The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
HalTheWise discusses a factor I missed (until I sneakily edited it in, so you may have read the lat
0: Introduction This is from businessstudent.com Acceptance rates at top colleges have declined by
Reciprocity is a simple dating site, created by some friends of mine. You sign up and see a list of
Timothy Carey’s Method Of Levels teaches a form of psychotherapy based on perceptual control theory.
RJ Zigerell (h/t Marginal Revolution) studies public support for eugenics. He finds that about 40% o
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. “Mutton” takes the popular vot
Commenter Tibbar used Mechanical Turk to replicate my survey on how people thought about the moral
[EDIT: No longer confident in this post, see edit note at bottom. May formally partially-retract it
Elephants have bigger brains than humans, so why aren’t they smarter than we are? The classic answer
Wired wrote a good article about Karl Friston, the neuroscientist whose works I’ve puzzled over here
They say “don’t judge a book by its cover”. So in case you were withholding judgment: yes, this brig
Gwern has answered my prayers and taught GPT-2 poetry. GPT-2 is the language processing system that
Here’s a graph of US air pollution over time: During the discussion of 90s environmentalism, some
[Related to: Book Review: Albion’s Seed] [Epistemic status: Not too serious] I realize I’ve been con
I. Albion’s Seed by David Fischer is a history professor’s nine-hundred-page treatise on patterns o
Last week the FDA approved esketamine for treatment-resistant depression. Let’s review how the pharm
[Title from this unrelated story or this unrelated essay] Last week I wrote about how conspiracy the
[With apologies to Putnam, Pope, and all of you] Two children are reading a text written by an AI:
The Verge writes a story (an exposé?) on the Facebook-moderation industry. It goes through the stand
Imagine a black box which, when you pressed a button, would generate a scientific hypothesis. 50% of
