The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:

“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”

#SSC #ASX #ScottAlexander

The whole of #SlateStarCodex (#AstralCodexTen) summarised down to one paragraph by a redditor:

“Science is hard. Coordination is hard. Change is coming. Be kind to each other.”

#SSC #ASX #ScottAlexander

Was just reminded of a short story:

... And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-deep-the-rabbit-hole-goes/

#fiction #story #shortstory #slatestarcodex #cyoa

@clacke @clacke #MalcolmMuggeridge is worth remembering. There's a (funny) review of his autobiography at https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/11/book-review-chronicles-of-wasted-time/

#SlateStarCodex

As for #LifeOfBrian, the funniest part in my opinion is the #Latin lesson: https://invidious.weblibre.org/watch?v=0lczHvB3Y9s

#MontyPython

@freakazoid I used to believe that high rates of US gun deaths resulted from Americans having a violent culture and crazy beliefs about the importance of guns for liberty. This article in #SlateStarCodex convinced me that it's more complicated: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/

Well, I still think it's crazy to put a right to bear arms at the same level as the right to free speech; but I try not to be a smug foreigner when discussing #uspol .

#guns

@atyh
#SlateStarCodex did an essay a few years ago about conflict vs. mistake theorists: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/

Your point that "people have more in common with each other than they think" is possibly a sign that disagreements are driven more frequently by mistakes than previously thought.

Changing subjects a bit, if I may ask, what "wide variety of perspectives" did you find to be particularly interesting or different?

"It turned out atomic bombs could initiate lithium-7 fusion after all! As Ord puts it, “of the two major thermonuclear calculations made that summer at Berkeley, they got one right and one wrong”. This doesn’t really seem like the kind of crazy anecdote you could tell in a civilization that was taking existential risk seriously enough."

#ExistentialRisk
#SlateStarCodex #AstralCodexTen

I just read, over the course of several days, #SlateStarCodex’s “Non-Libertarian FAQ” (years ago I had only skimmed it).

It is a brilliant text, as usual, and it reminded me why although I read and flirt at times with different ideologies I remain mostly a #moderate — why I don’t call myself a #libertarian or an #anarchocapitalist; but rather someone with libertarian sympathies, or perhaps a (classic) #liberal.

It reminded me why absolute #libertarianism or #anarchism as ideologies and moral systems, in particular, may feel rational, coherent, complete and desirable… without being any of those things.

Which does not imply, of course, that some specific governments nowadays would not do better by moving closer to the libertarian pole!

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#ACX #AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex #ScottAlexander #meetup #event #Madrid

@clacke @publius There's a (long, but funny) review of a #HerbertHoover biography here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/17/book-review-hoover/

#SlateStarCodex
#AstralCodexTen

Any fans of #slatestarcodex #astralcodexten in the fediverse? Looking for someone to follow. 🤓

Man, do I love #StevenPinker…

“A typical essay by #ScottAlexander is deeper, better reasoned, better referenced, more original, and wittier than 99% of the opinion pieces in #MSM. It's sad that the #NYT can see him only through the lens of their standard political & cultural obsessions.”

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1360787817459253251
#SSC #SlateStarCodex #rationalism

"In the New York Times' worldview, they start with the right to dox me, and I had to earn the right to remain anonymous by proving I'm the perfect sympathetic victim who satisfies all their criteria of victimhood. But in my worldview, I start with the right to anonymity, and they need to make an affirmative case for doxxing me."

"Still Alive" from Astral Codex Ten https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive

#Internet #anonymity #AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex

"This got some press lately when Moderna had to disclose to the FDA that one of the coronavirus vaccine patients got struck by lightning; after a review, this was declared probably unrelated."

WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise - Astral Codex Ten
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible

#AstralCodexTen
#SlateStarCodex
#FDA #MedicalRegulators

השעה 11pm ואני מקבל לאינבוקס כמעט 400(!!) הודעות נכנסות. סקוט אלכסנדר החליט להחזיר את הבלוג שלו #SlateStarCodex ולא חשב לבטל את האוטומציה של ההודעות על פוסטים חדשים
#scottalexander​

Second #acc post on #slatestarcodex, this one on the ethics of meat: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/12/11/acc-is-eating-meat-a-net-harm/ .

Much better than the previous one, I would dare to say this is as good as one can expect from non-professional adversarial collaborations.

Scott Alexander about public comment sections: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

I strongly recommend his blog, "about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism". He is a psychiatrist and there is, among many other things, some very interesting discussions about drugs and brains. He conducts a survey of his readers every year that sometimes yields surprising results. This year, there was unfortunately no significant correlation between corn eating habits and preferences between algebra and analysis.

#slatestarcodex

(Hat tip to @RyanE for mentioning the #slateStarCodex post to me—even though I usually read that blog, I'd somehow missed the link to my own post!)

From #slatestarcodex, a collection of random internet links from this month.

haven't read all the way through, various CWs might apply (sorry for not checking)

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/27/links-2-18-link-biao-incident/

Cw not in a cw tag: article contains numerous slurs aimed at all sorts of people

In which Scott Alexander highlights some comments that ""praise"" #slatestarcodex—I had a good laugh at how he's accused of being a filthy rightist libertarian, a gross sjw, but racist, but conservative, but liberal, etc…

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/13/more-testimonials-for-ssc/