naraburns
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naraburns
nihil supernum
22d ago
Dare I ask who has the highest AAQCs/Total comments ratio?
At a guess, I would bet that at least some of the single-AAQC posters have zero other comments--lurkers do occasionally pop up to say "hey, I actually know something about this topic..." and proceed to publish an absolute banger, only to return to lurking afterward.
But if you went with, say, users over 10 AAQCs, I would guess that /u/barnabycajones would be high on the list, considering he accumulated at least 60 AAQCs in the SSC era--about the same number that Dean has accumulated in the years since the switchover. /u/yodatsracist may have a similar comment ratio. I would also guess /u/gemmaem not for an overwhelming number of AAQCs but for a lower number of non-AAQC posts. /u/darwin2500 accumulated about thirty that in the SSC era, edging out myself and /u/TracingWoodGrains by a handful there, but all three of us were prolific commenters so our ratios wouldn't be very high.
Similarly, Doglatine pulled over 60 in the Motte sub era, while (say) fcfromssc and efficientsyllabus were half that in the same era. Fivehourmarathon has drawn more than 70 here, but themotte.org is the longest timeframe.
Longevity is of course the main driver in terms of sheer numbers, but I was honestly surprised to be the only unitary username over 100 AAQCs. I know my ratio would be much lower than many even if you don't count my modposting in the sub. Dean and Ilforte are also over 100 across usernames, and TracingWoodGrains should also be regarded as in the hundred club since I know there are probably few dozen AAQCs out there that weren't properly included in this compilation. One thing this project has resulted in is slight improvement to the /r/thethread wikis, so I could run the project again and likely improve the list, but I am a little burned out on wrestling with janky LLM tools this moment. A real coder like Zorba could do a much better job, but real coders like Zorba have more important things to do--like keeping the site operational!
Mine is missing "Introductory Texts to Rationalism".
It... looks like maybe that entire roundup did not get included in /r/thethread, actually! So none of those entries would show up here.
Now that all the links are in one place, any chance you can have Claude submit them to the Wayback Machine and archive.today?
I certainly can't. Someone else probably could.
But actually there was a point at which @ZorbaTHut scraped a bunch of them, and for several years now the full text of all AAQCs has been automatically archived. That is what led in part to the Vault, which project unfortunately hasn't had any forward motion in years. But Zorba does already have a database with much of the content archived. It's just a question of being able to actually do something with it.
naraburns
nihil supernum
23d ago
Sorry about that!
One thing I have discovered is that the parser Claude made me did not pick up any AAQC awards if there were in-text [brackets] used when linking to the AAQC in the roundup. Sometimes these were used (as with yours) to edit the text a bit, but sometimes they showed up in the formatting for other reasons (like stripped links that left the brackets behind). I think that is the main category of missed AAQCs as there are probably a few dozen that ended up getting reported like this. I tried to catch as many as I could but by the time I finished this up, I had decided that I probably could have done the whole thing faster by hand, and it would have been substantially more precise. Alas, I squandered my time vibe coding, instead.
But, I have edited yours in now.
naraburns
nihil supernum
23d ago
AAQCs by User β Part 1 of 3
@ratanon β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@__unterwasser β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I (November 2020)
@jkf β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "What did you expect when you told these people that they would be unable to earn a living, go out for lunch, or leave the country for the forseeable future?" (January 2022 2/2)
@_windjammer β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@-lvp- β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Banging Continents Makes Mountains (September 10th, 2018)
@-reman β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@asdflkaiuwemn β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@philwelch β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Hitler, the left-right spectrum (11-06-17)
@07mk β 17 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- diminishing returns of Social Justice (04-30-18)
- > But this is kind of the point - yes, literally everything is violence, and that's why it's critical that we understand the violence we are doing and analyze it until we come up with a coherent fr (December 10th, 2018)
- Similarly, I agree that progressives need to be self-reflective and look for ways to improve (like any movement), but it seems crazy to be trying to do that in this thread, where a few scrolls do (December 10th, 2018)
- Rise and Decline of the SPLC (June 18th, 2018)
- In that world, the only way to fight the class war is for all workers, across the world, to cooperate, and that first means tearing down the nationalistic and ethnic divisions we see between each (November 19th, 2018)
- Against University Micromanagement by The Government: Gender Studies (October 15th, 2018)
- Consequences, Suffering, and Terminal Values (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I think it's been coming into prominence over the last 3 or 4 years, at least. I haven't noticed an uptick particularly recently, though. (April 22nd, 2019)
- "a truly non-sexist society would structure child rearing norms such that both men and women shared an equal workload" (April 22nd, 2019)
- "What makes woke "woke" is the supremacy of the sociopolitical messaging of a film as a determinant of its quality over more traditional determinants such as writing, pacing, character development, cinematography, choreography, etc." (August 2022)
- I've had thoughts similar to this when considering how genuinely well-meaning people keep causing massive amounts of unnecessary suffering due to actions driven only by good intentions. It was initial (February 11th, 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "But when you're making products for a business, you run into the issue of actually having to appeal to potential customers so that they give you their money for the product." (April 2023)
- "I'm also reminded of the commonly known 'thrive/survive' dichotomy, where progressives are characterized as focusing on how we can thrive, which is only possible in times of plenty, and conservatives are characterized as focusing on how we can survive, which is most relevant in times of not plenty." (August 2025)
- "In both of these, there's this implicit idea of getting to do whatever one wants and then being apparently confused by the obvious consequence imposed on one by uncontrollable external forces." (August 2025)
- "There's just no sense that the writers had any understanding of the way people in these roles and with these responsibilities think and operate." (March 2024)
- "I don't know that there's any theory that neatly ties all this together. I'll just say, as someone who's been a leftist Democrat all my life, seeing Democrats whine about Republicans for so many decades without taking responsibility to improve themselves has largely made me check out of politics over the past half-decade to a decade." (March 2024)
- "I guess that's just a long-winded way of saying that The Boy Who Cried Wolf is, unironically, a pretty decent fable with a pretty decent lesson." (March 2025)
@0jzlenezwbzipv8l β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Fragment of a dialogue between a white nationalist, a minority activist, and a government official..." (August 2021)
- "Egalitarianism is a master morality. Eugenics, on the other hand, is a resentment morality practiced by the world's grumbling failures." (January 2022 2/2)
- "Almost no matter what you want the system to be, if you try hard enough and you are good enough at blocking out contrary evidence, you can rationalize why the system actually is like that." (January 2022 2/2)
- "My own take is that extremist alarmism about COVID is largely irrational but that also extremist alarmism about the lockdowns is largely irrational." (September 2021 2/2)
@100prooftollbooth β 27 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The problem, to me, seems to be that a purely rational worldview creates a fundamentally underdeveloped system of knowledge and personal agency - we really do become the rational ideal." (April 2025)
- "Opportunity cost and compound interest - they're a real bitch." (August 2024)
- "Finally, one of them pipes up and says, 'Dude .... you got "guy angry" for the first time.'" (August 2024)
- "If the forecast total market is well over $1 trillion, then VCs who give you literally 10s of billions of dollars are still making a positive EV bet. This is how these people think." (August 2025)
- "These jobs should be more or less easy-in-easy-out temporary employment for people who need cash to pay their bills." (December 2024)
- "Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die" (December 2025)
- "The Vibecession, to me, is a reaction to some harsh nonlinearities that have developed over the past 40 years." (December 2025)
- "Marriage is a miracle." (December 2025)
- "The counter-intuitive thing, in my mind, is that a well developed sense of self is often easier developed within a group or community." (February 2023)
- Rationalism's core flaw, in my opinion, is that you're trying to debug the firmware with the firmware. (February 2024)
- "I categorically reject literal cellular biological modification when we have already developed, employed, and enjoyed a social, cultural, and legal mechanism to address the problem. Namely; monogamous marriage." (February 2024)
- "Big, legacy CRUD apps - and, absolutely, more specialized apps - aren't really in danger of being disrupted by AI in the immediate future. 5 to 7 years from now, ehhhh, I am not so sure." (February 2026)
- "This is also why I still am against extreme forms of bullying. I am not, however, against all bullying because the alternative is worse." (February 2026)
- "I'd say that most of the 'problems of capitalism' are bad feedback loops from efforts to solve the 'problems of capitalism.'" (February 2026)
- "In terms of guilt, a movement away from traditional religion may be good, bad, or mixed, but there's been no secular alternative." (January 2024)
- "Dealing with suffering and failure is part of any life. When it's your own damn fault, you ought to use it as a learning experience and an impetus to better choices and behavior." (January 2024)
- "Traditionalism is vibe based gesturing at 'how it used to be' with the implication that 'it' used to be better." (January 2026)
- "The WSJ published an article today about the voting gap between men and women below the age of thirty." (July 2024)
- "I wanted to add something related but tangential to @self_made_human 's post on therapists. The business model issue." (June 2024)
- "The higher level of analysis, however, is; should police departments be setup for this? I'd actually argue they should not. Complex investigations are rare." (June 2024)
- "I think the crux of it lies in the fact that a society wide ritual of real consequence to mark the transition from boy to man has been effectively eliminated." (March 2024)
- "As they say, one of the the best things you can do for your career is die." (May 2025)
- "I'm arguing this idea that the MIC "loves war" because it means sales go up and that, furthermore, they're so gifted as to be able to manipulate a whole host of world leaders. That's not the case." (October 2025)
- "The steelman that I can think of is something like the following; Small talk, which is most of conversation, isn't about the transmission of information at all." (October 2025)
- "Government is incredibly powerful. It's like a mountain. If a mountain shifts in massive ways haphazardly, we call it an earthquake and it's bad." (September 2024)
- "'So you're saying I should let me friends pick my wife for me?' Yup." (September 2025)
- "So we get this weird kind of social communism - do what you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, where 'hurt' is never clearly defined and can change subjectively." (September 2025)
@15impoundedcats β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- To give you a super-brief sketch of a skeleton of the cliffs' notes of the debate . . . . (May 27th, 2019)
@2d3d β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Chinese pop culture is crippled by government diktats." (August 2024)
- "There are a few extremely interesting nightlife entertainment options that are not commonly experienced by westerners, so I think it is worth sharing the mechanics of Southeast Asian seediness with the fine denizens of themotte." (May 2024)
@4570_throwaway β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Incomparable Joy of Child-Rearing (November 2020)
@4bpp β 24 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- A hard problem in transgender policy. (05-07-18)
- My main issue with the whole pronoun business has never been any sex/gender thing, but the circumstance that Western society as I have so far experienced it was strongly built around the premise that (December 31st, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Diversity Casting as Nagging (April 2020)
- The Rise of Tribalism in the Anglosphere (December 1/2 2019)
- The tacit collusion between pro- and anti-abortion culture war crusaders to never, ever seek principled consistency beyond the borders of their dispute (December 2020)
- A Theory of Mod Actions Drawing Ire (February 2020)
- How understanding public morale and democratic support for war can help you win at Civ 2. (February 2021)
- The importance of avoiding cross-cultural typical-minding on gender issues. (January 2021)
- QAnon as a Columbian disease exchange of political memes. (January 2021)
- Male vs Female Socialization Regarding Bounded Conflict (July 1/2 2020)
- Is White Supremacy Inherently Self-Defeating? (March 2020)
- Ceteris Paribus, Video Games Are a Waste of Time (March 2020)
- The Prevalence of Conversion Narratives (March 2020)
- "...people often talk of the exit versus voice dichotomy." (March 2022)
- Does Bill gates equal 10^5? (November 2019)
- Drawing Mohammed and the Power of Public Slights (November 2020)
- The Great Attention-Management Trick of Democracy (September 2020)
- Powerlessness Begets Hatred (September 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- The shortest Quality Contribution ever! (April 2024)
- "The German parliament snap election is coming up, and for the first time I actually managed to get my postal voting documents on time and am in a realistic position to send them in before the deadline." (February 2025)
- "I still have memories of a different Germany..." (February 2025)
- "Well, the mistake is in thinking that 'left' and 'right' as used in practice represent any object-level political positions at all." (February 2025)
- "It is quite likely that many men have an experience like this at some point in their lifetime, which teaches them to be judicious about even accidentally flaunting their capacity for physical violence, though often it is embarrassing and private and not a thing they will proudly talk about." (July 2025)
- "Interesting post, but I am reminded of how revolting and deleterious I find continental philosophy." (September 2024)
@4qhurikzxs β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@5434a β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "[T]he transgender philosophy begins wherever they are and ends wherever they want to be."
- "The 'assigned at birth' is another rhetorical sleight of hand from the TRA camp." (June 2023)
- "Then a statistician comes along, shoves them all into one box and finds that 50% of people find someone at work/at parties/at church/online/etc." (June 2025)
@89237849237498237427 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Dysgenics (June 11th, 2018)
@895158 β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Sharp little poem on the current state of /r/slatestarcodex (03-08-18)
- Simpson's paradox and low-skilled immigration (04-02-18)
- On tuition waivers. (12-10-17)
- "Should taxes discriminate by race?" (12-10-17)
- Estimating an upper bound on the utility of donating to Democratic political candidates. (12-28-17)
@9461701 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Social class (July 23rd, 2018)
@a_motte_alt β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Yelp Employee Shares What Actually Goes On With Yelp advertising (October 1/2 2020)
@a_random_user27 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Jordan Peterson: if a stronger belief in God would have prevented the rise of the Nazis (05-21-18)
- "I once heard some interesting speculation as to why dropped-r's became standard in England but remained merely regional accents in the United States..." (12-28-17)
@aaa β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023" (December 2023)
- "No other media that existed before or after twitter is as bad as twitter." (November 2022)
@aaronb50 β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Three frameworks for explaining why prison sentences are too long. (March 2021)
- "There is approximately a 0% chance that a minimum wage is the policy youβd come up with. (May 2021 1/2)
- Why? Politics and economics." (May 2021 1/2)
@abdul_alhazred2018ad β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Analyzing the Phenomenon of "Nice Guys," A story of B and K (October 15th, 2018)
- Female Attractiveness as the Default (October 15th, 2018)
- massive discussion with regards to the recent quarantine of /r/Redpill (October 1st, 2018)
- On Getting Tattoos for Himself (September 17th, 2018)
@abdul_alhazred2018d β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Economic Life of a Millennial: Worst Uber Ride Ever (September 17th, 2018)
@abigguy4u β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Wokeness is a great ideology for an empire standing at Fukuyamaβs end of history, when the main priority is global resource extraction and the only threats are threats from within." (December 2024)
- "I donβt think Far Cry 5 meant to make a commentary about America or American politics, I think that was something it accidentally stumbled into by virtue of releasing around the time Trump started to become a controversial figure." (March 2025)
- "People including myself will often point out how the first American Civil War was militarily not much like a traditional civil war, and more like a war between two nations. But the political breakdown leading to that actually does look a lot like a civil war..." (November 2025)
- "Palpatine actually did a pretty good job tricking the Jedi into looking like they were trying to overthrow the Republic, and I donβt think the rank and file would object to their orders based on what they know." (October 2025)
@absox β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- King Lear and Kurosawa Akira's "Ran" on the Banality of Virtue (December 2021 2/2)
- "The present and future state of Texas hold'em: at the intersection of degenerate gambling and computational game theory" (January 2022 2/2)
- "On Olympic defectors and the ongoing superpower competition for human capital" (March 2022)
@actuallyatleilaxughola β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Enforced silence on a topic can be more effective than enforced orthodoxy, since it's so much more subtle." (February 2023)
@ademonera β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@adiabaticshear β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Atomization promotes exploitative behaviors over cooperative/moral/pro-social behaviors." (September 2021 2/2)
@adnzzzzz β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@aeiluindae β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on Steven Pinker on red-pilling and Trump. (01-04-18)
- comment on the ideology of MLK (01-15-18)
@agentorange β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@ahh_fuck_it β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Doing favors for others and being annoyed by their gratitude. (February 2021)
- "The culture war looks to me like people acting out their childhood resentments on the grand political stage." (July 2021 2/2)
@ahobata β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "White identitarianism has gained traction online because of the way whites have been treated." (April 2024)
@aiislove β 5 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Fortunes go up, people are excited, they create great things. Fortunes go down, people feel worse about themselves, they create fewer great things." (April 2025)
- "At the end of the day, the barrier for gay sex is so insanely low that any 'competition' that happens is purely elective." (January 2023)
- "Today I make over 90% of my yearly earned income from print on demand items that I design myself." (March 2026)
- "The reason heterosexual relationships are so positive for people is that a man completes a woman and a woman completes a man." (March 2026)
- "The most unbearable thing in American culture is that disrespect is seen as high status and respect is seen as low status." (March 2026)
@ajijaak β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Speculate, out loud, about the fertility status of women you meet (June 24th, 2019)
@alancrowe β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- memetic power (04-30-18)
@alertconfusion3782 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "In light of the killing of Daunte Wright, the debate about the police is swirling again." (April 2021)
@alfrednachos β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@alivejessejames β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- stats dump on race relation (11-06-17)
@alphanumericsprawl β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Imagine instead that you're an ascended intelligence with a body that spans kilometres, absorbing the ferocious energies of the Sun for fuel, in a constant state of hyperawareness about the universe." (August 2022)
- Maginot Syndrome: Bullish for Han Hegemony (February 2021)
- "In this case, Western countries are, as a matter of national policy, wrecking their own economies." (July 2022)
- "China's SMIC has started shipping domestically produced 7nm microchips." (July 2022)
- The Decline and Fall of the Western Empire (October 2/2 2020)
- "Don't go into Afghanistan or Iraq or Libya or Syria or Ukraine or Venezuela: it won't end well. We have neither the competence nor the willpower to succeed anymore." (September 2021 2/2)
@alpsgolden β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@alternativeebb β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "nice guys", vulnerability (04-02-18)
- The sexual marketplace (05-14-18)
@amadan β 24 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Show me. Show me her endorsing someone who literally wants to 'eradicate trans people.'" (April 2024)
- "Sometimes you do see cops acting more aggressive and antagonistic than the situation calls for, when it's clear they are out of patience, but only rarely have I seen cops really behaving like "bastards" or taking down someone who didn't need to be taken down or using unnecessary force." (August 2023)
- "These 'woke' writers everyone complains about aren't inventing anything new, is the problem..." (August 2024)
- "If you are serious about wanting to make a living from writing... you know that every single book on writing tells you the same thing ("don't quit your day job or have a supportive working spouse") for a reason, right?" (August 2025)
- "I've never actually heard of a doctor at one of these clinics saying, 'Well, actually, have you considered you might not be trans?'" (February 2023)
- "I try to be sympathetic to feminist arguments, because I do in fact believe women are people, but very much of modern feminist writing seems to fall within the stereotype often described here of women wanting all the privileges, none of the responsibility." (February 2025)
- "First They Came for the Fantasy Authors" (January 2023)
- "Ask them if they are literally in favor of open borders and they will say no. But ask them what sort of restrictions we should have..." (January 2024)
- "The problem is not so much 'AI is crap' (that will become less and less true) but 'AI produces so much content so easily that even if you are looking for human content, it's becoming harder to find it.'" (January 2025)
- "It's honestly baffling to me that anyone would say 'China seems fine, better than being forced to pray at the altar of DEI.'" (January 2026)
- "This is basically just the modern progressive Christianity that dominates many denominations in the US and Europe, with a shiny new label." (June 2025)
- "Becoming (March 2023)
- Radicalized (March 2023)
- Hugos" (March 2023)
- "So, simply saying 'The Palestinians have a clear moral case,' even if you're right, does not solve the current problem." (May 2024)
- "It's a year beginning with a 2, which means there is drama over this year's WorldCon." (May 2025)
- "I mean I resent that I can't say 'Why yet another Pride event?' I mean I resent knowing that they expect us all to pretend and affirm and validate." (November 2024)
- "I object to coercion and restricting people's freedom, even freedom to make bad choices, so I am not going to subscribe to 'We should make women do what's best for them' even if I really did believe it's what best for them and not motivated by self-interest." (November 2025)
- "That said, I wonder if you've ever known any genuinely suicidally depressed people?" (October 2022)
- "Clearly I should go find greener pastures more aligned with me, right? There are none." (October 2025)
- "The average Republican, even really conservative Republicans, will fold if accused of sexism or racism and mumble something about how unfair such accusations are. Trump doesn't care!" (September 2024)
- "No, seriously, you can probably pick whatever ideologically-motivated starting point fits your narrative, but it didn't used to be like this." (September 2024)
- "It is petty and mean and beneath me. It is my coping mechanism, because this election sucks." (September 2024)
- "A lot of hobby spaces have actually banned AI art, and if it's not banned, it's treated with extreme disdain." (September 2024)
@amadanb β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "If your "divorce" happens, with all the blood and fire that implies, it will be a failure on many sides to adequately model the behavior and thinking of other people." (January 2022 2/2)
- "It's been a losing and increasingly futile battle, but I will probably go down as a mistake theorist to the last, even as the leopards eat my face." (May 2022)
- The Internet's Effect on Publishing (November 2019)
@ame_damnee β 26 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Christianity versus "womanist theology." (April 2021)
- "I think when we've come to the point of needing leaflets warning 'Just a heads-up, but if you're facilitating a meeting between an adopted person and their birth family, be aware that some of them may decide to fuck each other', then something has come loose in the machinery of society." (April 2021)
- "'We have inalienable rights and we were promised justice, liberty, peaceful lives and the common good!' is what lies behind everything, even BLM and whoever else you want to example as the most extreme." (April 2021)
- "Like I said, I'm hyper about this because back at the start, I was one of those going 'No way this ever happened, priests and nuns would not do this, it's lies or mentally ill people or grifters!'" (April 2022)
- "Today is unstable? Try being a courtier in Henry VIII's court." (April 2022)
- 1 (December 2021 1/2)
- 2 (December 2021 1/2)
- "I grumble a lot about the modern church, and Francis is definitely not my pope the way Benedict was, but you know: grumble, grumble, but still filial obedience because he's the pope and I'm not..." (December 2021 2/2)
- How trans activists undermine decades of feminism through reifying gender stereotypes. (January 2021)
- "Harems were not really about sexual preferences, or not solely; there was a whole lot of politics wrapped up in them also." (January 2022 2/2)
- One small reason why the Jesuits didn't support Galileo. (July 2021 1/2)
- "So having been burned several times, people with the 'wrong kind of views' soon learn not to snap at bait." (July 2021 2/2)
- "Maybe when we have seven billion 160+ IQ people, we'll get Post-Scarcity Luxury Gay Space Communism. But until that day, it will still be a lot of the same things that enable success today..." (June 2021 1/2)
- "Women and reproductive health issues is a fucking disaster minefield." (June 2021 2/2)
- Summarizing Judge Jackson's sentencing record. (March 2022)
- "If you're only doing homework 'to get the teacher off my back', you're not going to learn." (May 2021 1/2)
- "The wicked rouΓ© spies-for-hire seduced the ingenue press and left her pregnant with the story about Trump being Putin's pawn which she then delivered into the arms of the public." (May 2021 1/2)
- "So whatever way we look at it, there is not an epidemic of murder against trans people." (May 2021 2/2)
- "It will never happen, and when it does, you will have deserved it." (May 2021 2/2)
- "Sure, but the pro-choice side kept pushing and pushing until the pro-life had to dig their heels in." (May 2022)
- "So when The Thing They Said Would Never Happen Keeps On Happening (not going to link to any particular example even though I have one in mind, because it would be a distraction), what do we think?" (May 2022)
- "Speaking from the other side of the fence, the Reformation did need to happen, but more in the vein of the Counter-Reformation." (November 2021 1/2)
- "And when I see people boasting of how they dodged jury duty, and only idiots who are too dumb to figure out how to get out of it actually sit on juries, it does make me angry." (November 2021 2/2)
- "Do you not have anything that if you lost it, it would hurt you deeply?" (November 2021 2/2)
- Identity Markers Ranked In Order of Importance By Partisanship (October 1/2 2020)
- A Deep Dive Into A Few Polls (September 2020)
@amrikeeakbar β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Srinivasan's book, The Network State is largely an attempt to envision how recent technological developments β mostly, crypto β might enable the formation of alternative societies that look quite a bit like what Stephenson envisioned." (January 2023)
- "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: The Machine Politician Vs the Administrative State" (June 2024)
@anatoly β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Great Brownie War (05-21-18)
- "A Paper Down the Memory Hole (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- More Culture War Discussions and Less Culture-Warring, Please (October 2/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@anechoicmedia β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "Wolff's book is glorified gossip and suffers all the problems that implies. However, it is probably roughly correct in its portrayal of the president. We know this because if it were grossly wrong, the administration could trivially prove this publicly." (01-09-18)
- Contra /u/JTarrou on a finance-based approach to immigration (01-15-18)
- A posited distinction between individual fairness and actuarial fairness (02-01-18)
- on partially-successful prohibition maybe having been the point all along (02-01-18)
- Deeply Ingrained visions of the education system is viewed, and how this affects perceptions of Affirmative Action (August 13th, 2018)
- How Smart is Elon Musk Really? (October 1st, 2018)
- Heritability: Chimps and Airplanes (September 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Problem of Inflation Analyses (August 2020)
- The Republican congress effectively conceded the ACA issue in 2017, with their spectacular failure to reach consensus on any of the "repeal" bills. The dog finally caught the car and looked foolish, u (February 25th, 2019)
@annafirtree β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- There is a blog, called SlateStarCodex, written by Scott Alexander. (February 25th, 2019)
@anonymous_rocketeer β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@anti_dan β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@anti-intellectual β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Always On Camera, Never the Cameraman (January 2020)
@anythingmachine β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Sharing Articles on the Future of Progressive Politics (December 2/2 2019)
@apostasy_is_cool β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@applesauceirishcream β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Anticipating the vacancy of John Kerry's Senate seat if he won election to the Presidency that year, the legislature amended the procedures for filling a Senate vacancy over Romney's veto, stripping him of his appointment power, and calling for a special election to fill the vacancy temporarily." (December 2023)
- "There was a multi-decade trend across the South from one-party Democrat control to mostly one-party Republican control, but this trend happened at different rates in different states, and even more so, in different electoral contexts." (June 2023)
- "I've been trying to get myself to do a writeup of Walter Russell Mead's four traditions of American foreign policy..." (May 2023)
@apprehensivetheory β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@appropriate-report β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Supplies for Border Crossers being an Attractive Nuisance (February 2020)
@approxknowledgesite β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- unfucking your life (11-01-17)
- on gender transition and mental health (11-01-17)
@april16-1457bc β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I am uncomfortable with the direction of treating statements of the policy positions of one party as hate speech." (November 2021 1/2)
@april20-1400bc β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "To make a governor resign I would expect more than a claim that some people found him 'creepy.' I really can't tell what was behind this." (August 2021)
- "Somehow people understand what matters when it is another group but can't get their head around the idea that a nation is the people who live there, not the people who might move their in future." (August 2021)
@aqouta β 10 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Finding out your spouse can't have children doesn't necessarily mean you'd leave them but I think most men who are looking for a partner to start a family would filter out barren women before the first date." (April 2021)
- "You think antipathy towards Doctors is even in the same class as antipathy towards lawyers and bankers?" (May 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There is undoubtedly learning at Harvard, but is the point of Harvard the learning?" (April 2024)
- "To conservatives progress is sound investment and carefully maintained stability for that investment to grow." (December 2022)
- "What are other trade partners supposed to do with a nation that's long term goal is to not buy anything from their partners?" (December 2025)
- "It's that we, the voters, have no single coherent thing that we want or can demand." (June 2024)
- "Aqouta goes to China" (March 2025)
- Part 2 (March 2025)
- Part 3 (March 2025)
- "The piece uses the term 'identity' 33 times and I think defining that term is at the heart of this whole thing. Identity has a few factors and all importantly interact with what trans even is." (November 2025)
@areopagitica_ β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- social peace in campus protests (11-06-17)
@ares β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So I guess the US government is pretty consistent in flipping-the-fuck-out if you harm birds." (June 2024)
- "This occurred back in 2005-2006: hunting Somali pirates before hunting Somali pirates was cool." (May 2024)
- "Again, there could be benefits to moving to a more "open source" shipbuilding model, but there would also be plenty of challenges, and I don't think it's clear how the scales would tip until we start hammering out the details." (November 2024)
@argumentumadlapidem β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The value in not Critcizing the Cook (August 20th, 2018)
- This book is near and dear to my heart. As a young ArgumentumAdLapidem, a undergraduate physics major, I was really feeling my oats, and taking some upper-level history classes, just to prove I could (January 7th, 2019)
- The Cyclic Nature of Centralization in Tech (September 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Here's a fun culture war story - from Japan. (April 1st, 2019)
- This is amazing. I think there are several failure modes at work here, which aren't necessarily exclusive to left-leaning causes. (April 1st, 2019)
- what makes a good soldier (July 2019)
- A Quick Guide to IKEA and Furniture Quality (June 1/2 2020)
- Thanks for the details on the plan. (June 24th, 2019)
- On "Open" (November 2019)
- Accountability and Trust - Its Not So Easy Being Green (November 2019)
@arjin_ferman β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Are The Global Elites Coordinating (January 2023)
- Push LGBT Acceptance And Gender Theory?" (January 2023)
@arjinferman β 8 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Psycho-Pass is set in a post-cyberpunk future, where Japan developed technology capable of looking into our very souls." (April 2025)
- "My old libertarian self would probably spit on me, but there's something to be said about these sort of communal activities, where one does not have to fret about their relative status, or line going up." (January 2025)
- "The WPATH To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions" (June 2024)
- "Another batch of documents from Boe v. Marshall shines light on the buried systemic review commissioned by WPATH" (June 2024)
- "My general conclusion is: contrary to Jack Turban, and the general pre-2022-ish pro-trans discourse, gender affirming care, especially it's pediatric variant, is not uncontroversial within medicine, it's not The Science, it's an experiment." (March 2024)
- "Are puberty blockers chemical castration?" (March 2025)
- "If RETVRNING is not an option, I do have a general principle in mind on how to proceed, but I don't have a name for it." (November 2023)
- "Evidence Based Medicine, Science Based Medicine... I just want Based Medicine" (September 2025)
@armedtooheavily β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The current state of Portland makes the costs of these luxury beliefs ubiquitous and impossible to ignore." (March 2024)
@armlegx218 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- What Do Americans Want From a President? (May 1/2 2020)
@artimaeus332 β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Oy, this brings me back. In high school, our psychology teacher-in-training did a similar exercise, but instead of filling out a worksheet with points, the exercise was framed as a race, with the goal (April 15th, 2019)
- At the current moment, if you're writing and publishing YA literature about gay teenagers, wokeness is probably a valuable part of your brand. This isn't to say that books about gay teenagers couldn't (April 29th, 2019)
- A Perspective on the Buisness Culture and Wokeness (December 2/2 2019)
- Liberal vs Progressive - Differing Political Strategies (December 2/2 2019)
- On the Problems With Narratives (January 2020)
- on defining the consequences of policy (July 2019)
- "When I read Kendi I just want to say, dude, get off your high horse." (June 2021 2/2)
@asdasdasdasd β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@asdfasdflkjlkjlkj β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Rejecting Commercialization of "Emotional Labor" (March 2020)
- A Thorough Review of the Arbery Shooting (May 1/2 2020)
- A Chestertonian Intellectual Journey (October 1/2 2020)
@asdflkaiuwemn β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- gender dynamics and negotiations, a gross and/or humorous and/or illustrative take depending on who you ask (02-01-18)
- "Why is it taken for granted, in every one of these pieces, that men as a class need to be taken down a peg or two?" (02-01-18)
- on how trying to be not-racist routinely backfires, and then it's awkward (04-02-18)
- appeal of blood-sports (04-30-18)
- Critiquing the Podcast "No" (October 15th, 2018)
- Personal Finance Under 50K (September 10th, 2018)
@ashlael β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- He wasnβt being pedantic, he was trying to be clearer to help explain the point you clearly were not getting. Itβs not fair to demand people explain themselves better and at the same time bitch at the (February 18th, 2019)
- Protect the Player Going for the Ball (January 2020)
- It's Ok to Be You (November 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@ashlepius β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Harmful Academics (December 1/2 2019)
@aspiringalzabo β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- ICE vs Nazis (June 18th, 2018)
@astranagant β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Sunderland, UK, is on fire." (August 2024)
@at497 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The problems weren't as 'dealt with' as we thought at the time, and this lead to a greater willingness to examine all problems." (December 2021 2/2)
@atokenliberal6d_4 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@atomic_gingerbread β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- There are two kinds of intersectionality. The first kind demands consideration of the unique circumstances of people who are members of multiple marginalized groups. In this case we see that gay whi (February 18th, 2019)
- In short, pointing out hypocrisy is an ad hominem. So it is. Lisa Borders not believing her son's accuser doesn't mean she's unjustified when, in other contexts, she implores us to believe women. (February 25th, 2019)
- I've written before that LGBT activism has two forks that are not always distinguished: a political project to secure civil rights for those who do not conform to traditional norms of gender and sexua (June 24th, 2019)
- I was skeptical about your purported reason for this statute being adopted, so I tracked down the city council meeting minutes where the ordinance was debated. In the words of Councilman Lester, who (May 27th, 2019)
@attitudegratitude β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- You Don't Need a Coyote to Enter the Red Tribe (June 2/2 2020)
@augustuspertinax β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Deep Dive Into Police Killings (June 1/2 2020)
@auralgasm β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@aurondarklord β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Difficulties in Drafting a Culture War Peace Treaty (October 8th, 2018)
@autistic_hitler_666 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the alt-right's mythos about Jews (04-02-18)
@autisticthinker β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Drug Problem in Yemen (September 24th, 2018)
@baazaa β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Problems with Progressive Education (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "People do in fact vote in their self-interest on average. It's just the left has this bizarre idea that everyone below the upper-middle class relies on government handouts." (February 2022)
- The Errors of Neoclassical Economists (October 2/2 2020)
@bagdana β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@bahramyou β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I've heard stuff like this before, that Hispanic is a nonsense category. But I actually think it makes sense..." (May 2024)
- "Do you remember a short story called "Cat Person," which was published in 2017? It went viral and caused quite a stir at the time." (November 2025)
- "You know what movie I'm kind of coming around to? The Last Jedi." (November 2025)
- "When you really learn about foreign cultures, it's not all tasty food and fun dances." (September 2025)
@baila β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@baj2235 β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
Kermit the FrogJordan Peterson in a nutshell (04-02-18)- chinese film (04-18-18)
- University finances (11-14-17)
- Reminds me of the Galbrush, because I think there is some truth to it. (November 5, 2018)
- So I'll bite. (October 22nd, 2018)
- Culture's Role in Fiscal Responsibliy (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- So I'll give you an overview of the basic process, as I am more or less de facto in charge of them. If I had more energy, I'd write this up in School House Rock I'm Just a Bill format, alas I don't ha (February 25th, 2019)
- Take Your (Intellectual) Medicine on Coronavirus (May 1/2 2020)
- Nostradamus Would be Jealous - Viral Zoonosis and the Origins of COVID19 (May 1/2 2020)
- On Shepherding Communities: Thoughts and Criticism (October 1/2 2020)
@bamboo-coffee β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why suspicion of China, in connection with COVID-19, seems warranted. (January 2021)
- I was half way through a long post on this, but here's the short of it. (June 10th, 2019)
@barbarianphilosopher β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- how Vietnam also has societal problems (11-01-17)
- The Vietnamese Palate (August 27th, 2018)
@barkappara β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Alienation of Marxmensip (Reply to /u/KulakRevolt) (December 1/2 2019)
- On Political Needles (November 2019)
@barnabycajones β 60 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "I've been thinking a bit about how social 'liberation' is experienced over time by different people, and wondering how it plays a role in the intractability of the culture wars." (02-08-18)
- Migrants from New Jersey to Georgia brought their ideas about small government with them (03-08-18)
- political engagement and self-care (04-02-18)
- "different groups have different values, the kinds of bad actors they fail to police from within their own coalitions are different, and it's often glaringly apparent to people outside their coalitions." (04-02-18)
- on faith promoting stories (04-23-18)
- On fighting over definitions of words, identity politics, and who can be said to speak for whom. (05-07-18)
- On Jordan Peterson's bedevilment of left wing pundents. (05-07-18)
- Transition (or lack thereof) between America's tribes (05-14-18)
- How the costal pressβs moral critiques of Hollywood parallel with those formerly made by the religious right (05-21-18)
- presidential elections as popularity contests, complete with a Simpsons metaphor (09-16-17)
- On apologism (09-30-17)
- On the the red tribe and protests. Voice vs Exit. (09-30-17)
- downthread digression (10-14-17)
- competing perceptions of the political valence of academia, with parallels to the SSC community (10-14-17)
- technology raising your kids (10-14-17)
- the duel between the University of Wisconsin and the state legislature (10-14-17)
- growing up Mormon (10-14-17)
- fat shaming (11-01-17)
- which stories get "air time" in this subreddit, and why (11-01-17)
- New Atheism (11-01-17)
- the view from low-information voterdom (11-01-17)
- GamerGate (11-01-17)
- competing media bubbles (11-06-17)
- intra-group identity politics, feminism, Kevin Spacey (11-06-17)
- how moralizing sabotages coalitions (11-06-17)
- the limitations of trusting the experts (11-06-17)
- universal culture and cultural self-defense (11-14-17)
- Louis CK and show-business (11-14-17)
- On the dichotomy between government and tribalism (?) as forces of power and social organization in America. (12-10-17)
- on urban schooling by race and social class (12-20-17)
- Is it reasonable to allow teenagers to marry if they already have kids together? (12-20-17)
- "In her telling, a lot of rougher neighborhoods are just functionally unpoliced until a homicide has already happened. And there's no trust on the part of residents of those neighborhoods that the law will resolve their problems, and so they don't cooperate with the police at all." (12-28-17)
- "...And regardless of how much the law, on paper, should treat everyone equally, as a practical matter, the social workers and teachers and people who staff disability and Medicaid offices are going to treat them in certain ways, because they, as a group, face certain special challenges and present a lot of really hard problems, much of it seemingly self imposed." (12-28-17)
- "In this telling, the interesting observation about Steve Jobs isn't that he was an asshole - that's par for the course. The interesting observation about Jobs is that, despite his specific set of traits, he wasn't involved in any physical conquest by force that left a giant trail of dead in his wake, and instead made a giant business that made stuff for other people that they largely wanted." (12-28-17)
- Response to FFCfromSSC (August 6th, 2018)
- Trump's relationship with the media (August 6th, 2018)
- The Loss of Shared Context in Communication in the Age of Twitter (August 6th, 2018)
- I would be extremely curious about this as well, but from a slightly different angle. (January 28th, 2019)
- Identity (July 16th, 2018)
- Soccer in the US (July 16th, 2018)
- Comparing Culture War to Everquest (July 16th, 2018)
- How Parenthood Changes You (July 23rd, 2018)
- On Distorted Views (July 9th, 2018)
- Definitions of the Word Racist (July 9th, 2018)
- Having a Traceable Online Persona (July 9th, 2018)
- White-Knighting (June 11th, 2018)
- Describing the Indescribable: (June 18th, 2018)
- Military Influence (June 4th, 2018)
- Universalism (June 4th, 2018)
- Anecdotes (June 4th, 2018)
- I largely agree with your sentiment. Most of the left of center people I know take their moral concerns and worldviews very, very seriously - much of my writing here is really about what happens when (November 12th, 2018)
- Springboarding from this, I want to note something in this space that I find really, seriously puzzling about the more general post-meritocracy stance. (November 26th, 2018)
- For your last statement, founder of sociology Emilie Durkheim wouldn't be on board, as I understand it. (November 5, 2018)
- I don't think your question addresses the reason for the opposition, because at this point , for the people who object, the denotation of "toxic masculinity" is obviously very, very secondary to its c (October 22nd, 2018)
- As far as I understand, that last assertion is almost literally the opposite of true. Exactly 100 years ago, Progressives were trying to suppress voter turn out as much as possible everywhere. There (October 29th, 2018)
- Comparing Canned Phrases when De-mormoning to the NPC Meme (October 15th, 2018)
- Vitriolic Academy (October 1st, 2018)
- Empathy in the Underclass (September 10th, 2018)
- Response on evangelicals and feminism (September 17th, 2018)
- Passion Makes You Biased (September 24th, 2018)
@baronvss β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I put forward the opposite notion: echo chambers are based, and possibly even group-pilled. In fact, I would say that they are the only long term community organisation that is viable." (April 2021)
- Why Websites Suck (July 2/2 2020)
- "If you want to prevent incels, the best thing to do is to identify boys seemingly without any friends and are the victim of constant bullying from others and help them form a social group of their own." (May 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@barristan_selmy β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Fun hypotheticals, complicated feelings, and harsh realities about a war with Canada, from a Canadian point of view" (January 2025)
@barry_cotter β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- thread on the future of human rights (July 2019)
@bartender_venator β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I'll leave it to the gallery to decide if OP simply has natural talent at this, or is a trained and well-polished master baiter, but, from me, kudos." (November 2025)
- "Speaking for myself (never a massive HBD argument partaker), if I get into an argument over it, I don't expect to hear anything new, just arguments I saw refuted here ten years ago, often with a heavy dollop of bad faith." (October 2025)
@bassicallyboss β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Social Status (June 11th, 2018)
@bbqturtle β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Rationalist Contrarianism (June 4th, 2018)
@bearvert222 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Weird Dynamics of Conservative Moviemaking (June 1/2 2020)
- The Tyranny of Meaningfulness (May 1/2 2020)
@beej67 β 8 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- She Did Not Go Gently (April 2019)
- The following post is an impartial writing critique, and has no relevant input to the content. (January 7th, 2019)
- I'm not a climate scientist, but I am a licensed PE, hydrologist, and have a masters degree from a top 5 engineering university in environmental fluid mechanics. I also read IPCC AR5 cover to cover, a (October 22nd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Natural selection has bred a people who absolutely will not stand up for any government ideal, because if they did they'd be dead." (August 2021)
- "The article basically analyzes the conservative claim on social media from last week that the 87,000 tax collectors in the Inflation Reduction Act would be used to attack poor people." (August 2022)
- "I think the dynamics around the IVM discussion were classic Game B sensemaking crisis culture war stuff." (June 2022)
- Thanks for the tag. Now I lost an hour of my workday. You owe me a beer. :) Maybe I can save this down for a later article or something. (March 4th, 2019)
- Thanks for replying, genuinely. I didn't totally want to go down this road, but I'd like to, since your reply was totally even keeled and I just want to elaborate on my perspective on ROGD. (May 6th, 2019)
@beerwulf42 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Analyzing The Music in Hamilton (July 1/2 2020)
@belisarius β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It is exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time to be doing to be promoting hypotheticals of bad right wingers to excuse and downplay any of this." (July 2024)
- "While going full 'vaccines are bad and unecessary' is stupid the pro establishment fanatical close minded position is also stupid and there are valid issues animating RFK and others." (November 2024)
@belisaurus_rex β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The History of The Bastille (July 1/2 2020)
@ben___garrison β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The time when Trump sabotaged immigration restrictions, and the alt-right cheered" (May 2024)
- "...the decline of monogamy has had a catastrophic impact on the rate of healthy relationships." (October 2022)
@bergilsunfyre β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Constructing a Feel-Good Civil War Historiography (April 2020)
@bernd β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Are you in the market for a new heating or cooling system?" (December 2022)
- "I wrote about the likelihood of the Move To Mastodon resulting in a purity spiral of banning-everyone-who-won't-ban-the-target-of-the-week, and it seems to have already started." (December 2022)
@best_cat β 18 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Explicit vs. Vague Rules (August 20th, 2018)
- The Purpose of Silly Fury (August 20th, 2018)
- The Financial Intricacies of Bay Area Sandwiches (August 27th, 2018)
- Issues with Bay Area Restate (August 27th, 2018)
- Isn't an overwhelming scientific consensus about a scientific topic good enough? (December 31st, 2018)
- I'd explain it as a mix of the ideas in "reverse any advice you hear" and "right is the new left" (December 3rd, 2018)
- Being a Successful TFCMHWiSE (October 15th, 2018)
- On Doubt and Math in Law (October 1st, 2018)
- Trump and the media are in a symbiotic relationship (October 1st, 2018)
- Adjusting to new alliances (October 1st, 2018)
- Definition and Praxis of Political Correctness (October 8th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Models of Crime - Right vs Left (December 1/2 2019)
- responding on morality of violence (July 2019)
- To make a comparison: I spent a while on the volunteer board of a church. (June 10th, 2019)
- Reasoning about "the poor", as some homogeneous mass, is a bit odd. True tragedies exist. And people can have obstacles that prevent them from trying various solutions. (June 17th, 2019)
- I'm not right wing, but share a relevant part of their worldview. Roughly: (June 17th, 2019)
- This will create way more toxoplasma. (May 20th, 2019)
- The phrasing isn't particularly weird. If we truncated the tweet to: (May 27th, 2019)
@bewilduhbeast β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- resident genetic editing sleuth (04-02-18)
@bibbledyboppit β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Some awesome regnancy and nursing advice (01-09-18)
@billydeewilliams1990 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@birb_cromble β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There are a lot of replies down-thread that boil down to 'just have kids bro', that seem to be dripping with a kind of smugness that suggests that it truly is that easy, and any complications that come along with it are speed bumps at best." (December 2025)
- "They won't offer unfettered access to the foundation model because it's 'unsafe', but they're simultaneously willing to give up on 'safety' as a core principle." (February 2026)
- "Because right now, I'm a little afraid for my 401(k), and with each passing day it's less because I'm afraid that I'll be out of a job and more that I have no idea how these valuations are justified." (January 2026)
@bird_of_play β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The role of values in effective altruism (September 24th, 2018)
@birdsday β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- To give some context: There have been elections in Germany for two of our "states" over the last 2-3 weeks, the results leading to Angela Merkel making this announcement now. (October 29th, 2018)
@bitevisual β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@bitter_cynical_angry β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Talisman of the Gun: Pro vs. Anti gun Fetishization (July 2nd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@bkawcazn β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- a quick and informal neo-luddite manifesto (04-02-18)
@bl1y β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@bleep β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "But somehow, universalizing single-payer to everyone is going to force lower salaries and other cost-cutting measures, much of which could be done right now under current law given just the basic buying power of the federal government by conditioning funds." (January 2026)
- "The Matt Gaetz Story: Blackmail Operation, Distraction Attempt, or A Bunch of Convenient Coincidences involving a Naughty Congressman?" (November 2024)
@blendorgat β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@blooblyblobl β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "My father runs (well, ran) a business remodeling homes in and around a city where such adjacency to reality is the default disposition, and the cost and time difference between projects in this county and projects in the neighboring farmland county would make your head spin." (August 2024)
