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August 2026

• The Scientific Virtues - slimemoldtimemold

• Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine - Scott Alexander

• Approval Extraction Advertised as Production - Benjamin Hoffman

• The Kekulé Problem - Cormac McCarthy

• Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Neal Stephenson

July 2026

• Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham - Anon

• What if they are all wrong? - Igor Pak

• G.A. Cohen's most fundamental objection to capitalism - Daniel Muñoz

• Why do sociologists think that they are critical theorists? - Joseph Heath

June 2026

• Nothing You Post on Substack is Original - Daniel Muñoz

• If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you - Sam Kriss

May 2026

• Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination - Scott Alexander

• Discovery Fiction - Michael Nielsen

• I'll have the Platonic form of the burrito - Daniel Muñoz

• The String Theory - David Foster Wallace

• How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI - Ashe Vazquez Nuñez

April 2026

• Child's Play - Sam Kriss

• My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026 - Vitalik Buterin

• OpenClaw: the missing piece for Obsidian's second brain - Lex Toumbourou

March 2026

• A Survival Guide to a PhD - Andrej Karpathy

• SEIU Delenda Est - Scott Alexander

• The Two Nightmares of Jürgen Habermas - Joseph Heath

• Being John Rawls - Scott Alexander

February 2026

• Selfish and Stupid - Paul S

• A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts On Christoph Shuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy - EJ Spode

• The Century of the Maxxer - Sam Kriss

• It's Rawls's World and We're Just Living In It - Joseph Heath

January 2026

• First, Make Me Care - Gwern

• The Monkey's Paw Curls - Scott Alexander

December 2025

• How to get hired - Derek Sivers

• Seven Thoughts on "AI Scientists" - Corin Wagen

• Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Scott Alexander

November 2025

• Postmodernism? - Noam Chomsky

• AI Scientists History - Andrew White

• Paradoxes of Plenty - Willard Quine

October 2025

• A guide to professional philosophy - Neil Mehta

• Bloodless Pedantry - Tim Crane

• Is Analytic Philosophy a Class Ideology? - Nick French

September 2025

• Sources Say Bay Area House Party - Scott Alexander

• What Is Man, That Thou Art Mindful Of Him? - Scott Alexander

• The possibility of Kantian metaethics - Florence Bacus

• Advice from MIT on Preparing a Philosophy Writing Sample - Anon

August 2025

• Penelope Maddy's Workbench - Nathan Ballantyne

• My two cents on Abundance - Joseph Heath

• Book Review: The Math Academy Way - Isabel

• When Should you Peak? - Barry Lam

• Face it: you're a crazy person - Adam Mastroianni

• How To Write English Prose - David Bentley Hart

July 2025

• Cyc: Obituary for the greatest monument to logical AGI - Yuxi Liu

• Why is Rear Window so tense? - Henry Oliver

• Notes on Spaced Repetition Scheduling - nwm

• The Origin of the Research University - Clara Collier

• A Mathematician’s Lament - Pual Lockhart

• My advice on (internet) writing, for what it's worth - dynomight

June 2025

• The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction - Owen Yingling

• How I learned to love literary criticism - Henry Oliver

• He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal - Jordana Cepelewicz

• The Politics of Apoliticism - Kieran Setiya

• What I Worked On - Paul Graham

• How Intellectuals Found God - Peter Savodnik

• Why Do Philosophy PhD Programs Even Exist? - Barry Lam

May 2025

• Square Theory - Adam Aaronson

• Is Building Good Note-Taking Software an AGI-Complete Problem? - Thane Ruthenis

• How to Live on $432 a Month in America - A.M. Hickman

• Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better - Domenic Denicola

• Curtis Yarvin does not live in reality - Sam Kriss

• Two Tendencies - Liam Kofi Bright

• My history with philosophy - Tyler Cowen

April 2025

• The Colors Of Her Coat - Scott Alexander

• The end of my childhood - Vitalik Buterin

March 2025

• My 16-month theanine self-experiment - Dynomight

• Only About 40% Of The Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science - Scott Alexander

• The Five Dogmas of DEI - Joseph Heath

February 2025

• Mainstream Media is Worse Than Silence - Bryan Caplan

• The Real Analytic/Continental Divide: Fashion - Steven Gimbel

• The Outer Limits of Analytic Philosophy - Brian Weatherson

• Learning From Four Analytic Philosophy Wins - Liam Kofi Bright

January 2025

• John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism - Joseph Heath

• On Priesthoods - Scott Alexander

• Why Philosophy Matters - Hilarius Bookbinder

• Reverie - Kieran Setiya

• The Santa Anas - Joan Didion

• In the belly of the MrBeast - Kevin Munger

December 2024

• The torture of an unphilosophical life - Agnes Callard

• Philosophy isn't... - David Chapman

• This one internet subculture explains murder suspect Luigi Mangione's odd politics - Emily Shugerman

