London Rationalish Readings

Essays, blog posts, articles, and stories chosen for discussion by the London Rationalish group

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  1. Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cujpciCqNbawBihhQ/self-integrity-and-the-drowning-child

  2. Among the Unvaccinated

    https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/among-the-unvaccinated

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  1. "Taking your environment as object" vs "Being subject to your environment"

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aGxBbQNuahNrv7wxP/taking-your-environment-as-object-vs-being-subject-to-your

  2. Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work

    https://alexdanco.com/2021/01/11/why-the-canadian-tech-scene-doesnt-work/

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  1. Astral Codex Ten Meetup London April 2022

    https://lu.ma/ACXLondonApr2022

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  1. Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg: Preference Falsification and Postmodernism with Michael Vassar (93 minutes)

    https://clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/028

  2. Overconfidence is Deceit

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WsvpkCekuxYSkwsuG/overconfidence-is-deceit

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  1. Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

    https://rootsofprogress.org/andrew-carnegie-autobiography

  2. Be More Evil

    https://seekingquestions.blogspot.com/2017/06/be-more-evil.html

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  1. WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise

    https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible

  2. Why I Am Not In Charge

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cR7Zfrc4BtnFes46y/why-i-am-not-in-charge

  3. Still Not In Charge

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BbxHGqhxQ9f6zsNac/still-not-in-charge

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  1. Online Regulation of Terrorist and Harmful Content

    https://www.lawfareblog.com/online-regulation-terrorist-and-harmful-content

  2. Curing insanity with malaria

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AH3iGfz4ArJnXEEYs/curing-insanity-with-malaria

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  1. Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hNqte2p48nqKux3wS/trapped-priors-as-a-basic-problem-of-rationality

  2. Your cheerful price

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MzKKi7niyEqkBPnyu/your-cheerful-price

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  1. Everything Is Broken

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken

  2. Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics

    https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions

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  1. The Social Motte-and-Bailey

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/the-social-motte-and-bailey-b4d87aadbe1

  2. Book review: The Geography of Thought

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FM5PwzKaXojcktEue/book-review-the-geography-of-thought

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  1. Lena (fiction)

    https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

  2. Don't sell your soul

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YtisDHHhpxEh4e7zr/don-t-sell-your-soul

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  1. What can we learn from the lunar pandemic that never was?

    https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-learn-from-the-lunar-pandemic-that-never-was

  2. (🔊 podcast) Rationally Speaking: Chris Fraser on "The Mohists, ancient China's philosopher warriors"

    http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-223-chris-fraser-on-the-mohists-ancient-chinas-philosophe.html

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  1. Google Antitrust Notes

    https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/10/20/Google-Antitrust

  2. Science in a High-Dimensional World

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4XRjPocTprL4L8tmB/science-in-a-high-dimensional-world

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  1. Beyond the !Kung

    https://aeon.co/essays/not-all-early-human-societies-were-small-scale-egalitarian-bands

  2. Lessons from "The Book of My Life"

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9YDk52NPrfq7nqLvd/lessons-from-the-book-of-my-life

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  1. Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

    https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/02/18/election.html

  2. Motive Ambiguity

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/L6Ktf952cwdMJnzWm/motive-ambiguity

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  1. Naked mole-rats: a case study in biological weirdness

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fDKZZtTMTcGqvHnXd/naked-mole-rats-a-case-study-in-biological-weirdness

  2. The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

    http://paulgraham.com/genius.html

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  1. Anti-Aging: State of the Art

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RcifQCKkRc9XTjxC2/anti-aging-state-of-the-art

  2. Politics and the English Language

    https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

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  1. Progress, Stagnation, and Flying Cars

    https://rootsofprogress.org/where-is-my-flying-car

  2. Bob the Builder and the Neo-Puritan Deal

    http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bob-the-builder-and-the-neo-puritan-deal/

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  1. The view that the scientific process is “red tape,” just a bunch of hoops you need to jump through so you can move on with your life

    https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/05/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-scientific-process-according-to-the-people-who-are-in-charge-of-some-social-science-journals/

  2. Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom

    https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freedom-b5ab45cae2a5

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  1. Honest Putdowns

    https://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/09/honest-putdowns.html

  2. Reneging Prosocially

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/reneging-prosocially-5b44bdec3bb9

