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Introducing Astral Codex Ten (archived)
Update On My Situation (archived)
Open Thread 156.75 (archived)
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog (archived)
Open Thread 156.5 (archived)
Slightly Skew Systems Of Government (archived)
Open Thread 156.25 + Signal Boost For Steve Hsu (archived)
The Vision Of Vilazodone And Vortioxetine (archived)
Open Thread 156 (archived)
Wordy Wernicke’s (archived)
The Obligatory GPT-3 Post (archived)
Open Thread 155.75 (archived)
Take The New Nootropics Survey (archived)
Open Thread 155.5 (archived)
Problems With Paywalls (archived)
Open Thread 155.25 (archived)
Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind (archived)
Open Thread 155 (archived)
Bush Did North Dakota (archived)
Creationism, Unchallenged (archived)
Open Thread 154.75 (archived)
“My Immortal” As Alchemical Allegory (archived)
Open Thread 154.5 (archived)
Links 5/20 (archived)
Open Thread 154.25 (archived)
Coronalinks 5/18/20: When All You Have Is A Hammer, Everything Starts Looking Like A Dance (archived)
Open Thread 154 (archived)
Open Thread 153.75 (archived)
Studies On Slack (archived)
Open Thread 153.5 (archived)
Classified Thread 8 (archived)
Open Thread 153.25 (archived)
Book Review Contest: Call For Entries (archived)
Open Thread 153 (archived)
Predictions For 2020 (archived)
Open Thread 152.75 (archived)
Give Yourself Gout For Fame And Profit (archived)
Open Thread 152.5 (archived)
Employer Provided Health Insurance Delenda Est (archived)
Open Thread 152.25 (archived)
The Amish Health Care System (archived)
Open Thread 152 (archived)
Depression: The Olfactory Perspective (archived)
Open Thread 151.75 (archived)
A Failure, But Not Of Prediction (archived)
Open Thread 151.5 (archived)
Coronalinks 4/10: Second Derivative (archived)
2019 Predictions: Calibration Results (archived)
Open Thread 151.25 (archived)
Never Tell Me The Odds (Ratio) (archived)
SSCJC: Real World Depression Measurement (archived)
Open Thread 151 (archived)
Book Review: The Precipice (archived)
Open Thread 150.75 (archived)
SSC Journal Club: MacIntyre On Cloth Masks (archived)
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up (archived)
Open Thread 150.5 (archived)
Coronalinks 3/27/20: We’re Number One (archived)
Open Thread 150.25 (archived)
Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 150 (archived)
Coronalinks 3/19/20 (archived)
Open Thread 149.75 (archived)
Book Review: Hoover (archived)
Open Thread 149.5 (archived)
Open Thread 149.25 (archived)
For, Then Against, High-Saturated-Fat Diets (archived)
Open Thread 149 (archived)
Socratic Grilling (archived)
Open Thread 148.75 (archived)
Coronavirus: Links, Speculation, Open Thread (archived)
Open Thread 148.5 (archived)
Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work (archived)
Open Thread 148.25 (archived)
Book Review: Just Giving (archived)
Open Thread 148 (archived)
Links 2/20 (archived)
Open Thread 147.75 (archived)
Sleep Support: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial (archived)
Open Thread 147.5 (archived)
Addendum to “Targeting Meritocracy” (archived)
Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning (archived)
Welcome (?), Infowars Readers (archived)
Open Thread 147.25 (archived)
Autogenderphilia Is Common And Not Especially Related To Transgender (archived)
Open Thread 147 (archived)
Suicide Hotspots Of The World (archived)
Open Thread 146.75 (archived)
Map Of Effective Altruism (archived)
Open Thread 146.5 (archived)
Book Review: Human Compatible (archived)
Open Thread 146.25 (archived)
Assortative Mating And Autism (archived)
Open Thread 146 (archived)
Book Review Review: Little Soldiers (archived)
Open Thread 145.75 (archived)
SSC Survey Results 2020 (archived)
Open Thread 145.5 (archived)
Last Chance To Take The Survey (archived)
Contra Contra Contra Caplan On Psych (archived)
Open Thread 145.25 (archived)
2019 Adversarial Collaboration Winners (archived)
Open Thread 145 (archived)
What Intellectual Progress Did I Make In The 2010s? (archived)
Open Thread 144.75 (archived)
A Very Unlikely Chess Game (archived)
Hardball Questions For The Next Debate (2020) (archived)
Open Thread 144.5 (archived)
Why Doctors Think They’re The Best (archived)
Open Thread 144.25 (archived)
Please Take The 2020 SSC Survey! (archived)
Open Thread 144 (archived)
Please Vote For ACC Winner (archived)
[ACC] How Much Significance Should We Ascribe To Spiritual Experiences? (archived)
Open Thread 143.75 (archived)
[ACC] Should You Have A Merry Christmas? (archived)
