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SF-based writer & speaker focused on reasoning, judgment, and the future of humanity. Host of the Rationally Speaking podcast ()

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    18 Feb 2017

    Things that make my heart sing: 1. Pareto improvements 2. People updating on evidence 3. People cooperating in one-off prisoner's dilemmas

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    Jun 25

    Love this idea of a "pocket neighborhood", a cluster of homes around a shared open space that allows neighbors to interact on a daily basis but also to have increasing layers of privacy h/t

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  3. Jun 25

    ... In my defense, I did catch other potentially embarrassing typos, including "condensed metaphysics" (was supposed to be "condensed matter physics")

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  4. Jun 25

    Uh, guys, I didn't notice this during my read-through, but my transcriber seems to have written "Plank mouse" instead of "Planck mass" 🙈 I'll post a corrected transcript soon!

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  5. Jun 25

    Are physicists too enamored of beautiful theories about how the universe works, at the expense of their ability to find actually true theories? Physicist argues that they are. New episode of (full transcript available, as always):

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  6. Jun 24

    BTW I used this recipe, below (I added the chunk of butter at the end bc that's how I saw it in a Georgian restaurant. After serving like this, you mix the egg + butter into the cheese, then eat by tearing off pieces of bread and dipping in the cheese mix)

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  7. Jun 24

    Broke: baking someone a birthday cake Woke: baking someone a birthday khachapuri

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  8. Jun 23

    Airtight proof:

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  9. Jun 19

    A mysterious clogged drain stumps hotel staff. I won't give away the ending, but it's equal parts hilarious and terrifying. Ostensibly true story:

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    Jun 19

    Officially a quorum

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  11. Jun 19

    This is an actual, serious book from 1982 about spanking your kids Man, that title

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    Jun 19

    Demography facts according to this gif, from most to least obvious: 1) the 1-child policy happened 2) the great leap forward sure also happened 3) the results... somehow strongly resemble each country's traditional architecture? 🧐

    Comparing population pyramids of and reveals different challenges for the two emerging giants.
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  13. Jun 18

    Search term that led someone to my blog: "are we safe from angry julia galefs"

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    Jun 12

    1960s: Walter Keane is one of the decade's most successful painters, his career nearly culminating in an exhibition at the 1964 World's Fair (sabotaged by an NYT art critic, who calls his "big eyes" aesthetic "tasteless hack work"). Turns out, Keane's not a hack — he's a fraud.

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  15. Jun 12

    My favorite IQ researcher may resemble a "cartoonish... startled hedgehog," per his Twitter bio, but he makes a great podcast guest. New features us discussing conceptual objections to IQ testing: (Free transcript available too)

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  16. Jun 10

    The case against trust-building exercises. Via

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  17. Jun 10

    Article on the deceptiveness of the Stanford Prison Experiment: This quote is a common kind of reaction when research/news is discredited: "Well, the literal truth doesn't really matter, what matters is that it got people thinking about an important topic"

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  18. Jun 10

    Westworld apologetics: an attempt to patch the show's plot holes in a somewhat satisfying way. Example below. I wish we had apologetics for other TV/movies, I feel like they would increase my enjoyment a lot.

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    Jun 9

    Alexa: remind me to feed the baby

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  20. Jun 9

    Another illustration, below -- doesn't the caption sound awfully modern?? ("These are not exaggerated at all. The skirts really look like this.")

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  21. Jun 9

    In 1910, fashionable women were wearing their skirts so tight around the ankles (the "hobble skirt") that cities had to build new streetcars that the hobbled women could climb onto more easily. The women were causing delays trying to hike their tight skirts up enough to board.

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