Elizabeth Sandifer: Wednesday
New article from reflective altruism guy starring Scott Alexander and the Biodiversity Brigade
If Books Could Kill - Sam Harris's "The End of Faith"
your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted
JD Vance outs himself as an SSCer, SSCers react
what happened next with Max Tegmark and the Swedish neo-Nazis
The walled marketplace of ideas: a statistical critique of SSC book reviews
Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)
BBC on the Network State crew, featuring many of our old favourites
Adderall in Higher Doses May Raise Psychosis Risk
What was Trump actually doing on 9/11? An anniversary fact check.
Extropia's Children, Chapter 1: The Wunderkind - a history of the early days of several of our very good friends
Bostrom's advice for the ethical treatment of LLMs: remind them to be happy
-ai
here's the amazing Vibecamp essay where the rationalists talk about "microdosing" meth if they can't take the adderall to become a financial genius like Scoot promised them
No, intelligence is not like height
Off-Topic: Music Recommendation Thread
The Politics of Urbit
our boy Moldy is back at Urbit (gosh! etc), as interviewed by an Urbit loving crypto bro. Anyway, they're gonna solve their funding problems by doing a shitcoin
TP0 gets a mention in a frontpage Atlantic article - ‘Race Science’ Is Inching Its Way Across the American Right