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Nicholas Hash's avatar

This is really useful, please do more of these if they're enjoyable to put together

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Andrew Pearson's avatar

Given your objective, I should note that Scott had been blogging for several years prior to Slate Star Codex! He had a LiveJournal which is mostly archived on the WayBack Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20140213184614/http://squid314.livejournal.com/calendar), and contributed quite a few posts as LessWrong which are collated at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xaLHeoRPdb9oQgDEy/index-of-yvain-s-excellent-articles.

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Mon0's avatar

Thanks for this!

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Bob Jacobs's avatar

Not sure how I feel about this post. On the one hand, I like most of these, but on the other I don't know if Scott is in need of any more praise on substack, and if anything, a bit more critique might be warranted.

So as a compromise I will provide a praise, a critique, and a prior text.

"Who by Very Slow Decay" is incredibly well written, gut wrenching and very important. Definitely give it a read.

You can find critiques of "Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell" in *the Uruk machine*

And you can find ideas like "A Thrive Survive Theory of the Political Spectrum" in *The Silent Revolution* (1977) and the works inspired by it.

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Mind Matter's avatar

Scott got a lot wrong apparently, is what I’m getting from this.

Doctors only read the best studies? Oh so that’s why they all supported HRT and puberty blockers for kids en masse. They just read the nonexistent high quality studies that informed this choice!

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