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

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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

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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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