The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
Medicine loves guidelines. But everywhere else, guidelines are still underappreciated. Consider a re
Bizzolt writes: DC Public Schools HS teacher here (although I’m not returning next year, as is the
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[I am not a neuroscientist and apologize in advance for any errors in this article.] Hey, let’s revi
From sclmlw: While I don’t agree with lots of Jordan Peterson, I think Scott fundamentally missed t
Recently on Marginal Revolution: Are the Amish unhappy? The average levels of life satisfaction [am
There’s a Jewish tradition that laypeople should only speculate on the nature of God during Passover
I got Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules For Life for the same reason as the other 210,000 people: to ma
This is in response to questions I get about how to interact (or not interact) with the inpatient me
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A few months ago, I wrote Toward A Predictive Theory Of Depression, which used the predictive coding
I'm traveling and not in a position to record "SSC Journal Club: Friston on Computational Mood" so I
I’ve been trying to delve deeper into predictive processing theories of the brain, and I keep coming
I. The big news in psychiatry this month is Cipriani et al’s Comparative efficacy and acceptability
Thanks to everyone who commented on the post about technological unemployment. From Onyomi: Not say
[Taken from here.] I. Deep in the forest, thousands of miles from civilization, there is an isolate
[I am not an economist or an expert on this topic. This is my attempt to figure out what economists
Those yearly “predictions for next year” posts are starting to reach the limit of their usefulness.
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Last post I thanked some of the people who have contributed to this blog. But once again, it’s time
