The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
Chris Stucchio recommended Matt Rognlie’s criticisms of Piketty (paper, summary, Voxsplainer). Rognl
[Original review is here. Don’t worry, people who had interesting comments on the review – I’ll try
[Epistemic status: I am not an economist. Many people who are economists have reviewed this book alr
Sometimes I imagine quitting my job and declaring war on cost disease in medicine. I would set up a
Last year, Bryan Caplan wrote about what he called The Unbearable Arbitrariness Of Deploring: Let’s
[Few people realize that the 1997 cult hit GATTACA was actually just the first film in a three-movie
I recently worked with a man who took LSD once in college and never stopped hallucinating. It’s been
[Content warning: suicide. Thanks to someone on Twitter I forget for alerting me to this question] A
These are some of the best comments from Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia. I’m
Dr. Matthew Dumont treated a 44 year old woman with depression, body dysmorphia, and psychosis. She
The New York Times recently reported on various anti-PC thinkers as “the intellectual dark web”, spa
Some Democrats angling for the 2020 presidential nomination have a big idea: a basic jobs guarantee,
In 2008, Paul Graham wrote How To Disagree Better, ranking arguments on a scale from name-calling to
I. A spectre is haunting Europe. Several spectres, actually. One of them is the spectre of communism
Thanks to everyone who expressed interest in the adversarial collaborations contest. There was a lo
An adversarial collaboration is an effort by two people with opposing opinions on a topic to collabo
Everyone knows medical care in the US is expensive even with insurance and prohibitively expensive w
That story about the blockchain-based dating site gets better: its designer is an enlightened being
[Content warning: harassment. This discusses the comments to SSC Survey Results: Sexual Harassment L
[content note: sexual harassment] I. Recent discussion of sexual harassment at work has focused on a