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  1. Liking What You See: A Documentary

    https://canvas.wayne.edu/courses/102861/files/3959556/download?download_frd=1

  2. Against Boots Theory

    http://reasonableapproximation.net/2020/09/14/against-boots-theory.html

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  1. Polio eradication: Current status and challenges

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893965/

  2. Global Rinderpest Eradication: Lessons Learned and Why Humans Should Celebrate Too

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144172/

  3. Vaccination and the theory of games

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC516577/

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  1. Book Review: Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-consciousness-in-the-breakdown-of-the-bicameral-mind/

  2. The Origin of Consciousness Reading Companion Part 1

    https://putanumonit.com/2020/04/05/the-origin-companion-part-1/

  3. Sex, Lies, and Canaanites

    https://putanumonit.com/2020/04/18/sex-lies-and-canaanites/

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  1. Open Problems in Group Rationality

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/open-problems-in-group-rationality-5636440a2cd1

  2. Loneliness and the Paradox of Choice

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kdYiDBjYRbXQZkTxm/loneliness-and-the-paradox-of-choice

  3. What journalists should know about the atomic bombings

    http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2020/06/09/what-journalists-should-know-about-the-atomic-bombings/

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  1. The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising

    https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-here-its-called-online-advertising/13228924500-22d5fd24

  2. The Loudest Alarm is Probably False

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/B2CfMNfay2P8f2yyc/the-loudest-alarm-is-probably-false

  3. Collections: Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?

    https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-chemical-weapons-anymore/

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  1. Can you keep this confidential? How do you know?

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/rz73eva3jv267Hy7B/can-you-keep-this-confidential-how-do-you-know

  2. Parameters of privacy

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/afqz78RTjGB9a7MPe/parameters-of-privacy

  3. On progress and historical change

    https://www.exurbe.com/on-progress-and-historical-change/

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  1. To Adapt to Tech, We're Heading Into the Shadows

    https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-to-adapt-to-tech-were-heading-into-the-shadows/

  2. Taxonomic vandalism and the Raymond Hoser problem

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/taxonomic-vandalism-and-hoser/

  3. Lurking More Before Joining Complex Conversations

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/sj4mWbeiX3XDJr8ZR/lurking-more-before-joining-complex-conversations

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  1. Sequence Thinking vs. Cluster Thinking

    https://blog.givewell.org/2014/06/10/sequence-thinking-vs-cluster-thinking/

  2. The Submarine

    http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

  3. How to Get Worse at StarCraft II

    https://illiteracyhasdownsides.com/2020/06/13/how-to-get-worse-at-starcraft-ii/

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  1. What to write down when you're reading to learn

    https://acesounderglass.com/2020/06/10/what-to-write-down-when-youre-reading-to-learn/

  2. In Defense of Meyers Briggs

    https://dynomight.home.blog/2020/06/12/in-defense-of-meyers-briggs/

  3. The Worldwide Scavenger Hunt For Vintage, Low-Radiation Metals

    https://www.good.is/articles/the-search-for-low-background-steel

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  1. What is Rationality?

    https://atlaspragmatica.com/what-is-rationality/

  2. Book Review: Hoover

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/17/book-review-hoover/

  3. The Hierarchy of Requests

    https://celandine13.livejournal.com/72711.html

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  1. The EMH Aten’t Dead

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/utySCY9nJt9xGYGGQ/the-emh-aten-t-dead

  2. Ketosis – advantaged or misunderstood state? (Part I)

    https://peterattiamd.com/ketosis-advantaged-or-misunderstood-state-part-i/

  3. Studies on Slack

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/12/studies-on-slack/

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  1. Simulacra and Subjectivity

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fEX7G2N7CtmZQ3eB5/simulacra-and-subjectivity

  2. Negative Feedback and Simulacra

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Z5wF8mdonsM2AuGgt/negative-feedback-and-simulacra

  3. Against Dog Ownership

    https://dormin.org/2020/03/21/against-dog-ownership/

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  1. Social media is the perfect petri dish for bias. The solution is for tech companies to slow us down.

    https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/2019/9/3/20842654/jennifer-eberhardt-biased-social-media-nextdoor-racial-profiling-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast

  2. Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ivpKSjM4D6FbqF4pZ/cortes-pizarro-and-afonso-as-precedents-for-takeover

