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Scott Alexander

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Against In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Worries

Scott AlexanderSep 28, 2017, 5:12 PM
73 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

My IRB Nightmare

Scott AlexanderSep 28, 2017, 4:47 PM
59 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

If It’s Worth Do­ing, It’s Worth Do­ing With Made-Up Statistics

Scott AlexanderSep 3, 2017, 8:56 PM
78 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:50 PM
127 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

The Case Of The Suffo­cat­ing Woman

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:42 PM
18 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Learn­ing To Love Scien­tific Consensus

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 8:44 AM
31 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

I Can Tol­er­ate Any­thing Ex­cept The Outgroup

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 8:22 AM
113 points
5 comments28 min readLW link

The Lizard Peo­ple Of Alpha Dra­co­nis 1 De­cided To Build An Ansible

Scott AlexanderAug 10, 2017, 12:33 AM
45 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Where The Fal­ling Ein­stein Meets The Ris­ing Mouse

Scott AlexanderAug 3, 2017, 12:54 AM
17 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Why Are Trans­gen­der Peo­ple Im­mune To Op­ti­cal Illu­sions?

Scott AlexanderJun 28, 2017, 7:00 PM
24 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

SSC Jour­nal Club: AI Timelines

Scott AlexanderJun 8, 2017, 7:00 PM
15 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

The Atomic Bomb Con­sid­ered As Hun­gar­ian High School Science Fair Project

Scott AlexanderMay 26, 2017, 9:45 AM
57 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

G.K. Ch­ester­ton On AI Risk

Scott AlexanderApr 1, 2017, 7:00 PM
20 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott AlexanderMar 24, 2017, 4:33 AM
67 points
6 comments19 min readLW link

[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother

Scott AlexanderMar 22, 2017, 2:03 AM
98 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

An­tide­pres­sant Phar­ma­coge­nomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott AlexanderMar 6, 2017, 5:38 AM
9 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

A Modern Myth

Scott AlexanderFeb 27, 2017, 5:29 PM
40 points
1 comment49 min readLW link

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 17, 2017, 7:28 AM
10 points
2 comments25 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 10, 2017, 4:33 AM
51 points
7 comments22 min readLW link

Albion’s Seed, Genotyped

Scott AlexanderFeb 9, 2017, 2:15 AM
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link