I've been surprised by how many of my friends told me they didn't know Scott Alexander. He is, with no exaggeration, by #1 favorite online writer. His writing is extraordinarily smart and yet clear and simple. You can find all 2,000 pages of it here
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A few of my faves:
- I can tolerate anything except the outgroup
- Meditations on Moloch
- Contra grant on exaggerates differences
- Surfing uncertainty
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(I don't think I'm going against his intent to stay hidden when I post this — he's worried of being found online through things like Google. But I'll prob delete this tweet soon anyway, just to be safe)
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Some others:
- I myself am a scientismist
- Reactionary philosophy in an enormous, planet-sized nutshell
- Book review: Singer on Marx
- Gay rites are civil rites
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I love so many of these of course, but I'll suggest an oddball: "Universal love, said the cactus person"
I think about this sequence all the time:
Oh man this one was excellent
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Amazing, didn’t know about this one. Puts words on something I’ve been having a hard time expressing for a long time
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ok so I'm going to read this article the next free moment I have. Extremely intrigued.