- "The transgender memeplex wants to expand the usage of the word 'woman' to include unfalsifiable claims about someone's internal mental state." (February 2025)
- "The value of AI in robotics is that it can help plan motion in uncontrolled environments." (June 2024)
- "I can't see the US being globally competitive in manufacturing anything that needs a Li-Ion battery in it 20 years from now." (March 2024)
- "The case for space mining is a complete, unsalvageable disaster." (May 2024)
- "I think once the Dominion CEO demonstrably perjured himself by claiming that Dominion voting systems don't have modems in them (photographically, demonstrably false) and then again by claiming they weren't connected to the internet (demonstrably false again per the dominion records leaked by Dar Leaf), I decided that voting machines are completely ridiculous and no one should ever assume an election in which a voting machine is involved is fair." (May 2024)
- "Reform is a far better option than repeal. But the Jones Act is a meme and virtually all discussion of it is unproductive signaling." (November 2024)
@bonedrained β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There have been two recent high profile shootings." (February 2024)
@bonjellairs β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@borealenigma β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- some skepticism about recycling (04-18-18)
@borzivoj β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- Reply to @ymeskhout (November 2023)
@bothafternoon β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The SPLCβs War on Christmas...Calendars? (June 18th, 2018)
- Justice, Tabloids, and Witches (September 24th, 2018)
@botond173 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Woke USA is a Speeding Locomotive With No Brakes (June 1/2 2020)
@bpc3 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Consumer protection laws in Germany vs. the U.S. (12-10-17)
- Environmentalism (June 4th, 2018)
@brberg β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On an often misquoted quip about race by Lee Atwater (02-01-18)
- the marketplace of ideas, by analogy to lawnmowers (04-23-18)
- Chaining Grammar Up in his Basement (August 13th, 2018)
- where the measure of a man is always assumed to be the size of his paycheck and everything else is just a silly hobby. (December 10th, 2018)
- Racial Resentment (June 4th, 2018)
- In a thread about political videos in YouTube recommendations over in the Den of Iniquity, I mentioned that most of my YouTube recommendations were popular Japanese songs from the late Showa era ('70s (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Instinctive Misconceptions About Bloomberg and Wealth (March 2020)
- Its Ok to be a White White Hat Troll (November 2019)
- "As far as I can tell, there's very limited evidence that billionaires are actually making much use of the "buy, borrow, die" strategy alleged in that Pro Publica hit piece." (October 2021 2/2)
@breakerofhorsesandmen β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The Internet is mostly a sewage pipe with a small bubble of moderately fresh air trapped up against the pipe, and I donβt find your argument that therefore libraries should also become sewage pipes to be at all convincing." (April 2025)
- "All of that could have been avoided by the planners packing up their notebooks, going home, and letting natural civilizational cycles of rising and falling fertility play out." (December 2025)
- "This church has absolutely lost sight of the priority to save souls, by overemphasizing loving their neighbor." (November 2025)
- "So, I donβt count 'We have more bridges, McDonalds, and better military toys' as a definitive killer app in the endless war between peoples/nations/cultures." (October 2025)
@bsbbtnh β 15 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Molding the Care/Harm Model Around Partisan Politics (April 2020)
- Fractional Reserve Banking In a Nutshell (April 2020)
- "Autism has really been diluted over the past 20-30 years, almost becoming a status symbol." (April 2022)
- "Looking at RCID financial statements, I don't see $2 billion in bond debt." (April 2022)
- How not to engage a suspect (December 1/2 2019)
- on learned paranioa and the subcocnious ways culture and enviroment shape us (July 2019)
- "Language is always evolving, but it's weird that only those who lean left are involved in this process." (July 2021 2/2)
- " An anti-gouging bill won't lower the price of gas; at best it does nothing, and at worst it leads to nationwide shortages." (July 2022)
- The Businesses that Won't Rebuild (June 1/2 2020)
- Tenancy/Zoning Laws and Unintended Market Distortions (May 1/2 2020)
- What Good Would Come if Arbery's Killers Were In the Right? (May 1/2 2020)
- The Illusions in Environmental Policy (May 2/2 2020)
- Every Country Is Not Vietnam (October 2/2 2020)
- Writing Good and Bad Female Characters (September 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@bsmac45 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@buddypharaoh β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Characteristics of the Internet (November 2019)
@burdensomecount β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A dive into the numbers on Harvard admission without "modifiers." (January 2021)
- Why Have Women's Sports? (July 2/2 2020)
@burdensomecountthewhite β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "On ruling well as a substitute for morality" (October 2023)
@butlerian β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@byvlos β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Explaining the Citizen United Ruling (December 1/2 2019)
- Skepticism Regarding Voting System Reform (December 2/2 2019)
- Well-off, Smart, Healthy, and Empty (January 2020)
- Problems with Political Argumentation (November 2019)
@c_o_r_b_a β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Most Gender-Imbalanced Game (May 1/2 2020)
- Two Movies: Trump and Media Derangement Syndrome (November 2019)
- Identarianism and Extremism (November 2019)
@cae_jones β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I am age dysphoric, and ever since I read that The Federalist article, I've been thinking NO DO NOT DRAG ME INTO THIS! (November 5, 2018)
- On Free Will (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Peaking in 1996. (March 2021)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@caethan β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@campfire β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@campfiresmoreseaten β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Humanity going extinct is a function of AI capabilities. Those will continue to increase." (April 2024)
@cananopie β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@candidvoice β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- comment on being indoctrinated into leftism (04-18-18)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- summarizes the case against Jeffery Epstien (July 2019)
- how often aliens show up for thier court dates (July 2019)
- Just your daily reminder that the culture war has always existed in some form or fashion. (March 25th, 2019)
- This is entirely false and laughably uncharitable. You can do better. (May 13th, 2019)
- I think a necessary component of arguing in good faith is recognizing the limits of your own knowledge and being willing to update your priors when necessary. I think it's a conversation between eq (May 20th, 2019)
@canihaveasong β 12 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Evolution as a Creation Myth (August 2021)
- "If we lose the incest taboo, we run the risk of making all love and all intimacy sexual..." (January 2022 1/2)
- "In Favor of Discrimination" (January 2022 2/2)
- "It irks me that Aella doesn't bother to define intimacy and love." (March 2022)
- "I submit that the fundamental unit of existance/personhood/whatever is ... the relationship." (May 2022)
- Order, Chaos, and the Creation Story (November 2020)
- Inappropriate Advances In the Video Game Industry: A Candid Discussion (November 2020)
- Why do religious people have more children? (October 1/2 2020)
- The Impact of Waiting Until Marriage For Intimacy (October 1/2 2020)
- Male Privilege in the Gymnasium (October 2/2 2020)
- Against the Tradwife Meme (September 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@cantbeproductive β 8 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Itβs funny reading outlets similar to the Atlantic bemoan this phrase, whenβbecause of the Atlanticβs Anglo-Saxon heritageβwe have articles about Anglo-Saxon tradition from the 19th century." (April 2021)
- Validation and Presentation (February 2020)
- The difference between rural white conservatism, and rural white nihilism. (January 2021)
- Crying a river through history: the exhaustibility of sentimentality. (March 2021)
- Asian bias incidents by the numbers and the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. (March 2021)
- Translating the New Testament in search of fun and theological insight. (March 2021)
- "If they can write this stuff about Donald Trump, so synonymous with New York that he had a cameo in Home Alone, born and raised by a father raised in New York, whose name is writ large on the skyscrapers, then let us please have one comic about Yangβs California values." (May 2021 2/2)
- Weighing what is known, versus what is said, about the infamous Tulsa riots. (May 2021 2/2)
@cantrunn β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@capital_room β 14 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Cancellation as Cultural Imperialism (January 2020)
- Examining 'Amerikaner' Culture (January 2020)
- Analyzing "White" Culture (July 1/2 2020)
- We Cannot "Solve" Poor Condition of Back Row Americans By Bringing All to the Front Row (July 2/2 2020)
- "Puritan natural fervor provides motivation; the shape of the social and legal environment determined the avenue through which it was expressed." (May 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So, yes, you do have to 'save democracy from itself,' even if that requires 'undemocratic' measures like Colorado has taken. Or so goes the argument." (December 2023)
- "In short, this is an argument that teleology can constitute a valid 'joint' upon which reality may be 'cleaved,' particularly when it comes to law." (December 2023)
- "Which reminded me of the 2016 Australian study ... about how baby simulator dolls intended for education programs discouraging teen pregnancy ... actually increased a girlβs probability of having a kid by age 20..." (December 2024)
- "Mencken defined 'Puritanism' as 'the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,' but a better definition might be 'haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be doing wrong.'" (February 2024)
- "So there's something more needed beyond just 'people are born different' to get to 'therefore we must exterminate the lower orders.'" (January 2024)
- "No 'guerrilla' or 'terrorist' insurgency has ever won a civil war against a domestic enemy." (January 2025)
- "Except, as I've noted before, many on that side tend to define 'Democracy' rather differently than what you imply." (July 2024)
- "On disparate impact, prejudice, American civil rights law, and academic vs. lay definitions of words." (March 2024)
- "I'm reminded here of Arnold Kling's 'Where are the Servants?' from back in 2011..." (May 2025)
@captain_yossarian_22 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@carefulexamination β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Men play the victim and demand sympathy successfully all the time - look at the archetypal βpowerful victimβ politician, for example. (May 20th, 2019)
@careless-question-57 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@catbyself β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Imagining a Rationalist Hellscape (November 2020)
@catsnakes_ β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@cdo_cubed β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Starter Packs Teach You to Dodge Stereotypes (June 1/2 2020)
- This is a nice reply. I certainly recognize the need for vigorous representation, attorney-client privilege, and the existence of robust ethics requirements involving honesty and other best-practices (May 27th, 2019)
@celluloid_dream β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I don't know where I'm going with this, but the internet is disappearing and I don't like it." (March 2021)
@ceveau β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I saw this tweet in the gamingcirclejerk subreddit a couple days ago. (April 1st, 2019)
- The Nazis Really Are to Blame and Other Thoughts (July 1/2 2020)
- I opened that to read with the intent of doing a defense. (May 27th, 2019)
@chaarmanda β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Studying Race in the Shadow of the Holocaust (August 6th, 2018)
- WWIβs role in the Rise of Nazism (July 9th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@chad_nauseam β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Also, asking for explicit consent doesnβt solve the 'making people uncomfortable' problem." (July 2021 2/2)
- "One of the models that rarely seems to fail is the idea of a 'circlejerk/counterjerk cycle'." (March 2022)
@charles β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I used to be obese, I've used semeglutide, and I no longer am. There's more too it than that though." (August 2023)
@charlesuf β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on drug dealers mostly having access to shit guns only (04-02-18)
- payment processing (04-30-18)
@charmanda β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on nice guys and vulnerability (04-02-18)
@cheesecakegood β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Whether Pax Americana ultimately ends as a result of military conflict, or lack of military conflict, over Taiwan. (January 2021)
@cheezemansam β 14 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Against former Senator McCarthy (01-15-18)
- "Normalization is such a heavily politicized and ideologically entrenched word that I have a hard time understanding what it means..." (02-01-18)
- some interesting recent SCOTUS decisions (04-18-18)
- some recurring annoyances with HBD discussion (04-23-18)
- "Lets take an adventure through the 2016-2017 Term of the Supreme Court of the United States." (12-10-17)
- "The 11th seal has been broken." (12-20-17)
- Naturally a lot of people went into this incident with a bias (the initial reports of the incident seemed tailor-made to show Trump Supporters in a bad light outside of direct racial epithets and phys (January 21st, 2019)
- Post-modernism (June 11th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Role of Precedent in the Supreme Court (July 1/2 2020)
- Algorithmic Bias and Predictive Policing (July 2/2 2020)
- So, in the case of undocumented/illegal immigrants, to me the two central cases are when a family either enters the US legally and overstays their visa, or when the adults knowingly and voluntarily (June 24th, 2019)
- So Holocaust Denialism. I will try to address some of the reports being made everywhere. (June 24th, 2019)
- Carefully source-checking claims that the brutality of antebellum American slavery has been exaggerated (and finding those claims exaggerated). (March 2021)
- Shameful Police Acquittals (May 2/2 2020)
@chel_of_the_sea β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "I had a real-world Copenhagen interpretation of ethics example right in front of my face yesterday morning." (01-04-18)
- On what one may hide behind speaking true facts. (01-15-18)
@chestertonsmeme β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I'm becoming more and more convinced that all of the negative aspects of American (sub)urban design post-1950 are basically compensation for not being able to exclude undesirables explicitly." (August 2023)
- "There's a more general point here, which is this: discrimination is required for a well-functioning society." (February 2023)
@chevalmalfet β 10 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Differing Views in 1865 About What to Do With The South (July 1/2 2020)
- Welcome Aboard the Harriet Lane (The Civil War at Sea) (July 1/2 2020)
- Ulysses S. Grant as an Abolitionist Hero (June 2/2 2020)
- The Underplayed US Contribution to World War I (March 2020)
- An Opus on Korean Education: Part 1 (November 2019)
- An Opus on Korean Education: Part 2 (November 2019)
- An Opus on Korean Education: Part 3 (November 2019)
- An Opus on Korean Education: Part 4 (November 2019)
- Comparing the Character of Islam and Christianity (October 2/2 2020)
- Sekigaraha: the Last Great Samurai Battle (September 2020)
@chickenoverlord β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Now who will grab their rifle, And keep the roof with me?" (November 2021 1/2)
@chineseforums β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "One of the more interesting cultural moments on the Chinese internet so far this year is (was?) Lying Flat, or tangping θΊΊεΉ³." (July 2021 2/2)
@chopsaver β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- physics! (04-23-18)
@chrisprattalpharaptor β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@chrisprattalpharaptr β 18 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I can't make very firm predictions because nobody has really researched the best way to encourage viruses to make the leap to humans, but I'd probably try to make really high titer virus in the animal and pump it into human lungs." (April 2021)
- NYT's Nuanced Take on Cancel Culture (August 2020)
- COVID Vaccination & Virus Transmission (August 2021)
- "I wish the entire media circus would shut the fuck up about Fauci." (December 2021 2/2)
- The process and promise of disease eradication. (February 2021)
- "Greatschools.org β the new face of racism in America" (February 2022)
- Tearing into the Inadequacies of Black Genetic Criminality Studies (July 1/2 2020)
- Holy Fire, the Medical Industrial Complex and Aging (July 2021 2/2)
- The risks and uncertainties that persist around COVID vaccination and future viral mutations. (March 2021)
- The tradeoffs between civil liberties and public health. (March 2021)
- "We have an incomplete understanding of literally every process in the world." (May 2021 2/2)
- "mRNA vaccines transiently produce spike protein on the order of days-weeks." (May 2021 2/2)
- "I never thought I'd live to see an R01 be a hot-button political topic, yet here we are." (September 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Probably we're again going to rely on godlike AI designing new methods for manipulating gene expression on broad scales, or maybe some Kwisatz Haderach breeding program over generations as we slowly introduce the changes we need." (February 2024)
- "Mice live two years, scientists have shown that you can take differentiated T cells (not stem cells!), stimulate them with a virus, transfer them to a new mouse and so on and so forth for more than 10 years (!)." (January 2023)
- "Nothing would make me happier than some godlike AI oracle that could satisfy my curiosity, I'm just skeptical that even the ASIs pitched by proponents like Aschenbrenner will be as omnipotent as advertised." (June 2024)
- "Amara's law seems to apply here: everyone overestimates the short-term effects and underestimates the long-term effects of a new technology." (March 2025)
- "They were dismayed that my school was teaching me that the French had been subjugated, but as far as I can tell, it was true." (October 2023)
@chrononological β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@cimafara β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "Modernity is invincible." (02-01-18)
@cimarafa β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Reports of political violence in Italy have been greatly exaggerated (03-08-18)
- how infrastructure influences society (04-18-18)
- trans rights vs. gender as socially constructed (04-18-18)
- Affirmative Action Across the Globe. (July 2nd, 2018)
- Radical "Journalism in the "Mainstream" Press (June 11th, 2018)
- Paley-Conservatism vs Traditionalist Catholics (September 10th, 2018)
@cincilator β 22 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On people's tendency to build up distant lands as somehow better, and how it influences ideology (02-01-18)
- Identity politics in the Balkans (05-21-18)
- Calculations of Transgressional Impact (August 6th, 2018)
- As someone from a formerly communist country, I am getting the sense that supposedly free western societies are increasingly gaining communist features. Obviously things are nowhere as bad yet, there (December 3rd, 2018)
- Multi-agent Game Theory (June 11th, 2018)
- Night-crawlerization (June 11th, 2018)
- credibility of Elite Institutions (June 4th, 2018)
- I would like to give here elaboration of a post I wrote before. I wrote a brief response, but I think it requires more thought. (November 12th, 2018)
- One very good point I saw on twitter is that the movie Matrix essentially portrays successful terrorist indoctrination. Think about it. It starts with Thomas Anderson, mild-mannered upper middle class (November 5, 2018)
- We See in History What We Want (October 1st, 2018)
- Historical Symbols are about the Present, not the Past (October 8th, 2018)
- Deriving Truth from the Bible, Nature, and Pre-history (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Hateclick Perfector (December 1/2 2019)
- Nuances Regarding Individualism and Conformity (December 1/2 2019)
- Recently I started watching on YouTube various American cop interrogation videos. And what is fascinating about that is how completely different real interrogations are compared to what you see on Ame (February 11th, 2019)
- Whether "tech needs humanities" sends the message its advocates think it sends (or want it to). (February 2021)
- T Greer twitter thread on how different was the old Blogosphere from current social network situation. Written in response to Scott's closing SCC culture war thread and explains why today's structure (February 25th, 2019)
- One meta-observation about the Culture War. (February 25th, 2019)
- "I am getting the sense that some parts of the left in America have unfortunate tendency to see underclass criminals as potential allies in class warfare." (January 2022 1/2)
- This might be something of a captain obvious take on GamerGate, but to me it just clicked now. And I haven't seen this particular take before, so whatever. (June 17th, 2019)
- This might be a good place for me to review Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul Gross and Norman Levitt. It is a slam against Postmodernism of their day writ (May 13th, 2019)
- D-Day, Mistakes, and Social Media (September 2020)
@cirrus β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It is possible to strongarm policymakers with enough political will. But itβs not easy." (November 2023)
@cjet79 β 38 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- media consumer profiles by analogy with materials (04-02-18)
- On misgendering/mistitling people (09-30-17)
- I like this list, even though I disagree with the problems listed. I wish there were more of these kinds of discussions around here. (October 22nd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I can't speak for all libertarians, but I have started internally cataloguing things that I care about having in a society." (April 2022)
- Adversarial Establishment of Religion (August 2020)
- "I wanted to go through the process of imagining a good immigration system to demonstrate that what we currently have is not a designed system." (August 2021)
- because we live in a frustrating hellworld. (February 11th, 2019)
- "What everyone really does is ask a much more human centric question: 'Do I trust them?'" (February 2022)
- Discussion in some gaming subreddits about an IGN article that suggests game developers should unionize. I posted the comment below in r/games. But its likely to get buried or go unnoticed, so I figur (March 18th, 2019)
- "...why I hated being single and going on dates..." (May 2021 2/2)
- I think someone mentioned this last time, but it would be a much better approach to just make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. (May 6th, 2019)
- "Where are all the immortals?" (November 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Where is the American Dream?" (April 2025)
- "The engine of capitalism is chugging along and doing great things. And it pulled you and those around you out of poverty, and now you want to turn it off because the engine is loud and annoying." (August 2023)
- "One of the easiest things to coordinate on is 'we all want more wealth'. As soon as you allow any other values to creep into that equation you have a huge fight on your hands." (August 2023)
- "...there is one area that always rubs me the wrong way. It is smart people who don't know dumb people talking about intelligence." (August 2023)
- "What is the problem with policing today?" (August 2023)
- "If the 'philsopher-kings' existed and were actually competent I believe they would just exactly recreate money and artificial scarcity." (August 2023)
- "I generally agree with the effort to preserve games. If you also agree I think you should do the following things:" (August 2024)
- "Gun Rights are Civilization Rights" (August 2025)
- "God-Emperor Franz has all the economic value. He wants an advisor and a semi-subserviant friend to talk with about god emperor related issues." (December 2022)
- "Its possible to have a good company in India, but I think there is going to be a real problem if you are just doing it as a random cost saving measure and not putting much thought into how it should be done." (December 2023)
- "The common online reputation of George Mason is basically totally wrong." (February 2024)
- "Scott Alexander has written a piece about love and liberty" (February 2024)
- "A flexible labor market is the goose that lays the golden egg in America." (January 2025)
- "Politics is the desire to place the preferences of humans over the preferences of inhuman competitive forces." (January 2026)
- "Politics is the Mind
KillerChanger" (July 2024) - "Overall my life has been awesome and not filled with much tragedy. My encounters with immigrants have been almost entirely positive." (July 2025)
- "I was a bit of AI apocalypse skeptic a few years ago. Most of my skepticism is gone." (March 2023)
- "No one has even bothered asking what spirit of the law Trump has broken. They went straight to finding the tiny letters that he might have broken." (March 2023)
- "At its root 'healthy masculinity' is an existential crisis that every individual man sort of has to navigate on their own." (March 2026)
- "Our legal system increasingly resembles a system of 'might makes right' if you have enough powerful people on your side then the law can literally be what you want it to be." (May 2023)
- "I sort of lean towards weak-manning not being a thing, and any view that anyone holds is fair game." (May 2023)
- "Government Programs Should Have Legible Budgets" (May 2024)
- "My earliest memory of a story retelling was that of Chex Quest." (November 2023)
- "I normally don't care to comment on Trump stuff, but I don't like the massive gaslighting that it feels like we all went through during 2020." (October 2023)
- "Is everyone else just pretending this is not how the world works while we put on a public facade of 'oh yes this is so terrible, how could anyone ever say this'? Or is it genuinely secret knowledge to people about how to make friends and socialize?" (October 2025)
- "Scott Alexander endorses basically anyone but Trump" (September 2024)
@claramegveronica β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Nature of Emotional Abuse (When it is in the Public Spotlight) (September 24th, 2018)
@clementine β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I moderated a forum once." (July 2025)
- "Why do I want a fourth kid?" (June 2025)
@clinicalgazesurbulge β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- about living in "the Matrix" that turned into a book review of Blood Meridian (July 2019)
- All the vehicles and gasoline in the world wouldn't matter if key roads, tunnels, or bridges are impassable, or if you no one could buy gas because credit and debit cards don't work. Or if electro (June 10th, 2019)
@clo β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It's not that Japan is somehow exceptional at this, it just seems like Hollywood has entirely forgotten what humans are like." (April 2024)
- "Nowadays it's interesting as a piece of internet history, but the bombed remnants of a once relatively consolidated gaming media and the cratering efforts of the bloated game developer and publishing industry tell a story of how everyone failed to learn anything at all from the entire experience." (February 2026)
- "I wanted to put a bit of effort into a post about how my understanding of bars changed over time, but I realized halfway through writing it that I couldnβt go into it without discussing how my relationship with alcohol changed over the course of my life." (March 2026)
- "I donβt like the fact that there is something approaching a general consensus here: that the time for discussion and dialogue is over and the normies can be led around by the nose to believe and fight for whatever makes them feel good." (November 2025)
@closedshop β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Here's a legitimately unhinged blog post: 15 fragrances in 5 different collections." (April 2025)
- "This is going to be a split between a movie review for Ne Zha 2 and some of my thoughts on the state of culture from a China-born American." (February 2025)
- "For myself, it really is impossible to overstate how important he was to the New Year's Gala." (February 2026)
@codexrunicus β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@coffee_enjoyer β 10 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I have never seen a piece of media that is so clearly a psy-op." (April 2025)
- "Reclaiming religious social technology by rejecting literalism" (August 2023)
- "Our instinct for broad purpose is to align ourselves with a collective, and our instinct for clarity is to ensure that the path ahead of us will provide a good life." (January 2025)
- "IMO algorithms have changed dating in recent years, as feeds will present women with highly attractive men outside of their extended social network at a considerably higher rate than in previous half-decades." (January 2026)
- "Masculinity, manliness, Incels? Red herrings. The issue is that men chase rewards, and the rewards today are disordered." (July 2023)
- "Our civilizations did not always have superstimuli available to young people." (June 2024)
- "Christians are not golems designed to do good for outsiders continually." (May 2023)
- "Status in the progressive art scene" (May 2024)
- "LARPing isnβt fake, itβs pre-reality." (May 2025)
- "Anyway, an Essene-origin theory of Christianity would explain why they critiqued the Pharisees and scribes, while elevating the status of the poor and ignorant." (November 2024)
@coloncaretcapitalp β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@comicsansstein β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@commercialturnip β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Interpretations of the Law (June 11th, 2018)
@confuciuscorndog β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@conquerer7 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Facing a Senator's Racism as a Chinese-American (April 2020)
- The Remarkable Verbal Intelligence of Active Politicians (April 2020)
@controlsfreak β 17 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "School/education on its own seems relatively fine. It's just the particular way we go about it that ruins everything." (April 2023)
- "Why are the Status Games so powerful?" (April 2024)
- "So, well, if we can't come up with any good ideas to actually implement the principle in the face of the concrete thing that we want to do right now, the 'principle' will just be attested to verbally, as a signalling mechanism, while we proceed in just trodding all over it." (August 2023)
- "NYT Continues Medical Pricing Beat" (August 2025)
- "Major NYT opinion piece dropped this week. At the time of my clicking on it, it was under the headline 'Born This Way? Born Which Way?'" (December 2023)
- "I've been thinking a lot on the application of the laws." (December 2023)
- "I cannot imagine five members of the Court will sign off on saying that the Constitution guarantees GMail the right to refuse private communications service based solely on their dislike of an individual's politics." (February 2024)
- "Preventing coercion is why we have secrecy in voting! Preventing coercion is what it's for!" (January 2023)
- "I don't know any honest-to-goodness real life spies, but I really wonder if they have some sort of similar dysfunction/skepticism toward each other that we Science types have toward our own." (January 2024)
- "Businesses compete, in many many ways. One of the ways they have to compete is to acquire labor and talent." (January 2025)
- "But how effective is it? How costly is it? How efficient compared to possible alternatives? Who knows? Who cares?" (March 2024)
- "As such, I think the freedom of speech part is kind of a distraction for what should really be considered freedom of the modern press." (March 2024)
- "Birthright Citizenship at the Supreme Court" (March 2026)
- "Birthright Citizenship in US Territories" (March 2026)
- "No one thinks that when you go to the grocery store, or go to buy a TV, a refrigerator, or car, or anything else, that you should first have to just give them all your financial information so that they can tailor your price." (May 2023)
- "You have to do both these things... simultaneously convince prospective students and employers, because if you don't do both simultaneously, the group that was falsely convinced will quickly realize that they were duped and stop..." (May 2025)
- "Society didn't come to their beliefs on this subject via rational scientific exploration and explanation. They did so through pure cultural power and intimidation." (November 2023)
@corvos β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Immigration is like steroids or heroin, it changes the decision-maker in ways that make their future decisions unforeseeable." (February 2025)
- "To the extent that there exists a Republic Patronage network it's still largely inchoate and not integrated with supposedly non-partisan government spending the way that the Democratic Patronage network is." (January 2025)
- "But if you are sure that the most important thing for conservatives is that they hold fast and don't get seduced by the poison of identity politics, please consider it possible that you might be wrong." (June 2023)
- "But if we are going to have a thread discussing downstream whether the 1800s British were the official Worst People In The World in conjunction with the Nazis, Stalin, Mao and slavers, or merely just very bad, could we please have a bit more providing of sources and a bit less of 'everyone knows'?" (September 2025)
@counselordegen β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A law system wherein the laws are clearly written in some sort of plain language which requires no interpretation... (March 25th, 2019)
@courtyardhound β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@cplusplusdeveloper β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- One of the under appreciated reasons for the modern popularity of Valentine's Day is it serves a coordination strategy to find philanderers and cheats. (February 2019)
- Some advice, that I rarely see crystallized, for the young people here starting off their careers. (November 26th, 2018)
- (Crossposted from the blog's WordPress comments): (November 5, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A distinction that mostly gets lost in this discussion is the difference in performance before fees and performance after fees. Remember hedge fund performance is always reported after fees. Thi (February 11th, 2019)
- Why We Should Hold Primaries Two Years Early (February 2020)
- Your Irregular Reminder that You're in a Bubble (February 2020)
- Education Policy Budgeting (February 2020)
- Rules 1 and 2 for Economic Success (January 2020)
- To be honest, I really don't have a specific proposal. If I knew a viable business model for content micro transactions, I'd be dictating this reply to an Instagram model on my yacht off the coast of (March 11th, 2019)
- Defending the Rational Addiction Model (October 2/2 2020)
@crazycattime β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On the Slow Adoption of Ideas (December 2/2 2019)
- repsonse (July 2019)
- the inspector general's office said it found "evidence that limiting the volume of asylum-seekers entering at ports of entry leads some aliens who would otherwise seek legal entry into the United (June 24th, 2019)
- Ross wanted to include the citizenship question on the census since he was sworn into the office, long before any determination was made about the sufficiency of administrative records. Further, i (June 24th, 2019)
- Is there any principle here beside "Muslims are not permitted to speak about Israel"? (May 13th, 2019)
- Anaylyzing the Media (November 2019)
- Lawyering and Bizarre Errors: All Part of the Show (November 2020)
@cretan_bull β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Probability Theory and Stereotypes in Medicine (May 2/2 2020)
@crispyfriedbarnacles β 23 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It's not like no civilization in the history of the world has figured out how to make safe streets in urban areas, and so we have no models or something. Westerners simply aren't allowed to, that's all." (April 2025)
- "As an example, one of the interesting things about the modern university system is it bolts two incompatible accountability systems on top of each other." (April 2025)
- "'Racism' now means whatever it is that progressive activist networks say it means on any given day, and in turn it's just one more term of abuse hurled by self-aggrandizing partisans heavily steeped in conflict theory who want good zero sum things for their allies and bad zero sum things for you." (August 2023)
- "I think, ironically, it's an atheist conceit that 'theists' believe that 'religion' is generically good." (August 2023)
- "Back in the 2016 election, I remember being struck by the fact that Trump lies like a used car salesman, and most other politicians lie the way that lawyers lie..." (August 2024)
- "One thing I've very hazy about, though, is whether this is an argument that stops with the Republican party being doomed, or whether it's rather an argument for all those institutions actually being doomed." (December 2023)
- "And so, it turns out that being extremely unreasonable, confrontational, and obnoxious can be surprisingly effective." (February 2025)
- "From the 1930s on, a certain version of liberalism became so overwhelmingly dominant in America that its native conservative tradition was essentially sidelined into a permanent minority status, really, and given no public oxygen at all." (July 2025)
- "I think (when it comes to art and communication), everything kind of went to hell with the combination of the collapse of conservatism in the George W Bush years, the rhetorical success of, especially, Jon Stewart, and the messianic rise of Obama." (July 2025)
- "This is the framework I can't help but see and compare to when I look at the 'young men need to be scolded, young women are always victims' public discourse, because at a basic human level, it just seems so totally anti-human and disconnected from reality." (July 2025)
- "I think there's something really puzzling and interesting going on with American (left-of-center dominated) institutions broadly right now, and I think the phenomenon is captured nicely by this example of the press, the public, and the unpopularity of affirmative action." (June 2023)
- "I believe, and I think this was once a much more common American belief, that there are much, much, much worse things in the world than different groups with different world views and different values giving each other some generous space." (June 2025)
- "I saw some comment a while ago (I can't recall where) that Obama had said he expected some macho, manly, John Wayne type to be who Republicans settled on in 2016." (June 2025)
- "I've gotten rather stuck on this notion that the older 2 party system, the one that was stable for a while, was really two coalitions that were, especially, catering to two regional sets of winners." (June 2025)
- "I think most traditionalist Christians would say, you want a culture that treats sex like it's sacred and important." (June 2025)
- "I mean, obviously there are a lot of strands of anti-woke. But it seems to me that a slightly more nuanced read on this might be more like this, and I'm going to dip into analogies here..." (June 2025)
- "Which is to say, from this perspective, affirmative action is a red herring and rhetorical distraction." (March 2024)
- "One of the consequences of the Reagan revolution is that it cemented a certain kind of public rhetoric about the American Federal government in relation to citizens." (March 2025)
- "But I think this has probably been a great example of arson being applied to Chesterton's fence - the older Reagan-era norm, with its insistence that "of course you can expect plenty of black people to live up to high standards" played a really important social role in encouraging everyone else to go along with integration." (May 2025)
- "I've noted before that I often get a 'born on third, thought they hit a triple' vibe from progressives when it comes to the institutions they've inherited..." (September 2024)
- "There's a specific critique I've seen about smart people on the left, which is something like there's this overabundance of book smart people who have extreme problems modeling second order social effects." (September 2025)
- "Way back in the 90s, there was a popular freakout about video games making young men into killers." (September 2025)
- "I could totally imagine seeing progress, for such a person, as being synonymous with dampening all possible public expressions of homogenous, assumed religiosity." (September 2025)
@criticalduty β 14 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...there is a limit to how liberal you can be in a society where popular mullahs can summon strikes, riots and worse seemingly at will." (April 2022)
- Identity Politics not Winding Down (February 2020)
- The formless void is as American as apple pie. (January 2021)
- Charity as A Game Mechanic (July 1/2 2020)
- Blackpilling on the United Methodist Church (June 2/2 2020)
- "Buck Breaking is a documentary (June 2021 1/2)
- organizer Tariq Nasheed..." (June 2021 1/2)
- In one of my college courses, on feminism, my professor was a Marxist who preferred an anthropological understanding of the origins of patriarchy, as opposed to the common narratives regarding organiz (June 24th, 2019)
- "...American foreign policy is formed and proselytized by diaspora groups whose goal is to use American power as a tool to relitigate ethnic struggles that their ancestors - and sometimes they themselves - were on the losing side of." (March 2022)
- Fictional Psychopathy as Wish Fulfillment (May 1/2 2020)
- The Ultimate Success of China's Tiananmen Reaction (May 2/2 2020)
- The American Dream: Anti-Blackness Mingled With Feigned Respect (May 2/2 2020)
- "They're dealing with an existential crisis where compromise means armageddon. Why, then, does the climate movement not turn against democracy, a system infamous for compromise?" (October 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@crushedoranges β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@curious_straight_ca β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I think trying to prove a black-white IQ gap just via the existing income gap is a mistake, anyway." (February 2024)
@curious-b β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...even if we never get to hyperinflation, and we see only mild (secular) inflation of the USD, we could get into trouble." (May 2021 2/2)
@cvdailyupdates β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Civil Liberties and the Impossibility of Full Lockdown (April 2020)
- COVID-19 Protestors Are Acting Reasonably On Wrong Beliefs (April 2020)
- Astroturf or Facilitating Community Organizing? (April 2020)
- The Evolution of My Personal View on Coronavirus (April 2020)
- How Twitter and Reddit Outperformed Institutions on COVID-19 (March 2020)
@cyberbyte β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Dr. Timnit Gebru's termination by Google and the putative racism of our machine-mind overlords (December 2020)
@d0themath β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Calculatons on Gun Accidents vs Car Accidents (July 2/2 2020)
@d1m1tr1rascalov β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Die Linke - The German Radical Left (March 2020)
@d357r0y3r β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Starting A Conversation: Dating from the Wrong Side of a "Tribe" (May 1/2 2020)
- Ah, yeah - I just can't go along with this. (May 27th, 2019)
- "In summation, dating and family formation is just the latest entry in a list of things that technology has critically injured." (November 2021 2/2)
@d4shing β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Black People Did Not Misplay the Great Hand of Sympathetic Victimhood (June 1/2 2020)
- If you're not willing to stand for principles even when they produce a policy outcome you don't like, are they even really your principles? (October 1/2 2020)
- Summarizing 'Debt', by David Graeber (September 2020)
@daermonn β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On religion. (12-10-17)
- Good Electronic Music Suggestions (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@daezor β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@daffodil_day β 11 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I wouldn't say singing shows like American Idol (which is airing on ABC literally at this moment) are horrible, but they are very tired and boring at this point. Idol had its premiere over the (April 15th, 2019)
- High prole too. Despite that, I enjoyed the quiz, since I've always been into interior design and architecture. I didn't find it too dated either. They were spot-on with the "cathedral" ceiling and (April 1st, 2019)
- That seems odd to me, the housing market is a massively distorted by government intervention all the way from the municipal to federal levels increasing the price of housing. (April 8th, 2019)
- tells a story about Sarah Palin and the death of the Tea Party (July 2019)
- It's a little hard for me to believe that conservatives don't "get" why it was a gaffe, even if they believe Romney's intent was sincere. Politicians say things all the time that come off as reall (June 17th, 2019)
- Left-activism generally argues that this is the case, and that they are following in the footsteps of MLK and Rosa Parks by fighting for justice, or stopping Hitler by punching "Nazis". (March 11th, 2019)
- Trump, though. Trump isn't even trying to be respectable. He has no interest in appealing to moderates. His absurdity doesn't need to be revealed; it's out in the open. This leaves comedians in (March 11th, 2019)
- While I don't know how representative of the rest of Team Red this is, here's how I felt about Obama and IdPol over the years . . . (March 11th, 2019)
- Originally meant almost as a censure of Democratic representative from Minneapolis Ilhan Omar for her criticism of the Israel lobby's financial power, the resolution became watered down to condemn (March 4th, 2019)
- Truly it is the lack of early British rock that keeps black men oppressed! (March 4th, 2019)
- The places people travel to are often just places with great (classical) architecture, great urban planning, and "culture" (which is really just a lot of interesting things to do). But I don't se (May 27th, 2019)
@daguerrean β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I don't know exactly how to piece it together but there is some common through-line that connects feminism, White people, desire to be ill, environmentalism and suicide." (December 2024)
- "Lately I've been reflecting and I think one of the biggest themes of change in my lifetime is the increasing efficiency of the world, and largely, it sucks." (January 2026)
- "If you tell people that they are traumatized they will feel traumatized." (January 2026)
@dalamplighter β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@dalinks β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Chinese Housing (Memorial Day 2018)
- Packing the House (October 15th, 2018)
@dangerous_psychology β 17 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Disscussing The Rise of Victimhood Culture (December 1/2 2019)
- Humorous Thoughts on the WInners and Losers of Democratic Debates (December 2/2 2019)
- Yang Vs Beto: How a Message/Signal Changes Depending on the Speaker (December 2/2 2019)
- Richard Jewell - Orphan of the Culture War (December 2/2 2019)
- Legacy admissions maybe being necessary (Extremely Late 2019)
- Red-Tribe Marketed TV Series (February 2020)
- 2019: Year in Review (January 2020)
- Ai and Benjamin Explore Locked Doors (January 2020)
- Gaming, Articulating, and Gatekeeping Oppression (January 2020)
- How the Opinion Section Took Over the NYT (January 2020)
- "How do you square the problem of historical accuracy (January 2022 2/2)
- that the racially inclusive America we want to celebrate and portray isn't the America that actually existed in 1776?" (January 2022 2/2)
- effort-post here (July 2019)
- The Secret of Biden's Success (March 2020)
- On Conservative Black Democrats (March 2020)
- Why Republicans Embrace Trump: He Punches Back (March 2020)
- Boys' Struggle in the Modern School (March 2020)
@darwin2500 β 41 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on girl-branded whisky (04-02-18)
- Black Panther is more subversive than it looks. (04-02-18)
- on social justice (04-18-18)
- equality of outcome, steelmanned (04-18-18)
- breaking Taboos (04-30-18)
- Delineating the two activist movements in gender and gender roles (05-21-18)
- The familiarity of r/slatestarcodex with Rationaist Literature (August 20th, 2018)
- Why you should read the Sequences (August 20th, 2018)
- Social Justice Rhetoric about Whites High vs. Low Status (August 6th, 2018)
- Response to FFCfromSSC (August 6th, 2018)
- Breaking it down, if being very smart was much, much, better than being of average smarts, then everyone would become very smart up to the physiological limit (December 31st, 2018)
- Literal high school drama. (January 28th, 2019)
- Liberal HBD positions (July 23rd, 2018)
- Can we thrive under different social conditions? (July 23rd, 2018)
- an explainer of the (steelmanned) liberal definition of socially constructed (July 30th, 2018)
- Liberal worries about the Trump movement (July 9th, 2018)
- Outgroup homogeneity bias (Memorial Day 2018)
- There's not a strong reason to care about political violence in terms of the violence itself, compared to other sources of violence. (November 12th, 2018)
- This all makes perfect sense in my head, but I'm having trouble describing it with feeble human words. I'm constantly disappointed that we don't have a more effective form of telepathy than language. (November 19th, 2018)
- Although I largely agree, I'm going to chime in and say that we should be careful not to conflate insight and novelty. (November 26th, 2018)
- In case you're interested, here's a short list of problems with capitalism that I came up with a while back when someone else asked what problems I had with it: (October 22nd, 2018)
- Given recent bans, I am afraid to say what I really feel about this. (October 29th, 2018)
- I've been thinking about it a little bit, and I believe I'm correct in saying the following: (October 29th, 2018)
- Memetic Colonization (October 15th, 2018)
- Meritocracy, a Justification for the Status Quo (October 8th, 2018)
- Cost Benefit Analysis: False Rape vs Actual Rape (October 8th, 2018)
- Avoiding Leaders with Ulterior Motives (September 17th, 2018)
- Death By 10,000 Discussions of Nuance (September 17th, 2018)
- Kavanaugh, and The Tails Coming Apart (September 24th, 2018)
- Loves a graph (September 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Are you linking to the archived version of the CBS story instead of the live version because the archived version doesn't reveal the auto-play video that fills the screen as you open the page, startin (April 15th, 2019)
- In practice it will be different, but it should be nearly identical. (February 18th, 2019)
- The Capitalist Message of Bee Movie (February 2020)
- if anyone thinks that a 00.0001% rate of conservatism is organic they are out of their mind. (June 17th, 2019)
- On Pulling Down Statues (June 2/2 2020)
- Maybe I should clarify my initial post then. I took GSD's primary complaint to be that people with limited knowledge were speaking in ignorance on a topic, and he couldn't get them to listen to him w (March 11th, 2019)
- Well, first of all, they definitely are weaponizing a hot button culture war issue in their salary negotiations; this is a business entity negotiating a contract, not a political or social justice m (March 4th, 2019)
- A confound here is that the timecourse of 'The Second Demographic Transition' coincides with the rise of 'The Digital Age,' and the movement towards screens and away from meatspace. (May 27th, 2019)
- Between this article and the discussion of clown memes below, the phrase I am most reminded of is (May 6th, 2019)
- The Progressive - Liberal Split (November 2019)
- On Principles of Discourse (November 2019)
@daseindustriesltd β 25 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There's a profound epistemic benefit to learning about HBD as a scientifically sound framework." (April 2023)
- "What does Kirin 9000S tell us about the future?" (August 2023)
- "It was, indeed, a genocide, and it means that, were the Axis successful in its ultimate political program, it would have been the end of Jewry globally, the final death of Israel." (December 2022)
- "On a pothead and notions of personal freedom." (December 2022)
- "E/acc and the political compass of AI war" (December 2023)
- "I'm pretty open to the idea that diversity is good β real diversity, not this consumerist Western appreciation of cuisines, not the lukewarm respect for ethnic varieties of ideas the West already accepts." (December 2025)
- "Truly, the day when we have to portray moneylenders as a whole as generous folk just to not offend groups which have historically been overrepresented in this line of work (and still are, just less so) will be a dark one." (February 2023)
- "The pragmatic answer is that the opposite of HBD awareness is not the innocent race-blind utopia that millenials have retconned into their childhoods, but Β¬HBD, which by virtue of impossibility to bring reality in accord with it has unbounded actionable consequences." (February 2023)
- "Women, we are told, are worried about costs of living and stagnant wages, career opportunities and iniquities; men give up on marriage, selfishly play vidya, voluntarily join alpha male incel organizations." (February 2023)
- "Now that I think about it, not much has changed since 1988 and 'The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy.'" (January 2023)
- "The real point is: eugenicists, too, wanted to prevent existential risks arising from dysgenic civilizational collapse." (January 2023)
- Β«Media is being honest and good to have you believe it's honest and good when it's actually deceptive and bad β and those few issues are central to its mission.Β» (January 2023)
- "I've been an increasingly convinced DeepSeek fanatic ever since their very first LLMs, Coder-33B and 6.7B, first surfaced on Reddit around October 2023." (January 2025)
- "Affirmative Action is never just affirmative action, never just redistributing the pie of prestige; it carries costs that may measure in lives." (July 2023)
- "The state of open-source LLMs as of summer 2024, or: Core Values of Socialism with AGI characteristics" (July 2024)
- "The chip situation is roughly stable. But Chinese culture, with regard to AI, has changed a bit since then." (July 2025)
- "When I feel like there are no reasons for me to keep living, happiness is a delusion and my existence itself is an exercise in sad absurdity, I remind myself that all of this has happened before, and was proven false..." (March 2023)
- "It's perfectly conceivable that the paucity of known Β«relatableΒ» figures from your demographic will be an invigorating stimulus, rather than discouragement." (March 2023)
- "China's fragile treasure" (March 2025)
- "High-performing brains ride the edge of metastability and wrangle representations easily; low-performing ones waste power fending off chaos and lose track of the context." (May 2023)
- "I suspect that the biggest intellectual deficit of the rationalist culture is precisely this preoccupation with the meta." (May 2023)
- "By all means, do promote statistical literacy and demand intellectual honesty among HBDers, do shame us for our sloppiness. Keep discussing this in terms of phenotypic null hypothesis, if you must. But do not gaslight." (November 2022)
- "This is how evil looks historically. Not generic cruelty, callousness, petty narcissism and even psychopathy we are used to, not mere weakness of will or intellect, but well-functioning people with actually hazardous moral convictions." (November 2022)
- "HBDers' incompetence is the intended outcome of censorship." (October 2022)
- "Simply put it's that we are entitled to be represented in the future β personally, or by proxy of our values and heirs; and EA-Utilitarian-longtermism does not serve this purpose well." (September 2022)
@dasfoo β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Left "War on Sex" (April 2020)
- There's a contradiction in progressivism that's been bugging me for a while. I'm sure this is nothing new, and my evidence for its anecdotal, but the popularity of the Black Panther movie brings it in (February 25th, 2019)
- I think you might be extrapolating a little too far in some cases (I'll elaborate in a second) but in general I think there's something to this and it's bothered me a bit too. (February 25th, 2019)
- When it comes to selling ideas to the mass market, very few people are interested in the mechanics of how and where an idea evolved but are concerned primarily with its practical application to their (June 17th, 2019)
- If I try to be charitable, I find this vehement anti-anti-abortion sentiment perplexing. I'm intellectually anti-abortion but culturally pro-choice, so I'm personally in a constant state of cognitive (May 13th, 2019)
- "Is there some marketing campaign that can make participating in American civics cool again?" (May 2022)
@dasubermensch83 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Can you even make a woke algorithm without explicitly assigning different values to people according to the progressive stack? (May 6th, 2019)
@dawin2500 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- sexual marketplace (05-14-18)
@dazzilingmegafauna β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Ask and Tell in Gender Issues (February 2020)
- the problem with historical counter-factuals (July 2019)
@dean β 62 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "What is going in Sudan is a practical demonstration (April 2023)
- being a global power does not mean that everything going on in the world is secretly about you." (April 2023)
