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Here are some of my favorites that I'd recommend: The Toxoplasma of Rage: An essay about how more controversial examples tend to get elevated and thinking abou

Here are some of my favorites that I'd recommend: The Toxoplasma of Rage: An essay about how more controversial examples tend to get elevated and thinking about why that happens. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage... Meditations On Moloch: An essay about how incentives and coordination problems cause systemic societal issues: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ Who By Very Slow Decay: An essay about death in medicine. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay... I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup: An essay about tribalism https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin... He's a good writer, as other replies mention it came out of lesswrong (see: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences). Some lesswrong favorites (mostly Eliezer Yudkowsky): Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-debates-should-not-appear-one-sided https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PeSzc9JTBxhaYRp9b/policy-deb... A Fable of Science and Politics: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of-science-and-politics https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hfGNLf4Hg5DXqJCF/a-fable-of... Pretending to be Wise: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jeyvzALDbjdjjv5RW/pretending-to-be-wise https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jeyvzALDbjdjjv5RW/pretending... Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-validity-as-a-key-to-sanity-and-civilization https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WQFioaudEH8R7fyhm/local-vali... The Bottom Line: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom-line https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom... --- For a fun creative fiction one from Scott: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-deep-the-rabbit-hole-goes/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-dee... From EY: http://www.hpmor.com/ http://www.hpmor.com/

mrec 6y ago
That's a good list. I'm also very partial to Fearful Symmetry: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/14/fearful-symmetry/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/14/fearful-symmetry/ although I seem to be in a minority on that one. I find it immensely calming when the horrors of the Culture War get too much. Also G.K. Chesterton on AI Risk: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-risk/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-r... for a giggle, although it'll probably only appeal to Chesterton fans. Oh, and to anyone working through this list, please take the trigger warning on Who By Very Slow Decay seriously. He's not kidding.
- fossuser 6y ago
  Thanks - I’d probably also add this one to my list: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-definitions https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-... I swear 90% of arguments are basically that blog post.
singhrac 6y ago
Not medical advice, but I enjoyed reading https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th..., actually just in general all of the "much more than you wanted to know" posts are great.

mrec 6y ago

That's a good list. I'm also very partial to Fearful Symmetry: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/14/fearful-symmetry/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/14/fearful-symmetry/ although I seem to be in a minority on that one. I find it immensely calming when the horrors of the Culture War get too much. Also G.K. Chesterton on AI Risk: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-risk/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-r... for a giggle, although it'll probably only appeal to Chesterton fans. Oh, and to anyone working through this list, please take the trigger warning on Who By Very Slow Decay seriously. He's not kidding.

fossuser 6y ago
Thanks - I’d probably also add this one to my list: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-definitions https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-... I swear 90% of arguments are basically that blog post.

singhrac 6y ago

Not medical advice, but I enjoyed reading https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th..., actually just in general all of the "much more than you wanted to know" posts are great.