NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog
Slightly Skew Systems Of Government
Open Thread 156.25 + Signal Boost For Steve Hsu
The Vision Of Vilazodone And Vortioxetine
Open Thread 156
Wordy Wernicke’s
The Obligatory GPT-3 Post
Take The New Nootropics Survey
Problems With Paywalls
Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
Open Thread 155
Bush Did North Dakota
Creationism, Unchallenged
“My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory
Links 5/20
Coronalinks 5/18/20: When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Starts Looking Like A Dance
Open Thread 154
Studies On Slack
Classified Thread 8
Book Review Contest: Call For Entries
Open Thread 153
Predictions For 2020
Give Yourself Gout For Fame And Profit
Employer Provided Health Insurance Delenda Est
The Amish Health Care System
Open Thread 152
Depression: The Olfactory Perspective
A Failure, But Not Of Prediction
Coronalinks 4/10: Second Derivative
2019 Predictions: Calibration Results
Never Tell Me The Odds (Ratio)
SSCJC: Real World Depression Measurement
Open Thread 151
Book Review: The Precipice
SSC Journal Club: MacIntyre On Cloth Masks
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up
Open Thread 150.5
Coronalinks 3/27/20: We’re Number One
Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Open Thread 150
Coronalinks 3/19/20
Book Review: Hoover
For, Then Against, High-Saturated-Fat Diets
Open Thread 149
Socratic Grilling
Coronavirus: Links, Speculation, Open Thread
Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work
Book Review: Just Giving
Open Thread 148
Links 2/20
Sleep Support: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial
Addendum to “Targeting Meritocracy”
Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning
Welcome (?), Infowars Readers
Autogenderphilia Is Common And Not Especially Related To Transgender
Open Thread 147
Suicide Hotspots Of The World
Map Of Effective Altruism
Book Review: Human Compatible
Assortative Mating And Autism
Open Thread 146
Book Review Review: Little Soldiers
SSC Survey Results 2020
Last Chance To Take The Survey
Contra Contra Contra Caplan On Psych
2019 Adversarial Collaboration Winners
Open Thread 145
What Intellectual Progress Did I Make In The 2010s?
A Very Unlikely Chess Game
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate (2020)
Why Doctors Think They’re The Best
Please Take The 2020 SSC Survey!
Open Thread 144
Please Vote For ACC Winner
[ACC] How Much Significance Should We Ascribe To Spiritual Experiences?
[ACC] Should You Have A Merry Christmas?
[ACC] Will Automation Lead To Economic Crisis?
A Maximally Lazy Guide To Giving To Charity In 2019
[ACC] When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong?
[ACC] Should Gene Editing Technologies Be Used In Humans?
[ACC] Should We Colonize Space To Mitigate X-Risk?
Open Thread 143
[ACC] Does Calorie Restriction Slow Aging?
[ACC] Is Eating Meat A Net Harm?
Correction To Circumcision ACC
[ACC] What Are The Benefits, Harms, And Ethics Of Infant Circumcision?
2019 Adversarial Collaboration Entries
Symptom, Condition, Cause
Links 12/19
Open Thread 142
SSC Meetups Everywhere Retrospective
Mental Mountains
Book Review: All Therapy Books
More Intuition-Building On Non-Empirical Science: Three Stories
Open Thread 141
Autism And Intelligence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Book Review: The Body Keeps The Score
Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science
Samsara
Open Thread 140
New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed
Financial Incentives Are Weaker Than Social Incentives But Very Important Anyway
Highlights From The Comments On PNSE
Indian Economic Reform: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
The PNSE Paper
Open Thread 139
Is Enlightenment Compatible With Sex Scandals?
Book Review: Against The Grain
Irvine Meetup This Friday
Berkeley Meetup This Thursday
Links 10/19
Open Thread 138
Fairbanks Meetup This Sunday
Seattle Meetup This Wednesday
Portland Meetup This Tuesday
Austin Meetup This Monday
Chicago Meetup This Saturday
Ann Arbor Meetup This Thursday
Open Thread 137.25
Washington DC Meetup This Tuesday
Open Thread 137 (+ Meetup Corrections)
Philadelphia Meetup This Sunday
NYC Meetup This Saturday
Boston Meetup This Friday
Too Much Dark Money In Almonds
Against Against Pseudoaddiction
SSC Meetups 2019: Times And Places
Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time
SSC Journal Club: Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain
[Partial Retraction] Age Gaps and Birth Order Effects
Open Thread 136
LW Party: Bay Area Invitation
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Ages Of Discord
Book Review: Ages Of Discord
Meetups Everywhere 2019
Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence
Open Thread 135
Don’t Fear The Simulators
Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie
Attempted Replication: Does Beef Jerky Cause Manic Episodes?
Book Review: Secular Cycles
OT134: Open Zed
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Philanthropy
Links 8/19
Squareallworthy On UBI Plans
Adversarial Collaboration Update
Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy
OT133: Operon Thread
Adversarial Collaboration Contest 2019
Book Review: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Know Your Gabapentinoids
Caution On Bias Arguments
Against Lie Inflation
OT132: Open Shed
Do People Like Their Mental Health Care?
Survey Results: Sexual Roles
Gay Rites Are Civil Rites
Style Guide: Not Sounding Like An Evil Robot
Some Clarifications On Rationalist Blogging
Editing Unsong
OT131: Open Pride
Links 6/19
More Confounders
If Only Turing Was Alive To See This
Are Sexual Purity Taboos A Response To STIs?
