Podcast Episodes

Book Review: Just Giving

Episode 285

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/24/book-review-just-giving/

 

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Traditional book reviews tend to focus on a single book, such as Just Giving by R…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Sleep Support: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial

Episode 284

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/17/sleep-support-an-individual-randomized-controlled-trial/

 

I worry my sleep quality isn’t great. On weekends, …

6 years, 6 months ago

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Addendum to "Targeting Meritocracy"

Episode 283

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/14/addendum-to-targeting-meritocracy/

 

I’ve always been dissatisfied with Targeting Meritocracy and the comments…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Confirmation Bias As Misfire of Normal Bayesian Reasoning

Episode 282

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/12/confirmation-bias-as-misfire-of-normal-bayesian-reasoning/

 

From the subreddit: Humans Are Hardwired To Dismi…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Welcome (?), Infowars Readers

Episode 281

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/12/welcome-infowars-readers/

Hello to all the new readers I’ve gotten from, uh, Paul Watson of Infowars. Before an…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Autogenderphilia Is Common and Not Especially Related to Transgender

Episode 280

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/10/autogenderphilia-is-common-and-not-especially-related-to-transgender/

 

“Autogynephilia” means becoming arouse…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Suicide Hotspots of the World

Episode 279

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/02/05/suicide-hotspots-of-the-world/

 

[Content warning: suicide, rape, child abuse. Thanks to MC for some help with…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Book Review: Human Compatible

Episode 278

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/30/book-review-human-compatible/

 

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Clarke’s First Law goes: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states …

6 years, 6 months ago

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Assortative Mating and Autism

Episode 277

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/28/assortative-mating-and-autism/

 

Introduction

Assortative mating is when similar people marry and have childre…

6 years, 6 months ago

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Book Review Review: Little Soldiers

Episode 276

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/22/book-review-review-little-soldiers/

 

Little Soldiers is a book by Lenora Chu about the Chinese education sys…

6 years, 7 months ago

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