[ACC] Will Automation Lead To Economic Crisis? (archived)
A Maximally Lazy Guide To Giving To Charity In 2019 (archived)
Open Thread 143.5 (archived)
[ACC] When During Fetal Development Does Abortion Become Morally Wrong? (archived)
[ACC] Should Gene Editing Technologies Be Used In Humans? (archived)
Open Thread 143.25 (archived)
[ACC] Should We Colonize Space To Mitigate X-Risk? (archived)
Open Thread 143 (archived)
[ACC] Does Calorie Restriction Slow Aging? (archived)
[ACC] Is Eating Meat A Net Harm? (archived)
Correction To Circumcision ACC (archived)
Open Thread 142.75 (archived)
[ACC] What Are The Benefits, Harms, And Ethics Of Infant Circumcision? (archived)
2019 Adversarial Collaboration Entries (archived)
Open Thread 142.5 (archived)
Symptom, Condition, Cause (archived)
Open Thread 142.25 (archived)
Links 12/19 (archived)
Open Thread 142 (archived)
SSC Meetups Everywhere Retrospective (archived)
Open Thread 141.75 (archived)
Mental Mountains (archived)
Open Thread 141.5 (archived)
Book Review: All Therapy Books (archived)
Open Thread 141.25 (archived)
More Intuition-Building On Non-Empirical Science: Three Stories (archived)
Open Thread 141 (archived)
Autism And Intelligence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 140.75 (archived)
Book Review: The Body Keeps The Score (archived)
Open Thread 140.5 (archived)
Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science (archived)
Open Thread 140.25 (archived)
Samsara (archived)
Open Thread 140 (archived)
Open Thread 139.75 (archived)
New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed (archived)
Financial Incentives Are Weaker Than Social Incentives But Very Important Anyway (archived)
Open Thread 139.5 (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On PNSE (archived)
Indian Economic Reform: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 139.25 (archived)
The PNSE Paper (archived)
Open Thread 139 (archived)
Is Enlightenment Compatible With Sex Scandals? (archived)
Open Thread 138.75 (archived)
Book Review: Against The Grain (archived)
Open Thread 138.5 (archived)
Irvine Meetup This Friday (archived)
Berkeley Meetup This Thursday (archived)
Open Thread 138.25 (archived)
Links 10/19 (archived)
Open Thread 138 (archived)
Fairbanks Meetup This Sunday (archived)
Open Thread 137.75 (archived)
Seattle Meetup This Wednesday (archived)
Portland Meetup This Tuesday (archived)
Austin Meetup This Monday (archived)
Open Thread 137.5 (archived)
Chicago Meetup This Saturday (archived)
Ann Arbor Meetup This Thursday (archived)
Open Thread 137.25 (archived)
Washington DC Meetup This Tuesday (archived)
Open Thread 137 (+ Meetup Corrections) (archived)
Philadelphia Meetup This Sunday (archived)
NYC Meetup This Saturday (archived)
Boston Meetup This Friday (archived)
Too Much Dark Money In Almonds (archived)
Open Thread 136.75 (archived)
Against Against Pseudoaddiction (archived)
Open Thread 136.5 (archived)
SSC Meetups 2019: Times And Places (archived)
Lots Of People Going Around With Mild Hallucinations All The Time (archived)
Open Thread 136.25 (archived)
SSC Journal Club: Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain (archived)
[Partial Retraction] Age Gaps and Birth Order Effects (archived)
Open Thread 136 (archived)
LW Party: Bay Area Invitation (archived)
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Ages Of Discord (archived)
Open Thread 135.75 (archived)
Book Review: Ages Of Discord (archived)
Open Thread 135.5 (archived)
Meetups Everywhere 2019 (archived)
Open Thread 135.25 (archived)
Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (archived)
Open Thread 135 (archived)
Don’t Fear The Simulators (archived)
Open Thread 134.75 (archived)
Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie (archived)
Open Thread 134.5 (archived)
Attempted Replication: Does Beef Jerky Cause Manic Episodes? (archived)
Open Thread 134.25 (archived)
Book Review: Secular Cycles (archived)
OT134: Open Zed (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Philanthropy (archived)
Open Thread 133.75 (archived)
Links 8/19 (archived)
Open Thread 133.5 (archived)
Squareallworthy On UBI Plans (archived)
Adversarial Collaboration Update (archived)
Open Thread 133.25 (archived)
Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy (archived)
OT133: Operon Thread (archived)
Adversarial Collaboration Contest 2019 (archived)
Open Thread 132.75 (archived)
Book Review: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (archived)
Open Thread 132.5 (archived)
Know Your Gabapentinoids (archived)