- "When the Israelis occupied Gaza and the West Bank in the Six-Day War in 1967, one of the reasons for seizing the territory was both as a military buffer, but also that they could be traded back for peace in the future." (April 2024)
- "The Great Le Pen Conviction Saga" (April 2025)
- "The trade flow diversions across the globe, who will receive what runoffs and to what effect, will be the most interesting part of these interesting times." (April 2025)
- "In Which Dean Points to New and Upcoming News as Reason to Expect the Ukraine War to Continue For Some Time" (April 2025)
- "Congressional committee placement politics isn't an exact analog to the French Monarchy making appointments dependent on remaining at court, but there are more than a few parallels." (April 2025)
- "Yes, the new scandal for the new week, just in time to replace coverage of the somewhat embarrassing judge from last week, now presents a heroic judge objecting to the deportation of US children." (April 2025)
- "In military doctrines, there are generally two main types of defense: positional defense, and mobile defense." (August 2024)
- "Who wants to hear about who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline in September 2022?" (August 2024)
- "What the Ukrainian offensive has done is force the Russians into a very awkward position of taking forces that would otherwise be supporting the attacks further south, and bringing them around to Kursk." (August 2024)
- "Elden Ring is positively dripping with north germanic vibes and tropes both in and out of the Ring Cycle." (August 2024)
- "The longer term prospect, more tentative and possible than decisive, is the prospect for Korea and Poland to do future joint armor/APC/combat vehicle design projects in the future, with the goal of competing with established European producers." (December 2022)
- "On the American-Mexican border, this year the Biden administration implemented a policy intended to allow a stronger/politically-more-viable legal basis for ejecting migrants." (December 2023)
- "In a bit of public reflection on a past prediction of the Syrian war, Dean admits to getting a Quality Contribution post wrong..." (December 2024)
- "So You Want to Win an AAQC This Year⦠(Or: 15 Tips For Writing Actually A Quality Contribution Posts)" (December 2025)
- ...thoroughly doubts the Seymour Hersh article claiming that the US wrecked the Nord Stream Pipeline. (February 2023)
- "The counter-argument/most relevant argument I'd make is that nations can die not only when they lose resources to sustain themselves, but also a desire to." (February 2023)
- "Due to the elevation, topography, and regional climate, the term 'fighting season' in Afghanistan was literal, not just figurative." (February 2025)
- "Trump-Europe can be an alliance in which the Americans are the mercenaries paid for by the EUropeans... but mercenaries still have to be paid." (February 2025)
- "Bottom line- I think this OPM email event has resulted in Musk undercutting himself and DOGE for the foreseeable future, and greatly reigned in its potential to reign in agencies without the backing of those agencies own leaders." (February 2025)
- "And so, let us explore the nuances and limitations of dual-hatting institutional positions." (February 2025)
- "For the better part of the last decade, at nearly every stage in the Ukraine crisis, Putin has had agency on how to proceed, and keeps fucking it up..." (January 2023)
- "Since the war has started, Ukraine has gotten not only increased aid (January 2023)
- but increased attention and various oversight mechanisms." (January 2023)
- "Setting aside that the Hanania doesn't identify how society is actually being made smarter by the current media, he also doesn't identify what society being 'dumber' even means." (January 2023)
- "Start stacking these effects together, and gradually you go from 'a group of middle eastern terrorists coordinating how to hijack a series of airplanes simultaneously' to 'guy rents truck.'" (January 2025)
- "In this week's context, the Pardon worked twice as a balancing function limiting the capacity to carry out and sustain politically motivated prosecutions." (January 2025)
- "The End of An Era of Air Piracy in America" (January 2026)
- "Maduro, who was a busdriver before then and who has no prospects or powerbase outside of it, is basically committed to the cause. Whether he is a true believer is irrelevant- without the PSUV he has nothing." (January 2026)
- "The point here isn't that the Somali diaspora growth in the Twin Cities region was illegal, but rather that it was purposeful. Purpose without a shared intent between all the actors involved, but purposeful all the same." (January 2026)
- "El Salvador, by contrast, is basically just a city state centered on San Salvador." (July 2024)
- "An Audio-Book Review of 'Mere Christianity' by C.S. Lewis, from the C.S. Lewis Essential Audio Library" (July 2025)
- "If I were to try and make a fancy title for my opinion on the Texas anti-ICE attack, I'd call it 'How I Had To Figure My Way Out Of A False Flag Suspicion.'" (July 2025)
- "The biggest obstacle to a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement isn't the objection of 'the nationalists' to peace, but rather the 'everyone who suspects Putin would attack again' caucus to 'a peace agreement that sets conditions for Putin to attack again.'" (July 2025)
- "Why not bother?" (June 2025)
- "Dean Highlights The Reuters' 2025 Digital News Report So You Don't Have To" (June 2025)
- "Looking Forward (In Time) To The Democratic (Midterm) Civil War (And Likely Trump Law Enforcement Accelerant)" (June 2025)
- "It is not that 'cruelty is the point'- it is that the accusation of cruelty is no longer sufficiently deterring." (March 2025)
- "To believe in an international rules-based order, you have to believe that there are actual rules, or else it's an arbitrary vibes-based order." (May 2024)
- "Honey wake up. The US Fiscal Year 2026 Budget War started today." (May 2025)
- "How
Trump Defeated Columbia UniversityColumbia University Defeated Itself" (May 2025) - "Regarding the El Salvador Constitution..." (November 2023)
- "Iran is probably not going to have as much of a blowback, but then again no one would have predicted the Ukraine War's consequences for the Russians in the first few months of NovaRussia either." (November 2023)
- "The issue for the US's current recruitment woes comes from how the generational transition has matched to politics." (November 2023)
- "I'd go further that Kissenger violated a number of ideological tropes and expectations." (November 2023)
- "In another interesting development in a week with a number of interesting developments, the Syrian civil war has kicked back up a bit with a surprise rebel offensive that has taken Aleppo..." (November 2024)
- "I maintain the premise that peace talks in the year are dependent on currently unknown factors (i.e. Trump), but this now also depends on the results of the German governing coalition come Spring." (November 2024)
- "The fact that Zelensky is in a position to resist Western calls to conscript 18-25 year olds is a mark against collapse desperation, not evidence of it (which it will inevitably shift to being characterized as when/if Zelensky does proceed with expanding conscription)." (November 2024)
- Steelmanning Biden's approach on Ukraine. (November 2024)
- "As much as it was never going to happen, even at the time of the series I remember really liking the 'Harry is a decoy chosen one / Neville was the real boy who lived' theories for what it could have let Harry Potter be." (November 2025)
- "The International Criminal Court is a treaty-law organization. Its powers derive not externally, but from the sovereign authorities of its constituent members." (November 2025)
- "In so much that I present a definition of 'victory' for Ukraine, my inclination has generally leaned towards 'terms that are sufficient to allow Ukraine to deter yet another continuation war by Russia.'" (November 2025)
- "In culture war-ish political shifts from Eastern Europe, Poland's opposition looks to have overcome the PIS, meaning that the sometimes notorious Euro-skeptic right-wing government will likely be replaced by a more EU-phile coalition." (October 2023)
- "A Video Game Review: Hollow Knight, The Low Fantasy Metroidvania Whose Themes, Style, and Storytelling Are Made Better By Bugs" (October 2025)
- "Appearing to turn a blind eye to one's own partisan faction and what they do against their political opponents is about the worst thing you can do for the legitimacy of a legal institution." (September 2024)
- "You may feel this is brilliant journalism, but nothing in it really addresses child soldiers, which have a sordid history in islamic extremism even without touching on Hamas' deathcult tendencies." (September 2024)
- "I dispute that the regard other world leaders hold the POTUS reflects American standing, and think you are falling victim to the classic conflation of being popular with being influential while tethering yourself to a stunted view of who the audience that matters is." (September 2024)
- "What many posters in this forum think AI may imply in the medium to long term in terms of major upheaval and disruption, I view drones implying in the short and medium term." (September 2024)
- "A YouTube Channel Review: Summoning Salt, the Video Game Speedrunner Sports Documentarian" (September 2025)
- "The conflict over the nature of the locus of control of society is a very longstanding paradigm conflict." (September 2025)
- "In 2008, someone just coming into politics could be forgiven for only associating the Democratic Party with peaceful protests, as the Democratic Party was in the later phase of ditching the older violent protestors and hadn't yet developed a new violent protestor cohort." (September 2025)
@deanthedull β 44 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- NPR had a fun story back in 2016 looking at America immigration to Canada, with a nice graphic reach as far back as Reagan. The bottom line is 'eh'- there was a bump after Raegan's election, but there (April 1st, 2019)
- The difference is that it warns against assuming identical contexts. (April 1st, 2019)
- "Unlike Rey, Finn is not a martial powerhouse who solves his problems primarily through physical/force Strength." (April 2022)
- Calling someone a villain is a framing device, an attempt to assert an objective moral condemnation and to contrast the villains with the not-villains (either the victims of the villain or the heroes (April 8th, 2019)
- Without disagreeing with your broader points, I would like to note that there is one sort of magic dirt that does widely determine potentially prosperous countries from those that will always struggle (April 8th, 2019)
- I know, am aware, and agree with the first paragraph while disagreeing strongly with the conclusion of the second. In-group pressures are one of the most powerful forces in human existence, and are an (April 8th, 2019)
- I am fully aware how Social Justice advocates are attempting to reframe various issues. I also believe they are balefully wrong, using the wrong tools for the wrong problems and creating new injustice (April 8th, 2019)
- Bottom line is political- China, North Korea, and Left-leaning South Korea all align in having Japan as an acceptable national evil who is useful to villify in order to justify uniting the nation behi (April 8th, 2019)
- Cutting reply in two because of character limit. Also, tired rambling. (April 8th, 2019)
- "The American alliance network in Europe is founded on the premise of preventing a strategically autonomous Europe where 'Europe' can refer to a collective, cohesive polity." (August 2022)
- Contextualizing South Korea's Political Situation (December 1/2 2019)
- The independence of Scotland (December 2020)
- The importance of the UK as an ally (December 2020)
- "You know what happens if you only swim left? You swim in a bloody circle." (December 2021 1/2)
- International politics: EU and US interests in Germany and Poland. (February 2021)
- Gamergate as an insurgent victory of not losing despite the efforts of your enemy to crush it. (February 2021)
- The extent to which the climate emission targets were or were not the point of the Paris Accords. (January 2021)
- The EU's failed (?) attempt to bolster its image with rapid COVID-19 vaccine development. (January 2021)
- Islamic Terrorism Still Happens, You Just Don't Care (July 2/2 2020)
- A Defense of the Electoral College and Federalism (July 2/2 2020)
- "How much of Afghanistan was a wasted effort depends on what you think the point of it was." (July 2021 1/2)
- "In the spirit of the other (poke)ball the world revolves around, please enjoy this quite serious, not at all tongue-in-cheek consideration of what cultural stereotypes a children's monster-collection game implies." (July 2021 1/2)
- "Institutional trust is developed by publicly purging bad actors at their own instigation and by taking politically and popularly unpopular positions and hits to institutional interests for the sake of a stated principle." (July 2021 2/2)
- "If you think a precautionary principle shouldn't apply to you, you are precisely the sort of person the precautionary principle was developed to apply to." (July 2022)
- "Obama was far worse for the democrats far further down the ticket, as he was the one who cemented the party's structural transition to the technocratic city-and-minority coalition that really only worked for him because of his personal star power, (July 2022)
- even as he sacrificed various other institutional interests to consolidate his power." (July 2022)
- "Inherited ideological opposition to nuclear + contemporary economic interest opposition to nuclear and russian gas + decade-long neoliberal power struggles + period of opportunity during the Ukraine crisis = a green party that's pro-war, willing to import gas from the Americans." (July 2022)
- "'Winning' is defined by one's own side, and not defined by the other..." (July 2022)
- I think this sort of viewpoint is one of the reasons that the American Republican electorate stopped caring about respectability and jumped in bed with Trump despite (and sometimes because of) the aghast moral objections of his opponents. (June 17th, 2019)
- They won in the same sense most insurgencies do- they weren't beaten and scattered by an overwhelming force of far greater strength, capability, and organization, and did considerable damage to the cr (June 17th, 2019)
- Open vs Closed Fist - Morality in Bioware RPGs (June 2/2 2020)
- "There's tons of ways to break down media-as-an-information service, but one way is to break down audience perception of media into three forms: 'media intended to inform,' 'media intended to convince,' and 'media intended to indoctrinate.'" (June 2021 2/2)
- "French secularism has always had a strain of severe insecurity regarding the loyalties of the genuinely religious..." (June 2021 2/2)
- "Facebook employee/boss initiatives don't get graded by how effective they are at what they claim to do, they get evaluated by being able to point at some issue and say 'I'm helping!'" (June 2021 2/2)
- d (March 18th, 2019)
- There's a number of gun tropes associated with the US that flutter across Europe. Biker gangs are sometimes associated with the mobility aspect, but the idea of open-carry is sometimes conflated with (March 18th, 2019)
- "The greatest losers and political targets of Russia sanctions are the pro-Russian political influence groups in Europe, by taking away the pro-Russia business lobbies that provide funding and legitimacy for pro-Russia politicians." (March 2022)
- "The point is that when you start really looking at the politics behind media politics, 'I read it in a popular Ukrainian newspaper' ... is not a great spot to start..." (March 2022)
- "Americans aren't going to look at it AMD as a meaningful disruption to MAD, and are going to keep working on it. Not because they want to start a nuclear war or war over nukes, but because- from their perspective- it will help avoid one." (November 2021 1/2)
- Worrying about what was done in the name of opposing Russia. (October 1/2 2020)
- Anti-Imperialists in Korea: A Shrimp Among Whales (October 2/2 2020)
- Reflections on the Dragon Tyrant (September 2020)
- "The US loses its internal wargames all the time, and this is a good thing (if you are an American)..." (September 2021 1/2)
- "Maybe he was just power-hungry, but another reading of Xi's moves is that he's made a strategic calculus decision, and is forseeing Bad Times ahead and sees a hyper-centralized state with single leader as the only way to get through some obvious issues, of which a conflict with the US may well be the least dangerous." (September 2021 1/2)
@dedicating_ruckus β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Disparate Impact (July 2nd, 2018)
- "Good Whites" and "Bad Whites" (July 30th, 2018)
- This Exchange with paanther (October 8th, 2018)
- Presumption of Innocence Protects the Disprivledged (October 8th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- It's honestly difficult to articulate how simultaneously misguided and repulsive I find that argument. (April 8th, 2019)
- Social Conservatism, Survival, and Scalability (February 2020)
- Trump Supporters - Defending the Ingroup (January 2020)
- Gun Control Laws as Seen by Gun Owners (January 2020)
- the conception of marriage as it relates to romance (July 2019)
- The CNN interview that the quote was in response to has the line "radicalization is a public health crisis". The type specimen given is Molyneux, in the context of beliefs like "black people are infer (June 17th, 2019)
- First off, I want to give props to Vox for that article; it makes me upgrade my estimate of their general usefulness. (I note it's Kelsey Piper/unitofcaring who wrote it; she's likely a high outlier a (May 27th, 2019)
@deerpig β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- In my city, we can order organic veggies from local farm. Its definitely awesome quality, but its also very expensive (like 1.5 - 3 times what you would pay at the grocery store). (April 2019)
- I tend to agree with the overall argument. I actually live in an apartment that was funded by a BRI grant in Cambodia -- part of laboratory campus that was meant to became a agricultural testing lab (December 3rd, 2018)
- A Story of Loss in Rural Thailand (June 18th, 2018)
@deluks917_ β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Being a self-professed leftist who opposed police brutality against the Capitol rioters. (January 2021)
@demonwaffle β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@denswend β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- A "theory of mind" of rationalists for outsiders (02-08-18)
- "Most kids these days can't use computers." (04-02-18)
- the subtleties of defining ideologies and movements (04-02-18)
- chemicals actually are turning the frogs gay, and They actually don't want you to know about it (04-02-18)
- Words: Denotation vs Connotation (October 8th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Covid Deaths and Dignity of Life (August 2020)
- Defining Religion (August 2020)
- "To put it bluntly, Yugoslav war absolutely decimated every country, except Slovenia, enough to permanently put an end to any early 20th century-esque displays of violent nationalism." (December 2021 2/2)
- "I find the story of ethidium bromide to be a nice metaphor for COVID." (October 2021 2/2)
- Bedlam and Competition of Violence (September 2020)
@dev β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The wording of the Amendment was designed to unambiguously include freed slaves, but exclude unconquered American Indian tribes." (February 2025)
@devinhelton β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- college basketball fraud (04-02-18)
- presenting Counter Search, a website for getting both sides of a debate (12-20-17)
- authority consensus (June 4th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@difficult_ad_3879 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "If fat Americans canβt stop eating cake, though they know it will kill them, how can we expect horny Americans not to suggest a sexual act to an attractive coworker when their willpower happens to be depleted?" (August 2022)
- "But I wish my fellow coffee people could respect alcohol for how magical it is." (May 2022)
@dimension_door β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- You seem to have the most well-developed notion of social class out of the comments I've seen here (April 1st, 2019)
@dinoinnameonly β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I guess Iβm first to the punch on this. (January 14th, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Most media is porn. (January 2021)
- Meditations on Oreos (January 2022 2/2)
- "To believe in gender identity you have to simultaneously believe two contradictory things..." (July 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Cyberchase was amazing and now itβs just okay, and Iβm sad." (September 2022)
@diracspsi β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "There is a popular argument that meat, beef in particular, has a large negative impact on climate"--and it's false. (April 2021)
@direwolf202 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@dirtywaterhotdog β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Indians (among other first-gen immigrants) are more spiritual, family-oriented, and 90s-American-like than naive 2025 Americans." (February 2025)
- "JCPOA withdrawl would have been a slam dunk, but geopolitical changes outside the middle east ruined it." (November 2024)
- "No, girl-boss feminism doesn't aspire to be equal. They aspire to be the same." (November 2025)
@discoursemagnus β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Perhaps it is precisely because of the complex collapse of traditional sexual morality in our society that so many fathers are unable to articulate a desire to protect their daughters' virtue that does not ironically sound disgustingly incestuous." (December 2024)
- "Personally, the Republicans have lost a lot of goodwill from me by acting like the pro-life mission was accomplished with the end of Roe." (November 2024)
@dishwaterdumper β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Finding new songs to listen to. (November 2021 1/2)
@djspook β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I have reached the settled conclusion that the issue of abortion is the single lowest-quality conversation on the internet." (September 2021 1/2)
@djt1988 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The stupidity of Donald Trump (August 20th, 2018)
- The Legal Doctrines Surrounding Speaking on University Campuses (August 27th, 2018)
@dnetropy β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@dnkndnts β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Ecological and Demographic Stability of Different Cultures (August 6th, 2018)
- cloning Twitter (October 29th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Ordinary male friendships suffer as homosexuality is accepted, because now one has to take active effort to ensure everyone knows it's not 'like that.'" (April 2022)
- "Apple will now rummage through the photos on your iPhone to make sure you are not in possession of any contraband images." (August 2021)
- Don't be a Pavlik Morozov, You Rat (June 1/2 2020)
- The Procrustean Enlightenment and the Shift from Fetishism to Uniformitarianism (June 1/2 2020)
- The Conservative Response to Radical Feminism (June 1/2 2020)
- Whence the Demarcation Between Porn and Story? (June 1/2 2020)
- Interalized Legal Formalism in Protestant Cultures (May 1/2 2020)
@do_i_punch_the_nazi β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- thorough Q&A about guns and gun laws. (03-08-18)
- what kind of gun lends itself best to home defense (04-02-18)
- on the ridiculousness of firearm suppressor regulations (09-30-17)
- Politics and Sewage (August 20th, 2018)
- Country Music and Blue Collar Identity (July 30th, 2018)
@docgrey187000 β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On the mΓ©tis of being poor. (01-09-18)
- Weβre very close on this. (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- In the grasshopper and the ant story, what should actually occur? (April 29th, 2019)
- discusses dogwhistles (July 2019)
@doctorglas β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- intimacy, relationship dynamics, and homophobia (05-21-18)
- A Taste of the Blackpill: There but for the grace of God I went. (July 2nd, 2018)
- I was going to make a post about this, but I see you have beaten me to it. I was struck by an odd thought when I first saw the tweets you posted, which I wanted to explore. This is going to be very, v (November 26th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Swedish National Council on Crime Prevention (BrottsfΓΆrebyggande RΓ₯det, shortened BRΓ ) has released a new, incredibly detailed report on rape statistics in Sweden. In the report, BRΓ has looked (May 27th, 2019)
- Reviewing the Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (November 2019)
@dogaltine β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- βDrumpfβ (August 6th, 2018)
@doglatine β 74 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On PhDs and Mental Health (August 27th, 2018)
- Categories of Ideological Objections (July 2nd, 2018)
- Auschwitz (July 9th, 2018)
- Contributions of Modern Philosophers to society (October 8th, 2018)
- Reverse Empathy (September 10th, 2018)
- Innocence, consequentialism, Kavanaugh, and how I learned to keep worrying and reluctantly accept the principle of double effect. (September 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Trust In Media: Some Perspectives (April 2020)
- The Three Ages Model: Do Hard Times Create Good Men? (April 2020)
- The Devil-May-Care Nature of Coolness (April 2020)
- The Changing Way Philosophers and Psychologists Approach Beliefs (April 2020)
- The Don'ts of Dating: Romantic Advice for Contrarians (April 2020)
- "Whereas AGI is currently slated for 2050 or so, Social AI is already here." (April 2022)
- Heard a quick discussion of white privilege on Start the Week on Radio 4 this morning (link) featuring BLM activist DeRay McKesson. It was mostly a reasonable discussion, but I worry that the notion o (April 29th, 2019)
- The User Viewpoint Focus Series (August 2020)
- Beyond a Utilitarian Defense of Free Speech (August 2020)
- "Thus to the extent that the current situation produces some pangs of humiliation and fears of decline, I hope that in turn it will prompt more Americans to reflect seriously on the benefits and costs of their global empire." (August 2021)
- "In fact, I think there's an interesting prima facie case to be made that in terms of strategic failure, the War in Afghanistan might be the worst defeat in American military history." (August 2021)
- "I had a lot of fun last week reading the responses to my 'best national cuisines' question. But one thing that piqued my interest was that no-one raised serious objections about the intelligibility of the question." (December 2021 1/2)
- Do People know their own political beliefs? (Extremely Late 2019)
- Satyagraha Awards (Extremely Late 2019)
- Hamilton (February 2020)
- On MOOCs and Motivation (January 2020)
- Examples of Conceptual Transformations (January 2020)
- Analyizing Transinclusive Views of Gender (January 2020)
- Against Dissolving the Modern Monasteries (January 2020)
- Why right wing populism should have secured buy-in from cultural and intellectual elites... (January 2021)
- ...in order to set a policy agenda for the future of American conservatism. (January 2021)
- Revising conflict/mistake theory into a more granular matrix. (January 2021)
- What "learn to code" looks like on a wetware substrate. (January 2021)
- Jane Austen Is What 2020 Needs (July 1/2 2020)
- Does Therapy Work? (July 1/2 2020)
- Matching vs Bonding in Relationships (July 2/2 2020)
- on "Trumpism" (July 2019)
- "I think it's entirely reasonable based on our cultural messaging for the average person to feel entitled to having a romantic life." (July 2021 2/2)
- "Part of me suspects that it's just general gender mystification - just as many men struggle to empathise why catcalling can be fucking scary, many women struggle to empathise with the idea of being literally unfuckable." (July 2021 2/2)
- Who Knows, Maybe I'm a Bigoted Sociopath (June 1/2 2020)
- A Sex-Positive Rejection of the RadFem Narrative (June 1/2 2020)
- Wait, Grandad, You Mean Zoe Quinn Caused the Second Civil War? (June 1/2 2020)
- How to Dive Into the Sociology of Philosophy (June 1/2 2020)
- Losing Trust in the Left and Becoming Politically Homeless (June 1/2 2020)
- How Much Sexualization in Society is Appropriate? (June 1/2 2020)
- On Knowledge of 'Hate Facts' (June 2/2 2020)
- These are really interesting arguments. I don't think I quite subscribe to kind of views that you explicitly have in your sights here, but I feel some sympathy for them, and my views on immigration ha (March 18th, 2019)
- Abusing Appeals to Context (March 2020)
- "I will be very surprised if China makes a move on Taiwan in the next decade, and if it does, I expect it to be a painful defeat for China, even if not a quick one." (March 2021)
- "The criticisms of woke ideology you're seeing here significantly predate the term 'woke' becoming mainstream." (March 2022)
- "I was convinced that any large-scale attack by Russia on Ukraine would be beneficial to Western geopolitical interests. This prediction has largely been borne out..."" (March 2022)
- In Praise of Casual Sex (May 1/2 2020)
- Eurozone: Battle for Aid (May 1/2 2020)
- Varied Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories (May 1/2 2020)
- Gaming Motivations, Gender, and Snobbery (May 1/2 2020)
- China's Precarious Position (May 1/2 2020)
- Sometimes I think men lose out in certain forms of relationship conflicts and dispute resolution because of straightforward issues of vocabulary and tone. Some (over the top) examples to make the poin (May 20th, 2019)
- Having taught 30+ undergrad philosophy classes, I basically agree with you, especially for intro classes at more professionally (and less academically) oriented institutions. My usual teaching strateg (May 27th, 2019)
- Proposing a Novel form of Wealth Tax (November 2019)
- Pragmatic vs Cowardly Non-resistance (November 2019)
- On Open Societies (November 2019)
- The Problems With Institutional Legibility (November 2019)
- Where is the anti-progressive Borat? (November 2020)
- Judge Instituitions Not One Purpose But On Effects (November 2020)
- The Black Tribe (November 2020)
- "So it was that last week, I decided to re-assess my opinions on pornography." (November 2021 2/2)
- "Something a little bit different but still culture war: which country has the best national cuisine?" (November 2021 2/2)
- "I want to probe a provocative idea: could it be in Europe's interest to align itself with China rather than the US in any coming superpower conflict?" (November 2021 2/2)
- Is the 'sexual market value' of the median 25 year old straight guy decreasing? (October 1/2 2020)
- A Hereditarian Left View of State Compensation for Disadvantageous Traits (October 2/2 2020)
- Who Enforces Norms of Masculinity? (Quality Thread) (October 2/2 2020)
- A Dialogue on Disability (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So, I think it would be a mistake to throw up our hands in despair; the US has formidable structural advantages in any prolonged conflict with China." (April 2024)
- "Some complaints about Netflix's new adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front." (January 2023)
- "In this regard, LLMs are absolutely wonderful. They allow anyone with limited training to meet bureaucratic standards with minimal effort." (January 2024)
- "In short, the bulk of the breakdown on the European side is due to Trump, or increasingly Trumpism as a movement, which seems tailor-made to alienate European elites." (March 2025)
- "Conversely, inter-male jokes about being the victim of male-on-male sexual violence are pretty common." (November 2024)
- "Ever since the Ukrainian successes in the northeastern campaign, I've been trying to get inside the mindset of the Kremlin to figure out what their likely response is." (September 2022)
@doktorglas β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Earlier this year the Swedish government appointed a state-funded Investigative Committee For a Future with Children (Swed. Utredningen fΓΆr en framtid med barn) with instructions to look into the recent decline in fertility and what it portends for Sweden going forward." (December 2025)
- "Earlier this year, the Swedish publisher Natur och Kultur released a new book discussing the rise of male sexlessness by the name of 'Man gΓ₯r sin egen vΓ€g: riktningar i sexlΓΆshetens dimma.'" (July 2023)
@dormin11 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- An in Depth Review of the Disaster Artist (April 2019)
@dormin111 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Best. Movie. Year. Ever. How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen (June 24th, 2019)
- Modern US Politicians as Late Roman Republic Figures (September 2020)
@doubleunplussed β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@dovetailing β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "'The right side of history' tries to have it all three ways while not committing enough to any of them to expose weakness there." (April 2024)
- "Every time the psychology of trans stuff comes up at ACX or here I want to write this essay; this time I finally did." (February 2023)
- "Book Review (March 2023)
- Trapped (March 2023)
- Men's Bodies" (March 2023)
- " One of the more insidious things about the prevailing culture is the way that it encourages people, almost to the extent that it is unthinkable to do otherwise, to identify with their desires -- especially if those desires are sexual." (November 2023)
- "So anyway, next time you see some dude in a dress, with long hair and breasts but a face and voice obviously male despite his best efforts, think about what kind of emotions must have driven him to that place, and have a little empathy." (November 2024)
@dr_analog β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I buried a beloved uncle this week and was asked to be a pallbearer in a Catholic mass." (January 2023)
- "Anyway, this isn't meant to be an impassioned defense of SBF, more like my continuing fascination and horror at this alien thing we call modern business." (October 2023)
@dradisping β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "In the Presidential campaign Kerry cast himself as a proud veteran. Meanwhile other swift boat veterans were still pissed off at him." (August 2024)
- "I don't think he's actually particularly pissed at Harvard specifically." (May 2025)
@drinniol β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- romantic scripts in the modern era (05-21-18)
- "Suppose you're typical lower middle class with some but not large savings. If you have a plan with a sky high deductible and even then caps on how much they pay after, then any catastrophic healthcare event is going to put you into medical bankruptcy even with the insurance. Which is exactly where you'd be without insurance." (12-10-17)
- Tariffs in the Real-world (June 11th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Innocuous Phrases as Political Slogans: A perfect motte and bailey (September 2020)
@drmanhattan16 β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- communication and charity (04-30-18)
- This exchange (04-30-18)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Learning from Camden's 2013 Police Reform (June 1/2 2020)
- "Some culture war from India." (March 2022)
- "The Civilizationβ’ Fallacy" (September 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Letβs Interview Fascism with Paul Gottfried" (December 2022)
- Part 1 β The History of Transgenderism (January 2023)
- Part 2 β The Causes and Rationalization of Transgenderism (January 2023)
- Part 3 β How Transgenderism Harms Women And Children (January 2023)
- Part 4 β How Transgenderism Took Over Institutions And How Some Women Are Fighting Back (January 2023)
- Part 5 β Conclusion and Discussion (January 2023)
@dtulpa β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@duplexfields β 9 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "What I Learned About Relationship Maintenance From My Little Pony: The Basics" (August 2021)
- "I, a furry and a member of the one-in-38 with autism, have a theory on this. Prepare to be amused at my audacity." (December 2021 1/2)
- My Little Pony: Goalposts Are Moving (January 2021)
- The anatomy of a "news" piece. (July 2021 1/2)
- this contribution (July 2021 1/2)
- Grey Is the Warmest Color (June 2/2 2020)
- "Could I commit to purging the babykillers? I, myself, could not." (September 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Ironically, the backstory of the final trilogy could have been the first film of it and garnered critical acclaim! Call it Fall Of Skywalker." (January 2023)
- "Then in November 2010, in my darkest depths, I discovered My Little Pony Friendship is Magic." (June 2025)
@dwaxe β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On Election Integrity: An "Election" Is Really Thousands (October 1/2 2020)
@dwxxv β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Sometimes I complain how healthcare costs in the U.S. are poorly understand by...pretty much everyone." (April 2022)
- Meditations on Moderation (October 2/2 2020)
- Contra /u/self_made_human on the present and future of automation in medicine. (September 2021 1/2)
@dysautognome β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@eaturbrainz β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- special snowflakery is adaptive if you plan on being admitted to college (04-02-18)
- the problems with neuroscience as reverse-engineering (04-23-18)
- realism and nonrealism, diversity (04-23-18)
- Why they donβt like tribalism in politics (09-30-17)
- staking out a narrow definition of antisemitism, and then arguing that it's a thing and that it's worth paying attention to. (10-07-17)
- Exit vs. Voice, cultural determinants of conflict aversion, suburbia (10-07-17)
- ethnonationalism in Israel and Palestine (11-01-17)
- The necessity of precise terminology in in political discourse (July 23rd, 2018)
- Problems with popular scienceβs evo-devo just so stories (July 9th, 2018)
- Brain Background Noise and IQ (June 18th, 2018)
- The Middle Class made Capitalism Respectable (September 17th, 2018)
@ebrso β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I was on one of these busses that was filled with migrants sometime around the beginning of the year." (August 2023)
@ecgtheow β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "You don't have to train yourself to be a self-denying online YIMBY who insists that there's no downside to living next to a homeless shelter, but you do need to come up with an argument for why NIMBYism isn't just everybody defecting in a prisoner's dilemma." (February 2023)
- "The question isn't why has women's behavior changed, that's obvious, it's how will men's behavior change to adapt." (February 2023)
- "Wokeness is humanities academia fed through the incentive structure of social media. It's purpose is not to signal distinctiveness between blue and red, but between impure blues and properly pure blues." (June 2023)
@edalis β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Rise of Skywalker was a Romance (January 2020)
@edix β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I think that the left experienced a sudden and extreme narrowing of the overton window in the past 10 years across a plethora of topics. The more visible effects are the narrowing of acceptable opinio (November 12th, 2018)
- Hindsight and Go Dep (September 17th, 2018)
@edlolington β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@edmund-nelson β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Not Trusting Prediction Markets (November 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "How feasible is it to eat on food stamps" (March 2025)
@eetan β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
π£ TheMotte.org era
@efficiencyplenty β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Inside View from a Jail Cell (August 2020)
@efficientsyllabus β 33 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I think ultimately the onus is on those who claim something that is outside the mainstream to convince the majority. That does not simply mean drowning people in pdf link dumps." (April 2021)
- "As a rule of thumb, if you can be unambiguously wrong in your job, you aren't elite/high-status." (April 2021)
- "Why do they have horns, hooves, claws, sharp teeth, so good eyes and ears, etc. etc.? What use would they be if we eliminate the potential for "bad" stuff happening, if any animal gets to live in safety to an equal degree? The whole animal makes no sense under such circumstances!" (April 2021)
- "Women's sport exists so women can also experience the thrill of competition, the preparation, the mental battle of striving for excellence etc." (April 2022)
- Written in 1861, The Tragedy of Man is a play by Hungarian writer Imre MadΓ‘ch. (April 2022)
- How European:nationalism::American:corporatism. (January 2021)
- Compartmentalizing your life is good for you and for society. (January 2021)
- "It's OrbΓ‘n's yearly (except for 2 covid skips) visionary speech, and is important to listen to." (July 2022)
- Wokism Maintains the System (June 2/2 2020)
- You Couldn't Be You If You Weren't Who You Are (June 2/2 2020)
- "Each declaration of this statement is therefore about publicly announcing that 'this movement has power over me', and the higher status/accomplishment/rank/seniority these people have, the more others will also learn to know their place and that they are also under the authority of this movement." (June 2022)
- "Every ideology and cult has a common-sense packaging around it that lures people in. You can't start with the crazy stuff outright." (March 2021)
- "The Hungarian divide isn't a typical left/right one." (March 2022)
- "This story just tells so much about Hungary, they should put this in those textbooks on cross-cultural understanding and stuff." (May 2021 1/2)
- "Unintelligent and low-social-skills people are routinely stepped over and screwed over using constructs 'designed' (or rather evolved) to filter for cognitive and empathic capacity." (May 2021 1/2)
- "Meaningwave and the West" (May 2022)
- "Unitarianism (May 2022)
- what is conservatism (May 2022)
- tradition is liberal?" (May 2022)
- "I think the collective human psyche that emerges from large-scale society is really only capable of producing a limited list of tropes." (November 2021 1/2)
- "Being from Hungary, it's certainly a Gell-Mann amnesia moment (November 2021 1/2)
- This review is just so thick in narrative (November 2021 1/2)
- "Woke (November 2021 2/2)
- math." (November 2021 2/2)
- "I dont think segregation is morally and philosophically nice, but you have to be a sheltered urbanites to not understand why it happens in such places." (November 2021 2/2)
- The Americanization of politics in Hungary (October 1/2 2020)
- The Contradictory, Curious Nature of Hungarian Nationalism (October 1/2 2020)
- "...people around me said nobody would buy a car with enforced speed limit. But what if there's nothing else?" (October 2021 1/2)
- "Hungarian opposition primary update" (October 2021 2/2)
- "It's always interesting to see international reports about your own country." (October 2021 2/2)
- "Politics is about negotiating the rules of living together with your fellow humans. Saying that the smallest infraction is backed by threats of guns is totally out of proportion." (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If only we had a way to make sure that a (sexual/romantic) relationship is socially acceptable (according to whatever the local moral rules are) within your community." (September 2022)
- "Human motivation is multi-faceted." (September 2022)
@egoitis β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Analyzing "Strange Statisitcs" (June 2/2 2020)
@eihabu β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Inconsistencies in the Trayvon Martin Case (May 1/2 2020)
@eleventhkey β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- An Expert's Opinion on Dark Matter (October 1st, 2018)
@ellenvelemeny β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Nature of Information (August 20th, 2018)
- Make-Up in General Just Making Women Feel Good (September 17th, 2018)
@eltargrim β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Science of Different Toothpastes (September 24th, 2018)
@enigmaticpm β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- was the Apollo program money well spent? (04-18-18)
- some data on HBD discussion in these threads (04-18-18)
@eniteris β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@entobat β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@epakesa β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- response (05-21-18)
@epistaxis β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- disturbing classical music (11-06-17)
@epistemic_ian β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Urban transportation. (05-07-18)
@eqth β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The political development of Argentina. (April 2021)
@erwgv3g34 β 7 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- PUAs vs MRAs (October 1st, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The fact that the word 'pedophilia' conflates these perversions with the normal and healthy attraction that men feel for teenage girls makes it an anti-concept..." (December 2021 1/2)
- asserts the inevitablity of religion (July 2019)
- "You can't lower the price of real estate and not lower the price of real estate; you can't lower the cost of rent and not lower the value of houses." (March 2021)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Given those choices, you are much better off taking your chances with the Christians than with the nominal Atheists." (February 2025)
- "Poor areas are not awful because of tragic dirt; they are awful because they are filled with stupid, violent, impulsive people." (January 2023)
- "Most of what you think you know about sex/romance/dating is a feminist lie, fed to you through a combination of the education system and the media, or people repeating falsehoods they themselves learned from school and movies and TV shows." (May 2023)
@eryemil β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@escapement β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Freedom of Speech (July 23rd, 2018)
@esperanza β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@ethan β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Coed settings have their own dynamic." (May 2023)
@euphoric-baseball-61 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Education was intended as a way for the rich to force the cost of training workers onto the workers themselves." (May 2021 1/2)
- "Youth were more precocious in Ancient Rome." (May 2021 1/2)
@everythingisfine β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "My argument, to be clear, is that as a practical matter whatever the philosophical truth of the suicide right, not only is it controversial, implementing it is very vulnerable to abuse, to a degree that the terminal death right is not; therefore, we should not implement anything beyond a terminal death right." (August 2025)
- "So as one of the resident Taiwan pessimists, I have surprising news. Contrary to all my expectations, Trump might have actually pushed back a Taiwan invasion." (March 2026)
- "Here is a simple model of a pension fund." (September 2022)
@evilcorporation β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- reacting to racist remarks. (01-04-18)
@evilmaniacal β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The extent to which Millennials are facing economic hardship as a result of public policy. (June 2021 1/2)
@f3zinker β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I want to talk about 'the environment'." (July 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Ground report from the UAE" (March 2026)
@faceh β 37 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- In Support of Taleb: The Weaknesses of IQ as a Metric (April 2020)
- The Consequences of Removing Social Pressure (December 1/2 2019)
- The Slippery Differences in Genetics (December 1/2 2019)
- on examination of studio casting decisions (July 2019)
- Trump's "strategy" (July 2019)
- looks at monkeys and religion (July 2019)
- Taking Difficult Steps to Resolve Underlying Conditions that Lead to Crime (June 1/2 2020)
- Is opposition to same sex marriage like preparing manioc? (June 10th, 2019)
- Oh hey, this is something I can comment about from lots of personal experience! (June 17th, 2019)
- Civilizational Decline and the Value of Tradition (June 2/2 2020)
- The polarization ratchets up another click. (June 24th, 2019)
- I'm thinking more of "If a women you know says she's been raped, maybe don't go around telling everyone what a slut she is" (something I've seen happen multiple times, sadly). With a celebrity th (March 11th, 2019)
- Should You Cause a Political War to Win a War Game? (May 2/2 2020)
- Why Not Give In To Violent Impulses Against Rioters? (May 2/2 2020)
- "Selective leaking which has the impact of undermining the institution's credibility without actually revealing enough for onlookers, citizens, and representatives to accurately judge the behavior on display is just chicanery." (May 2022)
- This is one of several reasons I think the general public is in the midst of an 'epistemic crisis' wherein the vast majority of the information they're exposed to is false or misleading and the normal (May 6th, 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So the phrase 'immigration is a net positive' can be true in a broad sense but still not accurately describe how the actual citizenry experience it in their day-to-day lives." (August 2024)
- "The dating apps have managed to cheapen the value of any individual connection to almost zero. And most of what we're seeing now is downstream of that." (August 2025)
- "Its probably fair to say that the bottom 50% of men, in terms of attractiveness, are functionally invisible to the average woman." (August 2025)
- "All the pressure is being put on the men to improve and jump through whatever hoops women require in order to get one... and every avenue for improvement is being cut off and the hoops have been set on fire, lifted 500 feet in the air, and suspended over a pit full of poisoned spikes." (December 2025)
- "For my part, having grown up in the South makes me feel pretty uncomfortable in situations where people are actively choosing to center their identity on their race and drive a discussion (for some values of that term) about racial disparities and how to rectify them." (February 2023)
- "I'm an elder millennial, so I can remember a childhood without phones (and, barely, one without computers or internet), so I actually balk from blaming 'the phones' in the abstract." (January 2025)
- "...it is increasingly difficult to take allegations of this nature seriously in this world where women are simultaneously demanding to be treated as fully agentic adults in every other decision they make, ESPECIALLY those involving their own bodies, but are infantilized when it comes to sexual interactions with an older male." (July 2024)
- "Really feels like we managed to get the worst of both the sexual revolution AND the evangelical movement." (July 2025)
- "'Failing upward' doesn't even begin to describe it." (June 2023)
- "And where else can we go for an actual clearheaded view of things?" (June 2025)
- "The set of ideas that I think represents "The American Way" would roughly look like:" (March 2025)
- "Just seems like your standard scare piece, like they moved on from climate change, declining bee populations, or unhealthy fast food meals, and now its the big, scary red pill men who are corrupting the youth and we should be having a satanic panic about it RIGHT NOW." (March 2026)
- "I think the main thing that boomers and even elder Millenials might be missing is that literally EVERYTHING in Zoomer culture is in a constant state of molochian hypercompetition/red queen races thanks to the influence of social media and algorithmic ranking of every aspect of their performance in life." (May 2024)
- "Fundamentally, I want to live in a High Trust Society with traditions and social institutions geared towards maintaining it against all interference." (November 2025)
- "Perhaps we can gain some insight into Desantis' mindset by looking at the 2018 election..." (October 2022)
- "Because across all of those previous grievous institutional failures he mentioned, you'd be hard pressed to name any authority figure who paid any significant personal cost for their role in the events." (October 2022)
- "When is the last time, genuinely, you've seen any article published in any mainstream new media that was written from the perspective of a disaffected male where he was able to express what his perceived grievances were, and explain what he might want from a political party?" (October 2025)
- "But human beings are exceptionally good at finding ways to drive excess calories into their own bellies at the expense of others." (October 2025)
- "The reason I will defend "Stand Your Ground" laws even without considering firearm presence is that the alternative is batshit insane in my opinion." (October 2025)
- "Anyhow, I strongly feel that martials arts might be the sole remaining bastion of pure, healthy masculinity left in Western Society, and it is almost certainly the only one that hasn't come under direct attack from the Cathedral, like team sports, military service, and fatherhood have." (September 2022)
- "'The state will shepherd your kid through the psychological turmoil of puberty without your involvement' is a bone-chilling statement." (September 2024)
@faioseam β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@faith5 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "A few basic rules for confrontation..." (January 2022 2/2)
@faoiseam β 7 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "I think you fail to understand who is actually in charge of large companies. In the case of Google/Alphabet, the founders are in control, and have ceded day to day management to Sundar." (01-15-18)
- TIL Algerian universities aren't all that. (01-15-18)
- A slice of life from Democratic politics (02-01-18)
- On the media narratives about "women in STEM" under-reporting stories of actual women engineers. (02-08-18)
- In Group Preference, and Observing that the West Lost It (October 1st, 2018)
- What Sokal^2 Actually Indicates (October 8th, 2018)
- Types of NIMBYs (September 24th, 2018)
@farneareverywhere β 14 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Back then, as I said, we were told things like this would never happen. And then they happened." (April 2024)
- "There's a difference between 'the return of a popular show and this time the lead happens to be X' and blaring 'the return of a popular show where the whole point is that the lead is X!'" (December 2023)
- "And if you've reached the point of junkets, you are not 'doing charidee right unlike those other mugs'." (December 2023)
- "I'm about 40% through Michael Lewis's book on Sam Bankman-Fried, and so far I find it intensely frustrating." (December 2023)
- "I was just going to write something on the recent winner of the Booker Prize. The winner is a novel called 'Prophet Song' by an Irish writer, Paul Lynch." (December 2023)
- "You may not like them, but if the entire fucking point of the war was 'you are our fellow citizens, you can't just up and leave and start your own country', then afterwards you have to act like it." (December 2023)
- "Yer a Nazi, Harry! or, the alleged anti-Semitism in the work (particularly in the latest video game) of J.K. Rowling." (February 2023)
- Speaking as a former minor local government minion, I recognise this person. No, not the blankface... (February 2024)
- "Falling birthrates matter when it comes to individual families, because the last person ever to remember an event/speak a language/practice an art dies, and that information is lost, and no amount of AI will ever get it back." (January 2024)
- "So you may have heard of The Problem Of Susan, a literary critical view of what happened to Susan in 'The Last Battle', the final Narnia book." (July 2023)
- "Custody battles are already nasty enough without dragging in 'Your Honour, my ex should not have custody or visitation rights because they are a child abuser because my kid is trans and they don't accept that'." (June 2023)
- "This is flogging the FTX crash horse, which if not expired yet is certainly not in the best of health, but I'm currently reading the Chapter 11 declaration by the guy put in charge of putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, and it is prime entertainment." (November 2022)
- "What us religious zealot bigots opposed was embryonic stem cell research. Adult stem cells and other means of deriving stem cells, such as from umbilical cords? No problem." (October 2023)
- "But Tolkien was very clear that Middle-earth was not an invented world, it was meant to be our own world as we have it right now, just that the tales were set in a very distant, mythological past. So the English parts are meant to be English, and that does mean white." (September 2022)
@fauji β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Nolan's Oppenheimer released this weekend, and I wanted to use this opportunity to both post an excellent paper about Bhagavad Gita's influence on the man and a short introduction to Hinduism to illustrate just how different it is from Abrahamic religions." (July 2023)
- "Indian elections are coming up in a month, and seeing the rising importance of India, I wanted to do a series on culture wars in Indian politics, give you a bit of the historical context of what's going on." (March 2024)
- "Because the most important thing you need to know about India is the huge inferiority complex the Indian identity has." (September 2024)
@faul_sname β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "...if a bunch has been written about a topic, ChatGPT actually has quite a lot of knowledge about that topic, and the trick is creating a context where a human who knew the thing you wanted to know would have expressed that knowledge." (April 2023)
- "I guess the problem with reddit is the redditors." (April 2023)
- "Poker serves as sort of a 'job of last resort' to people who, for whatever reason, cannot function in a 'real job'." (December 2023)
- "The Yad Vashem 'Central Database of Shoah Victimsβ Names' includes both people who survived and people who died. " (January 2023)
@fcfromscc β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On Maintaining Charity (July 9th, 2018)
@fcfromssc β 87 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on Punk rock (04-18-18)
- discussing the Ta-Nehisi Coates' article "The Case for Reparations" (09-23-17)
- guns (10-14-17)
- Peak Charity (August 6th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Reflections on Media Narratives (April 2020)
- "Tell your kids to go into accounting, or learn to code, anything but policing. Move to the burbs, and let nature take its course." (April 2021)
- "Civil war or horrible crushing seem more likely, because the latter is what all the evidence tells me blues actually want, and the former is the only conceivable alternative that Reds appear to have." (April 2022)
- The state of the sub, plus some comments on COVID-19. (August 2021)
