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.

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  1. Jan 7

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

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  2. 10 Mar 2018

    Re: recent discussion on free energy - was just told by a friend that they unconsciously open their mouth every time they think about eating.

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  3. 10 Mar 2018

    Response to the Current Affairs piece mentioning me today:

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  4. 9 Mar 2018

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

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  5. 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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  6. 27 Feb 2018

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

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  7. Retweeted
    21 Aug 2017

    - Do good just by shopping online

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  8. 25 Feb 2018

    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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  9. 24 Feb 2018

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

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  10. 22 Feb 2018

    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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  11. 20 Feb 2018

    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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  12. 20 Feb 2018

    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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    9 Feb 2018

    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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  15. 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

    Trans-generational gaming of metrics.

    A probe is underway in South Korea into researchers who named their children as co-authors on papers to give them an edge when applying to university.
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  18. 1 Feb 2018

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

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  19. 27 Jan 2018

    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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  20. 27 Jan 2018

    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.

    Eagerly awaiting a continuing public discourse between and
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