Caution On Bias Arguments (archived)
Open Thread 132.25 (archived)
Against Lie Inflation (archived)
OT132: Open Shed (archived)
Do People Like Their Mental Health Care? (archived)
Open Thread 131.75 (archived)
Survey Results: Sexual Roles (archived)
Gay Rites Are Civil Rites (archived)
Open Thread 131.5 (archived)
Style Guide: Not Sounding Like An Evil Robot (archived)
Some Clarifications On Rationalist Blogging (archived)
Open Thread 131.25 (archived)
Editing Unsong (archived)
OT131: Open Pride (archived)
Links 6/19 (archived)
Open Thread 130.75 (archived)
More Confounders (archived)
Open Thread 130.5 (archived)
If Only Turing Was Alive To See This (archived)
Are Sexual Purity Taboos A Response To STIs? (archived)
Open Thread 130.25 (archived)
If Kim Jong-Un Opened A KFC, Would You Eat There? (archived)
Followup On The Baumol Effect: Thanks, O Baumol (archived)
OT130: Open Thresh (archived)
Open Thread 129.75 (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Cultural Evolution (archived)
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So D*mn High? (archived)
Open Thread 129.5 (archived)
Addendum To “Enormous Nutshell”: Competing Selectors (archived)
Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad (archived)
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of “The Secret Of Our Success” (archived)
Open Thread 129.25 (archived)
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success (archived)
[REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness (archived)
OT129: Opaque Thread (archived)
Bay Area SSC Meetup 6/2 (archived)
Open Thread 128.75 (archived)
Postscript To APA Photo-Essay (archived)
Open Thread 128.5 (archived)
The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay (archived)
Open Thread 128.25 (archived)
OT128: Opentos Thread (archived)
APA Meetup This Saturday (archived)
A Critical Period For Lactation Fetishes (archived)
Open Thread 127.75 (archived)
Age Gaps And Birth Order Effects (archived)
Open Thread 127.5 (archived)
Is There A Case For Skepticism Of Psychedelic Therapy? (archived)
Open Thread 127.25 (archived)
5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review (archived)
OT127: Openinsula Thread (archived)
Little Known Types Of Eclipse (archived)
Update To Partial Retraction Of Animal Value And Neuron Number (archived)
Open Thread 126.75 (archived)
Buspirone Shortage In Healthcaristan SSR (archived)
Open Thread 126.5 (archived)
Links 4/2019 (archived)
Open Thread 126.25 (archived)
1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled (archived)
OT126: Ovum Thread (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On College Admissions (archived)
Open Thread 125.75 (archived)
Increasingly Competitive College Admissions: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 125.5 (archived)
Pain As Active Ingredient In Dating (archived)
Open Thread 125.25 (archived)
Short Book Reviews April 2019 (archived)
OT125: Opentathlon Thread (archived)
Classified Thread 7 (archived)
Open Thread 124.75 (archived)
Social Censorship: The First Offender Model (archived)
Open Thread 124.5 (archived)
Two Wolves And A Sheep (archived)
Partial Retraction Of Post On Animal Value And Neural Number (archived)
Open Thread 124.25 (archived)
[PARTIALLY RETRACTED] Cortical Neuron Number Matches Intuitive Perceptions Of Moral Value Across Animals (archived)
Neurons And Intelligence: A Birdbrained Perspective (archived)
OT124: Opentatonic Thread (archived)
Translating Predictive Coding Into Perceptual Control (archived)
Open Thread 123.75 (archived)
Book Review: Inventing The Future (archived)
Open Thread 123.5 (archived)
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry (archived)
Does Reality Drive Straight Lines On Graphs, Or Do Straight Lines On Graphs Drive Reality? (archived)
Open Thread 123.25 (archived)
Puritan Spotting (archived)
Ketamine: Now By Prescription (archived)
OT123: Oped Thread (archived)
Links 3/19: Linkguini (archived)
Open Thread 122.75 (archived)
Prospiracy Theories (archived)
Open Thread 122.5 (archived)
Meaningful (archived)
In Mod We Trust (archived)
Open Thread 122.25 (archived)
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out (archived)
Wage Stagnation: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
OT122: Openne Thread (archived)
RIP Culture War Thread (archived)
My Plagiarism (archived)
Open Thread 121.75 (archived)
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence (archived)
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? (archived)
Open Thread 121.5 (archived)
The Proverbial Murder Mystery (archived)