• Nobel Prize Banquet Speech - William Faulkner

November 2024

• Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute - Tom Ough

• Ozempic For Sleep - Isaak Freeman

• Great Books is for Losers - Alex Petkas

• Hypercomputation without bothering the cactus people: Software development for the DMT headspace - Cube Flipper

October 2024

• Reward is not the optimization target - TurnTrout

• Daniel Stoljar's Workbench - Nathan Ballantyne

• Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home - Cosma Shalizi

• Error is Infinite and Chaotic - Liam Kofi Bright

September 2024

• My Dinner with Nozick - David J. Schmidtz

• Harder to be fooled, easier to fool yourself - Kasra

• The Intelligence Age - Sam Altman

August 2024

• Here's Why Automaticity Is Real Actually - Scott Alexander

• Against Automaticity - birguslatro

• AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities - Eliezer Yudkowsky

July 2024

• How I Joined the Resistance - J.D. Vance

• The Perceptual Quest for a Truth Machine - Kelly Clancy

• Exorcising us of the Primer - Andy Matuschak

• Meditation in a Toolshed - C.S. Lewis

• On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - Friedrich Nietzsche

• Fast Crimes at Lambda School - Benjamin Sandofsky

• The Structure of Academic Writing - John Danaher

• Well-functioning democracy for neither me nor for thee? - Tyler Cowen

May 2024

• A Dozen Ways to Get More Dakka - David Manheim

• Book Review: The Others Within Us - Scott Alexander

• Profile: The Far Out Initiative - Scott Alexander

• What Is It Like to be a Philosopher? (David Pearce) - Cliff Sosis

April 2024

• On starting papers - Helen De Cruz

• Every Scholar Should Feel Relatively Underappreciated - Eric Schwitzgebel

March 2024

• David Milch's disembodied writing process - Mason Currey

• Ideological Bayesians - Kevin Dorst

• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain

February 2024

• Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed - Dan Luu

• The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video - Simon Willison

• Lableak truther loses $100,000 in his own debate - Philipp Markolin

January 2024

• The Serendipity Machine - Nabeel S. Qureshi

• Getting In - Malcom Gladwell

• From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility - Michael Dickson

• Principles of Research - Albert Einstein

• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter Norvig

• Zen and the art of speedrunning enlightenment - The Irrationalist

December 2023

• Studio Trickery - Owen Hatherley

• The Great AI Weirding - Delip Rao

• The Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War - Ted Gioia

• Kelly Bets on Civilization - Scott Alexander

• From Scientific Reproducibility to Epistemic Humility - Joseph Wayne Smith

November 2023

• Why Not Heterodox Research? - Robin Hanson

• The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy - Robert Hanna

• How to Edit Your Own Lousy Writing - Julian Gough

• In Continued Defense of Effective Altruism - Scott Alexander

• Is AI alignment on track? Is it progressing... to fast? - Alexey Guzey

October 2023

• How I Am A Marxist - Liam Kofi Bright

September 2023

• ChatGPT, High-Tech Plagiarism, and The Neoliberal University - Michelle Maiese

• Im so sorry for psychologys loss, whatever it is - Adam Mastroianni

August 2023

• How Analytic Philosophy Generates Unsolvable Puzzles - Joseph Wayne Smith

• How to read the canon - Henry Oliver

• Common Knowledge and Aumann's Agreement Theorem - Scott Aaronson

• The Happy Sophist - Eric Schliesser

• Desperate Honesty - Agnes Callard

July 2023

• Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born - Henrik Karlsson

• Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - milkyeggs

• On Not Believing In One's Work - Liam Kofi Bright

• Quick thoughts on research - Michael Nielsen

• Multi-layered calendars - Julian Lehr

• Grading the economic schools of thought - Noah Smith

• Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki - Alexey Guzey

June 2023

• Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Contest: Psychedelic Cryptography - Andrés Gómez-Emilsson

• Email (let's drop the hyphen) - Don Knuth

• Maker's Schedule - Paul Graham

• The Canal Papers - Scott Alexander

• Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots - Maggie Appleton

May 2023

• Vitalik Buterin Exclusive Interview - Arkadi Mazin

• Do the weirdest thing that feels right. - Charlie Becker

• Don't get a job - Brian Eno

• Instead of your Life's Purpose - existentialpervert69

• Two ways of evaluating rationality - Alexander Pruss

• My Lifetime Reading Plan - Ted Gioia

• Raise Your Threshold For Accusing People Of Faking Bisexuality - Scott Alexander

