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Episode 215
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In the old days, you had your Culture, and that was that. Your Culture told you lots of stuff about what you were and weren’t allowed to do, and b…
7 years, 1 month ago
Do People Like Their Mental Health Care?
Episode 214
Along with more specific questions, I asked people who took the SSC survey to rate their experience with the mental health system on a 1 – 10 scale. …
7 years, 1 month ago
Survey Results: Sexual Roles
Episode 213
I already started analyzing the SSC survey data on fetishes, but I wanted to move on to look at dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism.
Why mig…
7 years, 1 month ago
Gay Rites are Civil Rites
Episode 212
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I went to Antigua Guatemala in April. Their claim to fame is the world’s biggest Easter celebration. I wasn’t even there for Easter. I was three w…
7 years, 1 month ago
Style Guide: Not Sounding Like an Evil Robot
Episode 211
The saying goes: “Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance”. This is the same idea as “weirdness points”: you can only …
7 years, 1 month ago
Some Clarifications on Rationalist Blogging
Episode 210
1. According to the survey, only 13% of SSC commenters identify as rationalists. Almost none of the rationalists I know IRL comment on SSC. Saying “r…
7 years, 1 month ago
Editing Unsong
Episode 209
A few years ago, I wrote the online serial novel Unsong. Someday I want to get it published. But I want to fix it up before I try. I know publishers …
7 years, 1 month ago
Considerations on Cost Disease
Episode 208
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Tyler Cowen writes about cost disease. I’d previously heard the term used to refer only to a specific theory of why costs are increasing, involvin…
7 years, 1 month ago
More Confounders
Episode 207
[Epistemic status: Somewhat confident in the medical analysis, a little out of my depth discussing the statistics]
For years, we’ve been warning pati…
7 years, 2 months ago
If Only Turing Was Alive to See This
Episode 206
There’s a silly subreddit called r/totallynotrobots where people pretend to be badly-disguised robots. They post cat pictures with captions like “SIN…
7 years, 2 months ago