If Kim Jong-Un Opened A KFC, Would You Eat There?
Followup On The Baumol Effect: Thanks, O Baumol
OT130: Open Thresh
Highlights From The Comments On Cultural Evolution
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So D*mn High?
Addendum To “Enormous Nutshell”: Competing Selectors
Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Secret Of Our Success”
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success
[REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness
OT129: Opaque Thread
Bay Area SSC Meetup 6/2
Postscript To APA Photo-Essay
The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
OT128: Opentos Thread
APA Meetup This Saturday
A Critical Period For Lactation Fetishes
Age Gaps And Birth Order Effects
Is There A Case For Skepticism Of Psychedelic Therapy?
5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
OT127: Openinsula Thread
Little Known Types Of Eclipse
Update To Partial Retraction Of Animal Value And Neuron Number
Buspirone Shortage In Healthcaristan SSR
Links 4/2019
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled
OT126: Ovum Thread
Highlights From The Comments On College Admissions
Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Pain As Active Ingredient In Dating
Short Book Reviews April 2019
OT125: Opentathlon Thread
Classified Thread 7
Social Censorship: The First Offender Model
Two Wolves And A Sheep
Partial Retraction Of Post On Animal Value And Neural Number
[PARTIALLY RETRACTED] Cortical Neuron Number Matches Intuitive Perceptions Of Moral Value Across Animals
Neurons And Intelligence: A Birdbrained Perspective
OT124: Opentatonic Thread
Translating Predictive Coding Into Perceptual Control
Book Review: Inventing The Future
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry
Does Reality Drive Straight Lines On Graphs, Or Do Straight Lines On Graphs Drive Reality?
Puritan Spotting
Ketamine: Now By Prescription
OT123: Oped Thread
Links 3/19: Linkguini
Prospiracy Theories
Meaningful
In Mod We Trust
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Wage Stagnation: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
OT122: Openne Thread
RIP Culture War Thread
My Plagiarism
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits?
The Proverbial Murder Mystery
OT121: Openumbra Thread
Irvine Meetup This Saturday
Survey Results On SSRIs
Respectability Cascades
Book Review: Zero To One
Links 1/19: Linkguistics
OT120: Openury Thread
Predictions For 2019
Psychiat-List Now Up
2018 Predictions: Calibration Results
Highlights From The Comments On Kuhn
Kernel Of Doubt: Testing Math Preference Vs. Corn-Eating Style
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy
SSC Survey Results 2019
OT119: Openny Thread
Paradigms All The Way Down
Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions
Open Thread 118.5
Bay Meetup 1/6 Update
Preregistration Of Investigations For The 2019 SSC Survey
Bay Area SSC Meetup 1/6
What Happened To 90s Environmentalism?
OT118: Threadgorian Calendar
Please Take The 2019 SSC Survey
Links 12/18: Boughs Of Hollink
Seattle Meetup This Sunday
Refactoring: Culture As Branch Of Government
Fallacies Of Reversed Moderation
OT117: Ho Ho Hopen Thread
Trump: A Setback For Trumpism
Diametrical Model Of Autism And Schizophrenia
Del Giudice On The Self-Starvation Cycle
Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology
OT116: Opensées Thread
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated
Is Science Slowing Down?
Impending Survey Discussion Thread
Links 11/18: MayflowURL
OT115: Oberon Thread
The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards
Preschool: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Ketamine: An Update
SSRIs: An Update
Marijuana: An Update
Preschool: I Was Wrong
My California Ballot
OT114: Penelopen Thread
Working With Google Trends
Sort By Controversial
Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs
OT113: Opentekonter Thread
Classified Thread 6
The Chamber of Guf
Is Science Slowing Down?
Anxiety Sampler Kits
Links 10/18: +1 Insiteful
Kavanaugh: A Probability Poll
OT112: Opentagon Thread
Nighttime Ventilation Survey Results
Next Door In Nodrumia
Highlights From The Comments On NIMBYs
Steelmanning The NIMBYs
Open Thread 111.5: Announcements And Surveys
Adversarial Collaboration Contest Results
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
OT111: Ophion Thread
Treating The Prodrome
Book Review: The Black Swan
The Omnigenic Model As Metaphor For Life
In The Balance
OT110: Opendragon Thread
[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition?
[ACC Entry] Should Childhood Vaccination Be Mandatory?
[ACC Entry] Are Islam And Liberal Democracy Compatible?
[ACC Entry] Does The Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students?
Reminder: Bay Area SSC Meetup 9/8
This Week: Adversarial Collaboration Entries
Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient
Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)
Links 8/18: URLin Wall
Elegy For John McCain
OT109: Opulent Thread
Carbon Dioxide: An Open Door Policy
Practically-A-Book Review: EA Hotel
The Parentheses Riddle
SSC Survey: Scattered Negative Results
SSC Survey Results: ADHD And Rejection Sensitivity
OT108: Opangolin Thread
SSC Meetups 2018: Times And Places
Before You Get Too Excited About That Trigger Warning Study…
Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Links 7/18: URL Mountains
OT107: Kaleidoscopen Thread
Meetups Everywhere 2018
Verses Composed Upon Reading A Review From TripAdvisor
Value Differences As Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics
Open Thread 106.5
Sentimental Cartography
The Whole City Is Center
Fundamental Value Differences Are Not That Fundamental
OT106: Alexios I Commentos
Did A Melatonin Patent Inspire Current Dose Confusion?
