Tag: Scott Alexander
4 posts tagged "Scott Alexander".
American psychiatrist and blogger (Slate Star Codex, now Astral Codex Ten), one of the central voices of the rationality community. His long, careful essays range across epistemology, predictions, the replication-crisis, and effective-altruism, and are a recurring touchstone here. Influenced by Eliezer Yudkowsky, he is widely admired for his charitable, rigorous style of reasoning through contested questions.
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Weaponised Autism as the Font of Human Creativity
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum?
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Kindly Stop Saying The Efficient Market Hypothesis is Dead
There are whispers that the efficient-market hypothesis is dead, or dying, or at least has a very nasty cough. But rumours of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Meditations on Momentum
First, work your butt off to get some momentum behind you. Keep a watchful eye out for entropy. Then, focus your efforts on helping other people up.
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Is The Law of Attraction Real?
If you convince yourself the Law of Attraction is true, maybe it will improve your life. Placebos can be good medicine, even if you know they’re only sugar pills… right?
