Scott Alexander

@slatestarcodex

I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.

Joined June 2013

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  1. Jan 17

    If you read my blog sometimes, please take the 2020 SSC survey (should take about 30 minutes).

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  2. 7 Jan 2019

    If you read my blog, please take the 2019 SSC survey - - should take 20-30 minutes.

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  3. 9 Mar 2018

    "Rock on, rock on, Voltaire, Rousseau..."

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  4. 6 Mar 2018

    This "The Final Nail In Growth Mindset's Coffin" article () and this "Growth Mindset Replicates!" article () are summaries of the same study. Never trust any third-party interpretation of a result, including mine.

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  5. This is important for anyone interested in medicine, scientific methods, or science journalism:

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  6. Retweeted

    - Do good just by shopping online

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  7. Pop-up ads: wait a few seconds before appearing, hard-to-find close buttons, fade slowly or move around screen. Please-remove-your-ad-blocker-popups: none of those problems, but make you feel guilty. Overall kind of a tie at this point, just as Econ 101 would predict.

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  8. SpaceX's Starman was pretty neat, but I just learned Blue Origin calls their space test crash dummy "Mannequin Skywalker".

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  9. Reading an article fearmongering about future AI being used for scams and manipulation; interrupted by pop-up saying "YOU ARE OUR 10,000TH VISITOR! CLICK HERE FOR PRIZE!"

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  10. Meta-correction: % is probably related to women entering the workforce and so doesn't matter as much. This is less important than I originally thought.

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  11. There was an error in my post on technological unemployment last night. It confused % manufacturing jobs with # manufacturing jobs. Correcting this makes it less clear there has not been gradual manufacturing decline since 1960 correlating with PAMFLPR decline. See post for more.

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    12 Feb 2018

    If children started school at six months old and their teachers gave them walking lessons, within a single generation people would come to believe that humans couldn't learn to walk without going to school.

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    More people need to know about . It's simple: type in a drug, and it tells you where it's cheapest in your area, no insurance required. If you don't have insurance, it's a lifesaver--I've had prescriptions cut from $80 to $8.96.

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  14. 7 Feb 2018

    Future historians speculating on the relationship between and James Damore.

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    30 Jan 2018

    Another illusion. These two pictures are identical even though the roads look very different.

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    2 Feb 2018
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  17. 1 Feb 2018

    Fred Brooks' management book about West Virginia cryptids: The Mythical Man-Moth.

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  18. I found myself heavily disagreeing with Current Affairs' take on payday loans; if he endorses the article's opinion, that might be a good start.

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  19. If is interested in some kind of adversarial collaboration attempt to settle differences on one of the issues we disagree on, I'd be interested.

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  20. What is the website that you rarely visit?

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