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Benquo

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Socrates is Mortal

Benquo26 Mar 2026 15:34 UTC
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Is fever a symp­tom of glycine defi­ciency?

Benquo22 Mar 2026 14:44 UTC
196 points
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Does He­brew Have Verbs?

Benquo20 Mar 2026 3:04 UTC
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Compradorization

Benquo16 Mar 2026 16:10 UTC
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Ide­olo­gies Embed Ta­boos Against Com­mon Knowl­edge For­ma­tion: a Case Study with LLMs

Benquo12 Mar 2026 17:46 UTC
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Statis­ti­cism: How Cluster-Think­ing About Data Creates Blind Spots

Benquo10 Mar 2026 13:59 UTC
25 points
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Have Amer­i­cans Be­come Less Violent Since 1980?

Benquo5 Mar 2026 16:11 UTC
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Is GDP a Kind of Fac­tory?

Benquo4 Mar 2026 18:00 UTC
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Three Miss­ing Cakes, or One Tur­bu­lent Critic?

Benquo13 Jul 2025 23:08 UTC
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Levels of Republicanism

Benquo13 May 2025 8:35 UTC
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Pre­da­tion as Pay­ment for Criticism

Benquo30 Jan 2025 1:06 UTC
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LLMs for lan­guage learning

Benquo15 Jan 2025 14:08 UTC
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Dis­cur­sive War­fare and Fac­tion Formation

Benquo9 Jan 2025 16:47 UTC
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Guilt, Shame, and Depravity

Benquo7 Jan 2025 1:16 UTC
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Op­pres­sion and pro­duc­tion are com­pet­ing ex­pla­na­tions for wealth in­equal­ity.

Benquo5 Jan 2025 14:13 UTC
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Park­in­son’s Law and the Ide­ol­ogy of Statistics

Benquo4 Jan 2025 15:49 UTC
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Prefer­ence Inversion

Benquo2 Jan 2025 18:15 UTC
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The Debtors’ Revolt

Benquo6 Apr 2022 19:40 UTC
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How to In­ter­pret Vi­tamin D Dosage Us­ing Numbers

Benquo6 Apr 2022 19:36 UTC
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Notes on the Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of Mal­colm X

Benquo6 Apr 2022 19:34 UTC
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