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
The Craft And The Codex
SSC Journal Club: Dissolving The Fermi Paradox
OT105: Ethelthread The Unthready
Highlights From The Comments On Piketty
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Capital In The Twenty-First Century
Book Review: Capital In The Twenty-First Century
Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective
Contra Caplan On Arbitrary Deploring
The GATTACA Trilogy
OT104: Antelopen Thread
Links 6/18: Linkonberry Jam
HPPD And The Specter Of Permanent Side Effects
OT103: The Curse Of Tutancomment
In Search Of Missing US Suicides
Highlights From The Comments On Basic Jobs
Should Psychiatry Test For Lead More?
Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced?
OT102: Difference Of Openion
Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia
Links 5/18: Snorri URL-uson
Varieties Of Argumentative Experience
OT101: Threadversarial Collaboropen
Classified Thread 5: Classified Never Sinned
Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society
Adversarial Collaboration Contest: Loose Ends And Registration
Call For Adversarial Collaborations
Mental Health On A Budget
OT100: One Hunthread
Gupta On Enlightenment
Highlights From The Comments On Survey Harassment Rates
SSC Survey Results: Sexual Harassment Levels By Field
Recommendations vs. Guidelines
Highlights From The Comments On DC Graduation Rates
Why DC’s Low Graduation Rates?
OT99: Alpine Thread
Links 4/18: Siter Plate
Adult Neurogenesis – A Pointed Review
Highlights From The Comments On Twelve Rules
Are The Amish Unhappy? Super Happy? Just Meh?
The Hour I First Believed
Book Review: Twelve Rules For Life
OT98: Vauban Thread
Navigating And/Or Avoiding The Inpatient Mental Health System
The Dark Rule Utilitarian Argument For Science Piracy
OT97: Dopen Thread
SSC Journal Club: Friston On Computational Mood
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy
SSC Meetup: Bay Area 3/3
Links 2/18: Link Biao Incident
SSC Journal Club: Cipriani On Antidepressants
OT96: Snopen Thread
Highlights From The Comments On Technological Unemployment
Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories
Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Five More Years
Even More Search Terms That Led People To This Blog
More Testimonials For SSC
We’ve Got Five Years, What A Surprise
OT95: Zoetropen Thread
Guyenet On Motivation
Predictions For 2018
Powerless Placebos
The Invention Of Moral Narrative
Highlights From The Comments On Conflict Vs. Mistake
OT94: Isotopen Thread
SSC Survey Data On Models Of Political Conflict
Conflict Vs. Mistake
Links 1/18: Helink Of Troy
Practically-A-Book Review: Luna Whitepaper
Bundles Of Joy
Maybe The Real Superintelligent AI Is Extremely Smart Computers
OT93: Giant Threadwood
Self-Serving Bias
Fight Me, Psychologists: Birth Order Effects Exist And Are Very Strong
Book Review: Madness And Civilization
SSC Survey Results 2018
2017 Predictions: Calibration Results
OT92: Ocean Thread
Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
A History Of The Silmarils In The Fifth Age
Preregistration Of Hypotheses For The SSC Survey
Please Take The 2018 SSC Reader Survey
Links 12/17: Silent Site, Holy Site
OT91: Opaean Thread
Classified Thread 4: Vinson Classif
What To Make Of New Positive NSI-189 Results?
Tax Bill 3: Don’t Mess With Taxes
Response To Comments: The Tax Bill Is Still Very Bad
The Tax Bill Compared To Other Very Expensive Things
Against Overgendering Harassment
OT90: Telescopen Thread
Book Review: Inadequate Equilibria
A Completely Accurate Map With No Distortion At All
Links 11/17: Sri Linka
Contra Robinson On Public Food
OT89: Omen Thread
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Does Age Bring Wisdom?
Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice
OT88: Homage To Threadalonia
Non-Expert Explanation
Postmodernism For Rationalists (my attempt)
Links 10/17: Martin LuthURL
Against Rat Park
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably?
Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning
OT87: Ulpian Thread
Highlights From The Comments On Dark Ages
Were There Dark Ages?
SSC Meetup: Bay Area 10/14
SSC Journal Club: Serotonin Receptors
In Favor Of Futurism Being About The Future
OT86: Utopen Thread
SSC Survey Results On Trust
Different Worlds
Against Individual IQ Worries
Links 9/17: HURLy-bURLy
OT85: L-DOPEN Thread
Meditative States As Feedback Loops
Book Review: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha
Classified Thread 3: Semper Classifiedelis
Toward A Predictive Theory Of Depression
OT84: Threadictive Processing
How Do We Get Breasts Out Of Bayes Theorem?
Predictive Processing And Perceptual Control
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty
Highlights From The Comments On My IRB Nightmare
Links 8/17: Exsitement
My IRB Nightmare
Axiology, Morality, Law
OT83: Slippery Slopen Thread
Partial Credit
Fear And Loathing At Effective Altruism Global 2017
OT82: Threado Quia Absurdum
Brief Cautionary Notes On Branded Combination Nootropics
The Lizard People Of Alpha Draconis 1 Decided To Build An Ansible
Links 8/17: On The Site Of The Angels
Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
Why Not More Excitement About Prediction Aggregation?
Where The Falling Einstein Meets The Rising Mouse
Is It Possible To Have Coherent Principles Around Free Speech Norms?
Gender Imbalances Are Mostly Not Due To Offensive Attitudes
Book Review: Raise A Genius!
OT81: Open Djed
Against Signal-Boosting As Doxxing
Djoser Joseph Osiris
Why Is Clozapine So Great?
