2020–2021

2021 295

December 2021

1. 30 DecOpen Thread 204.5
2. 30 DecLinks For December
3. 28 DecACX Grants Results
4. 27 DecMantic Monday: Dogs In Wizard Hats
5. 27 DecOpen Thread 204
6. 23 DecOpen Thread 203.5
7. 23 DecHighlights From The Comments On Diseasonality
8. 23 DecAddendum To "No Evidence" Post
9. 22 DecAddendum To Luvox Post
10. 22 DecThe FDA Has Punted Decisions About Luvox Prescription To The Deepest Recesses Of The Human Soul
11. 20 DecMantic Monday: Let Me Google That For You
12. 19 DecOpen Thread 203
13. 17 DecThe Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
14. 16 DecOpen Thread 202.5
15. 15 DecAncient Plagues
16. 13 DecOpen Thread 202
17. 11 DecDoes Georgism Work, Part 3: Can Unimproved Land Value be Accurately Assessed Separately From Buildings?
18. 10 DecDoes Georgism Work? Part 2: Can Landlords Pass Land Value Tax on to Tenants?
19. 9 DecDoes Georgism Work? Part 1: Is Land Really A Big Deal?
20. 8 DecHidden Open Thread 201.5
21. 8 DecDiseasonality
22. 6 DecModel City Monday 12/6/21
23. 6 DecOpen Thread 201
24. 3 DecOpen Thread 200.5
25. 2 DecBook Review: Lifespan

November 2021

1. 29 NovMM: Omicron Variant
2. 28 NovOpen Thread 200
3. 25 NovLinks For November
4. 24 NovOpen Thread 199.5
5. 24 NovPascalian Medicine
6. 23 NovHighlights From The Comments On Ivermectin
7. 23 NovHighlights From The Comments On The FDA And Paxlovid
8. 23 NovWhen Will The FDA Approve Paxlovid?
9. 21 NovOpen Thread 199
10. 18 NovContinental Drip
11. 18 NovOpen Thread 198.5
12. 18 NovHighlights From The Comments On Great Families
13. 17 NovIvermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
14. 15 NovMantic Monday 11/15
15. 14 NovOpen Thread 198
16. 12 NovOpen Thread 197.5
17. 12 NovApply For An ACX Grant
18. 11 NovHighlights From The Comments On Orban
19. 9 NovSecrets Of The Great Families
20. 8 NovModel City Monday 11/8/21
21. 8 NovOpen Thread 197
22. 5 NovOpen Thread 196.5
23. 4 NovDictator Book Club: Orban
24. 3 NovNon-Cognitive Skills For Educational Attainment Suggest Benefits Of Mental Illness Genes
25. 1 NovMantic Monday 11/1/21

October 2021

1. 31 OctOpen Thread 196
2. 29 OctJhanas and the Dark Room Problem
3. 27 OctLearn British English With ACX
4. 25 OctEpistemic Minor Leagues
5. 22 OctOpen Thread 195 + Cambridge/Edinburgh Meetups This Weekend
6. 20 OctChilling Effects
7. 15 OctOpen Thread 194 + London/Oxford Meetups This Weekend
8. 14 OctLinks For October
9. 13 OctHighlights From The Comments On Kids And Climate Change
10. 11 OctPlease Don't Give Up On Having Kids Because Of Climate Change
11. 8 OctLearn German With ACX
12. 7 OctOpen Thread 193 + Berlin/Paris Meetups This Weekend
13. 6 OctClassifieds Thread 10/2021
14. 4 OctHighlights From The Comments On Modern Architecture