  3. On Liberty vs. Efficiency

    http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/on-liberty-vs-efficiency.html

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  1. Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/DGoK3QeaXFu5Mvxh8/epistemic-standards-for-why-did-it-take-so-long-to-invent-x

  2. Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.

    https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-will-do-what-we-ask-thats-a-problem-20200130/

  3. Invalidating Imaginary Injury

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/invalidating-imaginary-injury-45e9a265e80

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  1. The history of smallpox and the origin of vaccines

    https://rootsofprogress.org/smallpox-and-vaccines

  2. Meetups as institutions for intellectual progress

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/TBbPTBdApovxhM7NC/meetups-as-institutions-for-intellectual-progress

  3. Between the Spreadsheets: The management consultant’s guide to love and sex

    https://www.1843magazine.com/features/between-the-spreadsheets

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  1. The 12 Second Rule (i.e. think before answering) and other Epistemic Norms

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/7kBWMfeRjXQbfxqHL/the-12-second-rule-i-e-think-before-answering-and-other

  2. Picture Frames, Window Frames and Frameworks

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bhSjufKtnPRWqW52h/picture-frames-window-frames-and-frameworks-1

  3. Why introductory chemistry is boring: a long-term historical perspective

    https://get21stnight.com/2019/12/27/why-introductory-chemistry-is-boring-a-long-term-historical-perspective/

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  1. Iron: From mythical to mundane

    https://rootsofprogress.org/iron-from-mythical-to-mundane

  2. The Tale of Alice Almost: Strategies for Dealing With Pretty Good People

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/QLmSFeFexgTLsNeeA/the-tale-of-alice-almost-strategies-for-dealing-with-pretty

  3. The Relationship Between the Village and the Mission

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/yGycR8tFA3JJbvApp/the-relationship-between-the-village-and-the-mission

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  1. Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bNXdnRTpSXk9p4zmi/book-review-design-principles-of-biological-circuits

  2. GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

  3. Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/8xLtE3BwgegJ7WBbf/is-rationalist-self-improvement-real

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  1. Book Review: Impro by Keith Johnstone

    http://theoryengine.org/mental-health/book-review-impro-by-keith-johnstone/

  2. The Lesson to Unlearn

    http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html

  3. Approval Extraction Advertised as Production

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/ypXHnS3vWeDRmDsK9/approval-extraction-advertised-as-production

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  1. Ethics and Actuaries

    https://magic-maths-money.blogspot.com/2019/05/ethics-and-actuaries-issues-and.html

  2. The Lesson of Bretton Woods

    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-23/bretton-woods-75th-anniversary-expect-the-unexpected

  3. How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

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  1. Scott and Scurvy

    https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

  2. The Coming Boeing Bailout

    https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout

  3. Power Buys You Distance From The Crime

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/9fB4gvoooNYa4t56S/power-buys-you-distance-from-the-crime

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  1. Why I Am Not A Technocrat

    https://radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-08-19-bv61r6/

  2. Slavery 2.0 and how to avoid it: a practical guide for cyborgs

    https://ar.al/2019/05/02/slavery-2.0-and-how-to-avoid-it-a-practical-guide-for-cyborgs/

  3. Book Review: The Secrets of Alchemy

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/cnS7X2MKuqXtzmcRA/book-review-the-secrets-of-alchemy

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  1. Consciousness and its Place in Nature

    http://consc.net/papers/nature.pdf

  2. Going Critical

    https://www.meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/

  3. Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting

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  1. Against “System 1” and “System 2”

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/HbXXd2givHBBLxr3d/against-system-1-and-system-2-subagent-sequence

  2. Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity (original paper: https://www.genetics.org/content/210/3/1109)

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/gsoa-fto103118.php

  3. Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/

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  1. Intellectual Dark Matter

    https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/intellectual-dark-matter-2e5890aa8d8f

  2. The Proper Use of Humility

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GrDqnMjhqoxiqpQPw/the-proper-use-of-humility

  3. Postmodernism for Rationalists

    https://palegreendot.net/assets/2017-10-09/postmodernism_for_rationalists.pdf

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  1. From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/sYt3ZCrBq2QAf3rak/from-personal-to-prison-gangs-enforcing-prosocial-behavior

  2. The Art of Decision-Making

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making

  3. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

    https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle

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  1. The Schelling Choice is “Rabbit”, not “Stag”

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/zp5AEENssb8ZDnoZR/the-schelling-choice-is-rabbit-not-stag-1?