Don’t Blame Griggs
Highlights From The Comment Thread On Meritocracy
Targeting Meritocracy
Classified Thread 2: Best In Classified
Links 7/17: URL of Sandwich
OT80: OPEC Thread
Can We Link Perception And Cognition?
SSC Meetup: Salt Lake 7/14
Change Minds Or Drive Turnout?
Two Kinds Of Caution
OT79: Open Road
To The Great City!
SSC Meetup: Chicago 7/2
Why Are Transgender People Immune To Optical Illusions?
Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility
To Understand Polarization, Understand Conservativism’s Failures
Against Murderism
OT78: Oprah Thread
Links 6/17: Silinks Is Golden
What Is Depression, Anyway?: The Synapse Hypothesis
SSC Journal Club: AI Timelines
Is Pharma Research Worse Than Chance?
OT77: Opium Thread
Hungarian Education III: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Budapestians
Hungarian Education II: Four Nobel Truths
The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project
Those Modern Pathologies
Classified Ads Thread
OT76: Extropenism
Postmarketing Surveillance Is Good And Normal
Polyamory Is Not Polygyny
Bail Out
SSC Meetups: Berkeley, San Diego, Irvine
Silicon Valley: A Reality Check
Links 5/17: Rip Van Linkle
OT75: The Comment King
Getting High On Your Own Supply
Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle
Anorexia And Metabolic Set Point
Book Review: The Hungry Brain
OT74: Copan Thread
SSC Journal Club: Childhood Trauma And Cognition
Learning To Love Scientific Consensus
Chametz
Clarification To “Sacred Principles As Exhaustible Resources”
Sacred Principles As Exhaustible Resources
OT73: I Lik The Thred
Yes, We Have Noticed The Skulls
The Case Of The Suffocating Woman
Determining Consent
SSC Meetups Everywhere: Times And Places
G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk
Links 3/17: Relinkquishment
SSC Meetup: Everywhere
OT72: Commentaschen
Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons
[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother
SSC Survey 2017 Results
Book Review: Seeing Like A State
OT71: I Don’t Open Things
Links 3/17: Siteochrome P450
Book Review: Behavior – The Control Of Perception
Antidepressant Pharmacogenomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
A Modern Myth
SSC Journal Club: Analytical Thinking Style And Religion
OT70: Cyclopen Architecture
Some Groups Of People Who May Not 100% Deserve Our Eternal Scorn
[REPOST] The Non-Libertarian FAQ
Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease
Links 2/17: Site Your Sources
OT69: The Open Of Akhnai
Considerations On Cost Disease
Albion’s Seed, Genotyped
Notes From The Asilomar Conference On Beneficial AI
[GUEST POST] The International Refugee Assistance Project
Book Review: Eichmann In Jerusalem
Link: Taubes Contra Guyenet on Sugar
Dogs And Wolves: In Defense Of Some Past Posts
OT68: Necronomicomment
Link: Guyenet On Taubes
Links 1/17: Inaugurl Address
SSC Survey 2017
Watch New Health Picks
Another Followup To “Economists On Education”
OT67: Comment Core
Should Buzzfeed Publish Claims Which Are Explosive If True But Not Yet Proven?
Why Do Test Scores Plateau?
Heuristics Work Until They Don’t
Predictions For 2017
Trump And The Batman Effect
OT66: Thread Lang Syne (+ Irvine Meetup)
2016 Predictions: Calibration Results
Addendum To “Economists On Education”
Contra NYT On Economists On Education
Book Review: Mount Misery
Links 12/16: The Site Before Christmas
OT65: The Early Thread Gets The Worm
SSC Journal Club: Mental Disorders As Networks
Might People On The Internet Sometimes Lie?
Links 12/16: Site Makes Right
Thin Air
OT64: Openn Thread
Highlights From The Comment Thread On School Choice
Contra Robinson On Schooling
SSC Journal Club: Expert Prediction Of Experiments
OT63: Open Pit Mining
The Alzheimer Photo
You Are Still Crying Wolf
Book Review: House of God
Tuesday Shouldn’t Change The Narrative
OT62: Five Thready Eight
The Pyramid And The Garden
SSC San Jose Meetup 11/4
Links 11/16: Site Unseen
How Does Recent AI Progress Affect The Bostromian Paradigm?
AI Persuasion Experiment Results
OT61: Turn-Based Threadegy
The Heart Has Its Reasons That Reason Knows Not Of
AI Persuasion Followup Survey
The Moral Of The Story
More Hardball Debate Questions
Somewhat Against Psychiatric Conditions As Domestication Failure
OT60: Openitentiary
Links 10/16: New URLeans
He Kept Us Out Of War?
SSC Endorses Clinton, Johnson, Or Stein
OT59: Comment Sutra
AI Persuasion Experiment
Links 9/16: URL Of The Chaldees
Some Context For That NYT Sugar Article
It’s Bayes All The Way Up
OT58: Opepipen Thread
Reverse Voxsplaining: Brand-Name Drugs
Terrorists Vs. Chairs: An Outlier Story
Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs vs. Chairs
OT57: Chopin Thread
Links 8/16: On My Right Hand Michael; On My Left Hand URL
Devoodooifying Psychology
The View From Ground Level
Tolerance Troubles
OT56: Spur Of The Comment
Links 8/16: Ode On A Grecian URL
Book Review: PiHKaL
OT55: Thready For Hillary
Links 7/16: Grad, Div, and URL
Post-Partisanship Is Hyper-Partisanship
How The West Was Won
Things Probably Matter
Pushing And Pulling Goals
OT54: Threadical Doctor
3/4
Links 7/16: Peter Linklage
OT53: Pel-open-esian War
Survey Results: Suffering Vs. Oblivion
I Wrote A Blog Post, But Did Not Adjust For The Fact That The Title Would Be Too L
Book Review: Unlearn Your Pain
Links 6/15: URLing Toward Freedom
OT52: Once Open A Time
Against Dog Whistle-ism
Three More Articles On Poverty, And Why They Disagree With Each Other
Ketamine Research In A New Light
OT51: Alien Vs. Threadator
Links 6/16: Linkandescence
Ascended Economy?
