The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
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Aquinas famously said: beware the man of one book. I would add: beware the man of one study. For exa
Ribbonfarm likes to talk about refactoring, a conceptual change in how you see the world. I’m not to
A recent discussion: somebody asked why people in Silicon Valley thought that only high-tech solutio
Donald Trump has been called a setback for many things. America. The global community. The environme
One interesting thing I took from Evolutionary Psychopathology was a better understanding of the dia
[Content note: eating disorders] Anorexia has a cultural component. I’m usually reluctant to assume
I. Evolutionary psychology is famous for having lots of stories that make sense but are hard to test
I. The Mind Illuminated is a guide to Buddhist meditation by Culadasa, aka John Yates, a Buddhist m
[This post was up a few weeks ago before getting taken down for complicated reasons. They have been
[Content warning: scrupulosity] I. “There is no ethical consumption under late capitalism”. I hear t
I. A lot of people pushed back against my post on preschool, so it looks like we need to discuss thi
In 2016, I wrote Ketamine Research In A New Light, which discussed the emerging consensus that, cont
Four years ago I examined the claim that SSRIs are little better than placebo. Since then, some of m
[Originally to be titled “Marijuana: I Was Wrong”, but looking back I was suitably careful about eve
Kelsey Piper has written an article for Vox: Early Childhood Education Yields Big Benefits – Just No
These are my preliminary choices for California elected positions and ballot initiatives. Some of th
[Epistemic status: low. You tell me if you think this works.] Commenter no_bear_so_low has been doin
[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is cra
I’ve gotten a chance to discuss The Whole City Is Center with a few people now. They remain skeptica
