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Missing Flights
There’s this maxim that sometimes comes up in rationalist circles: The optimal number of missed flights is non-zero. It's kind of this fun thing where…
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Book Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Sometimes you hear praise of book reviews that goes something like this: "This review did its job: it convinced me to purchase the book!". This…
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How to Book Club
Start one If you’re thinking about doing a book club, you should. You’ll able to finally read books that’ve been on your to-read lists for years. Book…
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Hidden-in-Plain-Sight Ideas
Some ideas are hard to understand. Quantum physics is the canonical example. There are even quotes from famous physicists saying that if you think you…
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Gish Gallops, Conspiracies, and Refutations as Anti Rational Memes
The Gish Gallop About a decade or so ago I heard about this debating technique. It would have been around the late stages of New Atheism. This was the…
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Rational and anti-rational memes
One of the most useful insights from David Deutsch’s universal acid worldview is on memes. By memes, I’m referring to replicators in the Dawkinsian…
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Living for Live Sport
Like many, I’ve been watching the World Cup. It’s made me reflect on my maybe-I’m-too-obssessed-with-it relationship with football. (By football I mean…
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