Book Review: Age of Em
Three Great Articles On Poverty, And Why I Disagree With All Of Them
OT50: Opentecost
Teachers: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Open Thread 49.75
Open Thread 49.5
Skin In The Game
Solidarity
Links 5/16: Linko de Mayo
OT49: Open Secret
Myers’ Race Car Versus The General Fitness Factor
Be Nice, At Least Until You Can Coordinate Meanness
Why Were Early Psychedelicists So Weird?
Book Review: Albion’s Seed
OT48: Open Your Heart
Links 4/16: They Can’t Link Our Dick
SSC Bay Area Meetups 2016
OT47: OpenAI
A Theory About Religion
The Ideology Is Not The Movement
Beware Regional Scatterplots
Book Review: My Brother Ron
OT46: Open Rebellion
Links 3/16: Klapaucius And URL
The Price Of Glee In China
Book Review: The Art Of The Deal
Non-Shared Environment Doesn’t Just Mean Schools And Peers
OT45: Opal Thread
Links 3/16: Rulink Class
Reverse Voxsplaining: Prison and Mental Illness
Against Interminable Arguments
2016 Nootropics Survey Results
OT44: Open Primary
Two Attitudes In Psychiatry
Nonfiction Writing Advice
Links 2/16: N-Acetyl Selink
OT43: Roses Are Thread…
Before You Get Too Excited About That GitHub Study…
Testimonials for SSC
OT42: Thread Anniversary
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Superforecasting”
Book Review: Superforecasting
OT41: Having Your Mind Involuntarily Thread
Staying Classy
Links 1/16: Shaolink
Predictions For 2016
Side Effects May Include Anything
OT40: Martin Luthread King
Lies, Damned Lies, And The Media (Part 6 of ∞)
Links 1/16: Link A Thief In The Night
Schizophrenia: No Smoking Gun
Slow But Steady
Guns and States 2: Son of a Gun
Guns And States
OT39: Appian Thread
2015 Predictions: Calibration Results
Introducing Unsong
Links 12/15: Link-Manuel Miranda
Things That Are Not Superintelligences
How Bad Are Things?
OT38: Brighter Than Threaday
Links 12/15: Winter Wond-URL-and
Should AI Be Open?
OT37: One Horse Open Sleigh
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Hive Mind”
Book Review: Hive Mind
Links 12/15: Ma’oz Tz-URL
OT36: Nes Threadol Hayah Sham
Product Recommendations 2015
Setting The Default
College And Critical Thinking
Links 11/15: Linksgiving
OT35: Boston Comment
Reporter Degrees Of Freedom
SSC New England Meetup And Presentations Schedule
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate
OT34: Subthreaddit
Links 11/15: Alinkxander Hamilton
2D:4D Ratio And Psychological Traits: Results From The LW/SSC Survey Sample
Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth
OT33: Opeth Thread
2014 SSC Survey Results
What Developmental Milestones Are You Missing?
OT32: When Hell Is Full The Thread Will Walk The Earth
Links 10/15: Bride of Linkenstein
Meat Your Doom
Contra Huemer On Morals
OT31: Open Water
A Whiter Shade of Candidate
Contra Simler on Prestige
Links 10/15: Take Back Your Link
OT 30: Comment Knowledge
It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue
Against Against Autism Cures
Contra Caplan on Mental Illness
OT29: Popen Thread
Swifties 3: The Race Is Not To The Swifty
Links 9/15: Linkua Franca
The Problems With Generic Medications Go Deeper Than One Company
Vegetarianism for Meat-Eaters
Beware Systemic Change
OT28: Where In The World Is Comment Sandiego?
Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers
Links 9/15: Linker Tailor Soldier Spy
Book Review: Manufacturing Consent
If You Can’t Make Predictions, You’re Still In A Crisis
Theses On Trump
OT27: A Comment Appears
Magic Markers
Links 8/15: Linkering Doubts
Mysticism and Pattern-Matching
Probabilities Without Models
On Overconfidence
OT26: Au Bon Thread
The Goddess of Everything Else
Links 8/15: Linkety-Split
My Id On Defensiveness
Figure/Ground Illusions
Stop Adding Zeroes
Book Review: Chronicles Of Wasted Time
Contrarians, Crackpots, and Consensus
Links 8/15: A Link In The Armor
OT25: Obon Thread
Contra Hallquist On Scientific Rationality
Stalin and Summary Statistics
Non-Dual Awareness
Links 7/15: From Link, Where Rocky Peaks Climb Bleak And Bare
The General Factor Of Correctness
Freedom On The Centralized Web
OT24: Hopen Change
Reverse Psychology
CBT In The Water Supply
Things That Sometimes Work If You Have Anxiety
Links 7/15: Link-Carbon Battery
Cultural Evolution 2: Thanks For The Meme-Rise
The Argument From Cultural Evolution
OT23: Thread, White, And Blue
The Case Of The Famous Physicist
Reflections From The Halfway Point
Links 6/15: Monsters, Link
OT22: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Thread
NYC Meetup 6/21
Fifty (More) Swifties
Fearful Symmetry
(Late) Predictions for 2015
Michigan Meetup 6/13
Links 6/15: Everything But The Kitchen Link
Against Tulip Subsidies
…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes
OT21: Master And Commenter
That Chocolate Study
No Time Like The Present For AI Safety Work
Links 5/15: Link Floyd
AI Researchers On AI Risk
Beware Summary Statistics
Bicameral Reasoning
OT20: Heaven’s Open
California, Water You Doing?