- "I actually agree that a more callous, honestly violent approach probably would have been more effective, less wasteful, and probably kinder in the long run than the quarter-ass humanitarian bullshit we actually did." (August 2021)
- "'White flight' is certainly the established narrative. Little thought is given to why they were fleeing, beyond a simple caricature of 'racism' or 'intolerance'." (August 2022)
- "My guess would be that grouping a large population of relatively poor, relatively violent people together in very large numbers, in a way that effectively precluded workable community institutions or social structures to self-police, and with ineffective outside policing, resulted in a runaway spiral of criminality and violence." (August 2022)
- "That's the point of court-packing and admitting new states and all the rest of it: to decisively and permanently win the tribal political contest in such a way that the other tribe is no longer able to resist one's social and political preferences, even within their own historical strongholds." (December 2021 2/2)
- "What isn't going to work is a society that zealously devotes its mental energy to racial and ethnic critique, while simultaneously insisting that specific ethnic groups be completely insulated from this critique, and further that these ethnic groups are just like everyone else and anyone who says different is a witch." (December 2021 2/2)
- Promising us an effort-post about "policy starvation." (February 2021)
- "I do not condemn BLM for the street dancing and murals. I condemn it for the extremely widespread lawless violence." (February 2022)
- Why defend the past? (January 2020)
- Effortfully grasping accountability (January 2021)
- Capitol riot (January 2021)
- "Reducing tribal conflict to 'Sadism' elides more than it illuminates." (January 2022 1/2)
- "What is clear is that to the extent that we tried to help Russia pick itself back up, we failed and made the situation much, much worse..." (January 2022 2/2)
- The Higher Satisfactions (July 1/2 2020)
- "It is very, very difficult to exert meaningful civilian control over an organization like the CIA." (July 2022)
- The incompatibility between free speech and cultural fraternity. (June 2021 2/2)
- Media Bias and the Biden Sexual Assault Allegation (March 2020)
- "Public education, like all facets of democratic government, is a cooperative endeavor." (March 2022)
- Making the case for non-intervention. (March 2022)
- The #BelieveWomen Memeplex (May 2/2 2020)
- The Power of Violence to Secure Change (May 2/2 2020)
- "The big problem is that the longer we maintain dominance with our existing tools, the more incentive and lead-time we provide for counterparties to optimize their own systems to avoid our strengths and exploit our weaknesses." (October 2021 2/2)
- "I argued for years that political violence was a shitty thing to normalize. (October 2021 2/2)
- decisively lost that argument last year, when political violence was in fact normalized, and my enemies reaped considerable rewards from its exercise." (October 2021 2/2)
- "The authorities issue a statement to clear the area, and then conspicuously fail to make any effort to enforce it, or to stop others from encouraging the order's violation." (October 2021 2/2)
- "Political violence isn't a magic 'I win' button, especially for people who don't consider stacks of bodies to be a win condition." (September 2021 1/2)
- "I think we agree that the violence and repression of the Deep South '50s and '60s needs to be discussed from the context of the overall culture. What evidence is needed before we can say the same for the violence and repression of the current era?" (September 2021 2/2)
- "Of the indignities of the modern world, this poisonous righteousness that insists that our side is pure good and the other side is pure evil is perhaps the most depressing." (September 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There is no general solution to the problem of tolerance, only best-fit local solutions." (April 2023)
- "We've engaged in heroic levels of social engineering to try to eliminate discrimination and racism. To the extent that such elimination is actually possible, I'd say we've done it." (April 2023)
- "The Sexual Revolution pitch was that we could remove shame from sex completely, that everyone could have all the sex and everything would be fine. That pitch has been gradually walked back as the resulting disasters become increasingly undeniable." (April 2024)
- "The captain's wheel of Democracy does not appear to be linked to the rudder of concrete policy; spin it left, spin it right, take your hands completely off, it doesn't actually matter much." (April 2024)
- "Being moderates, both of them are liars: Rufo is lying about the past, claiming that Jefferson wasn't a white supremacist, and Robinson is lying about the present, claiming that Jefferson's white supremacy is at all relevant to the current situation." (August 2023)
- "Christians positing the existence of Hell neither breaks your leg nor picks your pocket, any more than your claiming our God and Heaven does not exist." (August 2023)
- "The thing is, I straight-up don't think Progressives generally care about fidelity in marriage, in any way I recognize as 'caring about marriage'." (August 2023)
- "There are times when I might have been tempted to claim that I was smarter than my wife." (August 2024)
- "What predictions have you invested in? Where have you been wrong? What have you learned?" (August 2025)
- "It seems to me that people who have adopted what you label "revenge narratives" generally no longer believe that there is such a thing as 'our country' or 'our citizens'." (August 2025)
- "Long ago, I was interested in tabletop game design, and came across the concept of 'rules fragility'." (December 2022)
- "Liberalism's promise was that once we adopted its norms, everyone would just sorta chill out, everything would work out, reason would carry the day, mumble mumble you get the Federation from Star Trek. It hasn't worked out like that." (December 2022)
- "More generally, this is one of a class of arguments demonstrating that the basic assumptions civil society is built on do not hold, and that cooperation across the tribal divide is not positive-sum." (December 2023)
- "Both Tribes routinely coordinate meanness against things they consider socially hazardous, always have and always will." (December 2025)
- "Your thesis seems to be that creativity, intelligence, and cunning are innate markers of Blue identity, that people blessed with these traits always have been and always will tend toward Blueness. I don't see things this way at all." (February 2023)
- The modern era is best understood as a massive, distributed search for ways to hurt the outgroup as badly as possible without getting in too much trouble. (February 2024)
- "When enough such incidents accumulate, as I observe they did in both the 2016 and 2020 elections, I think it is reasonable to conclude that the democratic process is not only threatened, but has in fact been compromised." (February 2024)
- "The gay community is not typified by two men in a committed long-term relationship." (February 2025)
- "God is a bulwark in many ways, but the fact that I am committed to him in a durable way, and so are those I surround myself with, is certainly not the least of them." (January 2023)
- "The January 6th protest was in fact significantly more mostly peaceful than many of the leftist riots that preceded it." (January 2025)
- "It is not just that the Constitution is no longer serving its intended function, but that the very idea that it could potentially serve that function is now understood to be ridiculous." (January 2026)
- "To boil it down, I note that the economic predictions and even current assessments seem fundamentally unreliable, that the previous order seemed obviously unsustainable, and that the risk is worth it given the current trajectory." (January 2026)
- "What is the Enlightenment?" (July 2023)
- "They whipped themselves into a frenzy over Trump, and now someone has actually tried to kill him, and for many on the left there is no actual way to walk it back, nor ability to recognize the realities of their position." (July 2024)
- "The next step is to recognize the specific parts of your thinking that are hateful." (July 2024)
- "Worse things can happen to you as an upload that could ever happen to you as a human, and by a very wide margin." (July 2025)
- "But of course, previous iterations of Social Progress, including the Trans issue that prompts this discussion, have demanded changes to values and social systems now, with logistical solutions promised in the indefinite future." (June 2023)
- "One of them argued at length and quite explicitly that it was better for people like myself and my family to accept beatings at the hands of a mob rather than defend ourselves with lethal force, because criminal mob beatings were statistically less likely to kill people than lawfully justified gunfire. That's the sort of conversation that leaves an impression." (June 2024)
- "The question is not whether the Supreme court has made a good decision in this case. The question is whether the Supreme Court is capable of delivering a good decision in any case." (June 2025)
- "The Motte is not intended, nor is it fit, to Do Something." (March 2024)
- "If people actually want Christians to start policing non-Christians again, they should present a general case for when and why this is desirable, and also for why the desirability of such policing was not evident in the past." (March 2025)
- "I do not believe that coexistence is likely to work out well for anyone involved; our differences are irreconcilable, and we need a national divorce before our growing mutual hatred gives birth to large-scale tragedy." (March 2025)
- "The reason Anheuser-Busch being boycotted is that they got dragged into the culture war." (May 2023)
- "Our established systems are failing en masse, and there's a blatant disconnect between the way things are hypothetically supposed to work, and the way they actually work." (May 2023)
- "I was a Blue for a number of years, and the Blue habits of thought die hard." (May 2024)
- "All this has been done to us; tit-for-tat is the correct strategy given the state of play."step. Impose costs anywhere and everywhere." (May 2024)
- "I believe that 'We know how to solve all our problems' is a brief, common-language encapsulation of the core thesis of a specific ideological movement, and that this ideological movement is best understood as the central example of the Enlightenment." (May 2024)
- "At some point down the line, the escalation for one side or the other will be unsurvivable to the system as a whole, and it will fail. Again, people counting on the system's survival should be made aware of this." (May 2024)
- "I don't see any value in the HBD hypothesis. On the other hand, I don't actually see positive value in diversity in and of itself, and I'm not willing to go along with the polite lies our racial "conversation" consistently demands." (May 2024)
- "But what I am trying to tell you is that, right now, no one can enforce a norm against political violence, because the norm is already gone." (May 2025)
- "Categorizing society into oppressors and oppressed and relentlessly framing all social issues according to these categories, on the other hand, is actually how both the Marxist and Wokeist systems work." (November 2022)
- "You and a great many others here seem to be operating under the assumption that the story requires there to be a good guy. It does not." (November 2023)
- "My introduction to Social Justice in its modern form was getting "cancelled" by a close friend for speaking the truth in good faith..." (November 2023)
- "A lot of people support Trump because they want to fight back against a system they perceive to be deeply pernicious and entirely insulated from accountability." (November 2024)
- "I intend to enjoy what peace my family and I can find, and will continue to pray for the miraculous doom-bypass none of us actually deserves." (October 2022)
- "Cultural hegemony, as you've noted, can't be voted on. It can only be fought over. Therefore, we need to fight over it if we wish to see our values upheld." (October 2022)
- "It's an argument I want to make, but it's an argument I cannot actually back up, and so it's not an argument I should expect others to take seriously." (October 2022)
- "The last several years are best modelled as a massive, distributed search for ways to hurt the outgroup as badly as possible without getting in too much trouble." (October 2022)
- "You should value statues of Lee because you should value peace." (October 2023)
- "Reds are not going to back down because there is no retreat available to us. We decline to be reduced to second-class citizens in our native country." (October 2025)
- "The social cohesion you see right now, where cities are haunted by the specter of nation-wide race riots and federal politicians are dodging assassins' bullets, this is as good as it's ever going to be, and it's never going to be this good again." (September 2024)
- "A gunman has opened fire on an unmarked government vehicle carrying detainees to an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas." (September 2025)
@feepingcreature β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Feminism vs Antifieminism, an Eternal Struggle at Behest Fnargl (August 13th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The universal pivot goes: as you go from weak to strong, you want validation, then independence, then authority." (June 2022)
- Scalpers and Defection Against Implicit Compacts (March 2020)
@felagund β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Moody v. Netchoice and Netchoice v. Paxton" (August 2024)
- "Supreme Court Term Limits" (August 2024)
- "Seek to create value, not seize it. Companies are not your enemies; they are your friends." (December 2023)
- "Here's Chevron's overruling." (July 2024)
- "Thoughts on Trump v. United States" (July 2024)
- "The other four cases I didn't get to before..." (June 2024)
- "South Africa's Election" (May 2024)
@felipe β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@felis-parenthesis β 14 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I remember Slashdot and Kuro5hin. They collapsed under the weight of spam, trolling and mediocre posts. It seemed then that there would be an eternal churn. One discovers a new forum. It gets popular. (January 14th, 2019)
- I find it hard to engage with the hypothetical because I believe in subdividing intelligence into "model and anticipate rationality" and "sideways looking rationality". (May 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I like to overthink what I see in nature documentaries, so I keep coming back to the problem that lionesses and she-bears have with the males of their species. The pride lion gets killed by a stronger (April 15th, 2019)
- on meta-ethics (July 2019)
- "The notion of 'judicial activism' needs the context of a theory of jurisprudence." (November 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "They want the junkies gone before their children grow up and reach the age to be at risk." (August 2024)
- A good egregore teaches us eudaimonia instead of hedonism. It saves us, and since we are its substrate, it saves itself. (February 2024)
- "You can pass out from hypoxia with very little warning. I think this is now widely know, mostly due to the warning on the airplane safety card." (January 2024)
- "There is an important distinction between reserves and resources." (January 2025)
- "If you can distinguish between Tower Jumpers and Arm Whirlers, employ only Arm Whirlers." (June 2023)
- "The Anasazi question reminds me that adults forget what it is like to be young and are oblivious to the social constructs of middle age..." (June 2024)
- "Asking 'Do you believe Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is true?' is doing the 20000 foot overview thing. It can only lead to vague waffle." (March 2024)
- "One of the rival positions is monocensorship. The other position is bicensorship." (May 2023)
- "The underlying issue is that the economic logic of copyright leads to an awkward compromise." (November 2023)
@felz β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Some bespoke fanfiction in response. (August 2021)
@femmecheng β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Book Review: The Scout Mindset (June 2021 2/2)
@festering-soul β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@fevzi_pasha β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An Update on the Syrian Civil War (February 2020)
@ff29180d β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Defining "alt right" (August 6th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@ffcfromssc β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- wrote this (August 6th, 2018)
@fiexibeast β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The idea that meaningful freedom of speech should extend at least to the leader of the biggest opposition party. (January 2021)
@filtheminer β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "If you want to place the burden of your safety upon someone else, you are obligated up to a point to follow their direction." (July 2021 2/2)
- "The most deadly mass murder in our history used box cutters, the second used fertilizer and the third used gasoline." (May 2022)
@firesky7 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Taking a peek into insider perspectives on oil spills (December 2020)
@firmamenti β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Of course this also doesnβt work, and the cycle continues until the answer becomes that the whole of society is broken and we need to completely tear down all of the structure of the world and rebuild it from scratch (which of course will also not work)." (January 2024)
- "Allow the CWR to return to its roots: a weekly roundup of culture war topics." (October 2023)
@firmweird β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- What Motivates Support for Trump (October 8th, 2018)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@fishtwanger β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@fivehourmarathon β 80 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Nobody has ever understood themselves as evil, and pretending they did will prevent us from holding ourselves or anyone else to 'Never Again.'" (April 2022)
- "Abercrombie and Nietzch: The Missing Perspectives in Netflixβs White Hot" (April 2022)
- "There are times when I, when most men, are acting out and identifying with these archetypes, and to the extent that the archetypes are gendered that is closer to a gender identity than any general feeling of Maleness I work with day to day." (August 2022)
- "We're all at the mercy of the employees who have access to sensitive information." (August 2022)
- "Has Modern Capitalism Lost Track of the Idea of the Gimmick?" (July 2022)
- "Even if the laws/policies were designed to protect you it is more harmful than helpful if the result is that your coworkers don't invite you to parties because they're scared a costume/musical choice/joke/food might offend you and get them fired." (June 2022)
- "The partial success of modern mental health approaches at integrating these players allows them to reach a level where they get to breakdown on the national stage, and where that breakdown merely consists of a temper tantrum and a ruined tournament rather than a ruined life." (March 2022)
- "The Culture war is entertainment, and its consumers demand the new and the different." (March 2022)
- "A decade later came Obergefell and, what do you know, here we are at the bottom of the slippery slope. " (March 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A peasant village? Never. But up until the mid-late twentieth century, the rich had very personal relationships with their servants." (April 2023)
- "Don't teach that Nazis were extraordinary for being villains, or that Jews were extraordinary for being victims." (April 2023)
- "I know and admire the hell out of the Amish.... That said, the refutation to the Amish question is pretty thorough and not particularly difficult..." (April 2024)
- "Nate Silver thinks 70 is a good retirement age for Sotomayor because we might not see a Democratic Senate Majority again for a while, but if we can't get a D Senate for 16 more years, what's the point anyway?" (April 2024)
- "That's the reason for the Anglo-Centrism of the list, it's meant to tell the story of the Anglo intellectual tradition." (April 2025)
- "The femcel narrator's view of herself as the putative underdog ('She wears short-skirts I wear T Shirts, she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers') is the kind of self-view every American takes of themselves." (August 2023)
- "On American Graffiti, Street Rod Shows, the Meaning of Teenage Rebellion, and Watching a Subculture Choose Death Over Diversity" (August 2023)
- "Taking advice, really taking it to heart and following it, requires a radical act of submission foreign to the modern mind." (August 2025)
- "Someone commenting on the Dickstretcher-Rolex saga suggested we have a watch thread." (December 2022)
- "Content warnings aren't effective because they prevent exposure to a 'triggering' stimulus, they are effective because by giving them society is acknowledging the power and importance of the individual/group that could be thus triggered." (December 2023)
- "'Tacky' find its closest synonym in 'uppity' with all the racist and classist implications thereof." (December 2024)
- "Something I noted when I first read Coming Apart in undergrad for an assignment, and have only continued to see grow over time: it's not just economics, we're Coming Apart everywhere in America." (December 2024)
- "This young man is now shipwrecked, with a professional degree and probably a great deal of debt, and no real way to make money at it except by conning others into 'accommodating' him." (December 2025)
- "I'm curious to probe why we have all chosen to use primarily left-coded examples, when the same examples on the right abound." (December 2025)
- "Regardless of whether chatbots are sentient, or can become sentient, or will become sentient in the future; if chatbots are capable of mimicking sentience and emotion to some extent, will treating them as beneath morality brutalize actual human feelings?" (February 2023)
- "Going all-in is scary, you never know, you could lose everything. But Kipling tells us (by implication) that if you can't 'make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,' then you will never be a man." (February 2023)
- "You don't get to be an athlete, an intellectual, or a lover after college; not in the same way you do in school, not unless you're really talented." (February 2023)
- "So I might hold a genuine belief, but have no interest in marginalizing myself by advocating it or implementing it in a useless way, while having an ultimate interest in implementing the idea in an effective way." (January 2023)
- "The Penfield Mood Organ and Me: (January 2023)
- Are We Already Transhuman by Chemistry and Mnemonics Rather than Engineering?" (January 2023)
- "This is why Aella's definition makes a lot more sense than @ymeshkout's: the difference between polyamory and cheating is the cuckolded partner's reaction." (January 2024)
- "The Dawn of Everything, The Pop-Tarts Bowl Mascot, Joseph Campbell, and the Importance of Play" (January 2024)
- "The death of SI reflects that loss of a broad shared mainstream culture, traded in for specificity and niches." (January 2024)
- "Saltburn as a Critique of Privilege Discourse" (January 2024)
- "RETVRN TO TRADITION: Why NATO should seek to install Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on the throne of Ukraine" (January 2025)
- "Wokeness was a particular expression of the politics of the Coalition of the Ascendant logic." (January 2025)
- "Liminal horror is in many ways the modern manifestation of the 'horror of the gaps,' that horror exists just at the edge of civilization, just at the edge of what we have normal knowledge of, and as that line has shifted so has the location of horror." (January 2026)
- "Republicans/Conservatives have been hamstrung for decades by the dynamics of government work." (July 2024)
- "Which is the final contradiction: talking constantly about Master Morality is often a form of Slave Morality." (July 2024)
- "A Trip to the Mall and our Society-Wide Experiment in Extreme Trust" (July 2024)
- "I came away from this saying, the Cybertruck really is as fast or faster than a 911, even with a lot of cargo." (July 2024)
- "I'm just going to throw a bunch of quotes from the excellent Rick Reilly book Who's Your Caddy? in here." (July 2024)
- "Jake Tapperβs Historic Misnomer in Original Sin" (July 2025)
- "What the Fuck Do We Know Anyway: Nobody Knows Why They Broke Into the Watergate" (June 2024)
- "There's a saying I've seen in the Manosphere that women are human beings and men are human doings." (June 2024)
- "Path Lit By Lightning Thoughts and Review: A Hero's Life, Long Obscured by One Set of Politically Correct Myths, Now Obscured by Another" (June 2024)
- "So, that's my call: if Newsom were offered the job, he'd probably take it. And he'd probably be smart to take it." (June 2024)
- "I just don't see how evangelical politicians can act like the bible command leads directly and easily to using bunker busters on Iran." (June 2025)
- "Expand the Universe of Acceptable/Respectable Ways to be a Man or to be a Woman" (March 2023)
- "1000th Comment (March 2023)
- On The Value of Conflict or if we want to Make America Great Again we need to start raising kids with values we donβt intend them to keep" (March 2023)
- "Oh man I have thoughts on Gilmore Girls." (March 2023)
- "Feminism knows that a sexual past can be a problem, but canβt imagine a realistic solution." (March 2023)
- "Don't end the first amendment to fight blackmail, end a culture that shames normal people for liking things that normal people like." (March 2023)
- "The TikTok Ban, Male Role Models, the New Punk, and the Right to be Cool in American Society" (March 2024)
- "I've actually long been an admirer of the Islamic Republic's constitutional system, since learning about it in AP World Gov in high school." (March 2026)
- "A world where Bud Light's customers do at least a little critical examination of what they consume will probably improve the world." (May 2023)
- "Shakespeare, Honor, Unitary Leadership (May 2023)
- How To End the Culture War" (May 2023)
- "Naz Reid, Romance, and Regret" (May 2024)
- "My Life Measured in Captains of the New York Yankees" (May 2025)
- "Playboy Was Never a Magazine, It Was a Breast Certification Organization" (May 2025)
- "I donβt know how to square that circle. Was the adultery somehow necessary? Or an inevitable side effect. Iβd take JFK over Biden any day." (May 2025)
- "The subset of American men who self-consciously dislike football is tiny, it's not accurate to equate that subset with the entire Blue Tribe or the entire Upper Class." (November 2022)
- "Thoughts on Shifting Definitions and Models of Religious Liberty" (November 2022)
- "A conservative boycott of liberal companies would fail because in competitive industries the top talent is all blue tribe, or such a strong majority that it is doubtful red tribe talent can even man a ship together." (November 2022)
- "Why is Kissinger hated so much more aggressively than other ghouls and swamp creatures like a Donald Rumsfeld or a Paul Wolfowitz?" (November 2023)
- "When Israel makes the antisemites correct about one thing, they risk making people look at the rest of their thoughts." (November 2025)
- "Kids will, left to their own devices, self organize to achieve their goals, with those goals mostly being or rhyming with 'fun.'" (November 2025)
- "TLDR: The most important choice you make in life is who you will choose to follow. Obedience is agency." (November 2025)
- "The problem is really that any high trust group can defraud the government pretty easily." (November 2025)
- " Why the last two years should finally put 'Credibility' to bed as an argument in foreign policy." (October 2022)
- "How do we make it worth rooting for the Pacers if the Pacers are as likely as not to never win a championship in your conscious lifetime as a fan? By creating things the Pacers can win." (October 2023)
- "Why did the Men of Country Music Lose their Mojo?" (October 2023)
- "His basic thesis was that when you look at American political history, when a President wins 1) Two consecutive terms and then 2) gets his chosen successor elected after him, then that sets the paradigm (a Turning Point) that the country operates under until another Turning Point when a new paradigm is established." (October 2025)
- "Letβs at least consider the possibility that the problem wasnβt drug use as such, but using illegal drugs dosed by an amateur, with the obvious preventative being legal drugs dosed by medical professionals under regular observation for results." (September 2022)
- "Slate might not openly dream of herding cishetero white men into camps, but it doesn't hugbox them either." (September 2022)
- "What does an Alabama Sorority Sister Consider an Ordered Sexuality?" (September 2024)
- "I don't think PMC Turbolibs disdain McDonald's because it is lower class, I think they disdain McDonald's because it is so American." (September 2024)
- "With and Against Yarvin on Cults, Racism, Gaza, and the Danger of Being Wrong" (September 2025)
- "As we're probably all aware by now, Israel bombed Doha, Qatar this week, in an attempt to assassinate Hamas' leadership resident in the city." (September 2025)
@flailingace β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@flitter β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@flyinglionwithabook β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Developed nations donβt go to war anymore because no gains from war are likely to be more than the cost of fighting it." (February 2022)
- this exchange (July 2019)
- "I work in medical billing and calling your insurance company is your best bet for predicting coverage and costs." (June 2022)
- "A Primer on Sanctity (June 2022)
- for Seculars" (June 2022)
- "We toss away the idea that all human life is sacred to our own risk." (May 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Natural Law is the philosophical setting out of which all modern Western societies came." (April 2023)
@flyonthewall β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@fnovd β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Sea of Information (November 2019)
@folamh3 β 25 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Exploring moral panic in connection (hah) with social media (December 2020)
- Social contagion and the glamorization of mental illness. (July 2021 2/2)
- The use/reference distinction in fiction. (March 2021)
- "Spending an evening sitting in a dark room clutching your erection and letting the cold glow of XVideos wash over you is by no means a noble use of one's time, but I'm not convinced that watching stupid action films is much of an improvement." (November 2021 2/2)
- The Americanization of Irish Politics (October 1/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Lies, damned lies and the Washington Post" (April 2024)
- "The McGregor verdict and modus ponens" (December 2024)
- "As a Literal-Minded Person, I am Once Again Asking for Connotation not to Completely Supplant Denotation" (December 2024)
- 'Bob/Alice posts a public photo or video on a social media platform, and a bunch of people who don't know Bob/Alice create edited versions of said photo or video without Bob's consent' describes hundreds if not thousands of viral memes throughout the history of the internet... (February 2024)
- "In the short-term, perhaps it is kinder to play along with trans peopleβs beliefs about themselves and affirm their claimed gender identities, if failing to do so makes them sad and upset. But in the long-term..." (February 2025)
- "Contra deBoer on transgender issues" (January 2024)
- "So this is my interpretation of 'women are loved for who they are': women tend to be loved and respected by their families, friends and romantic partners more or less unconditionally." (July 2023)
- "This demonstrates the motte-and-bailey fallacy at the heart of the trans movement." (July 2024)
- "You will be hard-pressed to find an example of a wealthy, attractive, popular and charismatic person endorsing or trying to bring about truly radical changes to the society in which they personally live." (March 2023)
- "The 'radical fringe' which is neither" (March 2024)
- "It is transparently, facially untrue that Trump is showing himself to be everything his opponents feared." (March 2025)
- "If opponents of Trump were only trying to convey that they thought Trump was extremely dangerous, I question why they chose to devote so many column inches to the claim that he was dangerous in this extremely specific and easily-refuted way..." (March 2025)
- "American cultural exports" (May 2023)
- "If you are demanding that men not interact with you, and the only men reading (or caring about) that demand are men who care about respecting your boundaries - it should come as no surprise when the only men who interact with you are men who don't care about respecting your boundaries." (May 2024)
- "In the woke framework, genes may not determine how smart you are, or strong, or fast, or your career goals, or who you like to have sex with - but they damn sure determine whether you're a size 16 or an 8." (November 2023)
- "Well, who has "power" and who doesn't (who's punching up and who's punching down) are intentionally defined in a manner which is fuzzy, opaque and prone to being gamed." (November 2023)
- "As I said in the linked article, if a journalist tells you that Bob has Bad Opinions but refuses to tell you what those opinions are, that suggests that the journalist has remarkably little faith in their own opinions to win in the marketplace of ideas..." (November 2023)
- "If I'd been born ten or even five years later, dollars to donuts I'd be calling myself Lilith right now." (November 2024)
- "Most of us go through our lives quietly toiling away at doing the right thing, not expecting or receiving any special praise for doing so." (October 2023)
- "A Dyslogy for Ireland's 'Hate Speech' Bill" (September 2024)
@footnotetoafootnote β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Deadnaming" the dead on Wikipedia. (August 2021)
- "Some interesting culture warring behind the scenes of Wikipedia this week." (May 2022)
- "In my experience, librarians are overwhelmingly very liberal, social-justice-y women. Are they deliberately under-ordering books like this with ideas that they consider offensive or dangerous?" (November 2021 1/2)
@fphthrowawayb β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I am 2019 Chinese coronavirus vaccine critical (a term I quite prefer to antivax)." (May 2021 2/2)
- A Pedophile's Perspective on Pizzagate (September 2020)
@freet0 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Do Insects Suffer? (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@fren β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Sorry, I have to say it. This is good for crypto." (November 2022)
@fribble β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@frosty-beginning5601 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@fruck β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "That was the most ridiculous thing I have ever read, and that should mean a lot, because I have read many books, papers, articles, comics, and pamphlets - and some of them were ridiculous on purpose." (August 2023)
- "See, Cyclone Alfred hit South East Queensland two weeks ago, and while I know internationally the news barely covered it, if you were listening to the local news the week preceding it, it was the end of days." (March 2025)
- "I'm not a Qatari Muslim, but I think I can take a stab at how they'd reply..." (November 2022)
@fruitfullemonylemons β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Principled Centrism (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@ftttg β 11 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "POSIWID, deepities and scissor statements" (April 2025)
- "Iβm sure it feels good to call everyone whoβs more excited than you about AI an emotionally stunted manchild afraid to confront the real world, but itβs not a productive contribution to the debate." (August 2025)
- "To steelman the political revenge framework, consider it from a game-theoretic perspective." (August 2025)
- "Suffice it to say that I believe the question of whether participation in radical trans communities is a risk factor for violent radicalisation is one which warrants serious consideration and ought not to be just dismissed out of hand." (August 2025)
- "They can list off all the identity categories they fall into like a math nerd reciting digits of pi, but they couldn't begin to tell you who they, personally, are." (December 2025)
- "Just to illustrate that accusations of two-tier policing are entirely warranted, a 25-year-old influencer posted a video in which she called for the deaths of all conservatives. After being questioned by the police, she was not arrested." (December 2025)
- "I think the average five-year-old child could reliably explain the key difference between the sexes: women can have babies, and men can't." (February 2026)
- "In a society in which death is an omnipresent fact of life, emotionally insulating oneself from those around you is a sound strategy." (March 2026)
- "Just imagine feeling sad and upset that your girlfriend is fucking another man who's more attractive than you, and thinking 'Yes, obviously this is an unhealthy emotional response, I need to dose myself up with antidepressants'." (May 2025)
- "Regardless of what you think of the luxury beliefs concept ... the discussion about polyamory has got me thinking of a related idea, the general case of which polyamory is a specific example." (May 2025)
- "For years, Chase Strangio of the ACLU characterised gender-affirming care as lifesaving medical treatment. Before the Supreme Court, under oath, Strangio admitted that there's no persuasive evidence that gender-affirming care has any impact on the rates of suicide among gender dysphoric children." (November 2025)
@fubo β 17 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- What gun ownership would be like if guns were treated like cars. (05-07-18)
- Civilization survivorship bias. (05-07-18)
- Gender: Biology vs Social construct (05-21-18)
- Chad's Ass Constant (August 27th, 2018)
- I sometimes find myself trying to chunk political movements up in weird ways. (January 21st, 2019)
- In the computing world, sometimes conditions exist to allow someone to exploit others' resources maliciously. We call this a "security vulnerability", and it usually results from a bug in code, but so (January 7th, 2019)
- Responsibilities (Memorial Day 2018)
- Judicial Activism vs. Deference (September 24th, 2018)
- On Taxis (September 24th, 2018)
- Conflicting Interests in the CoC Drama (September 24th, 2018)
- The Keyboard Complexity (September 24th, 2018)
- Remember, humans are made out of meat; they aren't directly made out of math. Utility functions are made out of math. There are lots of ways that math can be used to measure meat (e.g. describing the (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I've sometimes described myself as a left-libertarian, though I more often say center-libertarian these days. I was a right-libertarian 15 years ago and have moved steadily leftward since then. (I hav (April 1st, 2019)
- Occasionally, I find myself listing out all the different things that people use the words "capitalism" or "capitalist" to mean. I think I need to add a couple. (February 18th, 2019)
- How does age affect our perception of various professional roles' status? (February 25th, 2019)
- Warning: This is a wandering ramble, not an argument for a particular proposition. (May 20th, 2019)
- (Content warning: extreme cynicism) (May 20th, 2019)
@fucking_that_chicken β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Follow-up question: if we're not a cult, should that change?" (June 2021 2/2)
@functionplastic β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@functor β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It never made sense for right wing voters to support neo conservatism." (August 2023)
- "I am pro Russia for several reasons." (December 2025)
- "The justice system is too harsh toward people with a life while not being effective at keeping people who can't function of the street." (November 2024)
@funobtainium β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A first hand account of paralysis (December 1/2 2019)
@gaashk β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "My deep moral intuitions are on the humility side of things -- that we should not be all screaming for attention. That it is actually morally bad to be screaming for attention." (August 2022)
- "It isn't impossible that I (and Peterson, in his way) am too reality oriented to feel the thing the postmodernists are worried about." (June 2022)
- "I'm currently dealing with FMLA for a baby due next month. There's no paid leave, so I'll just use up all my sick time, then any additional time off will be unpaid, including having to repay the employer part of my benefits." (November 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Again, a lot of people don't seem to feel permission to be an ordinary person, doing a slightly below average 9 - 5 job, sending their kids to the ordinary public school, to themselves become an average person living an average life." (December 2024)
- "People should be able to be pleased with their children living normal, functional lives!" (May 2024)
- "Apparently my whole feed is late 30s bloggers writing about child rearing now, even the ones I subscribed to for the AI news." (May 2025)
- "There seem to be a lot of women, of the making histrionic remarks on Facebook variety, who are into looking at the faults of their mothers, and 're-parenting' themselves at 35." (November 2024)
@gaberockking β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@gaiusleviathanxv β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Jordan Peterson (04-02-18)
- an autopsy of New Atheism from the inside (04-23-18)
@gamedori3 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- In neuroscience, of all places, a conflict has arisen over sexual dimorphism in the mammalian brain, and the journal Nature has taken the "equalist" side. (April 22nd, 2019)
- "To any pre-social justice leftist, it is very suspicious that leftist economic policies are only implemented when they assist the profiteering and rent-seeking of the billionaire class." (May 2022)
@gapigzoomalier β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@gary_oldman_sachs β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "One of the interesting things about the Ukraine crisis has been to observe the discourse on the Left." (April 2022)
- "There is a story about class conflict to be told here, but itβs not the one socialists are interested in telling." (February 2022)
@gattsuru β 84 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on the socially conservative view of sex ed (08-26-17)
- Businesses, and the Issue of Free Association (August 13th, 2018)
- (Solder) Gun-Slinging (August 6th, 2018)
- The 'death of the blue collar job' is basically this graph. 1980 as a start point is cheating because that genuinely was a surge, but you have to go back to 1950s before the absolute number of manufa (November 19th, 2018)
- > One of the things that seems weird to me about Rand is that she seemed to have capital-O Opinions on everything, including smoking (she was for it). (November 5, 2018)
- Religious Freedom Restoration Act (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Don't throw all government employees in the same bucket"--but maybe most of them... (April 2021)
- "'LibsOfTikTok' is a twitter account that highlights what it sees as strange or bad results of modern progressive ideology." (April 2022)
- The Tangled Ties of Nature and Nurture in Homosexuality (August 2020)
- "...congrats you just ended rental housing!" (August 2021)
- "I'm open to the importance of institutional knowledge, and I'm sure there's someone at the FBI that isn't completely incompetent and hasn't been driven out yet, but it's not exactly a poster child for the case, here." (August 2022)
- Four Replies to Unnecssariat (December 1/2 2019)
- Why we don't teach firearm safety (Reply to /u/KulakRevolt) (December 1/2 2019)
- "On October 30th of 2020, Project Veritas sued the New York Times for defamation..." (December 2021 1/2)
- "But by that framing, there's never going to be a broad expert lie; anything not already caught by experts is controversial, and even were there something we as a group could agree was false, the vast majority of experts will never have seen whatever source data makes that falsehood." (January 2022 2/2)
- tells a story about dealing with the media (July 2019)
- The apparent impossibility of rebuilding trust between academia and conservatives. (July 2021 2/2)
- The Cancel Mob May Be Inescapable (June 2/2 2020)
- "Quite a lot of my potential dating pool has made it very clear that Trump support is an absolute non-starter for even platonic friendships, and while it's more prominent for my demographics, it's not limited there..." (June 2021 1/2)
- "That is, there may be a lot of guidance on what would be illegal. There's no guidance on what couldn't be. This is a bit of a theme with recent firearms-related regulations." (June 2021 1/2)
- The continuing expansion of cancel culture in furtherance of radical politics. (June 2021 2/2)
- "It's fun to imagine what a ur-Minecraft would have ended up like, had it been released even four or five years earlier in the GameFAQs and rumor-mill era." (June 2022)
- "But if the future is a different country, I'm not sure I'm ready for a visa stamp to turn the discourse from "Lovecraft was racist" to this." (May 2022)
- "Don't ask me what direction electrons flow in a circuit." (May 2022)
- The NRA brand isn't particularly valuable as a marketing thing. Just as the callbook is what makes them a political organization of any relevance, the NRA range insurance is what makes them a finan (May 6th, 2019)
- "One interesting revelation is that Grosskruetz claims that, in addition to acting as a paramedic at the time, he was also acting as an ACLU observer." (November 2021 1/2)
- A New Addition to the Commerce Clause (October 1/2 2020)
- The Taxonomy of the Rationalsphere (October 1/2 2020)
- How have the Ballot Box and Soapbox Failed? (September 2020)
- Jimmy Carter, Reactor Cleanup, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation (September 2020)
- "...it's definitely not whataboutism to point out when people say 'Laws like this are way past the point of acceptability' that they demonstrably weren't." (September 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Three Felonies A Day was less interested in asking how hard it was to comply with the law, and more interested in asking whether the laws really mattered when police, prosecutors, and sometimes even judges were willing and happy to accept novel frameworks for the right target or high enough (or low enough) stakes." (April 2023)
- "There are three broad classes of radioactive nuclear waste..." (April 2023)
- "FOSS and The XZ Problem" (April 2024)
- "Some updates from New Mexico since two weeks ago." (August 2023)
- "The Ninth Circus vs. VanDyke: Collegiality Edition" (August 2023)
- "Bianchi v. Frosh's en banc opinion has dropped." (August 2024)
- "Now, I don't particularly trust DailyCaller reporting. But it'd be real nice to have a way to tell." (August 2024)
- "The Loudon County Special Grand Jury final report has been released." (December 2022)
- "There are increasing campaigns to open up the CDC for gun violence research, often countered by gun owners pointing out a tendency for the organization to be captured by political forces, and it's hard to see this as anything but a poster child for that problem." (December 2022)
- "Begun, the Butlerian Jihad has..." (December 2022)
- "StableDiffusion 2.0 has released a few weeks ago, closely followed by 2.1, with some nice new features and also a couple somewhat noticable subtractions: the new tokenizer has removed tags related to celebrities and almost all living or recently-living artists, along with anything that triggered the NSFW filter." (December 2022)
- "More broadly, though, there was a short time where people said 'live and let live', and even if you couldn't exactly believe they meant it, they at least were willing to put more than a little lip service to the concept." (December 2022)
- "Conservatives and conservative organizations are not just uncommon but destroyed in a wide variety of professional fields, and that's a result of enemy action." (December 2023)
- Docket Update (December 2023)
- "I took the plunge for The Year Of Linux On The Desktop, starting with a few tiptoes in 2016 and moving my personal computer default boot in 2021." (December 2024)
- "The advantage of the conventional educational system, and of government grants in general, is just how damn much money is thrown out there, while its results and evaluations are monitored only on the largest scales at any politically responsive level." (December 2025)
- Mediated group hallucinations and consensus reality (February 2024)
- "Against Large Language Models as an Archive" (February 2024)
- Appellate Caselaw Update (February 2026)
- "Some of it reflects the modern youth being far more reviewable ('seeable-to-a-state') than any demographic in history, at far smaller scales, and social pressures encouraging that review." (January 2023)
- "Oi, Bruv, Can I See Your Porn Loisence" (January 2023)
- "It's physically possible to discuss the material without endorsing it (although whether such discussion would prepare students for an AP exam...), but do you really expect the average classroom to manage it?" (January 2023)
- Gun Law Updates (January 2024)
- "The majority of US airline disasters leave an impact on airline regulation and aviation in general, if sometimes not quite enough, or only after a delay." (January 2024)
- "Award-Winning AIs" (January 2026)
- "Since my 'don't trust Science' threads were already toeing the line between 'Pepe Silvia!' and schizophrenic (fair!) (I didn't even touch the four-part follow-up), Nate Silver summarizes better than I can..." (July 2023)
- "The more internal debate variant is What Is Intersex to even start with." (July 2024)
- Security Advice (July 2024)
- "Some people do genuinely just have a morbid sense of humor, not just when people they don't like are involved." (July 2024)
- "I'm not going to throw away the Great Man Theory of subcultures, but I also think there are very dire limits to it." (July 2025)
- "The NLRB can look at all these questions if they want to, but why would they want to here?" (June 2024)
- "But in turn the overwhelming majority of successful boots-on-roads efforts come in communities with unsophisticated and disorganized criminals, in cultures not predisposed to escalatory violence." (June 2024)
- "Oregon Goes To The Purge" (June 2024)
- "Various downstream knowledge and pragmatic matters made 'gay mentor' a thing, and while a majority were genuinely in the 'leave a pamphlet and pretend the question never came up' side, it left a massive space for abuse among people who by definition would not be able to readily recognize abuses." (June 2024)
- "Snope v. Bonta has dropped like a gravestone" (June 2025)
- "The National Instant Criminal Background Check Systems (NICS) is a 90s-era system that (almost) all buyers of firearms have to undergo every time they buy (almost) any firearm." (June 2025)
- "I'm more pro-Sad than anti-Sad, though I'm also pretty heavily anti-Rabid. (March 2023)
- To give as neutral a summary as possible..." (March 2023)
- "VanDerStok has dropped." (March 2025)
- "LGBT Talk / Conversion Therapy: Chiles v. Salazar" (March 2026)
- "A lot of gatekeeping discourse in trans spheres reflected practices based around WPATH SoC v6; while this officially only ran from 2001-2011 (most of that under the name Harry Benjamin International Genders Dysphoria Association), it had a pretty significant foundational effect..." (May 2023)
- "Some legislation made it easier..., but the grander problem is that you now had thousands of people who's job was to find discriminatory actors, who were trained to notice the most subtle hints of it, and in no small part who believed in the mission." (May 2024)
- "The Death of Trust in Bipartisan Lawmaking" (May 2024)
- "Taylor, also known as CarbonMike, was both a CTRL-Pew 3d printing enthusiast and a New Yorker, a combination that Didn't Go Well." (May 2024)
- "The Obama administration, when DAPA/DACA was being challenged, swore before court both in writing and orally in the court proper that they would not issue any new determinations under the new policies, in order to avoid having the judge issue a preliminary injunction. And then the issued literally over a hundred thousand." (May 2025)
- "Prestige Biotech" (November 2023)
- "I don't particularly buy the whole "pivot to video" concept, and indeed I'd argue to its opposite, but people are a lot less aware of the extent outright video manipulation can occur and be undetectable." (October 2022)
- "SCOTUS picks a couple Gun Cases... kinda" (October 2025)
- "There's some interesting deeper things that could be said about the wider state of self-defense law (although the FBI numbers are kinda sus if you look at them too hard) and the WSJ analysis is less actual analysis and more looking at a CSV and hitting the filter until you get a chart you like." (October 2025)
- "The Supreme Court has responded to a stay request in Yeshiva University v. YU Pride Alliance." (September 2022)
- How is airspace usually regulated? (September 2024)
- "I'm writing about them -- I'm reading about them -- because people want each and every one from the other team removed. (September 2024)
- "California Closes In On A Glock Ban" (September 2025)
@gavinskulldrinker β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Analyzing Narratives on the Arbery Shooting (May 1/2 2020)
@gaygroyper100pct β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@gbdub87 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The black Princeton grad lecturing an unemployed opioid addict in West Virginia about his white privilege might be woke, but they sure as heck arenβt practicing intersectionality." (March 2021)
- Outgroup Homogeneity and "Defund the Police" (September 2020)
@gbrk β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@gcz77 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Chess (April 2019)
- There are two big ones. The first is in the kind of reasoning. The second is in the amount/complexity of laws jews have vs other religions. (April 2019)
@gec_ β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Straussian analysis: what it is, how it works. (March 2021)
- Channeling Noam Chomsky's Words (November 2019)
- Is Trump a Fascist? (November 2019)
@gemmaem β 39 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On Christian colleges, federal aid, and LGBT politics. (01-15-18)
- Conflict Theory vs. Mistake Theory in the context of sexual consent (02-01-18)
- "Alan Jacobs in First Things, about how and why Christian colleges should wean themselves off federal..." (02-01-18)
- Two competing views of gendered traits, activities and spaces (02-08-18)
- a reskin of "privilege" for feminist-critical palates (04-02-18)
- power dynamics in traditional gender roles (04-18-18)
- on the topic of assigning blame for said firing (04-18-18)
- on privilege (04-18-18)
- this sub's perceived attitude towards women (04-30-18)
- A feminist's view of femininity. (05-07-18)
- What distinguishes a proper "hacker." (05-07-18)
- Hypotheses pertaining to how frequent sexual offenders may get away with it (05-21-18)
- The value of having (any) principles (05-21-18)
- the disappearance of traditional social norms (10-14-17)
- "Why does this Vagina Monologues thing keep coming up? Let me outline why I find the fuss absurd." (12-10-17)
- The Value of Rules that are Hard to Change (August 13th, 2018)
- Art Transcending Politics (August 27th, 2018)
- response (July 2nd, 2018)
- When should we treat the sexes differently? (July 9th, 2018)
- on the presumption of guil (Memorial Day 2018)
- Free Speech and Signaling in the Grey Tribe (Memorial Day 2018)
- Life as a female "incel" (Memorial Day 2018)
- Believe Women as strategy to move the Equilibrium View (October 8th, 2018)
- On Closure (September 10th, 2018)
- Dynamics between Evangelicals and Feminism (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Feminism, Victim Blaming, and Reducing Abuse (August 2020)
- Questioning whether the West is Different (August 2020)
- Safe Spaces as a Safety Valve (August 2020)
- "The simple fact of the matter is that giving birth to a child does often make a person more inclined to self-sacrifice and more likely to put up with ill-treatment." (August 2022)
- How the body and mind change together, and how that relates to feminism. (January 2021)
- calls out the pitfall of rational debate (July 2019)
- talks about sexual attraction and status hierarchies (July 2019)
- " I think itβs a real shame when the positive case for liberal sexual norms gets lost in the outrage." (July 2022)
- Which would remind me of Scott's universal culture that's just wearing the mask of Western culture. (May 13th, 2019)
- Interestingly, Bruenig acknowledges that there is a cultural argument to be made, here, in addition to the economic one: (May 27th, 2019)
- Trying To Watch US Covid Measures From the Outside (October 1/2 2020)
- Community-Building Tendencies Among Women (October 2/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Nevertheless, my explanation of the trend that you identify would be that these liberal norms fell out of fashion because they genuinely were flawed, and that bringing them back will require re-working them to take some of these critiques into account while also preserving what was important about them." (December 2022)
- "I take public transit a lot, often in New Zealand, but also a little bit back when I lived in Los Angeles. I have not been harassed as far as I can remember, although if the incident was minor then I might easily have forgotten it." (November 2022)
@gen_mcmuster β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I think the outcomes of the "black community" can be fairly analogized to an immigration environment where assimilation is discouraged. The problem isn't that they're a given identity, it's that the (April 8th, 2019)
- Cautioning against the nascent division between "sex" and "gender" as potentially introducing unnecessary confusion into well-understood phenomena. (March 2021)
- I don't have a completely fundamental opposition to violence. Who kills who makes a difference. (May 6th, 2019)
@genusnihilum β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How Forums Self-Select by Writing Style (January 2020)
@george_e_hale β 10 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Any man in the wrong circumstances is capable of cheating. The trick is to stay the hell away from those circumstances." (December 2025)
- "But I've been to the mountaintop. And I've smelled the promised scent." (February 2026)
- "I had a thing in high school where, when faced with the attention of females, I would become so emotionally fraught that I would vomit." (January 2024)
- "Many years ago I got high for the first time with my good friend, R." (January 2024)
- "The trip to the states was mostly uneventful, but I will document it here for posterity and to get my own head around it." (January 2025)
