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Scott Alexander

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Against In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Worries

Scott AlexanderSep 28, 2017, 5:12 PM
73 points
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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
126 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
107 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 Alexander8 Jun 2017 19:00 UTC
15 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

The Atomic Bomb Con­sid­ered As Hun­gar­ian High School Science Fair Project

Scott Alexander26 May 2017 9:45 UTC
56 points
10 comments14 min readLW link

G.K. Ch­ester­ton On AI Risk

Scott Alexander1 Apr 2017 19:00 UTC
20 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Scott Alexander24 Mar 2017 4:33 UTC
67 points
5 comments19 min readLW link

[REPOST] The Demiurge’s Older Brother

Scott Alexander22 Mar 2017 2:03 UTC
97 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

An­tide­pres­sant Phar­ma­coge­nomics: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander6 Mar 2017 5:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

A Modern Myth

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC
40 points
1 comment49 min readLW link

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander17 Feb 2017 7:28 UTC
10 points
2 comments25 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions On Cost Disease

Scott Alexander10 Feb 2017 4:33 UTC
50 points
7 comments22 min readLW link

Albion’s Seed, Genotyped

Scott Alexander9 Feb 2017 2:15 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link