Links 5/15: Tall And Linky
Growth Mindset 4: Growth Of Office
The Future Is Filters
Prescriptions, Paradoxes, and Perversities
OT19: Don’t Thread On Me
Nefarious Nefazodone And Flashy Rare Side Effects
Growth Mindset 3: A Pox On Growth Your Houses
Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person
Links 4/15: Link And You’re Dead
Blame Theory
Polemical Imbalance
Trouble Walking Down The Hallway
OT18: Istanbul, Not Constantinopen
Michigan Meetup 4/14
I Will Never Have The Ability To Clearly Explain My Beliefs About Growth Mindset
No Clarity Around Growth Mindset
No Physical Substrate, No Problem
Links 3/15: Duke of URL
Chemical Imbalance
Rational Orthography
OT17: Their Hand Is At Your Threads, Yet Ye See Them Not
Highlights From My Notes From Another Psychiatry Conference
Extremism In Thought Experiment Is No Vice
Is Everything A Religion?
Links 3/15: Linksmanship
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Machinery Of Freedom”
Book Review: The Machinery Of Freedom
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “Willpower”
Answer to Job
OT16: Avada Threadavra!
Book Review: Willpower
Too Good To Be True
Links 3/15: URL Of Great Price
Effective Altruists: Not As Mentally Ill As You Think
A Cascade Of Dunbar Numbers
A Series Of Unprincipled Exceptions
California Meetups (Rererevised)
Early Intervention: You *Might* Get What You Pay For
California Meetups
OT15: Open Relationship
Links 2/15: Land of Linkin’
Pharma Virumque
Did Falling Testosterone Affect Falling Crime?
How Likely Are Multifactorial Trends?
Drug Testing Welfare Users Is A Sham, But Not For The Reasons You Think
Money, Money, Everywhere, But Not A Cent To Spend
Black People Less Likely
OT14: Tragedy Of The Comments
The Efficacy Of Everything In Psychiatry In One Graph Plus Several Pages Of Dense But Necessary Explanation
Everything Not Obligatory Is Forbidden
Links 2/15: Linkconceivable!
Practically-A-Book Review: Dying To Be Free
Talents Part 2: Attitude vs. Altitude
The Parable Of The Talents
OT13: Thread, The Blood Of Angry Men
A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop
Perceptions Of Required Ability Act As A Proxy For Actual Required Ability In Explaining The Gender Gap
These Are A Few (More) Of My (Least) Favorite Things
Links 1/2014: Link, For You Know Not Whence You Came Nor Why
Depression Is Not A Proxy For Social Dysfunction
The Influenza Of Evil
The Physics Diet?
The Phatic And The Anti-Inductive
OT12: Openness To Threadxperience
Links 1/2015: An Extraordinary URL In An Ordinary World
Chronic Psychitis
Ethics Offsets
2014 Predictions: Calibration Results
Untitled
Links 12/14: Auld Link Syne
Book Review: What’s Wrong With The World
There Are Rules Here
OT11: Openezer Scrooge
Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
The Toxoplasma Of Rage
Debunked And Well-Refuted
Beware The Man Of One Study
Links 12/14: Come Ye To Bethlinkhem
A Story With Zombies
OT10: We Thread Kings
Framing For Light Instead Of Heat
Book Review: On The Road
Cyber Monday Product Recommendations
Such Mixed Feelings About Crazymeds
Why I Am Not Rene Descartes
Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Links 11/14: I Link, Therefore I Am
OT9: The Thread Pirate Roberts
The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories
Prisons Are Built With Bricks Of Law And Brothels With Bricks Of Religion, But That Doesn’t Prove A Causal Relationship
Republicans Are Douchebags
Ley Lines Of The Midwest
The Dark Side Of Divorce
How To Use 23andMe Irresponsibly
OT8: Love Is An Open Thread
More Links For November 2014
Growing Old
The Right To Waive Your Rights
Ethnic Tension And Meaningless Arguments
All In All, Another Brick In The Motte
Links For November 2014
Michigan Meetup 11/9
Open Thread 7: The Hunt For Thread October
Alcoholics Anonymous: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Book Review: A Future For Socialism
In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous To Fifteen People
More Links For October 2014
Five Case Studies On Politicization
Five Planets In Search Of A Sci-Fi Story
Open Thread 6: Open Renewal
Tumblr on MIRI
Links For October 2014
Prediction Goes To War
Simpler Times
The Battle Hymn
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
Even More Links For September 2014
Bottomless Pits Of Suffering
Cuddle Culture
Why No Science Of Nerds?
Streetlight Psychology
Book Review: Red Plenty
SSC Gives A Wedding Speech
Open Thread 5: My Best Friend’s Threadding
More Links For September 2014
Joint Over- and Underdiagnosis
[Ozy] A Response to Spandrell
Does Class Warfare Have A Free-Rider Problem?