Open Thread 121.25 (archived)
OT121: Openumbra Thread (archived)
Irvine Meetup This Saturday (archived)
Survey Results On SSRIs (archived)
Open Thread 120.75 (archived)
Respectability Cascades (archived)
Open Thread 120.5 (archived)
Book Review: Zero To One (archived)
Open Thread 120.25 (archived)
Links 1/19: Linkguistics (archived)
OT120: Openury Thread (archived)
Predictions For 2019 (archived)
Psychiat-List Now Up (archived)
Open Thread 119.75 (archived)
2018 Predictions: Calibration Results (archived)
Open Thread 119.5 (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Kuhn (archived)
Open Thread 119.25 (archived)
Kernel Of Doubt: Testing Math Preference Vs. Corn-Eating Style (archived)
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy (archived)
SSC Survey Results 2019 (archived)
OT119: Openny Thread (archived)
Paradigms All The Way Down (archived)
Open Thread 118.75 (archived)
Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions (archived)
Open Thread 118.5 (archived)
Bay Meetup 1/6 Update (archived)
Preregistration Of Investigations For The 2019 SSC Survey (archived)
Bay Area SSC Meetup 1/6 (archived)
Open Thread 118.25 (archived)
What Happened To 90s Environmentalism? (archived)
OT118: Threadgorian Calendar (archived)
Please Take The 2019 SSC Survey (archived)
Open Thread 117.75 (archived)
Links 12/18: Boughs Of Hollink (archived)
Open Thread 117.5 (archived)
Seattle Meetup This Sunday (archived)
Refactoring: Culture As Branch Of Government (archived)
Open Thread 117.25 (archived)
Fallacies Of Reversed Moderation (archived)
OT117: Ho Ho Hopen Thread (archived)
Trump: A Setback For Trumpism (archived)
Open Thread 116.75 (archived)
Diametrical Model Of Autism And Schizophrenia (archived)
Open Thread 116.5 (archived)
Del Giudice On The Self-Starvation Cycle (archived)
Open Thread 116.25 (archived)
Book Review: Evolutionary Psychopathology (archived)
OT116: Opensées Thread (archived)
Open Thread 115.75 (archived)
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated (archived)
Is Science Slowing Down? (archived)
Open Thread 115.5 (archived)
Impending Survey Discussion Thread (archived)
Open Thread 115.25 (archived)
Links 11/18: MayflowURL (archived)
OT115: Oberon Thread (archived)
The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards (archived)
Open Thread 114.75 (archived)
Preschool: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 114.5 (archived)
Ketamine: An Update (archived)
Open Thread 114.25 (archived)
SSRIs: An Update (archived)
Marijuana: An Update (archived)
Preschool: I Was Wrong (archived)
My California Ballot (archived)
OT114: Penelopen Thread (archived)
Working With Google Trends (archived)
Open Thread 113.75 (archived)
Sort By Controversial (archived)
Open Thread 113.5 (archived)
Open Thread 113.25 (archived)
Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff (archived)
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs (archived)
OT113: Opentekonter Thread (archived)
Classified Thread 6 (archived)
Open Thread 112.75 (archived)
The Chamber of Guf (archived)
Is Science Slowing Down? (archived)
Open Thread 112.5 (archived)
Anxiety Sampler Kits (archived)
Open Thread 112.25 (archived)
Links 10/18: +1 Insiteful (archived)
Kavanaugh: A Probability Poll (archived)
OT112: Opentagon Thread (archived)
Nighttime Ventilation Survey Results (archived)
Open Thread 111.75 (archived)
Next Door In Nodrumia (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On NIMBYs (archived)
Steelmanning The NIMBYs (archived)
Open Thread 111.5: Announcements And Surveys (archived)
Adversarial Collaboration Contest Results (archived)
Open Thread 111.25 (archived)
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life (archived)
OT111: Ophion Thread (archived)
Treating The Prodrome (archived)
Open Thread 110.75 (archived)
Book Review: The Black Swan (archived)
Open Thread 110.5 (archived)
The Omnigenic Model As Metaphor For Life (archived)
Open Thread 110.25 (archived)
In The Balance (archived)
OT110: Opendragon Thread (archived)
[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition? (archived)
[ACC Entry] Should Childhood Vaccination Be Mandatory? (archived)
Open Thread 109.75 (archived)
[ACC Entry] Are Islam And Liberal Democracy Compatible? (archived)
[ACC Entry] Does The Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students? (archived)
Reminder: Bay Area SSC Meetup 9/8 (archived)
This Week: Adversarial Collaboration Entries (archived)
Open Thread 109.5 (archived)
Bureaucracy As Active Ingredient (archived)
Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞) (archived)
Open Thread 109.25 (archived)
Links 8/18: URLin Wall (archived)
Elegy For John McCain (archived)
OT109: Opulent Thread (archived)
Open Thread 108.75 (archived)
Carbon Dioxide: An Open Door Policy (archived)
Practically-A-Book Review: EA Hotel (archived)
Open Thread 108.5 (archived)
The Parentheses Riddle (archived)
SSC Survey: Scattered Negative Results (archived)
Open Thread 108.25 (archived)
SSC Survey Results: ADHD And Rejection Sensitivity (archived)
OT108: Opangolin Thread (archived)
SSC Meetups 2018: Times And Places (archived)
Open Thread 107.75 (archived)
Before You Get Too Excited About That Trigger Warning Study… (archived)
Open Thread 107.5 (archived)
Open Thread 107.25 (archived)
Cancer Progress: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Links 7/18: URL Mountains (archived)
OT107: Kaleidoscopen Thread (archived)
Meetups Everywhere 2018 (archived)
Open Thread 106.75 (archived)
Verses Composed Upon Reading A Review From TripAdvisor (archived)
Value Differences As Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics (archived)
Open Thread 106.5 (archived)
Sentimental Cartography (archived)
Open Thread 106.25 (archived)
The Whole City Is Center (archived)
Fundamental Value Differences Are Not That Fundamental (archived)
OT106: Alexios I Commentos (archived)
Did A Melatonin Patent Inspire Current Dose Confusion? (archived)
Open Thread 105.75 (archived)
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 105.5 (archived)
The Craft And The Codex (archived)
Open Thread 105.25 (archived)
SSC Journal Club: Dissolving The Fermi Paradox (archived)
OT105: Ethelthread The Unthready (archived)
Open Thread 104.75 (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Piketty (archived)
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Capital In The Twenty-First Century (archived)
Book Review: Capital In The Twenty-First Century (archived)
Open Thread 104.5 (archived)
Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective (archived)
Open Thread 104.25 (archived)
Contra Caplan On Arbitrary Deploring (archived)
The GATTACA Trilogy (archived)
OT104: Antelopen Thread (archived)
Open Thread 103.75 (archived)
Links 6/18: Linkonberry Jam (archived)
Open Thread 103.5 (archived)
HPPD And The Specter Of Permanent Side Effects (archived)
Open Thread 103.25 (archived)
OT103: The Curse Of Tutancomment (archived)
In Search Of Missing US Suicides (archived)
Open Thread 102.75 (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Basic Jobs (archived)
Open Thread 102.5 (archived)
Should Psychiatry Test For Lead More? (archived)
Open Thread 102.25 (archived)
Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced? (archived)
OT102: Difference Of Openion (archived)
Open Thread 101.75 (archived)
Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia (archived)
Open Thread 101.5 (archived)
Links 5/18: Snorri URL-uson (archived)
Open Thread 101.25 (archived)
Varieties Of Argumentative Experience (archived)
OT101: Threadversarial Collaboropen (archived)
Classified Thread 5: Classified Never Sinned (archived)
Open Thread 100.75 (archived)
Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society (archived)
Adversarial Collaboration Contest: Loose Ends And Registration (archived)
Open Thread 100.5 (archived)
Open Thread 100.25 (archived)
Call For Adversarial Collaborations (archived)
Mental Health On A Budget (archived)
OT100: One Hunthread (archived)
Gupta On Enlightenment (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Survey Harassment Rates (archived)
Open Thread 99.75 (archived)
SSC Survey Results: Sexual Harassment Levels By Field (archived)
Open Thread 99.5 (archived)
Recommendations vs. Guidelines (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On DC Graduation Rates (archived)
Open Thread 99.25 (archived)
Why DC’s Low Graduation Rates? (archived)
OT99: Alpine Thread (archived)
Links 4/18: Siter Plate (archived)
Adult Neurogenesis – A Pointed Review (archived)
Open Thread 98.75 (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Twelve Rules (archived)
Are The Amish Unhappy? Super Happy? Just Meh? (archived)
The Hour I First Believed (archived)
Open Thread 98.5 (archived)
Open Thread 98.25 (archived)
Book Review: Twelve Rules For Life (archived)
OT98: Vauban Thread (archived)
Navigating And/Or Avoiding The Inpatient Mental Health System (archived)
Open Thread 97.75 (archived)
The Dark Rule Utilitarian Argument For Science Piracy (archived)
Open Thread 97.5 (archived)
Open Thread 97.25 (archived)
OT97: Dopen Thread (archived)