  2. Some Ways Coordination is Hard

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/6XfeAxBQw2sxvbTMR/some-ways-coordination-is-hard

  3. How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance

    https://fastjetperformance.com/podcasts/how-i-almost-destroyed-a-50-million-war-plane-when-display-flying-goes-wrong-and-the-normalisation-of-deviance/

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  1. Separation of Concerns

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/o6GS3JoWKeuuvBPSK/separation-of-concerns

  2. It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html

  3. No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you

    https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-incentives-its-you/

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  1. You Have About Five Words

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/4ZvJab25tDebB8FGE/you-have-about-five-words

  2. Ads Don't Work That Way

    https://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

  3. The Trade Secret: Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

    https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack-data-recovery-firms-paying-hackers/

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  1. Thesis Culture

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/thesis-culture-f3f55fddedfc

  2. Lifestyle Interventions to Increase Longevity

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PhXENjdXiHhsWGfQo/lifestyle-interventions-to-increase-longevity

  3. The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason-that-there-are-so-many-thai-restaurants-in-america

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  1. Justice-Related Objections to Effective Altruism

    https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/more/Danaher20160216

  2. Deep Laziness

    https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/deep-laziness/

  3. Patterned Meaning

    http://coyotespike.github.io/philosophy/2019/05/11/PatternedMeaning.html

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  1. Degrees of freedom

    https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/04/02/degrees-of-freedom/

  2. The Vulnerable World Hypothesis

    https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

  3. A Critical View of the Agile Manifesto

    https://sdtimes.com/agile/a-critical-view-of-the-agile-manifesto/

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  1. Mountains Beyond Mountains and the case against cost effectiveness

    https://acesounderglass.com/2015/09/30/mountains-beyond-mountains-tracy-kidder-and-the-case-against-cost-effectiveness/

  2. The Fitness Industry Is Dead

    https://breakingmuscle.com/learn/the-fitness-industry-is-dead

  3. Augmenting Long-term Memory

    http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

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  1. In My Culture

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/in-my-culture-29c6464072b2

  2. The Humility Argument for Honesty

    http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humility-argument-honesty/

  3. You Should (Probably) Lift Weights

    http://redd.it/9h2jbi

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  1. A Positive Account of Property Rights

    http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html

  2. Checkmate on Blackmail

    http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/02/checkmate-on-blackmail.html

  3. Blackmail

    https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/blackmail/

  4. Blackmailers are Privateers in the War on Hypocrisy

    http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blackmailers-are-privateers-in-the-war-on-hypocrisy/

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  1. The Bounty Hunter's Pursuit of Justice

    http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/bounty-hunters-pursuit-justice

  2. Why American Costs Are So High

    https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-costs-are-so-high-work-in-progress/

  3. Littlewood's law and the global media

    https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood

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  1. The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/

  2. This is the Dream Time

    http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time.html

  3. The Asshole Filter

    https://siderea.livejournal.com/1230660.html

  4. A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism

    http://dresdencodak.com/2009/05/15/a-thinking-apes-critique-of-trans-simianism-repost

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  1. How to Beat Procrastination

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RWo4LwFzpHNQCTcYt/how-to-beat-procrastination

  2. Humans are not automatically strategic

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PBRWb2Em5SNeWYwwB/humans-are-not-automatically-strategic

  3. Life Extension Cost-Benefits

    https://www.gwern.net/Longevity

  4. The Vimes boots theory: further reflections

    https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1477942.html

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  1. Japan's hometown tax

    https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/

  2. Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/

  3. A natural history of beauty

    https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/

  4. Stop trying to try and try

    http://mindingourway.com/stop-trying-to-try-and-try/

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  1. Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive?

    https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08/is-the-fda-too-conservative-or-too-aggressive.html

  2. The 'cruel joke' of compassionate use and right to try: Pharma companies don’t have to comply

    https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/05/right-to-try-compassionate-use-pharma-compliance/

  3. Against Waldenponding

    https://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/against-waldenponding