Book Review: Singer on Marx
What The Hell, Hegel?
Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable
Links For September 2014
Open Thread 4: The Quick And The Thread
Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me A Map
Cooperation Un-Veiled
The Guardian vs. Induction
Book Review and Highlights: Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Radicalizing the Romanceless
Michigan Meetup 9/7
More Links For August
If The Media Reported On Other Dangers Like It Does AI Risk
The Invisible Nation – Reconciling Utilitarianism And Contractualism
Nobody Likes A Tattletale
Ozy’s Anti Heartiste FAQ
Open Thread 3: Threads Are Like Parachutes
Links For August 2014
An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology
Burdens
Fifty Swifties
Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor
Does Race Exist? Does Culture?
Does the Glasgow Coma Scale exist? Do comas?
Getting Eulered
Friendship Is (Still) Countersignaling
Random Noise Is Our Most Valuable Resource
Negative Creativity
Unspoken Ground Assumptions Of Discussion
Misperceptions On Moloch
Meditations On Moloch
Weird Psychiatric Ads Of The Seventies
More Links For July 2014
Some Antibiotic Stagnation
The Other Codex
No Skyscraper Stagnation
Promising The Moon
Open Thread 2: Free Minds, Free Threads
HeartMath Considered Incoherent
Psychotropic Base Rates: The Argument From Antibiotics
A Paradox of Ecclesiology
Growing Children For Bostrom’s Disneyland
Links For July 2014
SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Social Justice And Words, Words, Words
List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Two-Income Trap”
Ozy vs. Scott on Charity Baskets
How Common Are Science Failures?
Medicine, As Not Seen On TV
Invisible Women
Book Review: The Two-Income Trap
SSC Gets World Cup Fever
The Placebo-Singers
Court-ing Disaster
The Art Of Writing Randian Monologues
Ground Morality In Party Politics
Money On The Ground
More Links For June 2014
Things That Sometimes Help If You Have Depression
Fish – Now By Prescription
Living By The Sword
List Of The Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”
CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
Minutes From The Michigan Rationalist Meetup
Map-Territory Distinctions
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
Don’t Be An Asch-Hole
Open Thread
Asches to Asches
Southeast Michigan Meetup 6/8
Links for June 2014
The Wonderful Thing About Triggers
Don’t Fear The Filter
On Types of Typologies
Compound Interest Is The Least Powerful Force In The Universe
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Nydwracu’s Fnords
SSC Gives A Graduation Speech
Nerds Can Be Bees, Too
You Kant Dismiss Universalizability
More Links For May 2014
Getting A Therapist
Weak Men Are Superweapons
Infinite Debt
Vote On Values, Outsource Beliefs
Not Even A Real Links Post, Just A Blatant Ad
Evening Doc
Not Even A Real Links Post, Just A Link
Emotionally Valent Links Post
Causal Models At Work
Utopian Science
Links For May 2014
The Control Group Is Out Of Control
Stop Confounding Yourself! Stop Confounding Yourself!
Metaphors Be With You
Friendship Is Countersignaling
Right Is The New Left
The Economics Of Art And The Art Of Economics
Plutocracy Isn’t About Money
Confounder Of The Day: How Sexy Your Parents Were
Someone Writes An Anti-Racist FAQ
Do You Believe Me, Doc?
The Cowpox of Doubt
Links For April 2014
Going Loopy
Dermatology Quiz: Answers
Dermatology Pop Quiz
Housekeeping Post April 2014
My New OKCupid Profile
The Study of Anglophysics
Wheat: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
The Character’s Complaint
E-Cig Study: Much Smoke, Little Light
Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?
More Links for March 2014
Typical Mind and Disbelief In Straight People
Michigan Meetup and Memory Workshop, 3/23
What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It?
Can It Be Wrong To Crystallize Patterns?
Five Years and One Week of Less Wrong
Semite Times: The Bible In Palindromes
The Slate Star Codex Political Spectrum Quiz
Links For March 2014
Book Review: The Perfect Health Diet
Do Life Hacks Ever Reach Fixation?
The Comment Policy Is “Victorian Sufi Buddha Lite”
[CORRECTION] Mountain View Meetup 3/4
Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs
Unteachable Things Hard To Teach, Study Suggests
Fix Science In Half An Hour
Suggest A Comments Policy
More Links For February 2014
In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
Effects Of Vertical Acceleration On Wrongness
God Bless Longecity
Proposed Biological Explanations For Historical Trends In Crime
Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞)
Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
Bad Dreams
Housekeeping Post February 2014
Blogging The Anissimov – Smith Reaction Debate
Links for February 2014
Seeming and Being Empathetic
More Search Terms That Have Led People To This Blog
Based on your findings, which theory about alien thickness seems most valid or most accurate?
Wirehead Gods On Lotus Thrones
Predictions For 2014
More Links For January
Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations
Genetic Testing and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Ten Things I Want To Stop Seeing On The Internet In 2014
Aretaeus On Bipolar Disorder
A Response To Apophemi on Triggers
Links for January
Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Two Dark Side Statistics Papers
The Spirit Of The First Amendment
A Comment I Posted On “What Would JT Do?”