Response To Current Affairs On Against Murderism (archived)
SSC Journal Club: Friston On Computational Mood (archived)
Open Thread 96.75 (archived)
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy (archived)
Open Thread 96.5 (archived)
SSC Meetup: Bay Area 3/3 (archived)
Open Thread 96.25 (archived)
Links 2/18: Link Biao Incident (archived)
SSC Journal Club: Cipriani On Antidepressants (archived)
OT96: Snopen Thread (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Technological Unemployment (archived)
Current Affairs’ “Some Puzzles For Libertarians”, Treated As Writing Prompts For Short Stories (archived)
Open Thread 95.75 (archived)
Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 95.5 (archived)
Five More Years (archived)
Even More Search Terms That Led People To This Blog (archived)
Open Thread 95.25 (archived)
More Testimonials For SSC (archived)
We’ve Got Five Years, What A Surprise (archived)
OT95: Zoetropen Thread (archived)
Guyenet On Motivation (archived)
Open Thread 94.75 (archived)
Predictions For 2018 (archived)
Open Thread 94.5 (archived)
Powerless Placebos (archived)
Open Thread 94.25 (archived)
The Invention Of Moral Narrative (archived)
Highlights From The Comments On Conflict Vs. Mistake (archived)
OT94: Isotopen Thread (archived)
SSC Survey Data On Models Of Political Conflict (archived)
Conflict Vs. Mistake (archived)
Open Thread 93.75 (archived)
Links 1/18: Helink Of Troy (archived)
Open Thread 93.5 (archived)
Practically-A-Book Review: Luna Whitepaper (archived)
Open Thread 93.25 (archived)
Bundles Of Joy (archived)
Maybe The Real Superintelligent AI Is Extremely Smart Computers (archived)
OT93: Giant Threadwood (archived)
Self-Serving Bias (archived)
Open Thread 92.75 (archived)
Fight Me, Psychologists: Birth Order Effects Exist And Are Very Strong (archived)
Open Thread 92.5 (archived)
Book Review: Madness And Civilization (archived)
SSC Survey Results 2018 (archived)
Open Thread 92.25 (archived)
2017 Predictions: Calibration Results (archived)
OT92: Ocean Thread (archived)
Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
Open Thread 91.75 (archived)
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Were There Dark Ages? (archived)
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SSC Survey Results On Trust (archived)
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Different Worlds (archived)
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My IRB Nightmare (archived)
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Partial Credit (archived)
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Fear And Loathing At Effective Altruism Global 2017 (archived)
OT82: Threado Quia Absurdum (archived)
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The Lizard People Of Alpha Draconis 1 Decided To Build An Ansible (archived)
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Change Minds Or Drive Turnout? (archived)
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Two Kinds Of Caution (archived)
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Conversation Deliberately Skirts The Border Of Incomprehensibility (archived)
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To Understand Polarization, Understand Conservativism’s Failures (archived)
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Against Murderism (archived)
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The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project (archived)
Those Modern Pathologies (archived)
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Bail Out (archived)
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Getting High On Your Own Supply (archived)
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Neutral vs. Conservative: The Eternal Struggle (archived)
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Anorexia And Metabolic Set Point (archived)
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Learning To Love Scientific Consensus (archived)
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Chametz (archived)
Clarification To “Sacred Principles As Exhaustible Resources” (archived)
Sacred Principles As Exhaustible Resources (archived)
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Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons (archived)
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[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother (archived)
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SSC Survey 2017 Results (archived)
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A Modern Myth (archived)