April 2023

• Brain training begins in the hips - Adam Mastroianni

• Effective Spaced Repetition - Fernando Borretti

• The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise - Marc Brooker

• How I use social media mindfully - Kasra

• The Solution to Information Overload - Andrew Connor

• Hanti's Notes on Doing a PhD and Getting a Job in Philosophy - Hanti Lin

• Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records - Jotto999

March 2023

• ChatGPT + Code Interpreter = Magic - Andrew Mayne

• Repair and Remain - Kurt Armstrong

• Unbundling Tools for Thought - Fernando Borretti

• The end of the system of the world - Noah Smith

• Fuzzy API composition - Geoffrey Litt

• Advice to young critics - Matt Seitz

• lifehacks - Alexey Guzey

February 2023

• How to Live Near Your Friends - Priya

January 2023

• You Don't Want a Purely Biological, Apolitical Taxonomy of Mental Disorders - Scott Alexander

• The Permaweird - Venkatesh Rao

• Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - A Short Story By Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Are you serious? - Visakan Veerasamy

• The internet is already over - Sam Kriss

• How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century - Adam Mastroianni

December 2022

• Can This AI Save Teenage Spy Alex Rider From A Terrible Fate? - Scott Alexander

November 2022

• Is Wine Fake? - Scott Alexander

• Don't Surround Yourself With Smarter People - Venkatesh Rao

• Umberto Eco's Guide to Writing a Thesis - Umberto Eco

• Orexin and the quest for more waking hours - Jordan Arel

• Nick Cammarata on Jhana - Scott Alexander

• Singer and the Noble Lie - Bryan Caplan

• What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture - Derek Thompson

October 2022

• Semaglitude has changed the world - Andre Popovitch

• A Columbian Exchange - Scott Alexander

• Scraping training data for your mind - Henrik Karlsson

• Becoming a magician - Autotranslucence

• How fateful? - Channon Perry

September 2022

• Breaking Points - Agnes Callard

• Unpredictable Reward, Predictable Happiness - Scott Alexander

August 2022

• Making Normal Conversations Better - Sasha Chapin

• Why aren't smarter people happier? - Adam Mastroianni

• A Cyclic Theory of Subcultures - Scott Alexander

• How a Public School in Florida Built America's Greatest Math Team - Ben Cohen

July 2022

• Our Problems Aren't Procedural - Adam Klein

• Impact Markets: The Annoying Details - Scott Alexander

• Immortality Begins at Forty - Venkatesh Rao

• So You Want to Live in a Cabin in the Mountains - Kelton Wright

• What do I think about Network States? - Vitalik Buterin

• Cartographic Questions - Ben Reinhardt

• Art is for Seeing Evil - Agnes Callard

June 2022

• My 40-liter backpack travel guide - Vitalik Buterin

• Aspartame: Once more unto the breach - Dynomight

• Quit Your Job - Wolf Tivy

May 2022

• Every sound is SINE - Posy

• The Vandal - Kasra Lang

• Every Bay Area House Party - Scott Alexander

April 2022

• If my library burned tonight - Aldous Huxley

• What Is It About Peter Thiel? - Anna Wiener

• Fake artists are what happens when fandom dies - Mark Mulligan

• Who Gets Self-Determination? - Scott Alexander

• Learning from Lucas - Thomas J. Sargent

• Why Isn't There a Replication Crisis in Math? - Jay Diagle

March 2022

• Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage - TurnTrout

• What Are We Arguing About When We Argue About Rationality? - Scott Alexander

• Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People - DinoInNameOnly

• The Eros Monster - Agnes Callard

• Examples of barbell strategies - Dwarkesh Patel

• Why we stopped making Einsteins - Erik Hoel

• A Meta-Layer for Notes - Julian Digital

February 2022

• Misidentifying talent - Dan Luu

• Shifting guilt - Nate Soares

• What Is The Morning Writing Effect? - Gwern

• Theses on Sleep - Alexey Guzey

• Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning - Scott Alexander

January 2022

• An Intellectual Entente

• The Charisma of Leaders - Metaismurder

• Reality is Very Weird and You Need to be Prepared for That - slimemoldtimemold

• My first impressions of web3 - Moxie Marlinspike

• If Marx or Freud had never lived? - Jon Elster

December 2021

• Utopian for Beginners - Joshua Foer

• On the Origin of Everything - David Albert

• On Philosophy and Philosophers: Unpublished papers, 1960-2000 by Richard Rorty - Daniel C. Dennett