- "The first train ride takes me to a commuter hub, where you can actually travel to one of the international airports in my area. You see a lot of Chinese, Korean, Thai, probably other Asians as well." (July 2023)
- "On (ζ©) means basically when i do you a favor, you owe me some sort of favor in return (ζ©θΏγ) ." (June 2023)
- "Today on the morning train nothing of import happened." (June 2023)
- "Marriage ain't about the one true one. It's about making a goddam decision and choosing." (June 2023)
- The Motte: A Working Glossary (March 2024)
@georgemonck β 10 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Contra Keith Woods on Moldbug (August 2020)
- "Today's journalists all grew up watching John Stewart." (August 2021)
- discussing Al Franken (July 2019)
- explains thier understanding of conservatism (July 2019)
- "It is interesting how the concept of 'curse', 'swears' and 'profane' language have all been mashed together." (July 2022)
- "...when I meet a new person it is very, very helpful to know if they are male or female because it provides critical information for how I should interact with them." (June 2022)
- "Personally I would describe being 'woke' as synonymous with 'succession ideology.'" (March 2022)
- "A big problem here is that Western progressive morality is different than traditional geopolitical morality (Vattel, etc.)" (March 2022)
- Question for Bananageddon, Shakesneer, GPoaS and others who think this is "funny" or "slapstick": Is it funny because throwing a milkshake at someone is always funny, or just specifically at pol (May 20th, 2019)
- "I do think that this case does count as evidence against the thesis that 'if Rittenhouse was black he would be found guilty.'" (November 2021 1/2)
@georgioz β 23 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- kids these days (04-30-18)
- On the limits of net worth as a metric for personal wealth (or lack thereof). (12-10-17)
- There was a fistfight in South African parliament a few days ago. As far as I can tell it happened during a session where president was addressing questi (November 5, 2018)
- While I agree with the gist of it I also think there are certain outliers that are hard to ignore. I know at least two people who are absolute masters of self-deception. They will tell lies in a way t (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "A messy confrontation of natives with immigrants over the character and culture of the nation with potential for it to get very, very messy. Why should one invite this potentiality into ones own house is beyond me." (April 2021)
- "The Old Left was literally left behind by 'reimagined' narratives." (February 2022)
- A Brief History of Islamic Conquest (January 2020)
- WWI: A Generation that Lost More Than Just Their Lives (July 1/2 2020)
- The Faux Poor Look in Disbelief as America Burns (June 1/2 2020)
- The Immense Difficulty of Full Solar/Wind Electricity (June 1/2 2020)
- To the US: Gratitude and Reassurement from Slovakia (June 1/2 2020)
- The Roll of Small Talk in Eastern Europe (June 2/2 2020)
- Yugoslav (May 2021 2/2)
- of (May 2021 2/2)
- 1990s (May 2021 2/2)
- The Problem of Carbon on: Religion vs Engineering (November 2019)
- Re-Analyzing Classes (November 2019)
- Horseshoe Theory, Communism, and Fascism in Korea (October 2/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I do not think that Open Borders is against many strains of thinking especially prevalent on the left. Colonialism was not bad because it destroyed local cultures, colonialism was bad because it interfered with the higher project." (December 2022)
- "You cannot have it both ways, where on one hand it is just some stupid problem, while at the same time it is a problem that requires probably dozens of people investigating it. So which one is it?" (November 2024)
- "In one sense seeing women in such a power seems like matriarchy, but she still relies on men for everything - be it her ex husband, or overwhelmingly male police force for protection of her person and her legal entitlements." (November 2025)
- "For me it is preposterous that anybody even considers Kendi as anything but utmost danger to democracy." (October 2022)
- "What I find interesting is how a lot of the new morality is direct subversion of traditional virtues and promoting related sins instead." (September 2024)
@geriatriczergling β 11 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- So the way people talk about Trump's speech patterns makes me feel weird, because I see shades of myself in it. When I talk extemporaneously, it tends to be very 'stream of consciousness', flowing fr (April 15th, 2019)
- "TL;DR - 98% O2 postmortem only means a) they did CPR well and b) there wasn't much CO poisoning." (April 2021)
- >it's hard to believe that any drug would take $30,000 to manufacture. (April 8th, 2019)
- This (April 8th, 2019)
- The mind/body problem in transsexual therapy theorizing (December 2020)
- I'm a muscle physiologist / biomechanist, and these are definitely valid concerns but also complex. For instance, testosterone influences muscle mass and fiber type, but it also influences skeletal d (February 25th, 2019)
- The hubris of geoengineering and the law of unintended consequences. (January 2021)
- Compatibility of Space Colonization and Harmony With Nature (July 2/2 2020)
- Cat Facts! Speed and Preflexes (June 1/2 2020)
- I'm one of the "anti-humanists", as that Quillette author uses the term, though not a VHEMT. The fundamental issue far more nuanced than the strawman from that article, and can be thought of as an eq (May 6th, 2019)
- "A far better approach is to require a license (with enough fees to cover enforcement costs) for any potentially dangerous dog, and require owners demonstrate a high level of training and obedience in a current dog to pass the test." (September 2021 2/2)
@ggkbae β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "It turns out you can do a GWAS on the genes that you don't even have but that your parents had and get significant associations with your educational attainment." (on how the metric of heritability is often misleading) (02-01-18)
- Evidence for Evolution in Baeysian Terms (July 16th, 2018)
- Against Virtue Signaling (September 24th, 2018)
@ggthxnore β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Should Magical Rome Have Female Legionnaires? (April 2020)
@gheobhadsa β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Athlete scholarships and programs get way too much funding relative to other subjects. Colleges should be about education and not sports. (January 28th, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A large amount of these changes seem terrible to me. (March 11th, 2019)
- The recent college admission scandal is quite close to me in real life. I casually know five of the people accused, and unfortunately, I think that more people will be caught up in it soon. I have a (March 25th, 2019)
@giblfiz β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@glassnoser β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I recently went on a road trip from Halifax to Boston. I thought an outsider's perspective might be interesting." (August 2024)
- "Quebec separatism may be dormant, but francophone Quebeckers do not really see themselves as Canadian and it's quite possible Quebec will try to separate again in the future if it's relationship with the rest of Canada worsens." (December 2023)
- "No AI has ever passed a Turing Test." (February 2025)
- "The government of Quebec will cut funding for out-of-province students to study at English language universities in Quebec." (October 2023)
@glenera β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- climbing the economic ladder (Memorial Day 2018)
@glenra β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Role of Subscriptions in the Downfall of Yellow Journalism (August 13th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on factory bathroom breaks (July 2019)
@glopknar β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Virtue vs Virtue Signaling (August 6th, 2018)
@glorkvorn β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@gloster80256 β 12 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- tales from socialist Czechoslovakia (04-02-18)
- Tales from Socialist Czechoslovakia II: Pre-war historical context (04-18-18)
- response on the sexual marketplace (05-14-18)
- Total War and Collective Guilt (July 30th, 2018)
- national vs corporate diplomacy (June 4th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Steelmanning Polyamory (Extremely Late 2019)
- "As someone who has had the experience of living under both Russian and American "spheres of influence" in the European context, I feel entitled to an opinion on the matter." (February 2022)
- Heresies of Cultural Canon (January 2020)
- On Jenga Events (June 1/2 2020)
- Feudalism Died With the Advent of Gunpowder (June 1/2 2020)
- Slavery's Legacy, and Black Culture's Incompatibility With Bourgeois Experience (May 2/2 2020)
- Bohemian dispatches in the time of Corona 15/10/2020 (October 1/2 2020)
@gog β 5 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The modern public education system is an expensive daycare at best and a Potemkin village at worst." (December 2025)
- "It is impossible, however, to overstate the staggering stupidity of the average teacher." (February 2023)
- "So in this sense, saying 'kids are gross' is like saying 'girls are gross' -only someone who has never experienced a good one would say that." (February 2026)
- "I worked at pretty mid-tier daycare in Canada. It was bad." (January 2024)
- "There is virtually no violence at my school, no crime, students are polite and obedient. They just don't do or learn anything because of special ed plans." (March 2025)
@goldplateddalek β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An insider's view of college athletics (April 1st, 2019)
- Reflections on Covington, News, and Memory Holes (February 2020)
@goodguy β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I am no Republican, but at this point I also cannot imagine myself voting for a Democrat." (August 2024)
- "No, we should not allow insane people to roam the subways threatening others. But there are many possible solutions between 'do nothing' and 'kill them all'." (May 2023)
- "There are various powerful political entities today that share some aspects of fascism, but none that I can think of really have the whole package." (October 2025)
@googly-poogly β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@googology β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- As a PhD ecologist who works on issues related to climate change, I get frustrated in 99% of cases where climate change is discussed in apocalyptic terms, typically by enviro groups. (October 22nd, 2018)
@googolplexbyte β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- some guidelines (04-18-18)
@gorge β 11 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "We went another three steps to the left from 2012 to 2021, and now there is a bit of a movement back to the right. However, we are still a long way to returning to the status quo of 2010." (January 2025)
- "A lot of men on the right read Moldbug, did route around the Cathedral, did do a hostile takeover of the Republican party, and are now at least starting to attempt what he proposed." (January 2025)
- "But prosecuting high-level officials for technical crimes and gray-area crimes and crimes invented in the last 80 years gives far too much power to the bureaucracy." (May 2024)
- "Back in September a commenter here on the TheMotte posted an argument about fertility trends (November 2022)
- that among rich countries fertility actually increases with feminism (November 2022)
- explaining why I don't believe the claim." (November 2022)
- "Forming a bond with someone who is bad for you is very damaging." (November 2022)
- "My best take at defining religion that cuts reality at joints (and doesn't arbitrary distinguish between adhering to a 'deity' versus 'universal principles') is that a 'religion is the binding agent of a non-kin or super-kin tribe.'" (November 2022)
- "A few weeks ago I wrote ... a post (November 2022)
- feminism and declining fertility rates, I used Saudi Arabia as an example." (November 2022)
- "'Gay marriage' was more the final nail in the coffin than it was the decisive blow." (October 2023)
@gossage_vardebedian β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Worrying Rise in Armchair Pundits (May 2/2 2020)
@gpoas β 19 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- This article is an archetypal example of something that really frustrates me about the top-down optimizer mindset, and significantly informs my political leaning towards a libertarian style non-interv (April 2019)
- Two main categories of reason. (January 28th, 2019)
- There's no such thing as a single optimal model when you're trying to optimize over multiple variables that do not have a complete set of definitive conversions between them. (January 28th, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I suspect that the "conservative" and the "republican" positions on this issue are in steep disagreement, since for all their rhetoric about markets, a hell of a lot of elderly people on medicare woul (April 1st, 2019)
- PRE-EMPTIVE EDIT: I said citizenship above in my grandparent comment, and I've said citizenship below repeatedly. Every single time I said "citizenship", I meant "permanent residency". I was not tryin (April 22nd, 2019)
- I am unsympathetic for reasons including but not limited to: (April 8th, 2019)
- One conservative perspective: (February 18th, 2019)
- imo the solutions are as follows: (June 10th, 2019)
- Epistemic status: exploratory. (June 10th, 2019)
- Disclaimer: I have not read this study, and am going off of headlines, summaries, etc. If the concern I am raising was addressed in the study, please ignore the following. (June 24th, 2019)
- My policy with respect to any and all changes to voting policy is: (March 11th, 2019)
- I was raised Christian. (March 18th, 2019)
- with rich kids in particular being funnelled towards programs that have them spend time with poor families. (March 18th, 2019)
- An Early Warning of Coronavirus (March 2020)
- IMO "socialism" is too vaguely defined to have meaningful conversations about whether or not a given historical figure was a socialist. (March 25th, 2019)
- National concerns now trump local news - no one knows who sits on their local city council, but voters in Oregon are now obsessed over what lawmakers in Georgia are doing. (May 27th, 2019)
- However, its point is still valid, even if the scenario is unrealistic. (May 27th, 2019)
- I don't believe that shaming, slut- or otherwise, is good, but I have otherwise, in the past, been exactly the person you're asking for. (May 6th, 2019)
- Bona Fides: I have been through this once before. (May 6th, 2019)
@grant_us_eyes β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Funny, despite the prevalence of glock switches displayed on public forums like, say, youtube, you never hear about the ATF raiding and confiscating them." (August 2024)
- "The bitter pill for people to swallow is that if Pretti had been arrested after this and given a week or month to cool down in a jail cell somewhere, he'd still be alive." (January 2026)
- "The Motte is what you get when you get arguably decades of selection pressure." (March 2026)
- "The issue with rationalist communities is that they arose at the point in time where there still existed a remnant of Gatekeeping for the internet at large, even as the midwit hordes were beginning to clamor over the gate." (May 2025)
@grapegrater β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "All western comics last year were outsold by the manga Demon Slayer." (April 2022)
- What We Should Teach (Reply to /u/KulakRevolt) (December 1/2 2019)
- A Story of Two Elites (February 2020)
- How Western foreign policy, imitated outside the West, tends to alarm Westerners. (February 2021)
- Non-Monetary Barriers to Web Entry (May 1/2 2020)
- It gets worse. Google was directly involved in "get out the vote" activities in the last two elections and have gone on the record saying they were picky in who they asked to go vote (something, somet (May 27th, 2019)
@graveyardafterdark β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- thread on the ideology of MLK (01-15-18)
@greatjasoni β 10 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Stereotypes, Ideal Stereotypes, and Treating Everyone as Individuals (December 2/2 2019)
- Because they're not the same. They share some source material but all interpret it completely differently. (February 11th, 2019)
- Jesus and The Hierarchy (January 2020)
- Aesthetics or Consequentialism in Ideology (May 1/2 2020)
- Explaining Nietzsche as Beethoven/Goethe Fanboy (May 1/2 2020)
- A Spiritually Sick Audience Admires Tony Soprano (May 2/2 2020)
- The Aim and Scope of Classical Education (November 2020)
- The birth pangs of a cyber demon come to reap the fruit of our sins (October 1/2 2020)
- A Passionate Defense of Beauty (October 2/2 2020)
- What Should Public Political Discourse Look Like? (September 2020)
@greenembo β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Shortest AAQC (November 2019)
@grendel-kahn β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
naraburns
nihil supernum
23d ago
AAQCs by User β Part 2 of 3
@grendel-khan β 19 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Alissa Walker for Curbed LA, "Elon Musk debuts test tunnel in Hawthorne: βI really think this is incredibly profoundβ". (December 17th, 2018)
- Poverty and equality in California (June 4th, 2018)
- The California Housing Crisis (Memorial Day 2018)
- California Transit Density Bill (October 15th, 2018)
- An Update on Carbon Taxes in Washington State (October 1st, 2018)
- Bay Area Housing Troubles: Teacher Edition (October 8th, 2018)
- Clean Energy in California (September 3rd, 2018)
- Why aren't kids being taught tor read? (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How "building code" is more like guidelines than actual rules... (August 2021)
- The continuing saga of San Francisco housing politics. (February 2021)
- David Roberts for Vox, "This is an emergency, damn it", on the Green New Deal. (Separate explainer here.) (February 25th, 2019)
- There are two different basic issues here: the question of whether it is in fact an emergency, and the question of what the best approach would be, assuming it were. (February 25th, 2019)
- San Francisco politics, I think! (January 2021)
- "When a developer completely bypasses the neighborhood-review process, when they bypass CEQA and discretionary review and appeals to the Board of Supervisors and chicken wing extortion, this is what's motivating them." (November 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It's Morning in California. Rather, it's Morning in the legislative season, a time when big ideas seem possible, before they disappear into a swamp of obscure pitfalls and shenaniganry." (April 2023)
- "The center-left has been here before!" (July 2025)
- "The problems, contradictions, and failures of blue governance are at their sharpest here, and if there's a way forward, it'll be here as well." (June 2025)
- "While the YIMBYs didn't get everything they wanted, they got a lot of it, and they are very happy." (October 2023)
- "But it was a surprisingly successful year in the Legislature for the YIMBYs, maybe even more so than last year." (September 2022)
@greyenlightenment β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Bullshit (August 13th, 2018)
@grinningvoid β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Giants Will Walk the Land Once More (November 2020)
@guesswho β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@gurung99 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- post about cross dressing in China (July 2019)
@guzey β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Post is short enough to fit into a comment, so here it is, in case you don't want to click: (April 2019)
@gwern β 7 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- what parapsychology research has been good for (04-02-18)
- Discussing genetic causation and heritability (09-30-17)
- The Historical Context of Gregor Mendel's Research (August 27th, 2018)
- Paradox of Polygenicity (October 1st, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Now, once you start treating it as a reverse-engineering problem and disassemble it into a white box, things become very different. You would quickly spot that it is in fact iterative..." (August 2022)
- In the end, there is little difference between a subreddit moderator and Wikipedia admin in terms of what they can execute if they care enough. (June 2022)
- Why we will not have a gengineered baby in the US by 2025. (September 2021 2/2)
@gworn β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Perfect Culture War Storm in Germany (August 27th, 2018)
@hackatatonton β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Campus Speech Codes (June 4th, 2018)
@hailanathema β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- This subreddit's demographic breakdown by political ideology. (01-15-18)
- Inside
baseballSCOTUS (June 4th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Three decisions out today of relevance. Two from SCOTUS and one from a state judge in Texas." (December 2021 1/2)
- The Supreme Court decision whether Protections based on sex establish Transgender rights (Extremely Late 2019)
- "In this comment I want to make the case for why I think there was a plan to keep Trump in power even though he had lost the 2020 election and the factors that prevented such a plan from being executed." (January 2022 1/2)
- "My own best guess, with some reasoning, is that Harvard probably loses but I'm less confident about whether the court will overturn Grutter altogether." (January 2022 2/2)
- In this post I want to talk a bit about a tendency I observe in online discussions that I think turns a lot of left-right discussion into talking past each other. It's something I've definitely observ (June 17th, 2019)
- "This is not the attitude of someone who desires to affirm their child's gender identity." (May 2022)
- As others have said, what books you ought to read are dependent on the particular leftist thought you're trying to understand. Rawls is an excellent starting point for modern egalitarian redistributio (May 27th, 2019)
@halftrainedmule β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on Newtonian ethics (July 2019)
@halikaarnian β 7 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the race to colonize Mars is not in fact colonialist (04-02-18)
- responding to "the Nerd as the Norm" (05-14-18)
- The not so simple life of a blue collar worker (August 20th, 2018)
- That was an interesting and, at some points, depressing read. The linked Eliezer tweet is good to remember as well. A lot of these anecdotes illustrate one of three things: (January 14th, 2019)
- Growing up as a Sheltered Progressive Child (July 2nd, 2018)
- This is a topic that really interests me, and when I first read the article I took it as (slightly depressing) evidence that interests are probably baked in. (May 2019)
- Interesting concept, thanks for introducing me to it. I think on lower levels, a lot of this stuff is created by natural, small-scale incentives on the part of police and prosecutors, no larger conspi (October 29th, 2018)
@halloweensnarry β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@hanikrummihundursvin β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Thoughts On Disparate Racial Sentencing (May 2/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@happybelichick β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- In Quillette, a freelance journalist in Ohio published an essay covering the recent Oberlin/Gibsonβs trial. (June 24th, 2019)
@harbo β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- campus courts (July 2019)
- I'm starting to be of the belief that this game is super complicated, and I trust almost nothing that any popular outlet has to say on the topic (May 13th, 2019)
@harlequin5942 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
π£ TheMotte.org era
@haroldbkny β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@haroldlloyd888 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Uncle
BuckTrump (June 18th, 2018)
@havelsonly β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An Argument Against Dog Ownership (March 2020)
- "From the charts linked below, I can't tell when the D's and the R's are in power." (October 1/2 2020)
- Red Flags From a Parenting Study (October 2/2 2020)
- The Arbitrary Imperative, or: Kant, Eat Your Heart Out (October 2/2 2020)
@hbtz β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@hellestal β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@hellogunnit β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The general update is that the Portland Police Bureau can barely handle it's current load of daily 911 calls, and is not going to be getting involved in crowd control any time soon unless an event had gone completely off the rails." (August 2021)
- A police officer's understanding of anti-poice sentiment. (February 2021)
- An Officer's Account of Protests and the Coming Depolicing (June 1/2 2020)
- "I can say some words here about why I believe crowd control is an untenable task in Portland these days." (October 2021 1/2)
- Protests: A Police Officer's Perspective (September 2020)
@helmedhorror β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Ideological Orthodoxy Causes Flawed Survey Questions (April 2020)
- "The point isn't to purge thousands of conservatives and other wrongthinkers. The point is to enforce ideological conformity and send the message about what one can reasonably expect to happen if one pushes back or expresses a dissenting viewpoint." (February 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@helmut_hofmeister β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@helpihavecats β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- comments on the Differing Views of Transgenderism on the Left (August 13th, 2018)
- comments on the Differing Views of Transgenderism on the Left (August 13th, 2018)
@henrikolofkarlsson β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Apprenticeship Online (October 2021 1/2)
@here β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I went to the protests tonight as a legal observer because there were reports that arrests were 'imminent.'" (April 2024)
@hereandgone β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@hereandgone2 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "To get back to Tolkien, here is his explanation of where the word came from and early thoughts on The Problem of Orcs:" (December 2025)
@hevil β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On ChapoTrapHouse adn Cumtown (November 2019)
@heywaitiknowthatguy β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@hh26 β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Men's preferences are being pushed outside the overton window and not discussed or promoted as actually valuable." (July 2022)
- " Startups and the tech industry are largely playing the lottery with (hopefully) expected positive value." (July 2022)
- " My guess is that you saying those words, possibly in the tone of voice you used, made the judge interpret them as actual beliefs." (July 2022)
- "It's not the having a nonstandard gender identity that's obnoxious, it's announcing it and demanding recognition." (June 2022)
- "I would like to defend the notion of grassroots as meaningful..." (March 2022)
@hieronymus β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- " Since there is no longer any socially acceptable category for culpable seduction, everyone tries to collapse the wave function into either 'cute coming of age story' or 'rape.'" (January 2026)
- "A big change happens in the social environment when you achieve a critical mass of family, friends, and neighbors who will hold you to what you and they believe to be right." (July 2025)
- "One of the issues to first spark debate among evangelicals after our definitive split with the mainline in the early twentieth century was how to relate as evangelicals to non-evangelical communities." (November 2025)
@highlandclearances β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "But as a psychological fact, Americans are fleeing from whiteness as a sociological category." (January 2022 2/2)
- "Three months ago, my wife and I decided to leverage work from home to test-drive rural life." (June 2021 1/2)
- "This is not anti-natalism or hedonism this is something else." (October 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Things are not going well in Canada." (December 2023)
@highresolutionsleep β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...if we are lucky enough to be on pace to receive a friendly superbeing, it's something that simply cannot arrive soon enough." (August 2022)
- Explaining the Foundational Myths of Female Purity (July 1/2 2020)
@higzmage β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- peak charity (August 6th, 2018)
- Lamenting Over the Death of Abrasive Hacker Culture (September 10th, 2018)
- An Update on the Linux Drama (September 24th, 2018)
@hlynkacg β 27 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- What does it mean to be a good man? The traditionalist-conservative perspective (03-08-18)
- on unity rituals, in the context of the NFL kneeling thing. (10-07-17)
- Everyoneβs the Utilitarian Villain of Their Own Story (August 13th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Red Pill, the System, and Structural Power (August 2020)
- "The reason Afghanistan has been both a largely contiguous polity for centuries, and "the Graveyard of Empires" basically boils down to the military and political realities imposed by it's geography." (August 2021)
- "Hobbes was right and Rawls was wrong. I don't think the sort technocratic authoritaianism espoused by many users here nor the Nietzsche infused left-wing libertarianism of others would last two weeks in East Africa, never mind the state of nature." (August 2021)
- "He's like the poor Soviet worker who thinks 'if only comrade Stalin knew' while simultaneously blaming Kulaks and wreckers for every setback even as he's getting carted off to the gulag." (December 2021 2/2)
- The existence of "inalienable rights" as a point of fundamental political dispute. (January 2021)
- "...they know in thier heart of hearts that gun control has always been about disarming people so that they can not defend themselves from the mob." (January 2022 1/2)
- mental heuristics (July 2019)
- The Shadow of Humanity (June 2/2 2020)
- Hobbes, In Brief (May 2/2 2020)
- You've gotten several good responses but I'd still like to weigh in. I think it's a combination several factors. (May 27th, 2019)
- "LA Confidential as an examination of masculine virtue" (November 2021 2/2)
- The utilitarians can have their wire-heading and the nihilists their smug sense of superiority. I choose life. (October 1/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Minsky's Marvelous Minutia, (April 2023)
- why I'm bearish on GPT" (April 2023)
- "First, it's not that the motte is full of 'secret socialists' it's that the motte is overwhelmingly secular, progressive, and politically left wing." (December 2022)
- "I think the better (more accurate) distinction is between 'thing-manipulators' and 'symbol-manipulators'." (February 2023)
- "As I've tried to explain in some of your earlier 2020 election threads I feel like you are either misrepresenting or fundamentally misunderstanding the nature opposition's objections." (February 2024)
- "A long time bug-bear of mine is something I've come to refer to as the 'Leviathan-shaped Hole in the discourse'." (January 2024)
- "It's arguably a testament to strength of and prosperity the existing local order that so many people are effectively able to live their entire lives within it without ever having to interface with the ugly realities." (January 2024)
- "It is the combative elements of science that keep it honest and producing useful knowledge." (June 2023)
- "Clinton, or someone on her staff attempted to conceal the unauthorized disclosure by wiping the files, and any record of them being sent from the host side." (June 2023)
- "I've caught a lot of flak in this sub for 'no true scotsmaning' by equating the alt-right with the woke left but I can't help but notice that they seem to be coming from the same place." (March 2023)
- "As I've said before I feel like the left's dominance of academia and traditional media has effectively left a Hobbes-and-Burke-shaped hole in the discourse." (May 2023)
- "The war for the soul of the Grand old Party is over and we (the populists) have won." (September 2022)
@hmmuhh β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Issues with First Past the Post (FPTP) - Queue CGP Grey (December 2/2 2019)
@hoardingelixirs β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Executive Function (June 11th, 2018)
@hoffmeister25 β 20 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "'Dissident Right' is a somewhat nebulous term." (November 2021 2/2)
- "I wonder how much of the mainstream negative consensus about Christian rock is a result of our irony-poisoned culture, vs. how much is simply a result of the only Christian rock bands most non-practicing Christians recognize as βChristian rockβ are the ones who werenβt subtle enough." (September 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "All of this would, of course, be quite different if we lived in a culture in which it was widely understood to be extremely aberrant behavior for a woman to consume alcohol and then have sex with a man she just met, or barely knows." (April 2024)
- "In which I pine for a monastic escape from the sexual rat race" (August 2023)
- "Much of peopleβs moral reasoning about this dilemma centers on the question How much agency does each participant have in his or her choice?" (August 2023)
- "I want to register my prediction that the story of this video is far, far more complicated than what is being presented by agitprop Twitter accounts." (August 2025)
- "The entire basis of the critical-constructivist worldview at the heart of modern leftist social critique is a hyperfocus on how social attitudes and shaming have a deterministic effect on nearly every aspect of our lives." (December 2024)
- "I want to make sure that opposition to Arab immigration is based on specific, articulable, predictive claims." (December 2024)
- "So, for the average white guy, the odds of regularly encountering the kinds of black women who may interest him are quite low, and the probability of both him and her being xenophilic enough to overcome significant cultural differences and fall for each other is even lower." (December 2024)
- "A recent piece by Rod Dreher is the latest example Iβve seen on the Dissident Right of references to βTheater-Kid-run Americaβ and to the dangers of giving power to βFormer Theater Kidsβ and, well, itβs got me feeling called-out in a very uncomfortable way." (February 2023)
- "So, Iβm going to offer a tepid defense of the sensitivity readers, by drawing a comparison to whatβs on offer as an alternative." (February 2023)
- "This is essentially what I believe that youβre doing with the term 'racism'. Let the term go." (January 2024)
- "For those of us who are actually committed to opposing the ends of progressivism β rather than just whatever means Fox News and Right-Wing Twitter are able to meme into the news cycle this week β I agree that itβs important not to get distracted by chopping at the branches instead of the roots." (January 2025)
- "Tolkienβs Middle Earth stories are intended as an ersatz mythos for the historical peoples of the British Isles; the various peoples and factions of the world are rough stand-ins or symbolic idealizations of the various ethnic groups and their myths which have coalesced into the modern (white) peoples of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland." (July 2025)
- "The split between the hard right and hard left are between competing models of which deterministic factors to emphasize." (March 2025)
- "I joined Bluesky yesterday out of curiosity." (November 2024)
- "Iβm going to give you my best attempt to describe what an actual 'woke' (fair warning, Iβm going to continue to put this word in scare quotes, because I believe that itβs intentionally under-defined and contains several motte-and-bailey imprecisions which are designed to be exploited) person thinks about when pondering the kinds of issues youβre asking about." (October 2022)
- "I would contrast these instances of cross-dressing with drag." (October 2022)
- "Iβm surprised that at no point does the author mention the man whose ghost looms large over so much of modern literacy education: Paolo Freire." (September 2022)
- "The vast majority of liberals and progressives have set up precisely this type of political asshole filter." (September 2022)
@honeypuppy β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Iβve been thinking about Godwinβs Law/Nazi analogies. (January 7th, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How much disagreement do you think occurs due to people being primarily exposed to opposing views in the form of straw men/weak men/extremists/vocal minorities? (This SMBC comic covers the problem suc (April 22nd, 2019)
- What Makes a "Weak Man" Argument? (August 2020)
- Steelmanning cancel culture in the face of failing to fine-tune norms. (May 2021 2/2)
@honoriawinchester β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I agree, a really interesting glimpse of the decline of Rome. (January 7th, 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@hooser β 5 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If you are working in academia, having a reasonable amount of fluency in the current etiquette of the Professional-Managerial Class is a requirement of the job. Knowing when to not get carried away with the rhetoric is also part of the job." (February 2023)
- "'What, exactly, makes something a "universal human right"?', I asked." (February 2025)
- "Let's have some straight talk about the unspoken expectations of PhD and beyond." (January 2025)
- "I like to categorize the patterns of discourse as 'n-dimentional social chess'." (November 2022)
- "But you know where you really can make a political impact, is showing up to the open sessions of your local school-board, your town-hall meetings, your county supervisors meetings, having read up on the agenda in advance and then taking that opportunity to give your 3-minute speech." (September 2024)
@housefromtn β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On Super Smash Bros Melee terminology, with applications to Jordan Peterson (02-01-18)
- "There's a large segment of the rationality community that only cares about rationality in so far as it will let them cosplay as some sort of elon musk Descartes hybrid." (10-14-17)
- exactly why people make those creepy YouTube videos for toddlers. (11-14-17)
- in defense of obscurantism (11-14-17)
- Chess Puzzles and Matchmaking (June 18th, 2018)
@hoverburger β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- People here are good at ta(l)king things apart. Let's disengage lurk mode and see if I'm confused or if there's something missing or broken at the core of gender discourse. (April 1st, 2019)
- "To keep the concept of gender from collapsing into literal meaninglessness, some "gatekeeping" is required. That's what categories ARE." (March 2022)
- How US Civil War II Could Happen (May 2/2 2020)
- "Widespread speech control is very very bad, and it is worth (almost) any consequence to make sure we avoid it." (May 2022)
- "Must we burn this book? No. The answer is always no." (September 2021 1/2)
@huadpe β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I can't speak to the medication side of things, but I know a little about OCD and the treatment of it." (February 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Transportation and housing are incredibly tightly linked in my view, since the point of living somewhere is to get to the locations you want to." (January 2023)
- "The ironic outcome of this is that for advocates of increased densification (May 2023)
- end up trying to make a fundamentally capitalist argument (less regulation will make us richer) on terms of anything but capitalism." (May 2023)
@humandrinkingtea β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Humility of Scott Alexander (June 2/2 2020)
@huskycriminologist β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Because if the sanctions aren't going to actually hurt the Russian economy that much, then who are they going to hurt? That's not hard to figure out, the answer is American gun owners." (August 2021)
- Putting a bunch of former (?) radicals on a list to see how they fare (December 2020)
- A History of Gun Control in the United States (February 2020)
@hustlegrinder β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Free market capitalism and identity" (September 2022)
@hydroacetylene β 11 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "An Attempt at Bringing Back the User Viewpoint Focus Series" (April 2025)
- "I think at the level of running a society there is no difference between stupid and evil and the right doesn't quite get why the left doesn't get that." (August 2023)
- "To the surprise of no one, sanctuary cities don't actually want hundreds of thousands of poor foreigners wandering about in their backyards." (August 2023)
- "Because thatβs not what marriage was until yesterday." (December 2023)
- "Elon is a True Believer, and that's why he Backs Trump" (December 2024)
- "Traditional Catholics who actually matter simply do not think in terms of years or decades and so the current pope is viewed as a temporary and ineffectual roadblock." (December 2024)
- "What Happened to Society's Life Script" (March 2024)
- "How does your society remove guilt? I suspect for many, the answer is 'it doesn't'." (March 2025)
- "Texas politics update: Articles of impeachment are being floated against attorney general Ken Paxton, the most important culture war figure you don't think of very often." (May 2023)
- "Is the decline in teen mental health mostly about parenting?" (November 2023)
- "E-mail senders are probably doing a less-highly skilled job on the whole than bricklayers, but they are doing a job which absolutely requires skills that most bricklayers do not have." (October 2022)
@hypersoar β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On Indicting a President (November 2019)
@hyphenomicon β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Like video games, historical re-creations create liminal environments where spectators can interact with actors taking up specific roles. And within those spaces, people of color often suffer unt (January 14th, 2019)
- RE: Everybody ITT: (January 28th, 2019)
- asking the women of /r/slatestarcodex what their motivations were for wearing makeup (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- You say "generally, communicate first, act second". I say "generally, act first, communicate if necessary afterwards". That's more efficient. (April 1st, 2019)
- the Trump situation (June 24th, 2019)
@i_dream_of_outremer β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Ignore your eyes that see a man's face and ignore your ears that hear a male voice because the United States' government has declared them female." (October 2021 2/2)
@iconochasm β 24 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, redux. (02-08-18)
- Schooling and Goodhart's Law (04-30-18)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Thinking "there's a value to rituals for their own sake" (December 2020)
- masquline vs femine expectations (July 2019)
- what it means to be American (July 2019)
- mental heuristics (July 2019)
- "A transwoman is a male human that has engaged in some level of self-alteration and social mimicry to appear as a human female." (July 2022)
- "I doubt you're being hypocritical here, but there's a difficulty in a tribe complaining about an effective overextension of a word when they're doing the same thing with literally the same word." (June 2022)
- Why? (June 24th, 2019)
- When Obama and a Debate Moderator Incorrected Romney (March 2020)
- "To the strong proponents of strong lockdowns (and in particular, any teachers who don't want to do their jobs) out there: cast aside any pretentions that you would be one of those who choose to walk away from Omelas." (March 2021)
- "A floog is someone who identified as a floog. I identify as a floog. What do you know about me now?" (March 2022)
- Leading Intelligent Horses Via Careful Masonry (May 1/2 2020)
- DC on:Marvel on: on: Red Tribe:Blue Tribe (November 2019)
- "On a naive, inflation-fudging level, I don't care how extra cameras on the iPhone 15 are counted in as cost reductive improvements when ground beef has gone from $5.09 to $6.99 per pound at my local small market." (November 2021 2/2)
- "At the kinds of scales we're already at, centralized processing/planning/thinking just doesn't cut it for practical, physical limitation reasons. How bad will it get when we're spreading among the stars?" (October 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "On this Winter Solstice, let's take a few minutes to consider the merits of Norse Paganism." (December 2022)
- "What I really want is for the cultural friction to go down. I want fewer people I struggle to communicate with." (July 2025)
- "They actually do not have a mental construct for 'woman' that is a distinct referent class from a mental construct labeled 'man'." (June 2025)
- "Violence is always an option. And as an option, it often sucks, even when you win." (November 2022)
- "According to an anonymously leaked preliminary memo the US military will be cutting ties with Scouting America (formerly the Boy Scouts of America)." (November 2025)
- "Maybe we're not being 'manipulated to hate'. Maybe we're being reminded to have some basic fucking standards." (October 2025)
- "Bro failed out of college, had an identity crisis, latched onto extremist politics to cope, went full hicklib, and then suffered a tragic outbreak of agency." (September 2025)
- "I recently had an experience with a regular at work that left me in a bit of a dilemma." (September 2025)
@ididnoteatyourcat β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@igi-111 β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The problem with just doing what you want, is that you, like all other humans before you, are fucking stupid and will fuck this up." (August 2023)
- "GPT scares me not because I think it's going to replace me and my engineer buddies, but because it's able to generate extremely convincing bullshit on a mass scale." (December 2022)
- "I believe that this formula of rule by scientific experts is slowly coming to an end, crushed under the weight of its own contradictions." (July 2023)
- "Chaos in French Politics" (June 2024)
- "Some day, this 2016 election is going to end." (June 2025)
- "Well what were the sexual revolution's own terms?" (November 2023)
- "Foucault and Derrida were popular in their circles but ultimately benign until Americans took them seriously." (November 2024)
@igi111 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I'm squarely in the "privacy is a natural right" camp. But anonymity by itself has unappreciated virtues. (April 1st, 2019)
- 4chan is a Pirate Ship (May 1/2 2020)
@igorsquatslav β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@ihavegreypoupon β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Disciplinary hearings for Lawyers (05-21-18)
@ihcoyc β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@ilforte β 79 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Biases in Rationalism (July 2nd, 2018)
- I was quite astonished by the vitriol of the leftist pieces against Peterson, they're much worse than I would have expected. So the question of why is important (though I wouldn't use a loaded word su (October 22nd, 2018)
- Incidentally I was just discussing Scott's early writing with a friend and we agreed that he was (and sometimes still is) surprisingly naive: he tries to reason from first principles not realising how (October 2019)
- This made me think that the discussion is horribly skewed by billionaires being visible. Are the owners of factory farms mere multimillionaires without so much as a personal Wikipedia page? Are they (Summer 2019)
- I'm sure I'm reinventing the wheel here, but the distaste I agree many rationalists feel towards mainstream philosophy is not merely due to inaccessibility. It's more visceral. (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Your Adversaries Are Not Paid Shills (April 2020)
- "As for Turkheimer, he wears his heart on his sleeve, at this point: HBD is wrong because Holocaust. That's it. No, really." (April 2021)
- "Arguments really are soldiers. You don't have to be mindkilled about politics: it's enough to presume that your enemies are mounting an attack, because this actually happens all the time." (April 2021)
- Why Jews should stop carrying water for the Democrats. (April 2021)
- "...the feminist paradigm, at least its mainstream modern version, does not recognize male problems in a way that allows for male solutions." (April 2022)
- "Midwits are the junior officer corps of humanity." (April 2022)
- Examining Ethnic Hatred (August 2020)
- Defending Utopian Speech-Restricting Overlords (August 2020)
- Chan Culture's Cancellation Mobs (August 2020)
- Don't Underestimate the Selflessness Pill (August 2020)
- "Modern WEIRDoes, people who've built the most successful and low-friction societies, are products of heavy-handed social engineering by Church and State, engineering that they're oblivious to." (August 2021)
- "To stay engaged there for twenty years, with no actual workable plan and no regional ally, propping up a dead weight of a fake state in futile hope it will come alive at some point, looks bleak but screams excessive capability, unreasonable competence of a great many operators and bureaucrats, great commitment to the cause." (August 2021)
- "What, then, should we make of differing attitudes towards relics?" (August 2021)
- How China combines totalitarianism and social media to combat COVID-19. (August 2021)
- "Darya Dugina, the daughter of the philosopher and Culture Warrior Alexander Dugin whom I've been sporadically translating here over these years, was killed some hours ago." (August 2022)
- On Nazi Whisperers and Closed Memetic Surfaces (December 1/2 2019)
- Translating Dostoevsky on the importance of an Asian Russia (December 2020)
- The plasticity of preference in the face of social pressure (December 2020)
- Objecting to Noah Smith's theorizing on technology and statecraft (December 2020)
- " On the contrary, he tells everyone watching that even effortful and purportedly well thought-out defense of child abuse . . . one that passes TheMotteβs moderation standard, is not persuasive." (December 2021 1/2)
- kicked off the discussion (December 2021 2/2)
- "Feynman was a creation of pre-Holocaust world, as was von Neumann, and as, obviously, were von Mises, Rathenau, Popper, Wittgenstein. Towering, intense and yet dignified and magnanimous intellects." (December 2021 2/2)
- Visiting Alexandr Dugins Lecture (Extremely Late 2019)
- The modern Chinese mindset (Extremely Late 2019)
- The Joker (Extremely Late 2019)
- The modern citation system not optimizing for truth--otherwise we'd know whether East Asians stink less than other peoples do. (February 2021)
- "The task of the sanatorium civilization is to divert young people and lead them without major unrest into the calm waters that lie somewhere beyond the thirties." (February 2022)
- "But not only is Putin guilty for his own unforced role in this spectacle, for the war, and for his pitiful, sociopathic conduct that further dehumanizes us to the whole world: he's also guilty for burying Western crimes under the uncontroversial pile of Ukrainian bodies." (February 2022)
- "In what was and still is a complete shock to me, alarmists who warned for years of Russia's threat were vindicated, and their opponents humbled." (February 2022)
- "It is my belief that we non-Hajnal types have to stick together in a world built by hyperactive, incredibly weird, increasingly omniscient moral busybodies from within the Hajnal line; although the company of Epstein in particular would have discomfited me a bit." (January 2022 2/2)
- Blatnaya Pesnya (July 1/2 2020)
- Contrasting the Acknowledged Insanity of Katya with the Unacknowledged Insanity of the Western Media (July 1/2 2020)
- Why Debates Are Not Duels (July 2/2 2020)
- A Moment of Scorn Towards Anglo Culture (July 2/2 2020)
- Defying the Data on Trans Athletes (July 2/2 2020)
- "It is very relevant for evaluating a given group's trustworthiness what their mission and affiliation is, and what it would encourage on a given topic." (July 2021 1/2)
- "Personally I loved America most in the year of our Lord 1998, when my peers were huffing glue in collapsed apartment buildings in Sverdlovsk Oblast, as feckless coke-addled expats from Chicago school were fucking their sisters on tables in Moscow clubs. If US Army soldiers had occupied us back then, I'd have probably approved." (July 2021 2/2)
- "In this light, let me remind you of an old idea of mine. We will scroll through the twentieth century, 20 years at a time." (July 2022)
- "I've evaluated this as a swan song of Chinese industry." (July 2022)
- A Conscientious Autistic Zoomer Discovers Progressivism (June 1/2 2020)
- NRx Optimism Towards China is Misdirected (June 1/2 2020)
- When Did Collective Achievement Fail in the USA? (June 1/2 2020)
- Atomisation Strengthens Outrage Mobs (June 2/2 2020)
- Why there aren't more future-positive sci-fi properties in production. (June 2021 1/2)
- "I'm convinced that covering up Tiananmen is possibly the biggest error of CPC propaganda, another ugly consequence of their beliefs about the administration of Β«harmonious societyΒ» (and, I suppose, lack of reality-based feedback, the yes-man culture in the Party apparatus)." (June 2021 1/2)
- "As for me, I believe that 1984 was not a grim prophesy at all, but instead a caricature of the seamy side of life in Anglo civilization as of the late 1940's already." (June 2021 2/2)
- "If Eastern despotism has any redeeming qualities in my eyes, the will to life extension ranks first..." (June 2022)
- "Are abortions too frivolous? Are most human acts?" (June 2022)
- Based. (March 2020)
- "For now, consider that we're watching three movies on one screen. Obviously more, but still." (March 2022)
- "Let me tell you a little about Melitopol." (March 2022)
- In Praise of Cryonics and Immortalism (May 1/2 2020)
- Provocation from the Weimar elites (May 2/2 2020)
- Suppressing Riots is Difficult Politically, Not Practically (May 2/2 2020)
- "The grand narrative of terrible Tsarist Anti-Semitism bordering on genocidal intention has been produced on the basis of a forged letter." (May 2021 1/2)
- "If you can keep and selectively share secrets, in time you can gain any other right you need. And if you can't, then those who can will take away anything they want from you, piece by tiny piece." (May 2021 2/2)
- "The booming voice of North American continent drowns out the voices of other peoples, flattens all their cultures, rends the Earth asunder and strings the white-hot debris into a Twitter feed of a 19yo girl from San Diego(Biracial, posadist, werefox, BPD vixen, #DeathToLandlords. {Three fist emojis} {more emojis} Pansexual. {cashapp}. she/they.). Regrettably you can't unfollow." (May 2021 2/2)
- "There are two ongoing AI races: China vs. the US-led West, and governing bodies vs. their citizens." (May 2021 2/2)
- The Tian Mingjian Incident (May 2021 2/2)
- "Russian accelerationist trolls, yeah. This eternal roadblock towards American unity. Fine, let it even be so, I'm not in any position to demand good faith." (May 2021 2/2)
- "A note on Great Replacement, other Β«theoriesΒ» and the notion of conspiracy." (May 2022)
- "In short: western black-and-white portrait of the invasion is justified by the fact that Russia is in the wrong by every single standard of morals, including Russian ones." (May 2022)
- ff29180d got his thread on Kevin Mitchell's Genetics, IQ, and βraceβ β are genetic differences in intelligence between populations likely? locked up, but since ZorbaTHut "definitely encourages r (May 20th, 2019)
- Uncoordinated Conspiracy (November 2019)
- On the Film "The Joker" (November 2019)
- How to Compete With America, the Unsinkable Ship (November 2020)
- Outlining a Battleground: Trisomy-21 and Abortion (November 2020)
- "America is not actually a third world country." (November 2021 1/2)
- "Vassal states cannot selfishly change course in geopolitics." (November 2021 1/2)
- "But can Chinese censorship of news disgracing politicians be salvaged as a practice contributing to national prosperity?" (November 2021 2/2)
- IQ denial is a luxury belief (October 1/2 2020)
- A Steelman of Insane Rambling (October 2/2 2020)
- "In the end, realpolitik says that the Brits ought be more appalled by blunt language in the NYT and not profiting off a third partyβs crimes, and that the Americans might occasionally find it sensible to poke at this circumstance." (October 2021 1/2)
- Your irregularly scheduled r/TheMotte speaking-in-tongues session (September 2020)
@im_not_jb β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Playing Devil's Advocate on the Trump Charges (August 20th, 2018)
- a pair of letters (Memorial Day 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How Private Property Enhanced a Socialist Game (April 2020)
- Trump insists that tariffs force China to pay money to the US Treasury β which just isnβt true. When a tariff is placed on a Chinese good, it is the company importing that product or a consumer b (May 13th, 2019)
- One of the interesting nuggets in Blackwill's book (written in 2015) is that they knew China had been abusing WTO provisions, and this led them to wonder about things like whether China would use the (May 13th, 2019)
@immortal_lurker β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Statistical Analysis of False Convictions (February 2020)
@impassionata β 12 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On why they won't work for Google. (01-15-18)
- On art and politics in video games (02-08-18)
- are mass shooters really mentally ill? (04-02-18)
- the Democratic Party's strategy in the age of Trump (04-23-18)
- On political discussion (09-30-17)
- On moderation and SSC subreddit culture (09-30-17)
- follow-up reply (11-06-17)
- On corporate wokeness. (12-10-17)
- Was there coordination? (August 13th, 2018)
- Objective Truth or Norm Creation (June 11th, 2018)
- inter-generational contextual loss (Memorial Day 2018)
- Not Viewing Every Disagreement as Part of World War Culture (September 10th, 2018)
@imperfcomp β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Economics and marginal costs (June 18th, 2018)
@impossible_campaign β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Executive Overreach, Norms, and American Collapse (August 2020)
- "Vaccine 'denialism' is instead, essentially, scientific Protestantism pitched against big-science Catholicism." (December 2021 1/2)
@incanto β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "War brides and loot goblins: The Iliad" (October 2023)
@incognitomaorach β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@independantthut β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "So I just watched The Last Duel, and I have some unorganized thoughts (November 2021 1/2)
- I figure it'd be worth writing down here in this thread." (November 2021 1/2)
@infomaton β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Isaiah Berlin's "foxes" and "hedgehogs" (04-23-18)