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Some Groups Of People Who May Not 100% Deserve Our Eternal Scorn (archived)
[REPOST] The Non-Libertarian FAQ (archived)
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Albion’s Seed, Genotyped (archived)
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SSC Survey 2017 (archived)
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Watch New Health Picks (archived)
Another Followup To “Economists On Education” (archived)
OT67: Comment Core (archived)
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Heuristics Work Until They Don’t (archived)
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Trump And The Batman Effect (archived)
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AI Persuasion Experiment Results (archived)
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The Heart Has Its Reasons That Reason Knows Not Of (archived)
AI Persuasion Followup Survey (archived)
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The Moral Of The Story (archived)
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Somewhat Against Psychiatric Conditions As Domestication Failure (archived)
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He Kept Us Out Of War? (archived)
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AI Persuasion Experiment (archived)
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Some Context For That NYT Sugar Article (archived)
It’s Bayes All The Way Up (archived)
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Reverse Voxsplaining: Brand-Name Drugs (archived)
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The View From Ground Level (archived)
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How The West Was Won (archived)
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Things Probably Matter (archived)
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3/4 (archived)
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Three More Articles On Poverty, And Why They Disagree With Each Other (archived)
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Ketamine Research In A New Light (archived)
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Ascended Economy? (archived)
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Teachers: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (archived)
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Skin In The Game (archived)
Solidarity (archived)
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SSC Bay Area Meetups 2016 (archived)
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A Theory About Religion (archived)
The Ideology Is Not The Movement (archived)
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Non-Shared Environment Doesn’t Just Mean Schools And Peers (archived)
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2016 Nootropics Survey Results (archived)
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Two Attitudes In Psychiatry (archived)
Nonfiction Writing Advice (archived)
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Staying Classy (archived)
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Side Effects May Include Anything (archived)
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Introducing Unsong (archived)
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Things That Are Not Superintelligences (archived)
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Should AI Be Open? (archived)
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Setting The Default (archived)
College And Critical Thinking (archived)
Links 11/15: Linksgiving (archived)
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Reporter Degrees Of Freedom (archived)
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Hardball Questions For The Next Debate (archived)
OT34: Subthreaddit (archived)
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Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth (archived)
OT33: Opeth Thread (archived)
2014 SSC Survey Results (archived)
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No Time Like The Present For AI Safety Work (archived)
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The Future Is Filters (archived)
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No Physical Substrate, No Problem (archived)
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Early Intervention: You *Might* Get What You Pay For (archived)
California Meetups (archived)
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