  4. How To Train Noticing

    http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-to-train-noticing.html

  5. Why the Tails Come Apart

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dC7mP5nSwvpL65Qu5/why-the-tails-come-apart

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  1. Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong

    https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/phlegm-theories-of-consciousness/472812/

  2. The Case Against News

    https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/the_case_agains_6.html

  3. Innocence is Irrelevant

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocence-is-irrelevant/534171/

  4. Technology forecasting errors: functional fixedness in assuming dependencies

    https://www.gwern.net/Complexity-vs-AI#technology-forecasting-errors-functional-fixedness-in-assuming-dependencies

#

  1. Fundamental Value Differences Are Not That Fundamental

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/18/fundamental-value-differences-are-not-that-fundamental/

  2. The Whole City Is Center

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/18/the-whole-city-is-center/

  3. Value Differences As Differently Crystallized Metaphysical Heuristics

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/24/value-differences-as-differently-crystallized-metaphysical-heuristics/

  4. Nominating Oneself For The Short End Of A Tradeoff

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/24/nominating-oneself-for-the-short-end-of-a-tradeoff/

#

  1. Diversify your identity

    https://markmanson.net/diversify-your-identity

  2. Conscious dreaming and controlled hallucinations

    http://www.shaman-australis.com/~claude/dreams.html

  3. In defense of flogging

    https://harpers.org/blog/2011/07/in-defense-of-flogging-six-questions-for-peter-moskos/

#

  1. How Doctors Die

    http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/

  2. Doctors Really Do Die Differently

    http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/07/23/doctors-really-do-die-differently/ideas/nexus/

  3. Out to Get You

    https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/23/out-to-get-you/

  4. Rationality

    https://putanumonit.com/2016/05/17/rationality/

  5. Comparing Income & Sex Redistribution

    http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-redistribution.html

#

  1. Sabbath Hard and Go Home

    http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/

  2. Bring Back the Sabbath

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZoCitBiBv97WEWpX5/bring-back-the-sabbath

  3. The illusion of understanding

    https://meaningness.com/understanding

  4. The Tyranny of Structurelessness

    https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

  5. Delong vs. Krugman on Globalization

    http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/delong-vs-krugman-on-globalization.html

#

  1. When Your Left Arm Becomes A Chicken

    https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2016/01/when-your-left-arm-becomes-chicken-dont.html

  2. The New Politics of Meaning

    https://meaningness.com/metablog/communal-vs-systematic-politics

  3. Can Economists and Humanists Ever be Friends?

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/23/can-economists-and-humanists-ever-be-friends

  4. Yuppie Fishtanks: YIMBYism explained without "supply and demand"

    https://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/yimbyism-explained-without-supply-and.html

  5. The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics

    http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cambist-and-lord-iron-a-fairy-tale-of-economics/

#

  1. Dragon Army Theory and Charter

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/dragon-army-theory-charter-8192dc64ea22

  2. Dragon Army Retrospective

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/dragon-army-retrospective-597faf182e50

  3. Beware Systemic Change

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/22/beware-systemic-change/

  4. The Meaning of Mood

    http://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/12/the_meaning_of_2.html

  5. Care Less about STIs

    https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/care-less-about-stis/

#

  1. Stuck In The Middle With Bruce

    http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/2005_Stuck_In_The_Middle_With_Bruce.html

  2. A review of The Case Against Education

    https://quillette.com/2018/06/03/bryan-caplans-case-education-review/

  3. Monopoly: A Manifesto and Fact Post

    https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/monopoly-a-manifesto-and-fact-post/

  4. What If Facebook And Twitter Made You Read An Article Before You Could Share It?

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/15/what-if-facebook-and-twitter-made-you-read-an-article-before-you-could-share-it/

  5. The Mathematical World

    https://aeon.co/essays/aristotle-was-right-about-mathematics-after-all

#

  1. In defense of Punch Bug

    https://medium.com/@ThingMaker/in-defense-of-punch-bug-68fcec56cd6b

  2. AI Nationalism

    https://www.ianhogarth.com/blog/2018/6/13/ai-nationalism

  3. Prickles and Goo

    http://meltingasphalt.com/prickles-and-goo/

  4. Probability is in the Mind

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f6ZLxEWaankRZ2Crv/probability-is-in-the-mind