September 2021

1. 30 SepOpen Thread 192 + Vienna/Prague Meetups This Weekend
2. 30 SepLearn Spanish With ACX
3. 29 SepOpen Thread 191.5
4. 29 SepBook Review: The Scout Mindset
5. 24 SepOpen Thread 191 + Madrid/Zurich Meetups This Weekend
6. 23 SepWhither Tartaria?
7. 21 SepLearn Portuguese With ACX
8. 20 SepLinks For September
9. 18 SepOpen Thread 190
10. 17 SepLisbon Meetup This Saturday
11. 17 SepBook Review: The Revolt Of The Public
12. 15 SepOpen Thread 189.5
13. 14 SepBook Review: Modi - A Political Biography
14. 12 SepOpen Thread 189
15. 10 SepWashington DC Meetup This Saturday
16. 9 SepOpen Thread 188.5
17. 9 SepThe Unbearable Semiheaviness Of Being
18. 6 SepToo Good To Check: A Play In Three Acts
19. 6 SepNew York Meetup This Monday
20. 5 SepOpen Thread 188
21. 4 SepBoston Meetup This Sunday
22. 2 SepLong COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
23. 1 SepOpen Thread 187.5

August 2021

1. 31 AugPeer Review: Long COVID: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
2. 30 AugOn Hreha On Behavioral Economics
3. 29 AugOpen Thread 187
4. 27 AugBerkeley Meetup This Saturday
5. 26 AugHighlights From The Comments On Missing School
6. 25 AugIf You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Governor Of California?
7. 25 AugCarbon Costs Quantified
8. 23 AugMeetups Everywhere 2021: Times And Places
9. 22 AugOpen Thread 186
10. 20 AugHighlights From The Comments On Aducanumab
11. 19 AugPeer Review Request: Carbon Costs Quantified
12. 19 AugOpen Thread 185.5
13. 18 AugLinks For August
14. 17 AugKids Can Recover From Missing Even Quite A Lot Of School
15. 15 AugOpen Thread 185
16. 13 AugBlindness, Schizophrenia, and Autism
17. 12 AugContra Hanania On Partisanship
18. 11 AugOpen Thread 184.5
19. 11 AugClassifieds Thread 8/2021
20. 10 Aug(Outdoor, Careful) Meetups Everywhere 2021 - Seeking Organizers
21. 9 AugEight Hundred Slightly Poisoned Word Games
22. 8 AugOpen Thread 184
23. 8 AugContra Drum On The Fish Oil Story
24. 7 AugOpen Thread 183.5
25. 6 AugDetails Of The Infant Fish Oil Story
26. 6 AugHighlights From The Comments On Acemoglu And AI
27. 5 AugAdumbrations Of Aducanumab
28. 2 AugModel City Monday 8/2/21
29. 1 AugOpen Thread 183

July 2021

1. 30 JulUpdated Look At Long-Term AI Risks
2. 28 JulWhen Does Worrying About Things Trade Off Against Worrying About Other Things?
3. 27 JulContra Acemoglu On...Oh God, We're Doing This Again, Aren't We?
4. 27 JulMantic Monday 7/26
5. 25 JulOpen Thread 182
6. 23 JulLinks For July
7. 22 JulOpen Thread 181.5
8. 21 JulThings I Learned Writing The Lockdown Post
9. 21 JulHighlights From The Comments On "Crazy Like Us"
10. 19 JulPeer Review Request: Ketamine
11. 18 JulOpen Thread 181
12. 16 JulPlease Take The Reader Survey [Update: Now It Is Closed And You Can Stop Taking It]
13. 15 JulOpen Thread 180.5
14. 15 JulBook Review: Crazy Like Us
15. 13 JulReader Survey Final Check-In
16. 12 JulUse Prediction Markets To Fund Investigative Reporting
17. 12 JulOpen Thread 180
18. 10 JulBook Review Contest: Winners
19. 9 JulOpen Thread 179.5
20. 7 JulIs This Predictive Coding?
21. 7 JulLockdown Effectiveness: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
22. 5 JulModel City Monday
23. 4 JulOpen Thread 179
24. 2 JulOpen Thread 178.5
25. 1 JulHighlights From The Comments On "How Asia Works"
26. 1 JulWelcome Polygenically Screened Babies

June 2021

1. 28 JunBook Review: How Asia Works
2. 28 JunOpen Thread 178
3. 25 JunOpen Thread 177.5
4. 25 JunACX Reader Research Survey: Call For Submissions
5. 24 JunPerpendicular Lives
6. 23 JunLinks For June
7. 22 JunMantic Monday 6/21/21
8. 21 JunOpen Thread 177
9. 18 JunVote In The Book Review Contest!
10. 17 JunYour Book Review: Plagues And Peoples
11. 16 JunPeer Review: Lockdown Effectiveness
12. 16 JunOpen Thread 176.5
13. 15 JunOn Cerebralab On Nutt/Carhart-Harris On Serotonin
14. 14 JunContra Smith On Jewish Selective Immigration
15. 13 JunOpen Thread 176
16. 11 JunYour Book Review: How Children Fail
17. 11 JunOpen Thread 175.5
18. 10 JunYour Book Review: Down And Out In Paris And London
19. 9 JunDrug Users Use A Lot Of Drugs
20. 9 JunI Will Not Eat The Bugs
21. 7 JunInstead Of Pledging To Change The World, Pledge To Change Prediction Markets
22. 6 JunOpen Thread 175
23. 4 JunYour Book Review: Where's My Flying Car?
24. 3 JunYour Book Review: The Collapse Of Complex Societies
25. 3 JunOpen Thread 174.5
26. 3 JunYou Have A Terrible Track Record In Guessing My Motives
27. 1 JunMoral Costs Of Chicken Vs. Beef
28. 1 JunWhat Do Treatments For Accelerated Aging Tell Us About Normal Aging?

May 2021

1. 30 MayOpen Thread 174
2. 28 MayYour Book Review: Humankind
3. 27 MayCOVID Suicides: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
4. 27 MayOpen Thread 173.5
5. 27 MayReflections On Greed Being Made Of Smaller Parts
6. 25 MayPeer Review Request: Depression
7. 24 MayBook Review: Arabian Nights
8. 23 MayOpen Thread 173
9. 21 MayYour Book Review: The Accidental Superpower
10. 20 MayLinks For May
11. 20 MayHidden Open Thread 172.5
12. 19 MayThe Coldness Of Karen
13. 18 MayHighlights From The Comments On Culture Wars
14. 16 MayOpen Thread 172
15. 14 MayYour Book Review: Addiction By Design
16. 14 MayHidden Open Thread 171.5
17. 14 MayHighlights From The Comments On CBT-i Apps
18. 12 MayWelcome To The Terrible World Of Prescription-Only Apps
19. 12 MayTheses On The Current Moment
20. 10 MayThe Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars
21. 9 MayOpen Thread 171
22. 8 MayMy Favorite ICD-10 Codes
23. 7 MayYour Book Review: The Years Of Lyndon Johnson
24. 7 MayHidden Open Thread 170.5
25. 6 MayYour Book Review: Through The Eye Of A Needle
26. 5 MayWhy Is It Hard To Acknowledge Preferences?
27. 4 MayBook Review: A Brief History Of Neoliberalism
28. 3 MayIf You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good
29. 3 MayOpen Thread 170

April 2021

1. 30 AprYour Book Review: The Wizard And The Prophet
2. 30 AprHidden Open Thread 169.5
3. 30 AprYour Book Review: Double Fold
4. 28 AprNootropics Survey 2020 Results
5. 27 AprVerses Written On The Occasion Of Getting The COVID Vaccine
6. 26 AprMantic Monday: Predictions For 2021
7. 25 AprOpen Thread 169
8. 23 AprYour Book Review: Why Buddhism Is True
9. 22 AprYour Book Review: Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
10. 21 AprHidden Open Thread 168.5
11. 21 AprBook Review: Global Economic History
12. 21 AprNo, Really, Why Are So Many Christians In Colombia Converting To Orthodox Judaism?
13. 19 AprMantic Monday: Grading My Trump Predictions
14. 19 AprOpen Thread 168
15. 17 AprGeorgist Cartoons Of The Late 19th/Early 20th Century
16. 16 AprHidden Open Thread 167.5
17. 16 AprYour Book Review: Progress And Poverty
18. 14 AprProspectus On Próspera
19. 14 Apr[LINK] Unifying Predictive Coding With Backpropagation
20. 12 AprLinks For April
21. 11 AprFrom The Rejects Pile: Catch-22
22. 11 AprOpen Thread 167
23. 9 AprYour Book Review: On The Natural Faculties
24. 8 AprYour Book Review: Order Without Law
25. 8 AprHidden Open Thread 166.5
26. 7 AprMetis And Bodybuilders
27. 6 AprTwo Unexpected Multiple Hypothesis Testing Problems
28. 5 Apr2020 Predictions: Calibration Results
29. 4 AprOpen Thread 166
30. 1 AprAmbidexterity And Cognitive Closure
31. 1 AprHidden Open Thread 165.5

March 2021

1. 31 MarOh, The Places You'll Go When Trying To Figure Out The Right Dose Of Escitalopram
2. 29 MarOpen Thread 165
3. 27 MarAsk Me Anything
4. 26 MarHidden Open Thread 164.5
5. 26 MarToward A Bayesian Theory Of Willpower
6. 25 MarMore Antifragile, Diversity Libertarianism, And Corporate Censorship
7. 23 MarBook Review: Antifragile
8. 22 MarAdding My Data Point To The Discussion Of Substack Advances
9. 21 MarOpen Thread 164
10. 19 MarHidden Open Thread 163.5
11. 18 MarBook Review: The New Sultan
12. 16 MarSleep Is The Mate Of Death
13. 15 MarMantic Monday: Mantic Matt Y
14. 15 MarOpen Thread 163
15. 12 MarRichard Nixon Vs. Cool
16. 12 MarHidden Open Thread 162.5
17. 10 MarTrapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
18. 9 MarThe Consequences Of Radical Reform
19. 7 MarOpen Thread 162
20. 6 MarThey're Made Out Of Meta
21. 5 MarHighlights From The Comments On Class
22. 5 MarHidden Open Thread 161.5
23. 4 MarHighlights From The Comments On March Links
24. 3 MarLinks For March
25. 2 MarShilling For Big Mitochondria
26. 1 MarMantic Monday: Scoring Rule Controversy

February 2021

1. 28 FebOpen Thread 161
2. 26 FebBay Area Plant-Based Meat Reviews
3. 25 FebA Modest Proposal For Republicans: Use The Word "Class"
4. 25 FebHidden Open Thread 160.5
5. 24 FebBook Review: Fussell On Class
6. 23 FebMantic Monday: Judging April COVID Predictions
7. 22 FebA Look Down Track B
8. 22 FebOpen Thread 160
9. 20 FebMovie Review: Gabriel Over The White House
10. 20 FebEzra Klein On Vetocracy
11. 18 FebHighlights From The Comments On Cult Of Smart
12. 18 FebBook Review: The Cult Of Smart
13. 16 FebCOVID/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
14. 16 FebCoronavirus: Links, Discussion, Open Thread
15. 14 FebStatement on New York Times Article
16. 13 FebThe Precision Of Sensory Evidence
17. 12 FebList Of Fictional Cryptocurrencies Banned By The SEC
18. 11 FebOntology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Tradeoffs And Failures
19. 10 FebHidden Open Thread 159.5
20. 9 FebBook Review: Why We're Polarized
21. 8 FebMetaculus Monday 2/8/21
22. 8 FebOpen Thread 159
23. 7 FebJournalism and Legible Expertise
24. 5 FebWebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise
25. 5 FebHidden Open Thread 158.5
26. 4 FebBook Review Contest Final Rules
27. 3 FebOntology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Dynamical Systems
28. 2 FebRiddle Of The Sphinx II: Sustained Release Riddlin'
29. 1 FebMetaculus Monday

January 2021

1. 31 JanOpen Thread 158
2. 30 JanTechnocracy-Zilla: Origins
3. 29 JanWeyl Contra Me On Technocracy
4. 29 JanContra Weyl On Technocracy
5. 28 JanOntology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics
6. 27 JanHidden Open Thread 157.5
7. 25 JanKnow Your Amphetamines
8. 24 JanOpen Thread 157
9. 22 JanLogistics
10. 21 JanStill Alive

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August 2020

1. 30 AugYou're Probably Wondering Why I've Called You Here Today