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Carcinisation

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One of nature's many attempts to evolve a crab.

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68 from 13 Jul 2014 to 20 Nov 2025
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2025 1

  1. Antique Beef

2024 2

  1. A Case Against the Placebo Effect
  2. Appendix

2023 1

  1. Against Automaticity

2022 2

  1. An Important Misconception About Placebos
  2. The Limits of “Help”

2020 8

  1. Survey Chicken
  2. The Ongoing Accomplishment of the Big Five
  3. Words Fail
  4. The Extended Sniff Test
  5. Fake Martial Arts, A Disorientation
  6. The Breakdown of Ignoring
  7. Wait, what? Sense-making & sense-breaking in modern art
  8. Ignorance, a skilled practice

2019 1

  1. Interview with the Moon

2017 2

  1. The Destruction Of Fun
  2. The Tyranny of Round Numbers

2016 1

  1. There Is No Basilisk In “Neoreaction A Basilisk”

2015 11

  1. Defensive Epistemology
  2. Alphabetical Conundra
  3. The Memetic Commons
  4. Il Faudrait L’inventer?
  5. Trifles
  6. Have Mercy
  7. The Fifteen Fundamental Properties
  8. Centers
  9. Internet Respite Ritual and Public Suicide Threats
  10. Scribbles
  11. In Order To Give A Man A Fish, You Must First Teach Him How To Eat It

2014 39

  1. Why Cultural Evolution Is Real (And What It Is)
  2. Ask Tosomitu About Tumblr Drama
  3. Truthseeking about controversial things (status: indecisive rambling)
  4. Gnon and Antignon
  5. The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
  6. A Brief Explanation Of Theme
  7. Socially Enforced Thought Boundaries
  8. Accidental Trial by Fire
  9. The Old Evidence Problem
  10. Ketchup and Artistic Effectiveness
  11. Considerations on reasoning by anecdote
  12. Change Flowing Into Shape
  13. Formic metaethical handwringing
  14. Two Patterns
  15. Ask Tosomitu About House Elves
  16. Variations on a theme: heroic protectiveness
  17. The NPOV Strikes Again
  18. Ideological Agriculture, Preamble (An Excerpt From the Sermon of a Known Lunatic)
  19. Science Journalism Marches On
  20. Beauty is Fit
  21. The problem with Old Ones is that you can’t second-guess them.
  22. Critiquing “Vulgar Morality”
  23. Local and Global and the Terrible Telescope, Part 1
  24. What Exists?
  25. How to Tell Whether You Are Being Oppressed
  26. Virtual Jewelry, Mostly for Birguslatro
  27. Toward the Synthesis of Flourishy Forms
  28. Bestiary Entry: Roko’s Basilisk
  29. Geometry is Heroic
  30. The Mark of an Ergodic Crab
  31. How We Frame the Value of “Experimental” Art Badly
  32. Gödel for Dummies
  33. What is intelligence?
  34. What is statistics?
  35. Rationality Is Not A Martial Art
  36. Ice Under the Bridge
  37. An Anti-Deathist F.A.Q.
  38. A Very Funny Joke
  39. Contrarianism Explained, or Postmodernism: the Drinking Game