  5. Probability is Subjectively Objective

    https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XhaKvQyHzeXdNnFKy/probability-is-subjectively-objective

#

  1. 🎮 Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

    https://reason.com/archives/2017/06/13/young-men-are-playing-video-ga

  2. 💰 Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/

  3. 📄 Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling

    https://wiki.quanticle.net/Main/InstitutionalMemoryAndReverseSmuggling

  4. 🧠 Understand - Ted Chiang

    https://royallib.com/read/Chiang_Ted/Understand.html

#

  1. On Types of Typologies

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/27/on-types-of-typologies/

  2. Coping with Compulsive Behavior

    https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/coping-with-compulsive-behavior/

  3. Book Review: History of the Fabian Society

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/30/book-review-history-of-the-fabian-society/

  4. The Long-Term Significance of Reducing Global Catastrophic Risk

    https://blog.givewell.org/2015/08/13/the-long-term-significance-of-reducing-global-catastrophic-risks/

  5. The Gig Economy

    https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the-gig-economy-2/

#

  1. Caring Less

    https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2018/03/13/caring-less/

  2. Ethics is Advertising

    https://vividness.live/2015/10/05/buddhist-ethics-is-advertising/

  3. On Punitive Restoration

    https://quarterly.demos.co.uk/article/issue-2/on-punitive-restoration/

  4. Class

    https://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light

  5. Staying Classy

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/30/staying-classy/

#

  1. Inadequacy and Modesty

    https://equilibriabook.com/inadequacy-and-modesty/

  2. For Signaling Part I

    https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/for-signaling-part-i/

  3. What's College Good For

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/?utm_source=atltw

  4. College Isn't a Waste of Time

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-11/college-isn-t-a-waste-of-time

  5. Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

    http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-communitarianism/

#

  1. The Bummer Economy

    https://putanumonit.com/2016/04/02/021_bummer/

  2. Familiar Finance

    https://putanumonit.com/2017/02/27/familiar-finance/

  3. Time Well Spent

    https://putanumonit.com/2017/05/09/time-well-spent/

  4. Strong men are socialist, reports study that previously reported the opposite

    https://putanumonit.com/2017/05/27/strong-men-are-socialist-reports-a-study-that-previously-reported-the-opposite/

#

  1. Simulating Religion

    https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/simulating-religion

  2. How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180224175641/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-28/how-utah-keeps-the-american-dream-alive

  3. You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/you-can-t-have-denmark-without-danes

  4. The Craft & The Community - A Post-Mortem & Resurrection

    https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/wmEcNP3KFEGPZaFJk/the-craft-and-the-community-a-post-mortem-and-resurrection

#

  1. Automoderation

    http://ferocioustruth.com/2017/automoderation/

  2. Narrative Fallacy

    https://www.fs.blog/2016/04/narrative-fallacy/

  3. The Intelligent Social Web

    https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/AqbWna2S85pFTsHH4/the-intelligent-social-web

  4. Keep Your Identity Small

    http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

  5. How to Be Happy

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/

#

  1. I, Pencil

    http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

  2. How To Do What You Love

    http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

  3. A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

    https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/

  4. Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development

    https://nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html

  5. A Hanging

    http://orwell.ru/library/articles/hanging/english/e_hanging

#

  1. Wait Culture vs. Interrupt Culture

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5n/wait_vs_interrupt_culture/

  2. Interpretive Labor

    https://acesounderglass.com/2015/06/09/interpretive-labor/

  3. Ra

    https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/

  4. The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

    https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/

  5. Theory of Change

    http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

#

  1. Ask and Guess

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/375/ask_and_guess/

  2. Tell Culture

    http://lesswrong.com/lw/jis/tell_culture/

  3. Reveal Culture

    http://malcolmocean.com/2015/06/reveal-culture/

  4. Against Tell Culture

    https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/against-tell-culture/

  5. Against Being For or Against Tell Culture

    http://agentyduck.blogspot.com/2015/05/against-being-for-or-against-tell.html

#

  1. Cargo Cult Science

    http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

  2. The Pleasures of Drowning

    https://samharris.org/the-pleasures-of-drowning/

  3. Failing with Abandon

    http://mindingourway.com/failing-with-abandon/

  4. Rest in Motion

    http://mindingourway.com/rest-in-motion/

  5. Politics and the English Language

    http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit