing the same study, Milkie, Nomaguchi and Denny…

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[Classic] How The West Was Won

Episode 402

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/

 

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Someone recently linked me to Bryan Caplan’s post A Hardy Weed: How Traditionalists …

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