#Slatestarcodex

Dan Stern

danstern_

Never understood the point of mythology until reading Joseph Campbell's ideas on itIt powers ALL cultures and informs us of what we should care about and what we can even

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RokoMijicUK

In the 2010-2020 window I did a very costly experiment where I wasted the best years of my life in order to 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 determine that money is the most important

Tom Chivers

TomChivers

Conveniently, since we're all having ANOTHER row about whether you can be left-wing and patriotic, I wrote about it almost exactly a year ago the last time we had the

Paul Matzko

PMatzko

The New York Times article about SlateStarCodex is finally out and it is...bad. There's a lot I could parse, but let me just walk you through one paragraph that is

Nick Cammarata

nickcammarata

Current feeling on meta-science: I’m not sure anyone — authors, readers, etc — actually likes papers. What if we just got rid of them?What could we replace them with? conjecture:

Tom Chivers

TomChivers

I've been reading @edwest's book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History, and I have ~thoughts~. First, it's *fascinating* as a sort of intellectual anthropology exercise, to read something

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sonyasupposedly

I think it was @wesyang who pointed out that some unknowable but large subset of those who "just don't test well" are actually simply not as smart. Which is fine!

vitalik.eth

VitalikButerin

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that issues of identity are the main ground of disagreement between many in the crypto community and @RadxChange.Thread: First of all, by identity, I

jonstokes.com

jonst0kes

As a way to think about the stakes in the AI debate:A language model like GPT-3, which trains on a corpus of text & produces new text in response to

Free Northerner

FreeNortherner

Reading @slatestarcodex's newest piece on @ezraklein's book on polarization, they miss the most obvious cause of polarization: that America is two* distinct nations with differing values ruled by the same

(((E. Glen Weyl)))

glenweyl

I am grateful to @slatestarcodex for taking the time to respond to my critique of technocracy. There is a lot there to respond to and in general I think the

Muhammad Fawwaz Abiyyu Anvilen

fawwazanvilen

Takeaway terbesarku dari keributan Bali ini adalah eksodus orang dari negara maju ke berkembang itu akan berjalan terus (susah dibendung, insentifnya juga besar). Kekhawatiran tentang gentrifikasi (secara lebih umum, masalah

Corey Wolf

DrCoreyWolf

Should we treat economics as if God matters? Dr. Levi Russell (@CatholicEcon) makes the case we should. B/c if an economic system is premised upon a lie (unlimited growth), it

pete wolfendale

deontologistics

I have a lot of disagreements with @slatestarcodex, but this is genuinely one of the best essays I’ve ever read about death and personal autonomy:https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/ The only thing that beats

I am not Scott Alexander Siskind

NotScottSiskind

Scott Alexander on police racism: Well Actually, it's a Liberal Myth, political correctness run amok"To give just one example, every number and line of evidence we have suggests that the

Kelsey Piper

KelseyTuoc

As a teenager, I idolized Scott Alexander of SlateStarCodex, who wrote deep, compassionate and fascinating stuff about politics, history, medicine, AI, charitable giving, depression and anxiety, rationality, language and how

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