• The Phrase "No Evidence" Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication - Scott Alexander

November 2021

• Jhanas and the Dark Room Problem - Scott Alexander

• Futurists have their heads in the clouds - Erik Hoel

• Minds Almost Meeting - Robin Hanson

• Deliberate Play - J Steinhardt

• Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning - Gwern

• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming

• Read Only - John Holbo

October 2021

• Keep Your Identity Small - Paul Graham

• A Nobel Prize for the Credibility Revolution - Alex Tabarrok

• Yay Argument Orientation - Robin Hanson

• Who Is the Bad Art Friend? - Robert Kolker

September 2021

• Seneca (Letter 53), Long Haul Covid, and Impiety - Eric Schliesser

• Rules for Noobs - Jacob Falkovich

• Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and reading widely - Stuart Patience

• Ian and the Limits of Rationality - Simon Dedeo

August 2021

• Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world - Tony Kulesa

• How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor - johnswentworth

• The Artist - Oscar Wilde

• Beware the Casual Polymath - Applied Divinity Studies

June 2021

• Reversals in psychology - Gavin Leech

• Why People Are Scared of Marie Kondo - Sasha Chapin

• BAD Philosophy Videos! - Hans-Georg Moeller

• Do we have a duty to read women writers? - Rachel Fraser

• What if You Only Invested at Market Peaks? - Ben Carlson

April 2021

• Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence for a Multiverse - Philip Goff

• Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality - Scott Alexander

• Prospectus On Prospera - Scott Alexander

• Against Libertarian Criticisms of Redistribution - DePonySum

• Imaginary Numbers May Be Essential for Describing Reality - Charlie Wood

January 2021

• The Communist Manifesto: On Bugs vs Features of Capitalism - Eric Schliesser

• Write Faster - Sasha Chapin

• Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners - Jeff Kaufman

• Contra Weyl On Technocracy - Scott Alexander

• Free Market Vaccines - John Cochrane

November 2020

• The "racial wealth gap" is a class gap - Matthew Yglesias

• Hayek on the Epistemic Benefits of (Class) Diversity - Eric Schliesser

• Social Injustice as Emergent Property - Kevin Vallier

• Best 50 Albums of 2020 - Pitchfork

• Trumpism expanded the GOP tent - Kevin Williamson

October 2020

• New York Times's discredited 1619 Project - Tom Mackaman, David North

• The Inner Ring - By C. S. Lewis

• Why you are not a conservative - Deirdre McClosky

• The Man Who Thought Too Fast - Anthony Gottlieb

• Generating Photorealistic Video with AI - Jon Warlick

August 2020

• The four-fold imagination - Mark Vernon

• God-intoxicated man - Clare Carlisle And Yitzhak Y. Melamed

• Heidegger v Carnap: how logic took issue with metaphysics - Sam Dresser

• Philosophy without a philosopher in sight - Amit Chaudhuri

• CD / Color - Captain Disillusion

• Let's avoid talk of 'chemical imbalance': it's people in distress - Joseph Davis

• The Subtle Art of Modern Pop Production - David Bruce

• Bailout Redux - John Cochrane

March 2020

• A Proposal for Social Insurance During the Pandemic - Greg Mankiw

• Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo

• Guessing the Teacher's Password - Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Socratic Grilling - Scott Alexander

• Perennial Philosophy - Jules Evans

February 2020

• Introduction to Deleuze on Nietzsche - Bernard Harcourt

• Coronavirus: A Note - Norman, Bar-Yam, Taleb

• The World of Vaping - Amanda Chicago Lewis

• Black People Less Likely - Scott Alexander

• Meditations on Moloch - Scott Alexander

• The Other Gods - H.P. Lovecraft

• Waiting for Godel - Siobhan Roberts

January 2020

• Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide - William James

• The best of times, or the worst of times? - John Cochrane

• Mastering The Core Teachings of the Budapestians - Scott Alexander

• If the Only Way You Can Get Your Great Idea Implemented - Bryan Caplan

• On Learning and the Learned - Arthur Schopenhauer

• The Mystic and the Metaphysician - Miri Albahari

• What Intellectual Progress Did I Make in the 2010's? - Scott Alexander

December 2019

• Hemingway's Hidden Metafictions - Ian Crouch

• Is Eating Meat a Net Harm? - David G and Froolow

• Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects - Milton Friedman

• Todd Phillips's "Joker" Is No Laughing Matter - Anthony Lane

• Against digressions, gurus, and puzzles - Eric Schleisser

November 2019

• How to Increase Taxes on the Rich (If You Must) - Gregory Mankiw

• The Economic Debate over the Minimum Wage - Dylan Matthews

• How to be Rational about Rationality - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Free Market Healthcare - John Cochrane