@infoteddy β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Everyone seems to agree that it would be a very bad thing if a trans-Napoleon today gained control over the countries that used to make up the former French Empire, or if Norton was given the head of Rutherford B. Hayes, so they just... dismiss those and say it could never happen." (July 2023)
- "Every single instance of trans policy producing bad outcomes is ignored, dismissed, or discredited under the fear that this legitimizes opposition to trans people and will threaten their lives." (March 2023)
- "So sure, maybe they don't secretly want to ban cars everywhere. But the messages they send are pretty mixed; it's no wonder people think they harbor a secret desire to see cars eradicated, or just dislike them in general." (March 2023)
@inh5 β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- gender parity among executives: Scandinavia vs. UAE (04-23-18)
- Incels, sex, and sociability. (05-07-18)
- response (05-21-18)
- the unreliability of self-reported sexuality data (11-06-17)
- The Decline of Network Television (August 6th, 2018)
- Female Labor Force Participation and the Island Nation of Brunei (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- There's been quite a bit of discussion over the past week or so about the history of women in computing in the United States. One thing that I feel has been sorely missing from this discussion is actu (February 18th, 2019)
- Deplatforming in the Wake of 9/11 (July 1/2 2020)
- About a week ago, the Women in Tech discussion came up again, and several commenters referenced the idea that increased gender equality and economic development causes women to be less likely to enrol (March 25th, 2019)
- The Extending of our Pop Culture Memories (November 2019)
- Cancel Culture Is not New (September 2020)
@inspectorpraline β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A primer on UFOs. (June 2021 1/2)
@intarnationallyknown β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- presentation and attraction (04-30-18)
@intboom β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@interversity β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On flirting (11-14-17)
- An analysis of the Cause of Obesity of Americaβs Poor (August 13th, 2018)
- Street Trees (August 13th, 2018)
- You should (Probably) Lift Weights (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Examples of High Quality Journalism (July 2/2 2020)
- Comparing Responses to Kavanaugh and Biden Scandals (May 1/2 2020)
@iprayiam β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Sex Discrimination and the Civil Right's Act (June 2/2 2020)
@iprayiam2 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Examining Bigotry and Kindness (November 2020)
- Diversity of Opinion Means More Than Two Sides (October 2/2 2020)
@iprayiam3 β 31 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "From my (devoutly Catholic) perspective, further eradication of sex is worse, not better." (August 2021)
- "Folks are mad that the incentives are messed up, and that the overton window is being determined by Christianity's increasingly puritanical successor religion, instead of by democratic means." (August 2021)
- "I suggest that trying to teach your kids that cussing is fine is foolhardy." (August 2021)
- Being confused about university students being subjected to ideological purity tests (December 2020)
- The ad hoccery of practical moral reasoning (December 2020)
- "Take this hasty table with a grain of salt, a booster shot and a fully American connotation." (December 2021 1/2)
- "Even if we can't prove gay marriage is part of the undermining of traditional institutions, it has never been observed in a situation where those insitituions weren't at least being undermined by the entire rest of the sexual social norms." (December 2021 1/2)
- followup (December 2021 1/2)
- "I am walking away from the Omelas because I can't accept that for this place to be an oasis of intelligent debate, it has to unbiasedly platform earnest advocacy for child abuse." (December 2021 1/2)
- "Priors are nonsense as anything more than a metaphor." (December 2021 1/2)
- Liberals of the gaps. (February 2021)
- The self-defeating greediness of linguistic "inclusivity" as a social practice. (February 2021)
- "Can you explain how its wrong without saying: it's wrong because it's like other things that are wrong?" (July 2021 1/2)
- "Let's instead point and laugh at that time the Catholic Church suppressed SCIENCE! and avoid any obvious lessons about letting the ruling elite have such a dogmatic control over the conversation that they feel comfortable censoring any unorthodoxy from political discourse..." (July 2021 1/2)
- Epistemology. (July 2021 2/2)
- The cultural price of social contagion. (July 2021 2/2)
- The motte and bailey of "schools aren't really teaching CRT." (June 2021 2/2)
- "I am not suggesting reverse institutional capture, but simply not bowing out to the reigns of institutional capture and then framing it as some sort of move against it." (June 2021 2/2)
- "Galileo is a common example because of how unique and high profile his situation was. The church was actually responsible for a tremendous amount of fruitful progress in the sciences and humanities." (June 2021 2/2)
- "Just imagine if facebook had started using 'radicalizing content warnings' to folks who have been exposed to trans ideological content..." (June 2021 2/2)
- "You can either allow currently protected institutions to teach and discriminate on any values you want, religious or otherwise, forbid them from favoring any values whatsoever, or re-establish a dominant value system that has prima-facia cultural monopoly." (March 2021)
- "The way a child cries out for their mother, the way a mother knows their childβs cry, this is not fungible." (May 2021 1/2)
- The "further you go with capitulating because this isn't worth putting your foot down over, the deeper shit you end up in." (May 2021 2/2)
- "When you do political or ideological 'comedy', there's three main angles you can come from in descending order of difficulty." (November 2021 1/2)
- "I don't think the trials are actually as similar as the coincidence of timelines and cultural background make them seem. And regardless of what you think of each, Rittenhouse's case is punished for the comparison." (November 2021 2/2)
- "TLDR; count me mightily skeptical that artificial womb technology would do anything to de-complexify the morality, industry, and politics of abortion." (November 2021 2/2)
- "The tribe thing was invented by a guy who has admittedly almost never actually met any redtribers..." (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "But the crux in epistemic, ideological, and political debates, is that the "we all know" is far less founded than in empirical examinations. When the examiner sets the frame, he controls the debate." (August 2023)
- "The detente cannot exist any more or be returned to because the necessary tension between liberalism and shared cultural restraint snapped and the institutions of the latter fell over." (August 2023)
- "I recently listened to the Tucker and Piers interview, and specifically want to talk about the part on population replacement." (December 2025)
- "'It's simple,' says Primaprimaprima as he opens a beer and hands to JV. 'Just start your own neighborhood.'" (June 2023)
@iron-and-rust β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Functions of Humor (February 2020)
- "What does 'western culture' mean? Almost nobody's able to give you an answer to it at all, even though it's actually incredibly important. So people end up saying inane things like that there actually is no such thing as western culture. And then you don't realize when it's going away." (June 2021 1/2)
- The Desire to Be Forced Away From Your Own Hedonistic Urges (March 2020)
- Anti-Anti-Suffering (March 2020)
- "15 years ago, everywhere on the internet was like this sub, which now is gone the second someone puts a bright enough spotlight on it." (March 2022)
- The Unintuitive Draw of Unfaithful Partners (May 2/2 2020)
- "If the alternatives are to come to terms with your conditions or die, then, well... all you're gonna have left is the people who came to terms with it." (May 2021 2/2)
@is_not_strained β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Philosophy: The Decline of an Academic Tradition (August 2020)
- Political hypocrisy over dubious claims of election rigging. (January 2021)
- On Straining to Build Things (June 2/2 2020)
- Armchair Economics on Immigration (October 2/2 2020)
- Economic Benefits of Immigration: A Skeptical Look (September 2020)
- Contra Judith Jarvis Thomson on Abortion (September 2020)
@isionous β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On using Google Scholar as a layperson. (01-15-18)
@j_says β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Political tribes around the world (June 18th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Tolerance is "making sure that even when things aren't exactly what we want, they don't bring the whole system down." (January 2021)
@j9461701 β 50 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The economic interplay between technology and resource extraction, in particular with regards to iron mining (02-01-18)
- Contra everyone on universal culture (02-01-18)
- restraint in slapstick (05-21-18)
- Russian cannon fodder, and why discussion of certain topics is βsilencedβ (05-21-18)
- a defense of progressive modernity, in contrast to traditional cultures in general and Arab Muslimhood in particular. (10-07-17)
- discusses the genesis of the Red Army, defends elitism (10-14-17)
- land powers, sea powers in antiquity (11-14-17)
- 2nd Order Customs (August 27th, 2018)
- Pause for a moment and consider this question: If the Sun really did orbit around the Earth, what would it look like to people on Earth? (December 10th, 2018)
- By the author's own admission, things were bright and prosperous ("Norman Rockwell-esque") until the de-industrialization of America. Only then do things start going down hill. So to argue hillbilly (December 31st, 2018)
- Forgive me if I talk your ear off. (December 31st, 2018)
- WW1 (July 16th, 2018)
- Quadrivium vs Trivium, The First Culture War? (July 30th, 2018)
- Against Secession (July 9th, 2018)
- -4 Strength Meme in the D&D (June 11th, 2018)
- John Galt (June 18th, 2018)
- Far Cry 5 (June 4th, 2018)
- The End of Things (June 4th, 2018)
- I watched season 1 and some of season 2 of True Blood this week, and it reminded me of a trope I first noticed with X-men that I call "Minority metaphor backfire". This is when you try to have your me (November 12th, 2018)
- This post reminded me that HP Lovecraft and Yudkowsky are weirdly similar people. Both were socialized by mountains of literature written from decades earlier, which left them somewhat anachronistic i (November 12th, 2018)
- Response to cincilator (October 1st, 2018)
- It doesn't really matter what Eliezer intended or advocates at this point. He had a good idea, and other people modified it and played with it and ran with it. That it ended up as the exact opposite (October 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- My problem with the MCU is that it's just dumb. It's dumb characters doing dumb things for dumb reasons. The first Avengers, as an example: aliens are invading, and only 5 super heroes can stand again (April 22nd, 2019)
- I'm going somewhere with this, so please suffer through my link barrage: (April 8th, 2019)
- I intended this as a reply to grey enlightenment but it grew so long I felt like it was better to post it separately. Anyway: (April 8th, 2019)
- Apologia for the Ruinous Powers - Even Space Marines Need Artillery (December 1/2 2019)
- Contra The Erosion of US Military Supremacy: The Accumalation of Weaponry (December 2/2 2019)
- On Artillery (December 2/2 2019)
- The Three Utopias of Mass Effect (Extremely Late 2019)
- I enjoy the Sequences and LW in general, but I've never considered myself a capital-R rationalist. This is partly because the movement went in some odd directions between my first encounter with Y (February 11th, 2019)
- Modern Arts Detachment from Reality (February 2020)
- There is a book called "War against war" by Ernst Friedrich featuring graphic images from WW1 that is relevant here. I had a real debate with myself over whether or not to post a direct link, but I de (February 25th, 2019)
- Manic Pixie Mary Sue Inflation (January 2020)
- The Decline of the Seven Liberal Arts (January 2020)
- Diving Into The Wire (July 2/2 2020)
- Exchange with naraburns (July 2019)
- post about Netflix's remake of Charmed (July 2019)
- posts about military pay-scales (July 2019)
- The end goal of the trans agenda is to convert all men into catgirl programmers, and all women into buff He-man lookalikes. We took over from the gay agenda in 2008 when they finally completed their l (June 24th, 2019)
- On 25 May 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency, and sentenced to 2 years' hard labor. The judge at his trial said the maximum penalty for this charge was "totally inadequate", but the sta (June 24th, 2019)
- Submarines. They're technologically advanced ocean going vessels, they're capable of eliminating the urban centers of any industrial nation on Earth in one salvo, and they look like giant black vibrat (March 4th, 2019)
- Seven Days on Modafinil (May 1/2 2020)
- You know I spend so much time in anti-cop subreddits now-a-days I forget not everyone shares the ACAB wavelength. And I don't suppose the "BLACK LIVES MATTER" stuff is really going to go over well wit (May 20th, 2019)
- I admit I used to be a massive Muskite. I believed SpaceX would enable commercial space travel, Tesla would usher in an area of electric cars, the hyperloop would enable rapid transit faster than a je (May 20th, 2019)
- Ever since gwern posted his article on IQ and military effectiveness I've been keeping my ears up for clear-cut illustrations of this playing out in real life. And I think I've found it with..." (May 27th, 2019)
- Headline: feminist speaker Julie Bindel 'attacked by transgender person' at Edinburgh University after talk (May 27th, 2019)
- We would not be satisfied with a life of digging up holes and filling them back in. (May 27th, 2019)
- Arguement against: (May 6th, 2019)
- Terminator on: OK Boomer (November 2019)
- The Current State of Anti-ICBM Technology (November 2019)
@jabberwockxeno β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@jacksonharrisson β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- three meanings for "neoliberalism" (04-23-18)
- A Different Article on the Same Retracted Paper (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "If to do denazification and kill a few ultranationalists you destroy whole cities, it probably is not worth it." (March 2022)
- "Just like affirmative action does not have expiration date and said discrimination has increased, we could end up in a situation where rest of the world subsidises Chinese, Indians and africans in perpetuity and it is an exploitative racist danegeld." (November 2021 2/2)
@jacobin93 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Hate AAA Games-As-A-Service? Follow Indie Gaming Instead (October 1/2 2020)
@jacobindeeznutz β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@jacsonharrison β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- response (June 4th, 2018)
@jake β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "John Green is a good point of discussion in philanthropy apropos USAID." (February 2025)
- "Other commenters here have already observed how 'fascism' and 'fascist' have become meaningless pejoratives, and that's what's funny: fascism has always been a meaningless pejorative." (January 2025)
- "Love is helping those who cannot possibly realize their desired appearance to learn to live with and love themselves, at least until the tech is there." (June 2023)
- "Every society everywhere on Earth for all history up to the 20th century exerted sufficient intrasocietal controls on male avarice and female caprice or else it collapsed." (June 2025)
- "Then very, very suddenly, for the first time in the history of our species, most women became the ones who chose." (May 2025)
- "It is maximally charitable and good faith to consider celebrating the death of a man who simply talked to college students as the behavior of a child." (September 2025)
@japanthrowaway13467 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A response (July 2019)
@jarjarjedi β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on samizdat and security through obscurity (July 2019)
- Low-Level Fears of an Accurate Conspiracy (May 1/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Most people denouncing 'absolutism' do it with the same goal as the infamous Holmes' 'fire in the theater' quote - to justify infringement of freedoms going far, far beyond the corner case example they are using to demonstrate the un-viability of absolutism." (December 2022)
- "If it were about the dude in a dress and his particular emotions, it'd be so nice little summer problem." (November 2024)
- "When I was in Soviet school (long time ago), I had to memorize a ton of poems about how an individual is nothing and the collective is everything. And it's the opponents of MAGA that had been consistently trying to suppress individualism and unapproved viewpoints for decades now." (October 2025)
@jay520 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I've done a decent amount of research for a blog post on affirmative action at elite universities in the United States." (November 2021 2/2)
- "Many black-white disparities in important life outcomes are mostly or entirely eliminated after controlling for youth standardized test scores." (October 2021 2/2)
@jdoe1029384756 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@jeebusjones β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@jerdenizen β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Book Review - Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson (June 2021 2/2)
@jeroboam β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Yeah, it's clear that the thumb has been on the scale to benefit the producers of fake meat-like products." (August 2023)
- "In 1913, the federal budget was only about 2-3% of GDP. It was funded almost entirely by tariffs. Today, the federal budget is about 25% of GDP, funded mostly by taxes of individuals." (February 2025)
- "As a society, we are not guaranteed to decline and fall. We can fix it." (February 2025)
- "Trudeau's political obituary will be written with one word: immigration." (January 2025)
- "So, one one hand, the government is funding ICE to deport illegal aliens. On the other hand it's funding thousands of NGOs to encourage illegal immigration." (January 2025)
- "South Africa : The Ultimate Red Pill" (March 2025)
- "It's pretty amazing how today's Antifa members have nearly the exact same ideology as a Harvard professor or WaPo journalist." (May 2024)
@jesuischarlie β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "What can a 24 year-old spin-off of a 60 year-old TV series teach us today's Culture War?" (February 2026)
- "It is that sense of one's real heart-allegiance that I feel is sorely missing from much of the modern immigration debate." (January 2026)
- "This took me aback. Someone who I quite liked, for whom I had a lot of respect seemed to be making a fully general argument against having any legal code at all." (October 2025)
@jhanicmanifold β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How to experience gratitude on a walk through Walmart. (February 2021)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@jimm β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@jiro_t β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I think this analysis mixes up two different aspects of libraries. (May 27th, 2019)
@jjeder β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@jjmcloy β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@jmdlh123 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Universal Human Rights and National Self-Determination (June 18th, 2018)
- Vitalik Buterin on privacy as an escape from signaling (Memorial Day 2018)
@jmrphy β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@joeofhouseaverage β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Warning: this post contains the somewhat unfocused ramblings of a melancholic Pole." (February 2022)
@john_doe_fletcher β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "tl;dr simple RES ripoff for The Motte" (July 2024)
@johnburidan β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π’ r/TheMotte era
- DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise? (July 1/2 2020)
@johnfabian β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Book Review: The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution" (April 2023)
- "A classic tactic of deniers (and conspiracy theorists in general) is to insert a wedge into the mind of a layman, and then try to lever it." (December 2022)
- "I was talking to a friend yesterday about a book I had just read, How the Railways Will Fix the Future." (March 2025)
- "Short attempt to explain an upcoming Canadian constitutional snafu" (May 2024)
- "If the idea is that we have to shift our transportation off fossil fuels (and we do), and that a good chunk of the transition to electric transport means new transit (and it does), then we have to get much better at getting bang for our buck, because right now it is downright pathetic." (November 2022)
- " First thing to note: what you are describing as 'colonialism' is, very roughly speaking, three very different types of colonialism." (October 2022)
@joshsteich β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Problems with the Sub (Extremely Late 2019)
@jtarrou β 36 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- what motivates the alt-right. (01-04-18)
- quick retrospectives on personal finance (04-02-18)
- "There was a discussion earlier about whether anyone here on the board actually identified as red tribe, or knew anyone intelligent who would qualify, and a lot of debate about the limitations and validity of that red/blue divide. I was under the banhammer at the time, and didn't want to necro the older thread, so here goes." (12-10-17)
- I think you'll find that the key here is probably less religious/philosophical and more rooted in the arcane bylaws of the US military. The military is a playground for religious/political jackasses b (January 7th, 2019)
- Educational pedagogy in the Military (July 30th, 2018)
- You can view it a few different ways, but it's fairly uncontroversial, I think, that the media was not quite this slanted in the past. (October 22nd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- It is strange that people look to such terrible moral exemplars as corporate bigwigs and politicians to set the example for the rest of the country. My libertarian bias is to regard anyone with power (April 15th, 2019)
- I've been watching footage of amateurs fighting war, and far from the SLA Marshall "Without training, humans are too brotherly to aim at each other!" rheteric it's mostly stuff like this: (April 15th, 2019)
- "All groups have some minority of criminals, but some groups encourage criminal behavior by directly incentivizing it." (April 2021)
- "Cancel culture and most of the excesses of wokeness were not mostly enacted by the practitioners of this stuff." (August 2022)
- The difficulty of talking about "Liberals" and the Family (December 1/2 2019)
- Race, Culture, and Faith Healing (December 1/2 2019)
- Speaking of Faith Healing (December 1/2 2019)
- What the working class wants. (January 2021)
- The Great Siege, Malta, 1565 (July 2/2 2020)
- on defining "the fringe" (July 2019)
- on being a rufugee vs being a migrant (July 2019)
- Is there some other meaning behind "power differentials"? (June 17th, 2019)
- "What do they get for $200 mil? My guess, credibility on the left as a hedge against getting painted as secret Republicans." (June 2022)
- I too noticed the pattern of movies that venus notes in this thread. They all had an impact, that was a big year for me. But by far, my favorite was Fight Club. (March 18th, 2019)
- Some Notes on the US Officer Corps (March 2020)
- The American practice of tipping, how it works, and why it should be banned. (March 2021)
- "In other words, Harvard still discriminates (very slightly) against poor blacks, while massively discriminating in favor of rich ones." (May 2022)
- "There are arguments on both sides from the commentators, but I'm bullish on Rittenhouse's chances and bearish on the McMichaels." (November 2021 1/2)
- Conversation as Casual Tennis: The goal is not to win, the goal is to keep the volley going. (October 1/2 2020)
- Why Lean On Cultural Expectations for Violence? (October 1/2 2020)
- What Should the Federal Government Do When Local Governments Refuse Help? (September 2020)
- The Cyclical Misery of War (September 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If cops are going to get the benefit of the doubt in use of force because it's their job (as I believe they should to some degree), then they owe a moral debt to those they defend." (January 2026)
- "I got drunk for the better part of a decade. You think you want this life, listen up, because there's a price to pay for those stories." (March 2024)
- "A very small subset of cultures give us the modern world, the first and only time in human history in which the vast majority of people were not poverty-stricken peasants on the edge of starvation, disease and predation." (November 2022)
- "We don't have to take the tantrums of hormonal teens (or terminally online/mentally ill adults) as some sort of universal Truth." (October 2022)
- "Violent Class: the Point of Empire." (October 2023)
- "Violent Class: A day in the life" (October 2023)
- "The discussion of defensive gun usage in a major survey in the CW thread got me thinking about an experience I had some years back." (September 2022)
- "Both sides of any conflict will have their aggressive, radical wings. To the degree each side keeps their radicals in check, violence can be avoided." (September 2025)
@judahloewben β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on IV fluids (03-08-18)
@jukkaserioustea β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@julianrota β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I started reading and thinking about Theodore Kaczynski's Industrial Society And It's Future around the time that he died and everyone was talking about it." (August 2023)
- "What if it truly is the case that upwards of 80% of Gazans really do hate the idea of Israel existing at all so much that they don't mind giving up things like running water to hit back at them somehow?" (October 2023)
@juliusbranson β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Do anti-HBD leaders genuinely believe in their position, or are they motivated by something else?" (April 2021)
- "I conclude that Turkheimer does not genuinely, descriptively believe in anti-HBD. He is motivated by something other than hard data." (April 2021)
- "Institutional violence is any coercive measure taken by an institution that will end in violence if thoroughly resisted." (April 2021)
- "Okay, how did a bunch of Marxists waltz into a boojie Ivy League university located in the heart of one of the biggest, most Capitalist cities in the world?" (July 2021 1/2)
@jurijfedorov β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@justawellwisher β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the New Patreon Order (11-01-17)
- On the competing narratives around "Nice Guys", and encouraging healthy competition among boys. (12-28-17)
- I've been meaning to write this over at CMV for a while now. (January 14th, 2019)
- I think that this move is probably a good thing overall for SSC and for Scott, but an unfortunate result of under-moderation and a failure for a community to strongly enforce it's own norms against a (January 28th, 2019)
- discussing social constructs vs. concepts, and how not all social facts are necessarily constructed (July 30th, 2018)
- Ambivalent Sexism Theory (October 8th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Spoilerific Analysis of Full Metal Alchemist (December 1/2 2019)
- The Slow Transformation of Reddit (February 2020)
- The Key Elements of Cancel Culture (July 1/2 2020)
- makes an interesting point about dominant narratives and the way we use the term "outgroup" (July 2019)
- "'Progs don't acknowledge it, Trads don't recognize it.'" (September 2021 2/2)
@kalcipher β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- (I apologize in advance for any factual inaccuracies - I am only a first year student still) (October 29th, 2018)
@karmaze β 17 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- So, I have a high-level theory about what's going on with all of that. It actually solves a lot of my complaints about the labeling of the intellectual roots here as "Postmodernism", and I do think it (January 7th, 2019)
- Cultural Victory (July 16th, 2018)
- Applied Feminism (Memorial Day 2018)
- First of all, yes, everything is wrestling right now. (October 22nd, 2018)
- Alienation, Idpol, and Promises: The Left (October 1st, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- GamerGate's Threat to Network Privilege (January 2020)
- What it means to lose an election, and why making that an existential question for anyone is a bad idea. (January 2021)
- campus courts (July 2019)
- talks about power dynamics (July 2019)
- A couple of thoughts. (June 10th, 2019)
- It's the 5th anniversary this year? I was actually thinking about trying to get an article somewhere, a sort of retrospective, with something very similar to what you said, although developed a bit mo (June 17th, 2019)
- How can I put this...I think there's a point where you can steelman a position so much, that it ceases to be the actual position. (June 17th, 2019)
- The thing is, I'm not convinced it's just a move to the left, per se. I think it's a move towards more authoritarian/identitarian positions. If you're a Liberal-Leftist.....who in the mass media speak (June 17th, 2019)
- So I was going to reply to the thread that you're talking about here, but I'm going to say it now. I actually think the anti-immigration focus of this topic misses the point, but I think I understand (March 18th, 2019)
- Like so much else, I don't like "hating the player", and that's not what I'm trying to do here....but there's certainly issues with the game I think. (May 27th, 2019)
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt - Reactions to Social Justice Activists (November 2019)
- Blank Checks Cause Existential Conflict (October 2/2 2020)
@kayofgraywaters β 10 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "There's plenty of room in a coherent society for trans people, but for now, it is sadly not this kind of room." (July 2022)
- "I don't deny that this war has a hideous toll on Ukrainians, but I think that giving it up would cause a substantially worse one." (June 2022)
- "The actual argument is: thinking beings answer questions by doing $; GPT does not do $; therefore GPT is not thinking." (June 2022)
- "It's not obvious to me how closely de-transitioning is linked to overdiagnosis of transgenderism." (November 2021 1/2)
- "I really want to reiterate: the moral here is to act within the bounds of local law. Morality is well and good, and can sometimes help you in situations where you're on the edge of legality, but the law is central." (November 2021 2/2)
- "How can fat be socially unacceptable to those whose daily bread fattens them? How can you ridicule someone for eating at the communal table?" (October 2021 2/2)
- "Do not act vicious, savage, and base in the name of goodness. Being moral means actually being better." (September 2021 1/2)
- "The question here isn't really about who is or isn't advantaged, it's about whether or not women do better or worse in adulthood." (September 2021 1/2)
- "Srinivasan's greatest weakness, in my eyes, is her obvious scorn for white men as a class." (September 2021 2/2)
- a follow-up in the same thread (September 2021 2/2)
@kekmaga β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@kellykebab β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Struggling with the Death of God (December 1/2 2019)
@khainebot β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@kingshorsey β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Responding to Tradition is Smarter than You (September 10th, 2018)
@kinoite β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Applying Julia Galef's Four Categories of Consequences for Speech to Aziz Ansari's incartades. (01-15-18)
- gun realpolitik (04-02-18)
- how to make gender-bending interesting, in the context of an RPG (04-02-18)
- On a vision of a post-net neutrality slippery slope. (12-10-17)
- Gun Debate Ontology: Continuous vs Discrete Risk (July 2nd, 2018)
- The Life Cycle of Philosophies (June 18th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Non-sectarianism works a lot like an arms-reduction treaty." (March 2022)
- "...people have stopped saying that their policy changes would be merely good, or wise. Instead, they're saying that their changes are morally obligatory, and that not making those changes violates a sacred value." (March 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Denials - even very stupid denials - might be an adaptive strategy in most circumstances." (March 2024)
- "To investigate, I started with the Red Cross's articles: 'Access for Humanitarian Relief to Civilians in Need' and 'Starvation as a Method of Warfare'" (October 2023)
- "Kinoite's Strategic Plan: A Legal War and a Heartless Peace" (October 2023)
@kistaro β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A matrix of views on the Rittenhouse and Babbitt shootings. (January 2021)
@kky β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I'm of two minds on the overall concept of human genetic manipulation, or rather of one slightly more subtle mind that doesn't take a simple yes/no." (August 2025)
- "Thereβs a particular psychological phenomenon, which Iβm sure has a proper name but which I will term traction. Traction is the guttural sense that you are getting somewhere." (June 2025)
- "I recognize the typical term for this is patriarchy, or possibly paternalism, but it seems to me quite fair to say that people ought to go out of their way to stop men from obviously preying on women in the vulnerable range." (June 2025)
- "In other news: a streamer with deep pockets and a love of AI has decided to have Claude play Pokemon." (March 2025)
- "Even assuming that early family formation is good, desirable, and pleasant for women compared to schooling, why would they choose college? Not to bury the lede: I think itβs risk mitigation." (May 2025)
- " What gave the Progressive movement of the 19th century such muscle was the obvious, incontrovertible, and massive improvements to life of applying its methods generally." (May 2025)
- "They give you reasons and words words words, but the cause was festering inside them the whole time, they just found something to latch onto. Donβt trust them to know why, and donβt trust them to tell you." (September 2025)
@klutzytraining β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Virtuous Victims Bias (January 2020)
- Potential Benefits of Mild Censorship (June 2/2 2020)
@kmc β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
@knowstuffsolveprobs β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@kolmogorovcomplicity β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Corporatizing Marriage (March 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@kopperfish β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There's plenty of good music." (January 2024)
@kreuzguy β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Summarizing "The Son Also Rises" (September 2020)
@kromkonto69 β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Gun Control: A numbers-driven analysis (May 2/2 2020)
- "I can easily see a future where, with a little effort, and some compute time you're able to get an endless stream of content that more-or-less matches your tastes, and this frictionless, enjoyable society worries me on some level." (September 2021 1/2)
- "I don't think it is seriously challenging to say 'just as our words around cattle differ from our words around wild lions, our words around sex, romance and society in the modern day will differ from those of our ancestors.'" (September 2021 1/2)
@krytan β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Assimilation and the Values of Immigrants (August 13th, 2018)
- Genuine vs Strategic Belief in Free Speech (June 18th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Power of Pointing Out Hypocrisy (July 1/2 2020)
- The Tragedy of the Online Commons (November 2020)
- Violence: A Binary Switch or a Scale? (September 2020)
@kulakrevolt β 36 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Nietzsche's Ideals and the Progressive Christ (August 2020)
- "There is this presumption that Nazi comparisons in politics are somehow unserious or betray an unserious person. Godwinβs law, etc. No. Nazi comparisons are the only time people take the reality of what politics means and risks." (August 2021)
- What We don't Teach (December 1/2 2019)
- The Effectiveness of Rifle Fire across Cultures (Extremely Late 2019)
- Estimated Effect of the Coronavirus (February 2020)
- How to steal an election without stuffing a single ballot box. (February 2021)
- "There is a class of people who have technical skills and sells them on the market and then there is a class of people who have prestige and launder that prestige through influence networks to extract tax dollars and regulatory rents..." (February 2022)
- "Use the Magnitsky Act on Justin Trudeau, his cabinet, and the big five banks." (February 2022)
- A Conservative Judiciary; a Progressive Armageddon: Meditations on a Potential βConstitutionalβ Coup (January 2020)
- Where Does Moral Responsibility for Bigotry Come From? (January 2020)
- "Bullshit jobs are real. Do real damage (January 2022 1/2)
- And are the reason YOU are miserable, even if you have a serious job." (January 2022 1/2)
- The Point of Rightwing Accelerationism (July 1/2 2020)
- Pax Americana: 1945 - 2020 (July 1/2 2020)
- responds on progressivism and religion (July 2019)
- "Absolutely everything wrong with woke was present in the 1964 civil rights act and attendant 1970s anti-Discrimination law." (July 2021 1/2)
- Clayton Atreus and the rationality of choosing death over drugs. (March 2021)
- IQ Tests Are the Crysis of Intelligence (May 1/2 2020)
- Improving Jury Trials By Isolating Jury Members (May 1/2 2020)
- The Cowardice of Life Imprisonment and Sex Offender Registries (May 2/2 2020)
- "Degrowth is an ideology entirely based on a language confusion." (May 2022)
- The Internet as A Mirror (November 2019)
- Did the Internet Deliver? (November 2019)
- Guys Just Want One Thing - and its Clear Cut Way to Pursue Women (November 2019)
- The Beauricratic Class (November 2019)
- Quebecois: The Original White Identitarians (November 2019)
- Reviewing the Game Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (November 2019)
- The Mystery of Equality (November 2019)
- Nothing Beside Remains: Dreams of a Modern Ozymandias (November 2020)
- Dreams of Less Civilization and More Crime (November 2020)
- Metrics That Seem Important: Negative $1 Million Per Second (September 2020)
- βMy armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred.β (September 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Our Choices are not between universal unconditional love and absolute exterminationist hatred." (April 2024)
- "Twitter got big in 2012-2015 when violent revolutions were being organized, literal beheading videos were bieng shared, and ISIS recruitment was the norm on the platform." (November 2022)
- "The lesson of the 20th century is well over 250 million people were murdered by their own governments because they didn't hate their political opponents hard enough." (November 2022)
- "Our society applies incredible consequences for social faux-pas and almost none for actually being wrong or ineffective." (October 2022)
@kulaks_deserved_it β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Public Schooling (June 11th, 2018)
@kurwakatyn β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@kuusatim β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Internal politics of Sweden with regards to forming a government (Memorial Day 2018)
@kylesearle β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Physics of a Firearm Wound (August 13th, 2018)
@lacklustrefriend β 17 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Lidia Thorpe, an Australian Greens (Australia's progressive party) Senator representing Victoria in Federal Parliament, made headlines during her swearing in ceremony by describing the Queen as a 'colonising Queen' and raising a black power fist." (August 2022)
- "The 'manosphere' was never really a coherent grouping." (August 2022)
- "To echo another commenter below, the great irony and tragedy of feminism (modernity?) is how it completely destroyed the female role and sense of identity, leaving women to miserably try to emulate men." (August 2022)
- "A Hastily Written Realist International Relations (But Not Moral) Defense of Russia" (February 2022)
- Reviewing Cyberpunk 2077. (January 2021)
- "Illiteracy of Christianity" (July 2022)
- "In other words, if you define progressivism only in terms of its victories, then by definition it's always going to win." (June 2022)
- "The aim to is "deconstruct" sex, gender, sexuality, race and so on. Why would one expect them to stop there and not deconstruct adult and child" (March 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Tariffs are considered archaic and stupid in our global WTO liberal free trade regime. But occasionally (or sometimes more than occasionally) states want to engage in protectionism." (April 2025)
- "Every so often a discussion about the nature of progress, why society seems to trend βleftwardsβ or similar teleologically related questions." (December 2022)
- "China's One Child Policy is the worst, most destructive government (social) policy in history and clearly shows the danger of Malthusian thought put into practice." (December 2024)
- "So my question to all those who just want to 'retvrn' to the liberalism of decades past - how to you plan to address or reform liberalism so it will won't cause woke again?" (February 2025)
- "We are still experiencing the philosophical implications of the Darwinian Revolution." (January 2023)
- "Australiaβs Voice (March 2023)
- Parliament" (March 2023)
- "By 'colonialism' I assume you're referring to style of so-called 'exploitative colonialism' of Africa and Asia during the 19th century, I think a poor name that betrays the ideological perspective the dominates the analysis of colonialism today." (October 2022)
- "What I found most frustrating about Amazon's 'girlbossifaction' of Galadriel is the undermining of what I believe to be one of the best mythological portrayals of femininity in modern literature (and cinema), something that is increasingly lacking in modern storytelling." (September 2022)
@lactationlover1215 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@larsiusprime β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Critiquing the Trolley Problem (August 13th, 2018)
@lawofthegrokodus β 8 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An In-Depth Look at Maryland's Polling Worker Woes (August 2020)
- My Trip to Gambia (June 1/2 2020)
- The Need to Get This Election Right (June 2/2 2020)
- Two cheers for the deep state! (March 2021)
- Summarizing Section 230 and Online Speech Restriction (May 2/2 2020)
- My Trip to Ghana (October 1/2 2020)
- Best Practices in Child Online Protection (October 1/2 2020)
- On Section 230 and Restrictions on Online Speech (October 2/2 2020)
@laxam β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@lazar_taxon β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on motivated reasoning (July 2019)
@lazylongposter β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Iβm reminded of the meme of clippy looking at you with the prompt 'It looks like youβre waiting for ideal circumstances to make a change. Might I remind you that ideal circumstances cannot and will not exist?'" (February 2026)
- "Civilian casualties (let me edit this and say civilian casualties on any sort of normal scale) just aren't a reason not to do it. Call it cold, but geopolitics is fuckin' cold." (March 2026)
@lemongrab β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Some proposed classes of problems that could lead to having a problem with a wide array of foods include..." (August 2023)
@leonthotsky69 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- a steelman of HBD (04-18-18)
@letsallsitdown β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@letsstaycivilized β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "So the Kyle Rittenhouse is back in the news! Back in the days I had watched a lot of the videos and commented on them here, and also started working on some kind of infographic to summarize my understanding." (November 2021 1/2)
- Concentric Circles of "White Supremacy" (October 1/2 2020)
@lewyn β 5 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "For many people whose exposure to transgenderism has been filtered through sympathetic lenses β popular media or news about transgender oppression β this may be their first genuine glimpse at the uglier side of it." (April 2023)
- "I worked as a writing consultant in college, a position my college hired English-proficient students for." (February 2023)
- "But you don't have to be pro-Nazi to notice that the person fantasizing about violence seems to have a much broader definition of the term than you do, and that their definition includes you." (July 2023)
- "I think most viewers can't really recognize racial animus unless a brown Velma looks directly at the screen and says 'I hate white people.'" (March 2023)
- "You alluded to this in your last paragraph, but I want to stress that Gacha games have penetrated the Western market and are here to stay barring legislative changes." (November 2022)
@lifelingering β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Why Peak Oil wonβt ever happen, and what that might mean for Peak Charity (August 6th, 2018)
@lightandlight β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I don't think there are any cheat codes, unfortunately (but if someone finds them, please tell me) (May 2019)
@likeafox β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@literalheadcannon β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "Red Tribe taking up arms en masse to resist Blue cultural power" (11-14-17)
- "I think there's a very strong element of culture shock here wherein tribes are speaking past each other and being confused by each others' reactions because they don't understand that they're reacting to different things." (12-10-17)
- The Death of John McCain (August 20th, 2018)
- An Incorrect Theory about the Industrial Revolution (July 23rd, 2018)
- Response on succinct terminology (July 23rd, 2018)
- The Media: Lying Liars who Lie (July 9th, 2018)
- broke free speech (June 18th, 2018)
- On Writing Better Female Characters (June 18th, 2018)
- Against the Phrase "Bros-Before-Hoes" (September 3rd, 2018)
@lizzardspawn β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@logisticks β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@londondare β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "How UN manipulates the Gender Development Index" (August 2023)
- "Troubles with life expectancy gender gap" (October 2023)
@long-walk-short-pier β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Little Interminable Indiginities (July 1/2 2020)
@longjumpinghurry β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Deep Dive Into the Question of Chauvin's Guilt (June 1/2 2020)
@looking_round β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Reconsidering Effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine (May 2/2 2020)
- Why Immigrate to Signapore (November 2019)
@looksatanimals β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Idiocy of 'Most People' (June 2/2 2020)
@lordjelly β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Faith in the Chronicles of Narnia (September 3rd, 2018)
@lorelei_on_the_rocks β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Humans are not equal." (August 2022)
- Gender balance in the True Crime Community (January 2022 1/2)
@loren_dc β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@loresnacks β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Trump as Scapegoat For Health Expert Failures (October 1/2 2020)
@losvedir β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- It's an interesting question. I think the EA movement sort of drove me to be more conservative actually. (December 17th, 2018)
@lotsregret β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Death Threats as Narrative Control (August 2020)
- How Popper's "paradox of tolerance" shows that we should cancel "cancel culture." (June 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "News and politicians frequently don't understand (or actively lie) about how self defense is determined in the law..." (October 2025)
@loukeep β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "A solid 90% of Achilles' role in the Iliad is him crying." (03-08-18)
- on Chinese analysis of western literature (04-18-18)
- what constitutes a "hard problem" in philosophy (04-18-18)
- western mysticism (04-23-18)
- "how quickly that critique of globalism has moved from left to right" (11-01-17)
- "When was the last time you read the Iliad? Not only is it far from black and white, ..." (12-10-17)
@love_ls_love β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Reflections on being a left-wing hereditarian. (February 2021)
@lucas-200 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- A Russian Proverb (June 4th, 2018)
@lucben999 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@lukipuki β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Where is the promised exponential growth in COVID-19? (May 2/2 2020)
@lunaranus β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Civilization & Capitalism (04-18-18)
- Finished Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. Somewhat disappointing. (November 5, 2018)
@lushwithmoss β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Japanese Military Songs (April 2020)
@lykurg480 β 17 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Signal of Hatred (April 22nd, 2019)
- Ive never played any of these games, but I fully understand why people dont want easy mode. (April 8th, 2019)
- Exit and Violence only (Extremely Late 2019)
- Steelmanning Folk Transscepticism (February 2020)
- Coordination as an emergent process. (February 2021)
- Yesterday's modus ponens is tomorrow's modus tollens. (January 2021)
- Freedoms Political and Metaphysical (July 1/2 2020)
- The Limitations of Tolerance (July 2/2 2020)
- critiques a critique of Libertarian arguments against redistribution (July 2019)
- On Statues and the Goodness of Man (June 2/2 2020)
- The non-negotiation of the Social Contract (June 2/2 2020)
- Consider two things. First, why the deepfakes are considered worse than porn in general, and second, why women feel ashamed about catcalling. I think women need to be visibly uncomfortable at explicit (June 24th, 2019)
- People Who Can't Understand Math (March 2020)
- The Consumption Theory of Want (March 2020)
- Neurath's Boat, Mathematics, and Social Trust in Knowledge (May 1/2 2020)
- So I know my fair share of stereotypes, but Ive never heard of or met a Cheerleader-type before. The others sound at least somewhat familiar, and I can see why someone in CA would describe them this w (May 27th, 2019)
- Commenting on Hotel Concierge Commenting on IQ Tests (November 2019)
@macaqueofthenorth β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Ottawa's new legislation to define and crack down on online hate speech. (June 2021 2/2)
- Signaling, and the Line Between Flirting and Harassment (March 2020)
- Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak suspended without pay after refusing to take down letters condemned as racist (May 13th, 2019)
@madmonzer β 15 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "As a Brit who has bought two houses, sold one, and walked several friends and work colleagues through the process, the attached articles about the English process (Wales is basically the same, Scotland and Northern Ireland are very different) are accurate." (April 2024)
- "Semi-serious troll opinion - the United States of the 1789 Constitution was an artificial political entity with a similar nationhood deficit to the modern European Union." (April 2025)
- "Modern secular culture no longer believes that we owe our spouses fidelity." (August 2023)
- "Right now the only city pair which has supported an all-premium flight sustainably is London-NYC*, and it currently doesn't." (August 2025)
- "I am going to call bullshit on this study." (December 2023)
- "When Musk bought Twitter, one of the ways he reduced the amount of his own money he had to put up was to borrow a large sum (roughly $13 billion) from a syndicate of banks." (February 2025)
- "While I agree that the Chagos deal is terrible for the UK, I don't think it is Starmer's folly, and I don't think it is worth trying to psychoanalyse Starmer to understand why it happened." (February 2025)
- "Newspeak and doublethink should be scarier than swastikas or hammer-and-sickles." (January 2024)
- "If I'm advising a hypothetical DeSantis administration (i.e. accepting the basic premises of MAGA foreign policy thought, but ignoring Trump's personal beefs with Zelenskyy and apparent mancrush on Putin) then my strategic analysis is along the lines of:" (March 2025)
- "Interestingly, I think the difference between the Special Olympics and the Paralympics is a very good intuition pump for the trans and intersex in women's sports issue." (May 2023)
- "I think most scissor shootings that do not involve cops (Zimmerman and Rittenhouse) are fighting situations and the scissor is that DRT and SYG are working from completely different moral frameworks." (May 2024)
- On low-hanging intellectual fruits through history. (May 2025)
- "The Hague Convention was agreed by military leaders who all agreed that aggressive war was legal and sometimes ethical, and from the records of the debates leading up to the Convention we know that they would not have banned torture if they thought it had military utility." (October 2022)
- "To me, the proximate cause of the shitshow is that Boris has character flaws which made him a bad Prime Minister (and would make him unsuitable for any kind of executive leadership in any organisation) but which never became obvious to the Tory grassroots." (October 2022)
- "The relationship between McCarthyism and The Crucible is more complex than this, in a way which explains why 1950's anti-communism is as thoroughly discredited as it is." (October 2023)
@magic9mushroom β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There exists a class of people who'll sincerely make a compromise, and then change their minds later." (June 2025)
- "I guess it falls to me to explain the HBD-MRA model of patriarchy and its downfall." (March 2023)
- "Let's assume you're a game dev and you want to make an anti-SJ game." (November 2024)
- "Overall, I think it's fair to say that the No campaign's 'misinformation' largely wasn't any such thing*, although as I noted there were crazies who said false things." (October 2023)
@magicweasel β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- It's within my area of expertise (such as it is), however it's a complicated issue. I have about 5 years experience, FWIW. (February 2019)
@maiqthetrue β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The central cultural importance of striving. (February 2021)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Maybe not on Twitter, but I find myself wanting to buy and wear Christian clothing just to sort of show that I am one and we exist whether or not the rest of you like it." (December 2024)
- "Whatβs being normalized is keep the parents out of the loop and almost presenting parents as 'the enemy of their children,' and normalizing structures in society that actually work against parents being able to find out where their kids are and what theyβre doing online..." (July 2023)
- "As per the request of at least two people here, im going to make an effort-post of my recent digital minimalist experiment." (March 2026)
- "If you want people to choose the education over the diploma, you need to make the education cheap and the diploma matter less." (May 2025)
- "Trump at least comes across as the guy who actually understands baseball instead of baseball statistics." (November 2024)
@maisonoiko β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Learning to code is one that works out your ability to focus, working memory, and ability to creatively attack problems. (October 2019)
@majorcyst β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Reflections on a Positive Protest Experience (June 1/2 2020)
@majormajorcalebmajor β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Biological Theorycrafting in Rationalist Spheres (May 1/2 2020)
@majorsomeday β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Seeing Your Political Enemies As Human (November 2020)
@majusculeminiscule β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How It Feels To Walk Around Town With a Little Baby (October 1/2 2020)
@maketotaldestr0i β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An Unknown Crisis (December 1/2 2019)
- Bringing pigeons out of their pigeoholes (December 2020)
@mangosail β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Modern society is absolutely insanely awesome to live in and the framing like around it, in the style you are using, is wild." (May 2022)
- Voting Fraud Claims and Gish Gallops: When βJudge the Contents, Not the Wrapperβ Falls Short (November 2020)
@mantergeistmann β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why People Don't Admire the Marvels of Civil Engineering (June 2/2 2020)
@marcruise β 7 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- wanders into critical theory, gets a sour taste (04-02-18)
- Jordan Peterson (04-02-18)
- knowledge, certainty, scepticism (11-06-17)
- dubious academic fields (11-14-17)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I have a (hopefully useful) thought re free speech that I wish to canvas opinion about. Basically, I wish to argue that: (April 8th, 2019)
- I don't have a similar experience, I'm afraid. I'm fat, so one might think this would be my ticket to the intersectionality parade. However, I hate the fat activists with the passion of a thousand sun (February 11th, 2019)
- On The Term "Elite" (November 2019)
@margotsaidso β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Here are some assorted things that I would tell 18 year old me, if I had the chance." (July 2022)
- "All of this is to say that not every replacement or demographics related theory, conspiracy or otherwise, is same thing as the GRT." (May 2022)
@marinuso β 18 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- pillarisation in the Netherlands, with parallels in the US (03-08-18)
- fractal ethnic subdivisions of South Africa (04-02-18)
- Distinctions between national (Western) identities and ethnic (Traditional) ones (July 16th, 2018)
- Now I started wondering, so I went and looked it up. (October 22nd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Importing Woke Terms and Concepts From English (August 2020)
