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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? 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