• Liberalism, Politics, and the Spirit of Mercantilism - Eric Schliesser

• Truth in the Culture War - Liam Bright

• Fernando Pessoa's Disappearing Act - Adam Kirsch

• How to be an Anti-Intellectual - Coleman Hughes

• What is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant

• Samsara - Scott Alexander

• The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Byzantium, and PSR - Eric Schleisser

• The Mises - (Karl) Polanyi debate (on Imperialism) reconsidered - Eric Schleisser

• A Liberal Decalogue - Bertrand Russell

October 2019

• The Effects of Rent Control - Rebecca Diamond

• New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed - Scott Alexander

• God and SuperGod - Noah Smith

• Controversial Push to 'Rehumanize' Math - Catherine Gewertz

• Clusters of Individual Experiences form a Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults - Jeffery Martin

• Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty - Scott Alexander

• Book Review: Mastering the Core Teachings of The Buddha - Scott Alexander

• The PNSE Paper - Scott Alexander

• The Algernon Argument - Gwern Branwen

• Democrats, Avoid the Robot Rabbit Hole - Paul Krugman

• Reflections on Nickel and Dimed - Bryan Caplan

• Does God Exist? I Don't "Know" - Peter Enns

September 2019

• Naturalism and property dualism - Alexander Pruss

• Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain - Scott Alexander

• Ethics and complexity - Alexander Pruss

• Review of Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments - Joseph Heath

• A measure of sincerity - Alexander Pruss

• You Will Forget, You Have Forgotten - Aella

• Letter to Menoeceus - Epicurus

August 2019

• A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created - Robert Martone

• Inflation, and history - John Cochrane

• Don't Fear the Simulators - Scott Alexander

• Misunderstanding Nozick, Again - David Boaz

• No Absolute Time - Matias Slavov

• What's Going On in Hong Kong? What to Know About the Protests - Victor, Yuhas

• 'National conservatism' is 'Elizabeth Warren conservatism' - George Will

• America Needs an Independent Fed - Volcker, Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellin

• Yes, There Is a Trade-Off Between Inflation and Unemployment - Gregory Mankiw

• The Fireworks Over Share Buybacks Are Duds - Jason Zweig

July 2019

• The Trinity, sexual ethics and liberal Christianity - Alexander Pruss

• The Discouraged Suitor - Bryan Caplan

• The Right's Identity Politics Is More Dangerous Than the Left's - Shikha Dalmia

• Donald Trump was right, and Justin Amash was wrong, about conservatives - Ezra Klein

• A Midsummer overview of the Democratic Field - Nate Silver

• The State as a Metanarrative - Casey Given

• Postmodernism: A Libertarian Introduction - Avika Malamet

June 2019

• The Post-Liberals' Incoherence - Charles Cooke

• Don't be biased (It won't be Trump's fault) - Scott Sumner

• The risks to trump - Scott Sumner

• Asymmetric Weapons Gone Bad - Scott Alexander

• Institutionalized Nonsense - John Cochrane

• Why is Immigration a "Contentious Issue in Classical Liberalism?" - Bryan Caplan

• Epistemic Learned Helplessness - Scott Alexander

May 2019

• America's Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals - Farhad Manjoo

• How Liberalism Loses - Ross Douthat

• Clemens on minimum wage - John Cochrane

• Hate Globalization? Then Embrace Stagnation - Noah Smith

• Academe's Extinction Event - Andrew Kay

• Down and Out? Try Federalism - Kevin Williamson

• The Economics of Donald J. Keynes - Paul Krugman

• Buspirone Shortage - Scott Alexander

• Dunbar's Function - Eliezer Yudkowsky

April 2019

• Counterspells - Virgil Kurkjian

• Let's not emphasize behavioral economics - Scott Sumner

• The Nordic Approach to Private Roads - Giovanna da Silva

• Pain as Active Ingredient in Dating - Scott Alexander

• Meer On Minimum Wage - John Cochrane

• Paying for the Green New Deal - Scott Sumner

• Why I Am Not an Austrian Economist - Bryan Caplan

• Are You There God? It's Me, John - John Addington Symonds