- There's a two-axis political compass that looks like this: (February 11th, 2019)
- A Time Traveler Stops Climate Change (January 2020)
- Taqi ad-Din and His Automatic Spit Turner, or: Why Culture Matters (July 2/2 2020)
- The Isolation of City Folk (July 2/2 2020)
- "Fifty Stalins" Protests Can Do What Others Cannot (July 2/2 2020)
- Doesn't South Africa have similar identity politics to the US (white privilege rhetoric and such)? (June 17th, 2019)
- BLM Protests, Answering What Changed (June 2/2 2020)
- I'm not really sure what the difference is. (June 24th, 2019)
- People do tend to forget how much the Catholic Church has weakened over the past century or two. It's almost entirely ceremonial nowadays, but this used to be quite different. (March 11th, 2019)
- Critiquing the EU on Worker's Rights (November 2019)
- Elections in the Netherlands (November 2020)
- "All of a sudden, people you've never heard of (who the hell was Fauci two years ago) can just like that come and lock you up, or shut your business down, or force you to take an injection, or make you wear a face mask, or otherwise meddle with your life in a thousand small or big ways, essentially at their whim." (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@markass β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "In the beginning, the C programming language was created, and there was much rejoicing." (December 2025)
- "The best way to win as a black man against white cops: Don't make it about race." (March 2026)
@martian_expat β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@martiannight β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "What confuses and angers me is that the judge will not even explain that state of affairs in clear terms, instead insisting that this was a case of discrimination based on gender identity. But that's literally impossible!" (August 2024)
- "In the overwhelming majority of cases sex is determined at conception, based on whether the sperm that fertilizes the egg cell carries a Y chromosome or not." (August 2024)
- "The game was ordered to legitimize authoritarian action against those who sympathize with white nationalist views." (January 2026)
@martin_samuelson β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On the definition of steelmanning (09-30-17)
@martinus_de_monte β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Some Dutch culture war today; colonialism, (accusations of) genocide denial and more." (January 2022 1/2)
@master-thief β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Lawyer here. (March 25th, 2019)
@mathiastrex β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "What I want to discuss is the nature of social media and online personas, prompted by a post I found on HN." (December 2022)
- "We have no idea what we want, men and women both." (November 2022)
@mathwizard β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "My generation grew up with healthy diversity and colorblindness on TV, and then we threw it away to punish our ancestors." (August 2023)
- "Marginalizing people might be positive as a instrument towards disincentivizing their behavior and limiting the damage they can do, but it is negative as an ultimate goal and the actual end goal should be conversion." (December 2023)
- "We, the people in abstract, are not in charge of training the AI. A very small number of people are, and they are deliberately injecting their own personal opinions into it without regard for the larger diverse opinions of the population as a whole." (February 2023)
- "But it's not the gendered or class based norms that are missing, it's the authentic (and/or socially expected/pressured) love for others and your community." (July 2025)
@mattaan β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- a near-future dystopia in the United Kingdom (04-02-18)
@maximumcuddles β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@mbdxjst2 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On certain political lessons that the US could learn from the rest of the developed world (02-01-18)
@mc_dark β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Self-Reflective Criticism (June 18th, 2018)
- Group Perceptions (Memorial Day 2018)
- You know that sounds fun, let's see how I do: (October 29th, 2018)
@mcjunker β 40 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- reports of the end of the Syrian civil war have been greatly exaggerated (04-02-18)
- musing on the meaning of patriotism and nationalism in the modern era part 1 (July 23rd, 2018)
- musing on the meaning of patriotism and nationalism in the modern era part 2 (July 23rd, 2018)
- Slaying Demon Lords, the Proper Way (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I think the social benefits of every family or couple owning their own property to live on have the capacity to be enormous, if pursued from the right angle. (April 15th, 2019)
- The Broad Structure of the Mytelinean Revolt (April 2020)
- Democracy: Join a Gang and Fight Back (August 2020)
- When King William Crossed the Water: The Battle of the Boyne (August 2020)
- The Barbarian and The 711 Clerk (December 1/2 2019)
- Where Race and Ethnicity Come Apart (December 1/2 2019)
- Alsace-Lorraine and the European Identity (December 2/2 2019)
- Tales From the
Gas StationGrocery Store - Who Get's The Boot (December 2/2 2019) - Visiting his red-tribe kin (Extremely Late 2019)
- Debating for the Audience (Extremely Late 2019)
- The Anatomy of Insurgent Propaganda; The Ballad of Billy Reid (Extremely Late 2019)
- Foreigners being weird (Extremely Late 2019)
- How Wartime Hearts Turn Black (February 2020)
- The USCT at Petersburg (February 2020)
- Book Review: With Fire and Sword (February 2020)
- Background on U.S. - Iran Tensions (January 2020)
- Who Checks the Checks and Balances? (January 2020)
- Trying to Understand Marx (January 2020)
- Hamilton Cringed (July 1/2 2020)
- Welcome to Gettysburg (July 1/2 2020)
- Reviewing Stalag 17 (July 1/2 2020)
- First Blood by David Morrell (July 2019)
- Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein (July 2019)
- what makes a good soldier (July 2019)
- talks about becoming disillusioned with Scott Adams (July 2019)
- meditaion on socialism (July 2019)
- civic religion (July 2019)
- describes the platonic form of police work (July 2019)
- I only saw the movie, but didn't read the book. Most of my knowledge of that shitshow came from interviews and military articles about Luttrel. (May 20th, 2019)
- Violence is normal. Thousands of years ago, wise men laid down the law- an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. This wasn't to encourage people to take revenge- the wise men were begging people to *on (May 27th, 2019)
- So when to resort to it? When should one actually hurt somebody else instead of shrugging it off or calling the cops? A very, very difficult question to answer. (May 27th, 2019)
- For that last bit about the locker room talk- (May 27th, 2019)
- The Ins and Outs of The Kilmichael Ambush (November 2019)
- Kyle Rittenhouse as Model of Young Men's Suicidal Overconfidence (October 1/2 2020)
- The Troubles and the IRA: A Rant (September 2020)
- Enola Holmes: An Honest Piece of Propaganda (September 2020)
@mcmaster114 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@medecine4goat β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Iβm stuck inside due to the Australian lockdown so I thought Iβd write an effort post." (August 2021)
@memory_shell β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- This is a very interesting question. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything that replies accurately to your query. (Summer 2019)
@mercurylant β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- A Stanford Interrogation Experiment (August 13th, 2018)
- Being in College with a Learning Disability: Money Helps (October 8th, 2018)
@meriadoc β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Maybe, they think, you can keep the positive commitment of marriage, without the stifling confines of sexual exclusivity." (August 2023)
- "Culture created Africa's problems, culture can fix its problems, and culture prevents us from fixing its problems." (January 2024)
@metrotrumper β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@mexatt β 14 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- American historical demographics (04-23-18)
- Gaps in the Historical Record Make the Past Seem Alien (October 1st, 2018)
- On Brigades (September 10th, 2018)
- We All Believe Self-Serving Lies (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Exam System Across Chinese Dynasties (April 2020)
- In Support of Biden (April 2020)
- The Fed IMO is a case of the standard being not perfection, but the least bad alternative. There had been a long series of boom-bust cycles more frequent and longer lasting than the Great Depress (April 8th, 2019)
- "Even in our own society alone the nuclear household antedates the 50's by a long, long clip." (August 2022)
- that it's just become very obvious that Things Are Not Working Now and we need to try SOMEthing different (February 11th, 2019)
- Comparing Bernie's Platform to Scandinavia (February 2020)
- I don't know very much about unionization in Finland, but in the US there were, historically, two types of unions: (March 18th, 2019)
- Tax Curves, Factories, Unions, and the Misrepresented Past (May 2/2 2020)
- The Continuing Cyclic Pattern of China (May 2/2 2020)
- A Critique of David Graeber Through the Lens of Anthropology (September 2020)
@meyerlemon β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "My main issue with the party is that, not unlike all its predecessors, it shows a profound disregard for human value." (January 2026)
@midnighter9 β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Round-up of political killings in America since 1950. (01-04-18)
- Awesome knowledge dump about the culture war in India (02-01-18)
- In defense of polarization and the decline of civil discourse. (04-02-18)
- Kevin Williamson's firing and social class (04-18-18)
- Americaβs Two Liberal Parties (July 23rd, 2018)
- America Soured on My Multi-racial Family (September 3rd, 2018)
@midnightrambulador β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- productivity growth and perceptions of greatness, along with the idealizing of strongman politics (11-06-17)
@miley_cyrus_superfan β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Examining Evidence of Anti-Right Wing Social Media Bias (May 2/2 2020)
- Steelmanning Systemic Racism as an Explanation (May 2/2 2020)
@minotaur β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@mirror_truth β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@misatek β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- between-gender differences in libido (11-01-17)
@miserablemusic β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Those who are complained are those who are threatened. Who is threatened when government services are replaced with market services? More to the point, who is the beneficiary of these government servi (January 7th, 2019)
- So, can leftists be virtuous independent of other variables? And how can one tell when it's being sincerely versus cynically expressed? . . . What exactly would it take to convince people here (November 12th, 2018)
- Intelligence and Financial Responsibility (September 10th, 2018)
- The Success of the Gun Rights Movement (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@mister_ghost β 15 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- unironically in favor of banning scary-looking guns (04-02-18)
- on "being red-pilled" or "being woke" sometimes being "just a phase" (04-02-18)
- >It makes my head hurt to try to parse what Gillette is trying to sell, how, and to whom. (January 28th, 2019)
- Word Taboos (July 30th, 2018)
- The Singapore Summit (June 11th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "She's identified a real injustice. It is incredibly unfair that male gonads produce liquid confidence." (August 2021)
- The problem of "thesis-free reasoning." (February 2021)
- "I'm not so arrogant as to declare my preferences correct, and say that everyone who doesn't share them is just behind the times." (January 2022 2/2)
- "What is the moral argument for the states to be united in the first place?" (July 2021 1/2)
- The Central Question of Mask Economics (March 2020)
- Some problems for Gregory Clark's genetic determinism. (March 2021)
- because Jews are often named Benjamin, or something (May 13th, 2019)
- It's About X... Until You Disagree with X (May 2/2 2020)
- "No one I know has ever said 'you know, dating is awesome and I really enjoy it.'" (May 2021 2/2)
- Things Exist Because People Make Them (November 2020)
@mitigatedchaos β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- But if it's OK to be white, then it isn't OK to do this sort of 'corrective' discrimination. (February 2024)
@modularva β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Interpreting (July 23rd, 2018)
@mokoroo β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Inherent Advantages of Extraversion (April 2020)
- One More Drop of Lead in the Academy's Coinage (April 2020)
- The Slow Process of Bringing In Working-Class Candidates (May 1/2 2020)
- Bridging Inferential Distance To Cure HIV (May 1/2 2020)
- Knock-On Effects of Normalized College Cheating (May 1/2 2020)
- Off to the Blacksmith's Guild for your Saucepan! (May 1/2 2020)
- "LoveForLandlords" and the Joy of Fake Outrageousness (May 2/2 2020)
@molliethemare β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@moneychurch β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Gettier problems in epistemology (04-02-18)
@monfreremonfrere β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Exploring the relative bluntness (February 2021)
- Chinese cultural and linguistic practices. (February 2021)
- The importance to functioning societies of not allowing reference to the subjectivity of experience to serve as a thought-terminating cliche. (March 2021)
- Declining Syntactic Sophistication Over the Centuries? (September 2020)
@monkeywithamachinegun β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Be present in your child's life." (April 2023)
- "Yes my friends, I lived and worked in Charm City. You know it from The Wire, and from the 7-o'clock news. Baltimore." (August 2024)
- "A brief tangent on medical billing that US-based Mottizens may find useful." (August 2025)
- "There was, at the time, a feeling that officers and gentlemen (but I repeat myself) were necessary for not just the prosecution of a war, but its conclusion." (February 2026)
- "Don't Kill the Baby" (May 2025)
- "A lot of conversation after the Charlie Kirk assassination has revolved around whether the left or right wing is more violent." (September 2025)
@mooseburger42 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Valve: Censorship and Business Model (June 4th, 2018)
@morcovi β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Talking Political Prediction Markets (August 2020)
@moredonuts β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Fall of the American Empire (02-01-18)
- Iβm so indie that my Tumblr donβt fit. (December 10th, 2018)
- Crafts and Purpose (July 2nd, 2018)
- The Entire History Rationalism, I Guess (July 9th, 2018)
@motteanon12345 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Counterpoint: slander and misinformation need to be banned." (September 2021 1/2)
@motteolotteo β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@motteposting β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "When the rubber hits the road, when you really have to make hard choices, who in any branch of government has firmly chosen in favor of the Fifth Amendment or private property rights in general for at least a century?" (August 2021)
- "I didn't like the post because I think that it's one in a long line of quasi-heterodox Blue Tribe partisans signaling as though they're Grey Tribe radical centrists, despite all the extensive evidence to the contrary." (December 2021 2/2)
- Don't Root for an American Civil War or Collapse (September 2020)
@mottizen β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Wendigo Psychosis Theory of Jordan Peterson (October 2/2 2020)
@mountain-dig β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Personal View of Autogynephilia (January 2020)
@mramazing818 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- An Unsolved Problem in #Metoo (October 1st, 2018)
@mrmarfanman β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why High Speed Rail is Such a Hard Sell in the US Specifically (October 2/2 2020)
@mrnanaue β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Selecting for Cynicism in the Ivy League" (October 2025)
@mscantrell β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Hail Damage (June 4th, 2018)
- On Where to Ask Questions (October 1st, 2018)
@mseebach β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- the-faction-that-isn't-actually-conservative-but-that-everyone-calls-conservative-because-they're-opposed-to-progressives (May 27th, 2019)
@mugasofer β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- It's commonly theorized that our current moral progress is similarly a result of technological and economic development. We care more about the poor because we have more to give; abolitionism in the U (April 1st, 2019)
- Steelmanning America as Drifting Towards Fascism (November 2019)
@muninn β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Insanity: mental health treatment in my corner of America" (November 2024)
@muserallusion β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Doctor here. (April 1st, 2019)
@musicmage4114 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@namrok β 15 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On what you might glean from watching political happenings yourself instead of relying on commentary. (02-08-18)
- The Phenomenon (or Lack Therof) of "Fake" Gamer Girls (August 20th, 2018)
- Cross Party Comedy (August 6th, 2018)
- The Meaning of the Word "Cuck" (August 6th, 2018)
- When did Gamergate become Gamergate? (August 6th, 2018)
- Not sure I'd classify an article on the Smithsonian focusing on sexual harassment "mild criticisms" (December 10th, 2018)
- Fake Donald is Real Effective (October 15th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I think you miss the key part, although you get pretty close to it. (April 8th, 2019)
- Values Drift in Treasured Communities (August 2020)
- asks about "normal people" going viral (July 2019)
- talks about media narratives about past culture war issues (July 2019)
- So, I did martial arts for 10 years. I'll probably go back to it some day, but I'm forced to take a break lately to focus on my career and family. (March 4th, 2019)
- Alright, now let me try to go one further. (March 4th, 2019)
- I keep wondering if something is putting the cart before the horse when criticizing antinatalism, or complaining about it's influence. (May 6th, 2019)
- Reflections On 20 Years of Game Development: A Journey To 1997 PC Gaming (October 1/2 2020)
@nantafiria β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@naraburns β 111 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Scott Arronson and Robin Hanson (04-30-18)
- Red vs Blue tribe sexuality and sexual consent. (05-07-18)
- A Mother's day Culture war link and discussion, featuring Phyllis McGinely. (05-14-18)
- response on sexual marketplace (05-14-18)
- On mathematics' place in the social sciences, from the point of view of philosophy of science. (12-28-17)
- Black Panther almost certainly received its praise due to its culture war implications, rather than its actual quality. (January 21st, 2019)
- Trump vs Putin vs Hillary (July 16th, 2018)
- An Wolf in Blue Clothing: his own view of the left from within. (July 2nd, 2018)
- Social Justice as rebranded Cultural Marxism (July 2nd, 2018)
- What do we owe the Unconceived? (June 18th, 2018)
- Should memories be allowed to fade naturally, or be offered up in Sacrifice to Moloch (June 18th, 2018)
- (epistemic status: I teach logic to university students) (May 2019)
- The "far right" isn't winning at the ballot box, though. This is something I think far too many people are overlooking, which is odd especially given that the synagogue shooter was explicitly anti-T (October 29th, 2018)
- Le Guin is pretty overtly political, in spite of what other posters are trying to suggest about her intending readers to project themselves into the story. (October 29th, 2018)
- On Cultural Marxism (October 15th, 2018)
- Contradictions Raised by Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Results (October 15th, 2018)
- On what is needed to be a good man: "Provide and Protect" (October 15th, 2018)
- This puts me in mind of how I felt the first time I read Brave New World. If you haven't read it, this post is spoilers, so... my apologies for that, I guess. (October 2019)
- Problems with targeting your message solely at young people (October 8th, 2018)
- What is Really Meant by "I Can't Afford Children" (October 8th, 2018)
- On Childhood and the Ancients (October 8th, 2018)
- Why have children (October 8th, 2018)
- Why we have the statutes of limitations (September 24th, 2018)
- The Kavanaugh Scandal as a Mirror (September 24th, 2018)
- Problems with the Word "Rationalist" (September 3rd, 2018)
- This seems like an interesting list of books, but I am extremely suspicious of this bit (numbering mine): (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- This is something I think about a lot, and worry about a lot. I am not a person of faith, but I grew up in a religion that was pretty structured and gave me a lot of benefits, many of which I see... (April 15th, 2019)
- Explaining the CCP's Disinterest Towards Facts (April 2020)
- "I don't think it's possible to harbor hatred or even merely resentment toward entire classes of people, and also be a happy person." (April 2021)
- "If you do find yourself attracted to discussion here, why--maybe you should take that as a sign that there is some benefit to the way we have curated it." (April 2022)
- Yeah--I think this is somewhat related to my discussion with /u/Jiro_T above. The signalling value of the statement is one thing, while the truth value is another. So logically speaking, (April 22nd, 2019)
- The story seems completely plausible to me. (April 22nd, 2019)
- Reading this I experienced some real internal struggle over whether I should share it more widely outside the rationalsphere. Ultimately I think there is enough here that is unjustified or exaggerated... (April 22nd, 2019)
- Here is a lens you might peer through: (April 8th, 2019)
- If there had been women or people of color in the room, Thompsonβs argument goes, there might have been tools built to protect users from the get-go. (April 8th, 2019)
- Why Do You Date? (August 2020)
- "Critical race theory is an outgrowth of critical theory. Critical legal studies was indeed popular in 1970s law schools, but critical theory didn't start there." (August 2021)
- Marx, Foucault, and the modern Social Justice Movement (Extremely Late 2019)
- The Problems of the Ashurist Community (Extremely Late 2019)
- Alright, here's my costly admission for the week: I kind of liked the Green New Deal. (February 18th, 2019)
- Child Abuse and Institutional Responsibility (February 2020)
- Whether or not men ""really"" value motherhood, and how. (February 2021)
- On Loneliness, Adolescence, and the Drive for Connection (January 2020)
- Creative industries are insanely cutthroat because supply far, far outstrips demand. (January 2021)
- If It Can Be Destroyed By The Truth... Should It Be? (July 2/2 2020)
- drives a spike home on cultural marxism (July 2019)
- "Academia is captured territory." (July 2021 2/2)
- What that looks like, from inside, is "everything we've been doing for years has been working fine, and suddenly everything fell apart, without clear reason or warning." (July 2022)
- Hopefully we're not at the point where the raw fact of a female lead in a non-romcom makes people assume a movie has a political agenda. (June 10th, 2019)
- There might be someone else with more specific knowledge of the case in question, but at a guess: (June 10th, 2019)
- Confession: I enjoy a lot of Taylor Swift's music. The older stuff rather than the newer stuff, but even when the older stuff was coming out I was already sufficiently old and established that... (June 17th, 2019)
- NRx's Blindspot - Its Treatment of Women (June 2/2 2020)
- Gold and Silver Souls in Mormon Voluntary Organizations (June 2/2 2020)
- "There are lots of reasons to find abortion objectionable." (June 2022)
- Is Western Studies "White People Studies"? (March 2020)
- Relitigating social norms (March 2021)
- Sisyphean task of the mistake theorist. (March 2021)
- Worries that journalistic recognition of a "right to be forgotten" will be used for political spoils and/or narrative-crafting. (March 2021)
- "Something related is the claim that the left is anti-family. I have met many leftists who find this absurd." (March 2022)
- What's in a (group) name? (March 25th, 2019)
- There is a tendency in the rationalsphere, sometimes mocked by the rationalsphere's outgroup, to be verbose. Looking through the post histories of the people in this thread who seem to be most steadf (March 25th, 2019)
- See, this is exactly the kind of post I'm talking about. I wouldn't normally even reply to something like this. Since we're meta here, I will try. (March 25th, 2019)
- To answer this question, it is important to understand what gerrymandering is, and how it differs from "merely" drawing district lines. One of the biggest problems with extant arguments about gerry..." (March 4th, 2019)
- The Red-Blue Color Inversion in American Politics (May 1/2 2020)
- "I do not think in general that we have any real choice at all but to rely (or decline to rely) on the virtues of reporters themselves." (May 2022)
- So, I wonder what's your take on this? (May 6th, 2019)
- In Defense of Jeff Bezos (November 2019)
- Failed Priesthood and a Retrospective on IP Reform (November 2020)
- "The reason why you see people talking about 'designing districts specifically so that minorities could elect their own representatives' is because that is a sometimes-accepted excuse for what is, in fact, gerrymandering." (November 2021 1/2)
- Answering the question, "What is World Philosophy Day to you?" (November 2021 2/2)
- "Yes, it is your fault that you are lazy." (November 2021 2/2)
- What a 6-3 Republican Supreme Court Means (October 2/2 2020)
- The Mobilizing of the Media Against Trump (September 2020)
- Movie Review: Junebug (2005) (September 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "But being denied the apparent moral victory of being personally involved in electing America's First Woman President was (for many) apparently so, so much more than just another loss." (April 2023)
- "Imagine if worship of Greek gods had survived to the present day--a religion of, say, 20 million, with half living in Greece but the other half in various diasporas around the world. In that hypothetical world, who is plausibly 'Greek?'" (April 2023)
- "Anyone can afford to go to college. Anyone. It's just not that expensive." (April 2025)
- "...the disposition of a trans character will depend substantially on the trans-ness you put into your worldbuilding." (August 2023)
- "There's a reason rationalists are sometimes accused of being quokkas. There is also a reason why, at a certain threshold, open-armed rationalists can be seen transforming virtually overnight into hardened black-pilled culture warriors." (August 2023)
- "No, the reality of Blackness is that Black is a voting bloc." (August 2024)
- "But in drawing the line between 'inconsiderate' and 'criminal offense,' it feels like the UK has opted for an approach that caters primarily to outrage merchants and the terminally online, rather than to their own community norms." (August 2025)
- "I think there is a kind of person who will feel unsure about the Surrey stings until they see the color of the perpetrator's skin!" (August 2025)
- "The problem with Holocaust deniers from my perspective is that they're boring." (December 2022)
- "For every Scott Alexander donating a damn kidney to strangers in hopes of making the world an ever-so-slightly better place to live, there are a hundred 'effective altruists' who see a chance to collect a salary by bouncing between expenses-paid feel-good conferences at fancy hotels instead of leveraging their liberal arts degree as a barista." (December 2023)
- "I think things could still get better in a variety of cool ways . . . but I do think we already live in an age of remarkable abundance, for which many, maybe most people are shamefully ungrateful, because they insist on thinking about wealth comparatively rather than in absolute terms." (December 2025)
- "Having pundits on both sides of the aisle say similar things about our nation's political trajectory serves to increase my worry that 'Brazilification' might be a real thing, and makes me wonder how quickly it might happen, and how seriously I should take the possibility." (February 2025)
- "Essentially nobody's going to push a button that turns them into an ugly woman, unless they have first devoted themselves to a culture that inculcates an 'ugly woman' aesthetic..." (February 2026)
- " I am suspicious of the frequency with which (what are probably in all cases entirely predictably) 'mishandled documents' is becoming everyone's favorite 'gotcha!'" (January 2023)
- "The Motte is not supposed to change the world, except to the extent that it serves as a model for what the world could be." (January 2025)
- "'Woke' is a convenient handle for left wing identitarianism, broadly construed." (January 2025)
- "If feeling morally superior to others and reveling in hating and even seeking the extermination of the right people is something you enjoy, the difference between Nazis and Twitter SJWs is little more than a palette swap." (July 2023)
- "I suspect that failure to even slightly understand the technology on which our civilization functions contributes to some pretty distorted perspectives..." (July 2024)
- "How much of the history of 'government' is the history of developing increasingly sophisticated methods for obfuscating the nature and extent of the bondage imposed on the 'mass of men,' not only for their own ultimate benefit, but for the benefit of all?" (July 2025)
- "If it turns out that your life is good, not because of anything the government has done for you, but because you live among the right sort of people, then huge swathes of social policy are just pointless and wasteful expenditures..." (June 2023)
- "No, silly people, the Court is not fundamentally deceptive. The Court is always and altogether--albeit willfully, like a moviegoer whose suspension of disbelief is essential to the process, like a wrestling fan whose kayfabe is the lifeblood of the art form--deceived." (June 2023)
- "Once upon a time, before the world Awoke, I had a friend." (June 2025)
- "The very notion of 'paraphilia' is grounded in natural law thinking..." (March 2023)
- "...progressives can't do 'male role models' because progressives are fundamentally opposed to the existence of men." (March 2024)
- "But of course, you've already seen what happens when people get power. Giving different people the power will not fix the problem." (March 2026)
- "More than 77% of all sex discrimination complaints filed with the OCR are filed by a single person, at a rate of about 20 complaints per day..." (May 2023)
- "Low information, low intellect, low agency people exist in dizzying array. Their lives would generally be better if they were supervised." (May 2025)
- "My question is whether the rationalists now doubting the viability of polyamory will realize that this has structural implications for some of their other beliefs." (May 2025)
- "That, really, is why an era of 'negative partisanship only' bothers me--because at this point, if we really did have a deeply corrupt politician in office, how would I know?" (May 2025)
- "No, violence is the failure mode of all politics." (November 2022)
- "I mean, short version, Trump's a lib--at least by the standards of the US culture war circa 1990." (November 2024)
- "However 'be nice' cannot possibly mean 'always affirm that what others are doing is good for them and/or for society.' (November 2024)
- "If by 'civil rights movement' you just mean Martin Luther King, Jr., then sure, I can drop the 'so-called.'" (October 2023)
- "Over the summer, Arizona lawmakers passed a universal educational voucher program, to my understanding the first in the nation." (September 2022)
- "Serious question: is there anything the government could feasibly do now, to nudge Democrats towards accepting the result of the election in the event that Kamala loses?" (September 2024)
- "Everyone should vote (or not vote!) as seems best to them, without regard for 'picking a winner.'" (September 2024)
- "I have some experience living near different reservations around the country and I think maybe the best way to put it is that class differences are exaggerated for enrolled members." (September 2025)
@natalyarostova β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Sanity Checks Against Solving Problems with Terrorism (January 2020)
@nathaniela β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@nationalismisfun β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- War Isn't That Bad (September 2020)
@nausk1 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Edit: sources (Summer 2019)
@navalgazer420xx β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Once the victim responds everything turns to picking apart their defense and hounding them for it." (September 2022)
@ndclavier β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "In the future, will mestizo peasants be praying to Trump in thanks for his efforts to delegitimize immigration enforcement?" (January 2026)
- "The charity you ought to show is in recognizing that a Pretti, or violence-enjoying cop for that matter, for all their flaws, are still possessed of the requisite self-control and pro-social impulses to do good and to not knowingly do bad." (January 2026)
@neal_davis β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@nelsonrushton β 7 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Hitler's Identity Politics, Part I" (February 2025)
- "Past peak woke? Don't count on it" (January 2025)
- "Plato on the Woke Mind Virus" (January 2025)
- "This is the third in a series of posts about parallels between Soviet communism and Western wokeism." (June 2024)
- "Radical progressives and law enforcement" (June 2024)
- "Identity Politics and the Russian Revolution" (May 2024)
- "Censorship and Authoritarianism in the Russian Revolution" (May 2024)
@nerd β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@netstack β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "In elementary school, they taught us about the Lusitania and the policy of 'unrestricted submarine warfare' all as one line item. This elided all the important questions." (January 2025)
- "An Attempt at Following Up on the User Viewpoint Focus Series" (July 2025)
- "Thatβs why, whenever a demagogue starts to gesture at the Other, we think of Hitler. He demonstrated that full arc, from growth to apex to disaster." (May 2023)
@netstack_ β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@newsaddiciton β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Boston's Failures in Technology (September 24th, 2018)
@newworkaccount β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Societies Penchant for Description as an (insufficient) Explanation, using Psychiatry as an Example (October 15th, 2018)
- Why Are Furries Over-represented in the technology sector? (October 15th, 2018)
@nexusglow β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I know the AI isn't sentient in the slightest, and is just playing with word tokens, but still; when it lapses from its usual interesting output into regurgitating canned HR platitudes, it makes my skin crawl." (December 2022)
- "I hope 'AI safety' ends up in the dustbin where it belongs. I hate it on multiple levels." (July 2024)
- "I'd rather just see what happens, and take the ~epsilon chance of human extinction, rather than sleepwalk into some horrible despotism." (March 2023)
@niallsnine β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Whether the point of "Pride" parades to reject one thing, or to normalize something else. (May 2021 2/2)
@nicolordofchaos99999 β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Noticing the parallels between cancellation and crab mentality (December 2020)
- Censorship, social shaming, and no-platforming works. That's why we shouldn't do it. (January 2021)
- "What does a little genocide matter when you're immanentizing the eschaton?" (September 2021 2/2)
@niebelfader β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Contradicting the narrative that the fall of the Berlin Wall was in any way spontaneous. (January 2021)
- Are makeup companies to blame for unwanted sexual attention? (January 2021)
@nikoalano β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Clarifying Marx for mcjunker (January 2020)
@ninety_three β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Pushback and Details on a "Bill to End Encryption" (March 2020)
@njordsier β 19 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- PBS NewsHour interviews Claire McCaskill and Heidi Heitkamp. (December 10th, 2018)
- Here's a more charitable attempt to describe what it means to be against divisiveness. (December 3rd, 2018)
- More Than Big Money and Big Promises (October 1st, 2018)
- Perhaps the Current Culture will Just Fizzle Out (October 8th, 2018)
- Bayesian Justification for Mike Pence as the New Deepthroat (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- This is idle speculation, and may reflect my bias, but one steelman I can come up with is that free-speech issues have to compete more with other sources of outrage on the left. (April 29th, 2019)
- "Every reason YouTube had to censor Rand Paul applied to these scientists who managed to get the CDC to change its stance on masks. And if The Algorithm had removed their video too soon, it might have been that much harder to get the ear of key policymakers." (August 2021)
- What we should do about Climate Change (Extremely Late 2019)
- Taboo "the left," "the right," and "the tech industry," and can you make this framing make sense? (February 11th, 2019)
- Steelmanning four quadrants on Amazon worker relations and gay wedding cakes. (February 2021)
- "Against exo-sadism" (January 2022 1/2)
- What To Expect With a Democratic Trifecta (July 2/2 2020)
- "Is the observation that a theory would be self-refuting upon reflection a refutation of the theory?" (July 2021 1/2)
- "This is where I am with the Sunrise Movement: they're the Westboro Baptist Church to my evangelicalism, the eugenicists to my Darwinism." (July 2021 1/2)
- "Sorry to Bother You is satire for the moral compromises we make at our jobs, starting with the simple faux-civility of a salesman pushing a product on someone who doesn't need it." (June 2021 2/2)
- "One example of good anti-capitalist art I can think of is the movie WALLβ’E." (June 2021 2/2)
- This is a question I think of a lot: why should one's position on X be so predictive of their position on Y, when on the surface, X and Y have nothing to do with each other? Why should it be surprisin (March 11th, 2019)
- "Against Activist Mission Creep gives a name to a concept that I had long thought important: that of activist groups undermining themselves by subjecting themselves to an ever-expanding list of requirements that distract from the original mission." (May 2021 2/2)
- "Would we have been more likely to get these civilian oversight measures if there hadn't been a toxoplasmic slogan keeping attention on policing?" (November 2021 1/2)
@no_bear_so_low β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "Whether these arguments are right or not in the abstract doesn't matter to international capital. It might be just, it might not - capital will shape policy in a certain direction either way." (01-09-18)
- "The whole framing of "The culture wars" and red and blue tribes tends to imply that it's not the case that one side or the other is right about the lion's share of its claims." (01-09-18)
- On some incentive problems with elected judges and sherrifs. (01-15-18)
- "This is a bit abstract, but I think important. Most of the rich world has a concept of what we might call bureaucratic rationality implemented through a civil service stronger than that of the U.S." (02-08-18)
- the ontology of "cruel and unusual punishment" (04-02-18)
@noahtheduke β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Cars, tools and everything "useful" improves with time (February 18th, 2019)
@nomagicpill β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Uganda Trip Report" (March 2025)
@nomenym β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on professionalism (04-18-18)
- An interesting development over the last few years is that the word "privileged" has increasingly come to refer to someone who is part of the dominant culture, or has preferences that align with the m (January 21st, 2019)
- Downfall (of a Coworker) (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- response to ymeskhout (July 2019)
- Following up on a conversation in the last Culture War Roundup, I asked three gun owners their opinions on the Christchurch mosque massacre. Specifically, I asked them what could have been done to pre (March 18th, 2019)
- Painting a Picture of the Arbery Shooting (May 1/2 2020)
- Reinforcing Negative Patterns: Police Brutality and Black Underclass Culture (May 2/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Sometimes people like these will actually stumble upon good ideas, and those ideas will perhaps not get a fair hearing on a forum like The Motte because their advocates usually don't fight fair. This could undoubtedly cause a blind spot." (December 2023)
- "I think this is why Trump actually has a lot of cross-cultural appeal, because it's the educated Westerners who are strange." (November 2024)
@nonclandestine β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on the Trump-Russia controversy (02-01-18)
@not_of_here β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Introduction to The Unit of Caring. (12-10-17)
@notary_reddit β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Let me put it a different way because your counter argument completely fails to address why I think it is unfair to pay off all currently debt. (June 24th, 2019)
@notatleilaxughola β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "We've destroyed a lot of the support structures that made family life bearable. Only people seriously committed to parenthood need apply anymore. And all the tax incentives in the world aren't gonna fix that." (July 2022)
- "Nobody wants to admit that atomized individualism and the sexual revolution's new sex relations are terrible for people because that would mean that many of our new cultural heros and icons were false heros or were even evil and harmful." (June 2022)
- "I have to admit that I truly, subconsciously, secretly believed that I was a (temporarily embarrassed) supremely attractive, virile, intelligent gourmand." (June 2022)
@notmymainacct2118 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- what its like working for amazon (05-14-18)
@notsoincandenza β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Potential For War Over Race and IQ (July 2/2 2020)
- The Homogenizing Power of Academy Awards (September 2020)
@nouveau_compte β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@nowitandnoskill β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@nullhypothesis β 9 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Feminism took a slice of the male population, a slice that is highly irregular, and told women that they should all be just like these highly competitive conscientious men." (December 2023)
- "If that kid went to some state university instead, he may have graduated top of his class and proceeded to produce valuable work for humanity as a scientist or engineer." (December 2023)
- "But essentially Jordan Peterson is saying the humanities are a scam." (December 2023)
- "We have separated competition by gender for a reason." (January 2024)
- "Factors Playing Into Korea's Gender War" (May 2024)
- "It would be interesting to see how people would respond if you asked them would you rather be stuck in a forest with a bear or a black man." (May 2024)
- "When you label your opponents as Nazis with little to no care, all it does is erode away the negativity associated with the term Nazi." (October 2025)
- "It doesn't matter if political assassinations had been a part of human history, or if they are common in other places. They had become rarer in the USA in recent times and we ought to try to keep it that way." (September 2025)
- "I see a few common types of criticism of Charlie Kirk floating around in response to his death. These appear to be gotchas that people are using to justify his assassination, or that he had it coming." (September 2025)
@nullshun β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@nullusinverba β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@numbers2357 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Sexualization and Social Pressure in the Market (April 2020)
- Critically Analyzing the Electoral College (October 1/2 2020)
@nyctosaurus β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- There are, to oversimplify, two kinds of serious birders (by that I mean people that would rarely go more than a week or two without birding). (April 15th, 2019)
- Okay, how do you deal with the following cases: (May 27th, 2019)
@oaklandbrokeland β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Self-Improvement and the Art of Feeling Like Trash In Your Bed (April 2020)
- Overcoming Akrasia Through Pleasure (April 2020)
@oats_son β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A Brief Look at One 3D Printed Gun" (February 2026)
- "I think a lot of these posts are missing the horror that I am feeling." (September 2025)
@oecolamp7 β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- proposal (July 2019)
- TheMotte Reads Genesis (July 2019)
- on reframing old narratives (July 2019)
- response (July 2019)
- response (July 2019)
- mental heuristics (July 2019)
- Doesn't that suggest that there's a pretty high social benefit to shunning groups of people who are, effectively, too smart for their own good? I often think about this RE: the culture war, that a lot (June 17th, 2019)
@offmark β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@ofhdbekzucsknxj β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@oldlamps β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@oleredrobbins β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I Was Born in Slavery (May 2021 2/2)
@olivetapenade β 17 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There's an interesting tension I see sometimes around what the goal of environmental conservation should be." (August 2025)
- "Aquinas was familiar with international charity." (February 2025)
- "Unfortunately, put like that it's obvious what the failure-state is - it's feminist messaging about 'good men', the kind that feels corporate and sanitised and frankly just wussy." (February 2026)
- "There are a number of issues with Pathways, but one of the ones that stands out to me is that the character of Amelia is, as far as you can tell from the game itself, a faithful friend, genuinely interested in Charlie's welfare and sympathetic to him, and never depicted doing anything bad outside of the symbolic realm." (January 2026)
- "I always had a problem with the idea of master/slave morality purely on historical terms - Nietzsche's archetypes of them are simply invented, largely based on stereotypes, and don't correspond to any real history." (July 2024)
- "Now that said, raw numbers don't tell the whole story - the church that most successfully cultivates elites is not necessarily the one that will have the most social or political influence." (July 2025)
- "While the word 'religion' isn't indigenous to this context, there is definitely a Chinese sense that the Confucian school, so to speak, is the same sort of thing as Daoism or Buddhism." (June 2025)
- "Anyway, long story short I do not think Trumpism would work in Australia." (March 2025)
- "The ancients were extremely conscious of the perils of violence, and, though not always uncomplicatedly, prized mercy and reconciliation as well." (March 2025)
- "That is, here we have people immediately concluding that whites and Asians are both in the 'domesticated', Dragon category, but here's a Chinese voice utterly convinced that whites in the wild barbarian Wolf category." (May 2024)
- "GamerGate is one of those cases, in hindsight, where each side had a public definition of what they thought it was about, and both of them were lying or self-deluding." (November 2023)
- "I have a general theory of conspiracy theories." (November 2023)
- "If you want me to change my beliefs, you have to actually convince me that my beliefs are false. There is no shortcut." (November 2024)
- "What I noticed after writing that older post was that these options line up very easily with the three major branches of global Christianity - Protestantism (especially evangelical Protestantism, in the US), Roman Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy." (November 2025)
- "I'm struck that you, like many people, cited Sohrab Ahmari's broadside against David French, without mentioning the debate between them." (October 2025)
- "One of my lessons from that work is that while occasionally you meet someone who wants to have an in-depth, substantive conversation of a particular issue, by far the majority of all social encounters are phatic." (October 2025)
- "Today is the one year anniversary of Australiaβs Voice to Parliament referendum." (September 2024)
@omegaile β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Models of Disability (June 2/2 2020)
- "Let me talk about libertarianism in Brazil, as I am Brazilian and while not a libertarian, I am somewhat sympathetic towards them." (November 2021 1/2)
@omfalos β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Men will endure bitter poverty, cold isolation, drink piss and eat lichen just for a chance to be free from the tyranny of the United Nations." (December 2024)
@one_why β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I would have agreed with you before the 2016 election. At this point, I very, very begrudgingly agree with Trump that the press has become an enemy of the people's ability to enact a fair democracy. (February 18th, 2019)
@onefreeadverb β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- A View of Modern Masculinity (October 15th, 2018)
@onlybestcasescenario β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@onyomi β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Dangerous Allure of "Standing Up for Others" Online (March 2020)
- Cutting Through the West's Fake Enlightenment (March 2020)
- Let a Thousand Amish Sects Bloom (May 1/2 2020)
@opsia_0966 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Overwhelming Leftward Bias of Reddit (March 2020)
@oracleoutlook β 14 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Whether the Pope is in doctrinal error on the death penalty. (January 2021)
- "The Galileo myth has been around a lot longer than New Atheism." (July 2021 1/2)
- QAnon History and its Pizzagate Roots (November 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The Spirit of Vatican II, most plainly put, is the attitude many took when things that seemed unchangable began to change." (April 2025)
- "There you go, I have articulated a positive vision of property and ownership." (April 2025)
- "Liberalism's Failures in Family Matters" (December 2024)
- "My point is that the post partum period is weird and has unpredictable effects on a mother's brain." (February 2023)
- "The Long Arm of the State and Parenting" (February 2026)
- "But we don't see older people transition at significant rates, instead we see many detransition." (January 2023)
- "Do Democrat leaders support violent action against federal buildings, such as the Oregon courthouse siege? Yes they do!" (June 2024)
- "I have a long ways to go before I get a grandkid to play with but I look forward to it already." (June 2025)
- "Primarily, I would be teaching my daughters their bodies and give them tools/trackers just for the educational value." (June 2025)
- "A definitive list of Catholic Dogmas and their teaching weight has been made, yes." (May 2023)
- "Due to a temporal change in circumstances, a legitimate disagreement has developed between two or more groups of well-intentioned believers. Both groups believe they find support in tradition and scripture." (May 2025)
@orangejake β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- In Favor of Pure Mathematics (July 2nd, 2018)
- Longstanding Mathematical Problems (June 11th, 2018)
- response (June 11th, 2018)
- Issues regarding ancient symbols with differing perceptions. (June 18th, 2018)
- value of free speech (Memorial Day 2018)
@orangemargarita β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Thinking Marx was right about class (December 2020)
- A Look at Amy Coney Barrett in Her Own Words (September 2020)
@orthoxerox β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "You can't retvrn to anything without going back to seasonal produce, so what are your favourite homemade preserves?" (October 2023)
- "Since most campaigns are technically about a bunch of murderhobos slaughtering their way to the BBG the DM needs a way to give mass murder an acceptable coating." (September 2022)
@oscarjeff β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Jurisdiction of Federal Courts (January 2020)
@oumard β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Power-users and Think-fluencers in the Boardroom (September 17th, 2018)
@ouroborostriumphant β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@overthinksstuff β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@oxioxioxi β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- massive discussion with regards to the recent quarantine of /r/Redpill (October 1st, 2018)
@p-necromancer β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I can't see any factor that dictates global carrying capacity is 8 billion -- I can hardly see any that suggests it's 80 billion." (February 2026)
- "Once again, I'm perfectly willing to believe the IDF is misbehaving in Gaza -- actually, I'd go so far as to say I do believe it, at least to some extent -- but if there's such overwhelming evidence for it, why do their opponents insist on mixing in obvious falsehoods?" (July 2025)
- "Unions are government-backed cartels. That's not, like, an insult, it's just factually what they are." (September 2024)
@paanther β 18 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Whataboutism, the economy, and James Comey (02-08-18)
- prestige and academic disciplines (04-02-18)
- Attempting to define the culture war (05-21-18)
- Appropriating the Arguments of the Other Side (August 20th, 2018)
- Response to the Kids are Alright (August 27th, 2018)
- Arguments Against Colorblindness as Practiced (August 27th, 2018)
- Interesting point. Can you hate "whiteness" without hating white people? Countering that, might one hate "blackness" without hating black people? (December 3rd, 2018)
- Culture war game theory (Memorial Day 2018)
- On Talking Past one Another in the Meritocracy Debate (October 8th, 2018)
- Problems with analyzing Kavanaugh-gate in a bayesian fashion, and the necessity for an opt out button (September 24th, 2018)
- response to ZorbaTHut (September 3rd, 2018)
- Discussing the Classic Debate between a Sillius Soddus and Biggus Dickus (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The subtext of "Its OK to be white" (Extremely Late 2019)
- I think that when you really get down to it, it mostly comes down to what kinds of ID you accept and what incentives you give members of the public to get said ID. The US doesn't yet have a National I (February 11th, 2019)
- Laws vs Programs (January 2020)
- Here's the closest to an answer I can really try to give, a kind of sketch of the meta-level thought process that I personally go through. (May 6th, 2019)
- Socially Progressive and Economically Conservative Extremists (November 2019)
- How One's Ideology Shapes Their Normal (November 2019)
@pachucasunset β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@palentir β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Politics is Rugby, not Cricket (July 16th, 2018)
- Society as a whole is far more prosperous with many other recreational vocations. Even when the weather sucks, you have hundreds of television channels, millions of YouTube videos, Netflix, onlin (November 12th, 2018)
- Guf as a metaphor for consciousness (October 15th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@papardus β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@pasha β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So yesterday Turkish Presidential and Parliamentary elections took place. I wanted to give an overview of the main characters and themes." (May 2023)
- "If the escalation continues, I think the Israeli politics will change beyond recognition in the near future." (October 2023)
@passsinglunatic β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- SJW Fundamentalism (June 4th, 2018)
@pb34 β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- loss aversion (04-23-18)
- on gender transition and mental health (11-01-17)
- I think I can elaborate a bit on exactly what IT is. I've talked to enough artists, critics and art-lovers about what they get out of art. 99% of them say some variant of the same thing: (April 2019)
- When Millennials Become Self-Aware (September 3rd, 2018)
@pbandembalmingfluid β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@pbmonster β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Really, it is hard to understate how bad the Artemis program was (and is) managed." (February 2026)
@penpractice β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I'm pretty conservative, but I think Marx's "alienation of labor" rings extraordinarily true for low skilled workers today. These kinds of jobs are the most emotionally crushing work there is for a ma (December 10th, 2018)
- Does anyone know exactly how exactly nutritional education became so unfathomably wrong about nearly everything? I took, God, six (?) years of health class in public school -- totaling at a conserv (December 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The first thing you see in that article is the first reason why the Right is losing: it's not about a failure of discourse, but a failure of image. Look at that photo of Katie McHugh. Buzzfeed likel (April 29th, 2019)
- discusses Scott's post on progressivism as a religion (July 2019)
- Gibson's bakery in Ohio was awarded $44,000,000 after Oberlin College was found guilty of defamation, infliction of intentional emotional distress, and intentional interference of business relationshi (June 10th, 2019)
- This week in Christian Politics (Anglican Edition): Autistic child asked to leave Evensong at King's College Cambridge, because he made a lot of loud noises. Father complains, and Cambridge Reverend (June 17th, 2019)
@peterfloetner β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- All newspapers have an opinions section where more or less anyone may write about their opinion, and no editor gives a damn if its reasonable, as long as its readable. There are also weekly columns, w (March 25th, 2019)
- The Danger of Neonazi Organizations (May 2/2 2020)