Meetup: Southeast Michigan
[REPOST] A Christmas Poem
We Are All MsScribe
Public Awareness Campaigns
Less Wrong, More Rite (II)
Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance
More Links For December
Papal PR
A Something Sort Of Like Left-Libertarianism-ist Manifesto
The Logician And The God-Emperor
More Fictional Drugs Banned By The FDA
Links for December
Empire/Forest Fire
The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story
A Letter I Will Probably Send To The FDA
November Housekeeping Post
Genetic Russian Roulette
More Links for November
Highlights From My Notes From A Forensic Psychiatry Conference Last Week
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 4 of ∞)
List of Reasons Why Gunpowder Treason Should Be Forgot
The Witching Hour
Links for November
The Poor You Will Always Have With You
List of Fictional Drugs Banned By The FDA
Some preliminary responses to responses to the Anti-Reactionary FAQ
The Anti-Reactionary FAQ
Links for Octember
Sleep – Now By Prescription
The Trend Evaluation Of All Values
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the past
The Thin Blue Line That Stays Strangely Horizontal
Scientific Freud
Inefficient Hot Dogs
Giving and Accepting Apologies
The Life Cycle of Medical Ideas
Links for September
Military Strikes Are An Extremely Cheap Way To Help Foreigners
Fake Euthanasia Statistics
Fake Consensualism
Things I Don’t Understand About Genetics (A Non-Exhaustive List)
Fermat’s Last Stand: Soundtrack and Adventure Log
Extreme Mnemonics
Science & Medicine Links for August
On first looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”
Holocaust Good For You, Research Finds, But Frequent Taunting Causes Cancer In Rats
Links for July
I Myself Am A Scientismist
Who By Very Slow Decay
I Aten’t Dead
The Lottery of Fascinations
Nature Is Not A Slate. It’s A Series Of Levers.
The Hospital Orientation
Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower
A New Chapter In The Codex
The What-You’d-Implicitly-Heard-Before Telling Thing
Can Atheists Appreciate Chesterton?
The Virtue of Silence
Arguments From My Opponent Believes Something
Biodjinnetics
Medical and Psychological Studies for June
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 3 of ∞)
All Debates Are Bravery Debates
Moments Of Awakening
Links for June
Hasta La Victorians Siempre
Literally Inconceivable: Contraceptives And Abortion Rates
Wisdom of the Ancients, Redux
Hansonian Optimism
Fetal Attraction: Abortion and the Principle of Charity
Transhumanist Fables
The World Is Flat And Intensively Farmed
Going From California With An Aching In My Heart.
The Wisdom of the Ancients
Apart From Better Sanitation And Medicine And Education And Irrigation And Public Health And Roads And Public Order, What Has Modernity Done For Us?
Can You Condition Yourself?
Against Bravery Debates
Newtonian Ethics
Links For May
Overheard In The Box, Part II
Index: Posts on Raikoth
Raikoth: History, Religion
Raikoth: Economics, Relationships
Overheard in the Box
Raikoth: Symbolic Beads
Raikoth: Cities, Land
Raikoth: Corruption, Priesthood
Raikoth: Laws, Language, and Society
Ambijectivity
Selection bias and atheist stereotypes
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics
Utility Weight Results
Yellow Journalism In The War On Science
Utilitarianism for Engineers, Part II
Links for April
In Defense of Psych Treatment for Attempted Suicide
Product Recommendation: FB Purity
Implicit Association Tests and Suicidality
Search Terms That Have Led People To This Blog
Social Justice For The Highly-Demanding-Of-Rigor
I do not understand “rape culture”
Arguments About Male Violence Prove Too Much
Floor Employment
Things I Learned By Spending Five Thousand Years In An Alternate Universe
Proving Too Much
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less
Last Thoughts On Virtue Ethics
Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%
Virtue Ethics: Not Practically Useful, Either
Read History Of Philosophy Backwards
Book Review: After Virtue
Whose Utilitarianism?
RPG emergency!
Polyamory Is Boring
Poor Folks Do Smile…For Now
Investment and Inefficient Charity
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 2 of ∞)
Lies, Damned Lies, And Facebook (Part 1 of ∞)
Against Anton-Wilsonism
A good pun is its own reword
Thank you for doing something ambiguously between smoking and not smoking
My Thoughts On The First 40 Pages Of Alastair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue”, Expressed In The Form Of A Slightly Modified XKCD Comic
The death of wages is sin
Book Review: Infinite Jest (alternate title: “Look At Me! I Read Infinite Jest!”)
If opposites attract, why is my sister so pretty?
Links for March
My objections to “objectification”
Not just a mere political issue
Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: habemus officium!
Valleys have two sides
Fermat’s Last Stand: Game Rosters
Good vibrations and subjective temporal granularity
Hitting Below The (Bible) Belt
We Sail Tonight For Singapore
We Wrestle Not With Flesh And Blood, But Against Powers And Principalities
Yet Another Parable On The Importance Of Controlling Your Experiments
A Thrive/Survive Theory Of The Political Spectrum
Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell
Sleep
Pope and Change: An Atheist’s Guide To Vatican Decision 2013
MetaMed launch day
Fermat’s Last Stand Coordination Thread
People! It turns out capitalism is actually a thing!
Links for February 2013
Dungeons and Discourse Third Edition: The dialectic continues
A defense of logical positivism (yes, really)
Future tense
I liked Lovecraft countless primaeval aeons before it was cool
Typical mind and gender identity
90% of all claims about the problems with medical studies are wrong
Google Correlate does not imply Google Causation
You cannot serve both God and Mammon, but you can serve Mammon by predicting who will serve God
Abraham Lincoln, Necromancer
Abraham Lincoln, Ape-Man
You’re probably wondering why I’ve called you here today