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Episode 235
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/02/book-review-ages-of-discord/
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I recently reviewed Secular Cycles, which presents a demographic-struct…
6 years, 11 months ago
Meetups Everywhere 2019
Episode 234
Last autumn we organized meetups in 85 different cities (and one ship!) around the world. Some of the meetup groups stuck around or reported permanen…
6 years, 11 months ago
Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence
Episode 233
Ten years ago, everyone was talking about superintelligence, the singularity, the robot apocalypse. What happened?
I think the main answer is: the fi…
6 years, 11 months ago
A Thrive/Survive Theory of the Political Spectrum
Episode 232
I admitted in my last post on Reaction that I devoted insufficient space to the question of why society does seem to be drifting gradually leftward…
7 years ago
Don't Fear the Simulators
Episode 231
From the New York Times: Are We Living In A Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out.
It lists the standard reasons for thinking we might be in a simu…
7 years ago
Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because a Liver Fluke Tried to Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into a Zombie
Episode 230
Or at least this is the theory proposed in Brain Evolution Through The Lens Of Parasite Manipulation by Marco del Giudice.
The paper starts with an o…
7 years ago
Attempted Replication: Does Beef Jerky Cause Manic Episodes?
Episode 229
Last year, a study came out showing that beef jerky and other cured meats, could trigger mania in bipolar disorder (paper, popular article). It was a…
7 years ago
Book Review: Secular Cycles
Episode 228
There is a tide in the affairs of men. It cycles with a period of about three hundred years. During its flood, farms and businesses prosper, and grea…
7 years ago
All Debates Are Bravery Debates [Classic]
Episode 227
“I don’t practice what I preach because I’m not the kind of person I’m preaching to.”
— J. R. “Bob” Dobbs
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I read Atlas Shrugged probably about a d…
7 years ago
Against Bravery Debates [Classic]
Episode 226
There’s a tradition on Reddit that when somebody repeats some cliche in a tone that makes it sound like she believes she is bringing some brilliant a…
7 years ago