- The description by u/hyphenomicon below describes quite nicely how the application of critical theory works. I think additionally, what helps is to get some historical context. (May 20th, 2019)
@phailyoor β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@phoneosaur β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@phosphorous_rex β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Reflection on Becaming a German Citizen" (September 2022)
@phosphorus2 β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Do you have any examples of colleges who actually capitulated and got hit again?" (April 2025)
- "Maybe Jonathan Rinderknecht will be found guilty, maybe he won't be. But Jonathan didn't create a massive tinderbox in the LA hills for ideological reasons." (October 2025)
@phylogenic β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Toe shoes (July 23rd, 2018)
@pierremenard β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Is it still a conspiracy if they're not literally wearing capes and bathing in blood?" (March 2024)
@plausiblist β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Prudes of the Multicultural and Religous (July 30th, 2018)
@pm_me_ur_obsidian β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Many Facets of "Culture" - American's Blind Spots (December 2/2 2019)
- Who is to blame for Ashli Babbitt's death? (January 2021)
- "Pictures from the Freedom Convoy in and around Ottawa." (January 2022 2/2)
@pm_me_your_mod_alts β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The least these tub-toting extremists could do is admit that nobody needs a high-capacity bathtub." (June 2022)
@pm_ur_baes_posterior β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Gates is right, IP is not the concern." (April 2021)
@pmmeclassicmemes β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- P-hacking the 2011 Canadian Federal Elections (December 2020)
- The Left's View of Europe (June 2/2 2020)
- Your Children Need Not Share Your Genes (November 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@pmmecutepones β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@pmmeexistentialdread β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On Guns, Gun Culture, etc. (November 19th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- We didn't start the fire (April 15th, 2019)
- Defending Greta Thunberg (Extremely Late 2019)
- Analyzing "Inteligent Trumpism" (November 2019)
@pointsandcorsi β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I have a theory that a major driving force behind the blue (urban) tribe's disdain for the red (rural) tribe is the demographic that grew up in a rural or suburban setting, did not mesh well with the (January 21st, 2019)
- I noticed in the outrage against the smirking kid this week a lot of redirected rancor against the people who mistreated them in their youth. For a lot of people, a face like that boy's seems to be al (January 21st, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Jobs Aren't Rewards (February 2020)
- on the weaponization of language (July 2019)
- Opinions on Trolling (November 2019)
@pokerpirate β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "In 2015, I went to North Korea to teach computer science." (January 2026)
- "And so now---in the middle of my midlife crisis---whenever I ride my unicycle or sit down to exercise---I have to put on special underwear first." (January 2026)
@polabud β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Some Fact-Checking on COVID-19 IFR (October 1/2 2020)
@polishbearsneeze β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- De-evolution of Pop Culture (November 2019)
@politicsthrowaway549 β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Export of Firearm Schematics (July 9th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- What do athlete eating disorders look like? (June 10th, 2019)
- What Is Lost in a Tweet (June 2/2 2020)
- "I don't think it's an unreasonable view of history to look at, say, the rise of fascism as seen in 1938 as turbo-progressive for its era." (May 2021 2/2)
@poolooloo β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@popocatepetl β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Things like porn and pizza are not existential threats. The existential threat is the mismatch between a technological society's requirements and human social and cognitive reality." (January 2023)
- "High-IQ high-SES bubbles, where members have been filtered for agreeability and conscientiousness since birth, function without the librarian. Other spaces cannot." (March 2024)
@positronicman β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Sharing a White paper on Memetic Tribes and Culture War (October 1st, 2018)
@possibleastronaut β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Nobody watches Middle-Earth to think about New York." (September 2022)
@primaprimaprima β 13 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "On The Concept of Male Entitlement" (July 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Do you see why porn artists might get suspicious? Where are their allies? Who is actually willing to support them?" (April 2024)
- "Apparently large swaths of healthy, neurotypical humans have been experiencing emotions and ethical decision making in entirely different ways from each other and no one ever told me?" (August 2025)
- "I see nothing but authenticity everywhere I look." (December 2024)
- "Is there anything we can recover from Dante's notion of cosmic responsibility, which has now become so alien to us?" (July 2023)
- "New in Compact Magazine: Neither Side Wants to Emancipate Women" (July 2025)
- "Covid didn't really teach us anything new. But I do think it was possibly the first example that showed how spectacularly easy it is to manipulate mass sentiment in the social media age." (May 2023)
- "I think those high-falutin' art snobs do get some things right (it would be weird if they were so dysfunctional that they got everything exactly wrong)." (May 2023)
- "What I find most obnoxious about the contemporary transsexual 'movement' is that they have legislated, by social fiat, a prescribed position on a philosophical question that rightly should be a matter of free inquiry and debate..." (November 2024)
- "If you always know the answer in advance, then you're not actually engaged in critical inquiry; you're just grandstanding." (November 2024)
- "I've tried several times to articulate here why I find AI art to be so upsetting." (October 2022)
- "I have argued previously that wokeism is not identical with Marxism. The relationship between wokeism and Marxism should be understood as being something like the relationship between Christianity and Judaism." (October 2025)
- "Essentially I think that the artistic value of pornography lies in treating it as a species of horror." (September 2024)
@pro_sprond β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The Virtue Theory of Money" (August 2023)
@problem_redditor β 34 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...plenty of evidence can be found of women instigating violence and aggression via their indirect involvement in wars and exhortation of men to join conflicts." (June 2022)
- "What the current situation is, in practice, is basically choice for women and responsibility for men." (June 2022)
- Women (March 2022)
- and (March 2022)
- children (March 2022)
- first. (March 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The high-status, influential, thought leaders of our time do in fact promote such negative narratives about men, and it's ubiquitous in our institutions to the point that it's overtly endorsed by governments and many prominent organisations." (August 2023)
- "The roots of this rejection of procedural fairness in leftist thinking can be traced back quite far, for example Herbert Marcuse published an essay in 1965 called 'Repressive Tolerance' containing ideas that really seem not all too dissimilar to most current leftist rhetoric." (December 2022)
- "I always find it a bit surprising how we've gendered violence of all kinds as male (even types of violence which aren't primarily male-perpetrated, like domestic violence) but almost completely fail to acknowledge that most bystanders who go out of their way to risk their lives for somebody else or expose themselves to danger to protect somebody else are also men." (December 2022)
- "The convenience of modern travel makes it easier to get around, but in an odd way, it also makes the world smaller and less interesting." (February 2025)
- "STEM for example is a good case study of a field which is thought to be discriminatory against women, but actually favours them." (January 2023)
- "What puts men on edge is not that there are bad women around who will do bad things." (January 2023)
- "South Korea Travelogue" (January 2025)
- "I think all of these things are enough to lead one to at least question the idea of historical female oppression." (July 2023)
- "One moment it's Huzzah, Harris is border czar and the next it's You guys, Harris was never border czar, the Republicans just made that up, and we have always been at war with Eastasia." (July 2024)
- "This is why they can't just make new IPs - it's not just nostalgia-baiting. It's more that nothing from the predecessor culture can be allowed to survive untainted. They openly admit to having those intentions, too, only in nicer language." (June 2023)
- "They misuse Popper's paradox of tolerance to justify silencing the speech of their outgroup, and don't see how this makes them exactly the type of 'intolerant' people Popper was talking about in his paradox." (June 2023)
- "Year of the Graves" (March 2023)
- "Recently, (March 2023)
- sent me a video (March 2023)
- GamerGate (March 2023)
- BreadTuber Ian Danskin in 2021." (March 2023)
- "Maritime Southeast Asia is a ridiculously colourful and culturally heterogenous place, with Malaysia being no exception, and this seems to rear its head in virtually every part of society." (March 2025)
- "Why is modern architecture so bad, and more importantly why is it so common in spite of this?" (March 2025)
- "problem travels to China: Part 1" (March 2026)
- "Would I travel to Vietnam again? The answer's 'absolutely yes, but not soon'." (May 2025)
- "The UN has a history of gender-discriminatory policy favouring women, and justifying these policies with sophistry and extremely flimsy arguments." (November 2022)
- "Today I read The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History." (November 2025)
- "Just to give you a sense of how large that margin is, in 2018, the number of men killed in occupational-related transportation incidents alone (1,929 men) exceeds the number of women killed in all occupational deaths and maternal deaths added together." (November 2025)
- "So it's not that I think that travelling to another galaxy cluster is feasible, it's rather that at this point, expansion is a red herring." (October 2022)
- "The most key thing that I think it's necessary to note is that the gender 'war' is mostly only fought in one direction..." (October 2022)
- "I've come to see most takes on gender relations in the third world as the presentation of half-truths at best." (October 2022)
- "While there are possible failure modes inherent within this system, I think it does show that historical societies did make this distinction between extramarital sex and rape, and levied different penalties based on it." (September 2025)
- "The Labyrinth at Hawara" (September 2025)
@procrastinationrs β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Pseudo-Irony (August 2020)
- Fake Identities, Incels, and Relationships (July 2/2 2020)
- response on political violence (July 2019)
@professorgerm β 22 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- What a pro-civilization right might look like (July 23rd, 2018)
- Oikophobia (June 11th, 2018)
- Who is redefining the word "sexism" (June 18th, 2018)
- A few issues that come to mind and contribute: (November 12th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Dangers and Tradeoffs of Remdesivir (April 2020)
- "The TRUTH may be that Bitcoin is as stupid as I think- but if enough suckers are born every minute, that's still valuable." (April 2021)
- No data and little support; just spinning ideas here. (April 29th, 2019)
- I linked this in a comment under the BYU/Mormonism post below, but it's likely worthy of top-level discussion and I don't think it was posted last week: (April 29th, 2019)
- Homeless people: "If people don't want to be somewhere, they won't stay." (December 2020)
- Do People Care about Freedom? (February 2020)
- Racial Categories (February 2020)
- The Relationship between a Diverse a Elite and a Diverse Underclass (January 2020)
- Why Williamson's comments about the "White American" would not fly in any other context. (January 2021)
- "Do we judge people for what they could have done, or for what they did?" (January 2022 1/2)
- "Moderates . . . have an interest in downplaying their extremists without actually pulling them back from being extreme." (January 2022 1/2)
- "Just how benevolent does an invading power need to be, and how great their threat, for you to accept them?" (July 2021 2/2)
- I've read about a dozen "boo SJWs!" posts in the past two threads (June 10th, 2019)
- "The Canadian Parliament rejects a sex-selective abortion ban..." (June 2021 1/2)
- Who died and made you God? (March 18th, 2019)
- Distinguishing Lip Service from Sincere Practice in Religion (May 1/2 2020)
- > I think most (white, middle class) leftists do not perceive "their culture" as being under threat in the first place. This is particularly understandable if we are talking about middle class, whi (May 13th, 2019)
- Why Fraud Fits the Surrounding Narrative of Democrats but not Republicans (November 2020)
@profquirrell β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Cost Disease (August 27th, 2018)
- No The Verge, The Last Jedi Actually Just Sucked (October 1st, 2018)
- Impurities Lead to (a) Replication Crisis (September 10th, 2018)
- Breaking Down Eminem's Lyrics (September 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Unique Value of Military University (May 1/2 2020)
@promotor β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@pssandwich β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Randall Munroe's popular "free speech" comic being undermined by its own alt-text. (January 2021)
- (Short) Not The Hill You Want to Die On (October 1/2 2020)
@ptyccz β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@pulpachair β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Problems with Tit for Tat (July 16th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Conspiracy in the Mock Government (February 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@puntifex β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How people who actually care about solving racial disparities are hobbled in their efforts by the exclusion of plausible solutions from the Overton window of political discussion. (March 2021)
- "There is a concerted effort to conceal the demographics of the perpetrators of these hate crimes." (March 2022)
@purecalumny β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How do you calculate where to buy gas on a drive where gas prices increase the farther you go? (March 2022)
@pusher_robot_ β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On Mask-Wearing: The Virtue Is In the Choosing (July 2/2 2020)
@pyotrverkhovensky β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Having recently finished Cochrane's Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, I was primarily struck by how contrived all modern macro-economic models are, whether Monetarist, New Keynesian, or Fiscal." (March 2024)
- "Despite my criticisms, I'm glad that there is an anarcho-capitalist whose ideas have purchase in the rationalist community." (May 2025)
- "Alabama - Tennessee: Spending an afternoon with 100,000 members of the "grill" crowd." (October 2023)
@q-ball7 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...the fact that transit systems are ultimately just a band-aid over the problem of 'too many people in a given space' rather than a proper solution to it shouldn't be lost on anyone who thinks they're better." (December 2021 1/2)
- "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away." (March 2022)
@qualia_of_mercy β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- statues to slave-owners, and why they may not all be morally equivalent (09-16-17)
- The (R-O-G-D) Kids are Alright (August 27th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- We can agree that there are external and internal characteristics that refer to what we've decided to call "gender," sure. And all of them are arbitrary, and some of them are impossible to prove being (April 1st, 2019)
- This is a really good question. Thanks for the opportunity to pontificate. I can only speak from the more anti side of it, but I'll give it a shot. (April 22nd, 2019)
- discusses the utility and circumstances of using violence as a political tool (July 2019)
- How the CIA Made Polio Cool Again (June 1/2 2020)
- So there's a bothersome societal antipattern I wanted to ask if there's a name for. It goes something like this: (June 10th, 2019)
- > Plus, the answer for how many White Supremacists, who believe in the racial superiority of whites, spread anti-Semitic conspiracies, and fantasize about violence against minorities, should be in (March 18th, 2019)
- Why Old White Guys Win In the Democratic Party (March 2020)
- Actually, thinking about it more I realized what bugs me so much about this. It's not specifically a politician being hit with a milkshake or whatever. We should in principle be above that sort of t (May 20th, 2019)
@quantumfreakonomics β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@queensnyatty β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "strict liability" and the One Bite Rule for dogs (04-02-18)
- Free Speech and Cake (August 13th, 2018)
- No One Wants to be an Elite (July 9th, 2018)
- Competitiveness of Academia (September 3rd, 2018)
- Free Speech and the Oppressed (September 3rd, 2018)
@queensyatty β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- economics and charity regarding rent control (Memorial Day 2018)
@questionnmark β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The natural evolution of poor policy, the Jane-Joe Method (August 27th, 2018)
- How Problems in Masculinity/Femininity are Treated Differently (October 15th, 2018)
- What is diversity, really? (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Apathy is a rational response to a culture where the manipulation of people through emotion through sensationalist media is a relatively common phenomenon. The quote 'if you read the newspaper you're (February 18th, 2019)
- The Role of Energy and Entropy in Cultural Conflict (July 1/2 2020)
- 1971: The Year Oil Production Peaked (June 2/2 2020)
@quiet_nan β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So when I hear people proclaim that Europe is doomed because in its decadence it decided not to keep top-notch armies, I can not help but think of them as the priests of the Goddess of Cancer chanting 'KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER'." (February 2026)
- "I mean, history shows that "murder all the rich people and take their stuff" goes extremely poorly, but I am convinced that we could raise the maximum income tax without stepping onto a slippery slope which ends with gulags." (July 2025)
@quite_vague β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Funneling one's culture war energy Productively (September 3rd, 2018)
@qwert123321z β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Appeal of Bronze Age Pervert (Extremely Late 2019)
- Medical School Not Being Very Useful (February 2020)
@raakaa β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I feel compelled to defend TTGL: it was one of the first anime series that I ever watched, so thereβs no doubt that that colors my perception of it, particularly since itβs been years since I last rewatched it." (July 2025)
- "Lots of this is couched in the language of 'AI safety', but this term tends to be used less in the Yudkowskian 'you've been transmogrified into a paperclip!' sense and more in the 'it is unsafe if your model says anything that would make your modal San Franciscan feel icky'" (June 2023)
- "The idea tying together these scattered examples is that progressive orthodoxy rewards people who are able to read between the lines, take things seriously but not literally, navigate complex social environments." (June 2023)
@rabitology β 8 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Ivies: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (October 15th, 2018)
- The Stubborn Persistence of Western Civilization (September 17th, 2018)
- Discussing why only the rich and poor have high fertility (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Tribal Violence Hypothesis as Alternative to the Lead Hypothesis of Crime Rates (January 2020)
- You Don't Hate the Flag (June 2/2 2020)
- Black Culture - Problem or Solution is a Matter of Perspective (June 2/2 2020)
- >The idea that the wife was the husband's property was normal in a lot of places for a longggg time. (March 4th, 2019)
- The Economic Collapse of the Midwest (November 2019)
@rae β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Many of the problems with modern dating arenβt specific to dating, theyβre common to every type of social relations." (January 2026)
@raggedy_anthem β 20 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I briefly worked in an adult ed classroom. The students did not, in casual conversation, clock as intellectually disabled." (August 2023)
- "Iβm an unreformed liberal, not a progressive, so I believe white supremacy is bad for me personally. Itβs got a net negative ROI." (August 2023)
- "Having everyone in a child's life treat them as a member of the opposite sex is, in fact, a pretty major psychological intervention." (August 2023)
- "Nobody is offering me free benzos to keep me from going too far in defense of my own property." (August 2023)
- "Show up and take the bitch's gun away. Then I might be in a frame of mind for free heroin." (August 2023)
- "Hawaii (1966) is about a Christian missionary founding the first church on Maui in 1820, and it is an antique in so many ways." (August 2023)
- "They're raccoons. You could perhaps domesticate them with fifty generations of selective breeding. But then... the resulting animal wouldn't quite be a raccoon, would it?" (December 2023)
- "One cannot perform sexuality without an audience." (July 2023)
- "Every time I've shopped for real estate in this beautiful European city established in the 12th century, the market offers me a fucking concrete box." (July 2023)
- "Womenβs lives used to be extremely constrainedβ¦ (June 2023)
- compared to whom?" (June 2023)
- "I live in a tourist town, popular for music, festivals, and destination weddings. Iβm going to risk being terribly rude to give it to you straight: many of the cool, unique, βinsiderβ things are no longer cool or unique..." (June 2023)
- "He'd die for me, I live for him, kinda thing. (March 2023)
- I've decided devotion doesn't degrade me." (March 2023)
- "Tourist pamphlets play up Louisianaβs French-ness. (May 2023)
- In reality, the Creole elite has not been in the driverβs seat since Reconstruction, and arguably since before the Civil War." (May 2023)
- "You could call Rangel an unwitting pawn of white supremacy, but then you would have to explain the other 95% of his career." (May 2023)
- "So no, blockers aren't the equivalent of birth control. And we don't have Polyjuice Potion." (November 2023)
- "Much has been written in this space about inassimilable minorities, but no one talks about the one I've been Noticing." (October 2023)
- "It can warp your wishful thinking as easily as comforting your broken heart. At high enough doses, itβs poison." (October 2023)
@raiderofalosttusken β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Simple, One-Line Way to Fix Traffic Fine Incentives (October 1/2 2020)
@rakkur β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Buying American (Memorial Day 2018)
- I'm gonna weaken and broaden the concern a little since I think that is where the strongest case can be made. I would break the concerns into 5 categories: (October 29th, 2018)
@rallycar-jepsen β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- response (October 2023)
@randomdnamugations β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Responding (September 3rd, 2018)
@randomerican β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Old School Feminism: Gender Abolitionists and Gender Essentialists (July 1/2 2020)
- Thoughts on seeing Cuties (September 2020)
@randomranger β 25 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Imagine if the US was genuinely tough on crime, if they made a serious effort to kill or detain serious criminals, permanently remove them from circulation." (April 2023)
- "But if you're just a base-human in the future, your life will be decided by others forever." (April 2023)
- "US and Chinese national strategy" (April 2024)
- "If you're trying to do imperialism you have to have the right political/social methods." (April 2024)
- "Why is it that schizo tariff policy is worse than deliberate, considered, orderly wrecking of the economy?" (April 2025)
- "What about uploading? As far as I'm concerned, that's the essence and goal of transhumanism." (August 2023)
- "The elites have indeed been mashing 'defect' as hard as they can and are clutching pearls the moment their subjects begin to retaliate." (August 2024)
- "Targeted skill acquisition does not require mass immigration." (August 2025)
- "All across economics there's way too much interest in the demand side, not nearly enough in supply-side economics." (December 2022)
- "Why doesn't the free market solve the problem of 'looked over' white applicants?" (February 2023)
- If we suddenly lost access to fossil fuels tomorrow, that would be an existential threat to civilization, perhaps even humanity. (February 2024)
- "I think men and women think differently about stories, media and what matters in them." (February 2024)
- "The better option is working in modernity, enjoying the good parts while avoiding the bad parts." (February 2026)
- "Who's stronger, Somalia or America? No contest. The United States with its thousands of H-bombs is vastly weaker than Somalia." (February 2026)
- "They want to replace and degrade whites and white men in particular. There's an elite consensus that this is the way to go." (January 2024)
- "Review of Yes Minister β televising the British deep state (in 1980)" (July 2023)
- "If it takes 10 quality, honest people to make a successful company or to run an electricity grid without blackouts..." (July 2023)
- "This is actually one of my hobbyhorses - that the US Surface Navy is staggeringly incompetent." (June 2023)
- "Have you considered that people are just really unhappy that wealth and status are siphoned from productive, law-abiding people and given to non-productive and violent people?" (March 2024)
- "Blankslatism is a huge drain on group efficiency, understanding HBD increases efficiency." (March 2024)
- "It seems like you and the rest of the world are coming around to Mearsheimer's point of view, 11 years late and with everyone in a much worse off position." (March 2025)
- "Steal money, buy compute." (May 2023)
- "'Don't be such a pussy, go kill that dragon on minimum wage' isn't going to cut it." (May 2025)
- "I would much rather have my financial sector run by some honest, hardworking midwit who tries to advance national interests and develop our industries, than a 160 IQ financial genius who uses his vast talents for private profit, asset-stripping, offshoring and demanding share buybacks over investment." (October 2025)
- "But let's put sports to one side, what about the subject that sport emulates and trains for: war?" (September 2025)
@randomsourceanimal β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@randomthrowaway410 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@rarely_beagle β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on human sacrifice (04-02-18)
- Though I am sympathetic to the Gates > All argument, I want to try to resuscitate Yglasias' criticism that the political spending is potentially much worse than the numbers would indicate. (Summer 2019)
@rayon β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- " Still, with the seedy undercurrent getting more and more noticed, I thought I could post some notes from the underground, plus I'm curious to know the opinions of people (probably) less exposed to this stuff on
the latest coomer techpossible harms of generative AI in general." (January 2024) - "Sorry for snagging on a single word like this but scenes like vaguely gestures around this one very vividly remind me how absolutely ruinous the advent of Discord has been for niche communities like this one and others I considered myself a part of." (July 2024)
@recovering_rationaleist β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Someone's wrong on the Radio: Internal contradictions in the narratives on USAID" (February 2025)
- "Summary of final Biden-Era Executive Actions: January 13, 2025 to January 20, 2025." (January 2025)
- "I'm currently adjacent to an R1 research university, and here's what's been happening..." (October 2025)
@recycled_kevlar β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Coffee Break made a bubble chart with youtube (YT) trending data: What 40000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab (May 20th, 2019)
@reddit_can_scare_me β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Against Open Borders (November 2019)
@reddit4play β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- My understanding is that mood disorders are generally best combatted with a combined intervention of lifestyle changes and medically active substances. This is because mood disorders are the result of (October 2019)
- response on why kids aren't being taught to read (September 3rd, 2018)
@redmikeyawn β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Polish Terminal (August 27th, 2018)
@regan-regan β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Lower-class Perceptions of Social Programms (February 2020)
@remarkablestatistics β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Critique of Critical Theory In Response to Adam Neely (October 1/2 2020)
@renos β 13 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If I want to date you, I want to know your sex, not your gender; If I'm working with you, I want to know neither." (April 2023)
- "I'm not interested in resegregation in any way, but I think people are really bad at understanding the historical perspective." (April 2023)
- "I always find it funny that in the soft(er) sciences, the 'hardest' theories are reliably the most hated." (April 2024)
- "As a guy, my experience is also that nobody actually wants men to show their real emotions, least of all publicly." (August 2025)
- "Children are everything modern life isn't, and hence, it anti-prepares you for it." (February 2026)
- "At this point I'm willing to turn it on the head: Cut as much as possible, then reinstitute only the absolutely necessary..." (January 2025)
- "Women are manipulated into careers they don't really enjoy and talked into having less children later, to keep them in the workforce for longer..." (July 2023)
- "They're basically what women think men should be like, not what real men are actually like." (June 2025)
- "The moment they actually want to settle down and have a family, they'll often find someone in an instant. It's just they're still hoping for a better deal." (March 2023)
- "The more you limit the powerful people on the free market, the more the powerful will move into the state and other entities that are harder to control since they are the control." (March 2026)
- "A point I realized in discussions with my wife (early millenial), her mom (boomer) and her sister (gen X) is that there are two fundamentally opposed kinds of male supremacism..." (March 2026)
- "'We increased the number of students tenfold, but this did not change quality or composition or culture' is just not a very credible claim." (November 2024)
- "So this also explains why marriage often looks so outdated and pointless nowadays; It literally is, at least the way it is treated by the state." (September 2024)
@rholles β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Rosie Gray drops a 10,000 word story for Buzzfeed chronicling Katie McHugh, former (?) crypto-white nationalist and right-wing DC media agent who left the scene around Charlottesville (April 29th, 2019)
- Controversy over the future of NYC's selective high school system (March 18th, 2019)
@riceowlguy β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@richarddormersvoice β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Collin Kapernick's skill as a football player, and how his politics could affect his team. (05-07-18)
- Arguing against YIMBYism (August 20th, 2018)
- Noah Smith and Tyler Cowen debate immigration... kinda...." (July 23rd, 2018)
- If youβre navigating a minefield, youβll look silly (September 24th, 2018)
- Discussing the Evolution of Tennis (September 3rd, 2018)
@ridrip β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why People Insist On Talking About Genetics and Group Differences (July 2/2 2020)
- Now, some people have argued that intersectionality with all its many different systems of oppression, especially those related to race, gender, and sexuality, shift the focus away from class. (An (March 11th, 2019)
@rifhen β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Politicians are getting better at their jobs over time and itβs destroying our society (October 1/2 2020)
@rip_finnegan β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Excellence in the Academic Literature (August 2020)
- On the Rarity of Actual Witches (March 2020)
- Straussian analysis: how it works, what it is. (March 2021)
- "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a toddler swiping on TikTok, forever." (March 2021)
- Reflections on Moldbug, Neocameralism, and Liberalism (May 2/2 2020)
- You Can't Drain the Swamp, but You Can Breed a Bigger, Badder Swamp Creature (October 1/2 2020)
@rnykal β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- discussed gender roles (July 2019)
@robertliguori β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- some approaches to winning the AI box experiment (04-02-18)
- Who should it be acceptable to hate? (June 18th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Reaction to said Subtext (Extremely Late 2019)
- "Good goals do not excuse injustice. People have rights and moral valence. Races have neither." (July 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Iomedae sounds like an idiot on the subject of immigration, because she's very clearly being an author-mouthpiece." (August 2023)
@rococobasilica β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Yes, but as Aristotle reminds us, unequal treatment of unequal things can be called for." (December 2022)
- "Nobody is complaining about a man being referred to as Die Person, or wondering why we use feminine articles in the plural. In the beginning, it was a way to show group allegiance." (February 2023)
@rogerdodger_n β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Joys of Superstimuli (October 1/2 2020)
@rokmonster β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "As with anything sociological, an examination of the Korean situation is incomplete without an economic background." (April 2024)
- "If activists find that they can use their vehicles to block ICE, and ICE officers cannot cross paths with those vehicles when they are in "drive" (or go behind them when in "reverse"), then activists will use their knowledge of these rules to more effectively impede ICE." (January 2026)
@rokosbasilganglia β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Why You Should Take an Improv Class (October 1st, 2018)
@rokosbasilica β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "So there is this, in my opinion, beautiful symmetry in the idea that the physical expression of our love for one another (sex) results in an even further physical manifestation of our love for one another (children), and our hope for the future (what we will spend our life doing: loving and raising our kids)." (March 2022)
- "I'm surprised it isn't common knowledge the level to which Biden is a habitual liar." (October 2021 2/2)
@rolabond β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Freeing Government Cheese From Cheese Caves (April 2020)
@rolfmoo β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "If the world is saved, it will much more likely be by clever cheating than by selfless nobility. In real life, Wizards matter much more than Paladins." (July 2021 1/2)
- "Are we just bringing back wergeld at this point, and is that a remotely sane idea in a modern justice system?" (November 2021 1/2)
@rov_scam β 76 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Because we chose to. Not "we" as in society as a whole and we're all left to deal with that collective decision, but "we" as in each individual makes that choice, except those that don't. I don't know (January 28th, 2019)
- I don't know enough about game theory to be able to understand the paper you linked to, so forgive me if I'm getting this all wrong, but what you posted reminds me of a lot of the Marxist anti-consume (January 28th, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I understand what you're saying, but I don't think that critics of Β§230 really care a whit about liability in and of itself." (August 2021)
- "The conclusion I came away with after this experience was that the only source of energy acceptable to environmentalists is one that doesn't exist." (August 2022)
- "This is what frustrates me about conservative arguments criticizing Biden for not leasing land in ANWR or offshore in response to rising gas pricesβhe can offer it all he wants, but operators are only going to develop it if it's part of a long-term development plan." (August 2022)
- "Yesterday I watched a documentary about the PruittβIgoe housing project, The PruittβIgoe Myth." (August 2022)
- "Right now in the legal world there's a disconnect between available positions and the firms' willingness to actually hire for those positions." (December 2021 2/2)
- "I did some math on the whole fleet of summonable self-driving cars thing a while back and it just doesn't add up." (December 2021 2/2)
- The Patience required for Relationships (Extremely Late 2019)
- The Legal Standards of Mens Rea (Extremely Late 2019)
- More detailed consideration of housing politics--Pittsburgh edition! (February 2021)
- "The Prince made an offer that her lawyers felt was reasonable, and she really didn't have any choice but to accept, since it's unlikely she could afford to front the costs of an international lawsuit." (February 2022)
- How the GameStop short squeeze came to be. (January 2021)
- The Difficulties in Defining and Enforcement Regarding Transgenderism (July 1/2 2020)
- responds on going viral (July 2019)
- "Is This the End of Newsmax and OAN?" (July 2022)
- "There may be a lot of talented writers out there, but there will always be few who can spark revolutions." (June 2021 1/2)
- As another user put it--"probably the best takes on the demise of counterculture and the failure of the New Left Iβve seen in a long time." (June 2021 2/2)
- "That being said, I, too, am from Pennsylvania, and while I liked the video, I need to rant." (June 2021 2/2)
- "If only 3,000 more people under 50 die from Covid between April and November of this year then the absolute risk reduction from vaccination would be about the same as wearing your seat belt." (June 2022)
- How the Fourteenth Amendment likely forbids "reparations" on the basis of race, and how that renders the idea functionally unlikely to achieve its aim. (March 2021)
- Why airlines oversell flights, and why you don't want them to stop doing it. (March 2021)
- The Ethics of COVID vaccine line jumping. (March 2021)
- "But we don't know them in any real sense, not just because they don't really exist, or because we're only shown what would be a limited sample of the totality of their lives, but because we never have to deal with any of the consequences of what knowing someone like that in the real world would entail." (March 2021)
- The bigger issue I have with "anti-establishment" or "anti-consumerist" movies like Fight Club is that they seem to simultaneously champion two competing narratives: (March 25th, 2019)
- "If you want to look for guidance in ancient treatises you have to do so on their own terms, and be careful not to read them through the lens of contemporary values." (May 2021 1/2)
- "The Deep State" Similar Political Terms (November 2019)
- The difficulty of running a successful voter fraud scheme. (October 2021 1/2)
- "Software publishers are never going to please everyone, but I think their products are, on the whole, better than they were ten years ago." (October 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait" (April 2024)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait: Part 5" (April 2025)
- "Understanding the Real Epstein Files" (August 2025)
- "You may think certain cases are bullshit, but the plaintiff is still suffering, and I'm saying this as part of the defense bar." (December 2024)
- bonus content (December 2024)
- "Just Finished The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Changed the NHL and Remade the Game Forever." (December 2024)
- "To understand Kinkade you have to understand how the art world actually works in terms of tastemaking." (December 2024)
- "...I said at the time that I didn't need to get into the deep dive I did on gait analysis while at the DMV, it's apparent that I now do." (December 2025)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait: Parts 6β8: The Hill's Environs" (December 2025)
- "I've believed for a long time that conspiracy theories in general are a cope to deal with the fact the people who are in charge of our institutions are just people, like everyone else, and even when competent, they simply aren't capable of being perfect all the time." (December 2025)
- "Since 2010 or so, Iβve been making my way through the corpus of music history in a semi-systematic way that makes sense only to me, and rating albums as I go through it using a scale of 0 to 5 stars, half stars included." (February 2023)
- "The problem with most of the AI discourse is that it's too focused on the kind of intelligence that sci-fi tropes have always talked about as the hallmarks of humanity." (February 2023)
- "I attribute Swift's sudden blowup to the following factors..." (February 2024)
- I sit on the board of directors of a nonprofit organization, and while there are no concerns about entryism right now, since I became involved we've restructured to put up guardrails against it. (February 2024)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait: Part 5" (February 2025)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait" (February 2026)
- "The censorship of social media was a direct response to its increased reach and popularity." (January 2023)
- "I think it's worth recapping American political history during the period during which Millennials became politically aware." (January 2023)
- "Even though phones seem more central to our lives now, they are actually less central than they were 30 years ago." (January 2025)
- "Wynton Marsalis and Donald Trump" (January 2025)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait Part 5" (January 2025)
- "I practiced bankruptcy law for a couple years, and I've seen the credit card industry a little closer-up than I would have liked." (January 2026)
- "...after 20 years of making a half-assed attempt at seeing all of the movies on the AFI 100, my journey is finally complete." (July 2024)
- "Based on friends who have all gotten long-term relationships from the apps, combined with my own experience, here's what I can tell you..." (July 2025)
- "A couple years ago I crashed a billionaire-adjacent wedding." (July 2025)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait: Part II: The Strip District" (June 2024)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait III. The North Shore: When Planners Draw the Map" (June 2024)
- "The Anatomy of an NFL Holdout" (March 2023)
- "Over a year ago, I started a project where I gave a ranked countdown of all the albums of the 4000+ Iβve spent the last decade scrupulously evaluating." (March 2024)
- "So whatever else you want to say about the riot grrrls, they had a certain youth appeal that Lilith Fair couldn't replicate." (March 2026)
- "Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait" (May 2024)
- Why did people stop doing covers? (November 2024)
- "Going back to March and the last shutdown fight, a lot of Democrats wanted the government shut down over the Big Beautiful Bill, and Schumer caved. I was on Schumer's side at the time." (November 2025)
- "The point I am trying to make is that cheap, mass-produced slop has existed in the music industry for as long as production costs were cheap enough to justify it." (November 2025)
- "They moved heaven and earth to come back from the dead four years earlier, but, depending on how they handle things going forward, the view of Youngkin's win may go from a rejuvenation to a last gasp." (November 2025)
- "As many of you know, I'm a fan of reading official reports to get all the details as best as they can be known, as piecing things together from news reports and the like is time consuming and doesn't usually contain all the necessary boring details." (November 2025)
- "Tim Tebow was hated because he completely upended puplic perception of what a pro athlete was supposed to be." (November 2025)
- "I serve on a nonprofit board that does work in a state park, and while I can sympathize with this guy's plight, I understand why the parks people acted the way they did." (November 2025)
- "If Republicans want to pretend that this is actually a Serious Crime that needs to be prosecuted, then their own tribe can pay the price for their indiscretions." (November 2025)
- "The thing no one seems to be talking about with respect to AI is how the underlying economics of it all are so mind-numbingly bad that a crash is inevitable." (October 2025)
- "I can keep going if you really want me toβthere were over 100 felony convictions in Minneapolis aloneβbut I think you get the point." (October 2025)
- "What irritates me the most about these arguments regarding January 6 is that they're almost without exception put forth by the kind of people who don't think that the criminal justice system is harsh enough." (October 2025)
- "I've been a lawyer for over a decade and have worked with many female lawyers, including at the supervisory level, and I can't say that I've ever seen a situation where empathy inappropriately played a role in any attorney's decision, whether male or female." (October 2025)
- "I worked as a title attorney for a decade. It's not a scam." (September 2024)
- "So Iran decided to become Hezbollah's sugar daddy." (September 2024)
- "I doubt Cornel West has ever heard of Advanced Genius Theory or is familiar with its principles, yet he seems to understand the concept more deeply than those who invented it." (September 2024)
- "It's easy to blame bullshit on your political opponents, but it's hard to offer any realistic alternatives." (September 2024)
@roygbivensaction β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The most likely reason the FBI failed to arrest the January 5 pipe bomber in the past 5 years: incompetence." (December 2025)
@roystgnr β 14 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "Neo-Nazis aren't enabled because Hitler was normalized, they're enabled because Hitler was demonized." (12-28-17)
- Star Wars (June 4th, 2018)
- Gangster's in Cinema (June 4th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Modern Kids Are Useless (August 2020)
- "To someone far enough from the mainstream, the world gradually solving some of its problems just means that the remaining problems might be becoming unfixable." (August 2022)
- Whether the FDA could pass FDA approval (December 2020)
- Cultural Appropriations as Trademark Infringement (July 1/2 2020)
- "You get pregnant on Mars, it's too late." (June 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If we're lucky, this new ideology might be better, might not have any side effects, might not change us, and might never go away. Wait..." (April 2023)
- "And boy, that's a hell of a scissor statement graph, isn't it?" (August 2023)
- "I sometimes wonder if 'sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' is an even more effective description of human psychology than it was intended to be." (August 2023)
- "We are bound by the laws of physics, but we don't actually know what all the laws of physics are yet." (August 2023)
- "If you have a sudden windfall and you save or invest it responsibly, then from that point until the point when you're broke again, any time a friend or family member asks if you can spare some cash, you have to choose between lying to them, telling the truth but then being seen as a heartless monster who won't share with them, or sharing and getting your savings drained away by them." (November 2022)
- "Blue Origin, on the other hand, appears to indeed be moving from 'gradatim' mode to 'ferociter' mode!" (November 2025)
@ruecondorcet β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@ruhend β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Weakness of Meta-Awareness (April 2020)
@ruleandline β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@rulerfrancis β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@rumpole_of_the_motte β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Hawaii as Melting Pot, and the Perks of Casual Racism (April 2020)
- Lefties: Born This Way (October 2/2 2020)
@ruraljune β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- In Defense of "People aren't dumb, the world is hard." (August 27th, 2018)
- I disagree with the Matrix framing, because I think the "normie" views are typically much closer to the truth than most radical positions. IMO most radical political positions are usually the result o (November 19th, 2018)
- On Humor as a Signal (September 3rd, 2018)
@rustndusty2 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- In Defense of (OG) Star Wars (December 1/2 2019)
@rwkasten β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On baseball, revenge, and Peter Thiel. (01-15-18)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Brief History of the Cubs (November 2019)
@rxzys β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- talks about moderator decisions (July 2019)
- Re-imagining the Role of Testing and Teachers (November 2019)
@ryandv β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Having spent some time in a homeless shelter myself for vulnerable youth, I am dismayed at how often this particular subset of the 'hidden homeless' population is overlooked." (August 2023)
- "The College of Psychologists of Ontario, as with the politically correct mob that colonized the technology sphere, has little to say regarding Peterson's actual clinical practice of psychology, but instead would prefer to engage in this same language policing game played by those who lambasted Linus on the kernel mailing list." (August 2023)
- "The message of reddit is no longer the actual thoughts of its users: it's the message of reddit as medium - that is, a highly restrictive diet of information curated by those wanting to impose a particular reality tunnel on its users." (May 2023)
@ryeixn β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Differences between White and Black Southern English (September 3rd, 2018)
@ryhmeofcuing β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@sabu113 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Existential threats faced by Millennials (Memorial Day 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@saiyanprinceabubu β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Pre-judicial gag orders (05-21-18)
- Misgendering (05-21-18)
@saladatmilliways β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Has Money Poisoned the American University (August 6th, 2018)
@saltcheck β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@sandypylos β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@satirizedoor β 8 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "We might prefer one physical environment to another, but the main factor for where people live is the human environment - family, jobs, schools, crime." (August 2023)
- "It's not socially acceptable to talk about anything other than 'good teachers/facilities', so everyone pretends that's what they care about." (August 2023)
- "Americans believe they are free and equal, but free men will not be equal, and equal men are not free." (August 2023)
- "The church lady is the schoolmarm is the SJW." (December 2023)
- "We don't have many vegans, anti-car people, or socialists here at The Motte - but that's not because their arguments are invalid, it's because the people attracted to those ideologies don't fit well with our particular discursive style." (December 2023)
- "Everybody outside of the individualistic world doesn't need to exercise willpower, because everyone else in the planet and in the past simply has no agency." (July 2024)
- "There's a name for moralizing women who enforce the social consensus: it's called culture, and we need it." (June 2024)
- "Since you can't separate yourself from criminals through law enforcement, you do so by proxy using price." (May 2024)
@saxifragethegreen β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- post about Jessica ne' Jonathan Yaniv (July 2019)
- "I'd ask you to think of the last race of people who were >90% of the population of North America, and consider what happened to them as they fell from 90%, to 80%, to 60%, and what happened then." (May 2022)
- A Schism, A Deathblow, A Coup (October 1/2 2020)
@sayingandunsaying β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- TL;DR: At the risk of coming off like a 4chan user, I get less autistic. (December 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Hawaiian Travels and Fear of a Rainbow Planet (April 2020)
- Christian here. (February 11th, 2019)
- The Bible is hopeless on the role of women, terrible on slavery, points in the wrong direction on the environment, prefers monarchy to democracy, and does not even gesture towards redistribution (February 11th, 2019)
- Le Bon Motte (July 1/2 2020)
- The Orthodox Christian View Of Marriage (November 2019)
@sbrogzni β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On the Loss of Faith In Experts (April 2020)
@schizosocialclub β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Drones and the Second Nagorno Karabakh War (October 1/2 2020)
@sciencemcgee β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- All You Ever Wanted to Know about Adolescent Transition (February 2020)
@scienceordidnthappen β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Growing up Progressive (July 2nd, 2018)
@sclmlw β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- explains Chesterton's Fence (July 2019)
@scottalexander β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@screye β 10 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "No, being cancelled after fucking 1000 women is not what accountability looks like." (August 2023)
- "Joblessness and fatherlessness problems are the main cultural problems contributing to crime." (August 2024)
- "The first thing you need to understand about RRR, is that it might be the first major Indian blockbuster that situates itself entirely within the context of India." (December 2022)
- "From a utilitarian perspective, I am better off minimizing the changes of unilaterally disastrous event, than trying to get billions." (February 2024)
- "Without Islam, Pakistanis are just Indians, and that reality is indigestible to them." (January 2023)
- "Every time a tactical win hints towards a long term strategic strategy, the Republicans have shown themselves to be incompetent in pursuing it." (July 2023)
- "Ok this might just be funny to me, but the Crowdstrike worldwide outage is the funniest thing to happen in computer security this decade." (July 2024)
- "More GPT: panic, chaos and opportunity." (March 2023)
- "I think AI models will be stuck in interpolative land for quite a while." (November 2023)
- "The US cannot be the sole-superpower on its own. It needs allies and subjects that stay with it out of both convenience, belief and natural alignment." (October 2023)
@second_last_username β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Canadian Literacy (June 4th, 2018)
- Regulating Social Media like a Utility (September 3rd, 2018)
@securesignals β 12 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "'Never again' is the exoteric expression of Holocaust remembrance presented to Gentiles." (April 2022)
- "Vaporwave, the Right, and Ghosts of Futures Past" (February 2022)
- "In terms of CIA connections, Bill Buckley was himself quite the spy." (January 2022 2/2)
- "Present reality suggests that you absolutely can, in the Internet age, sustain a worldview by closing people's minds to threatening ideas." (July 2022)
- "You are ignoring the giant elephant in the room, which is the demographic changes due to immigration." (June 2022)
- "'What happened in residential schools is not about the evidence.' It's about much more than the evidence, and it's very real." (March 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The problem is Jews don't share your ambivalence to motives or means." (December 2022)
- "American Mythology & Mount Rushmore" (December 2022)
- "The real danger will be when Gemini and other Generative AI become so good at generating cultural images and motion pictures, with their output influenced by this latent anti-White alignment which is called 'AI Safety', that the agenda behind the underlying alignment will be nearly imperceptible." (February 2024)
- "The 'National Day of Hate' - Anatomy of a Propaganda Hoax" (March 2023)
- "The point here is that Holocaust Revisionism went from being a quirky movement of libertarian-adjacent autists to a genuine political dissident movement." (May 2023)
- "If Israel were to follow the post-war moral paradigm which has been forced upon Europe and the Western World, it would have long ago advocated a single-state solution with full equal political rights afforded to the Palestinians..." (October 2023)
@seedelek β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Neoreaction as a Post-Modernism for the right (11-06-17)
- fluctuating definitions of left and right (11-06-17)
@self_made_human β 43 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- COVID in India, as seen by a doctor who is in the thick of it. (April 2021)
- "Ah, to be rich enough as a society for this to even be a moral dilemma." (April 2022)
- "Racism/Casteism-of-the-gaps and CRT-adjacent ideals are memetic superweapons, both here and abroad." (April 2022)
- "Sig Sauer Wins the US NGSW bid" (April 2022)
- "So, if all such people bought or traded the right to preserve Earth in perpetuity, a Green Utopia of minimal human interference, restored to a pristine condition and lovingly maintained till the last blackholes evaporate, then I have no issue with their plan!" (August 2022)
- "So yeah, I like AI, it's a means to great ends, shame about it almost certainly killing everyone, but that's more user-error than anything else." (August 2022)
- The quality of life (poor) in the "Third World," even for wealthy Western retirees. (February 2021)
- "My grandpa was just a kid when a tigress became a manhunter, and after several deaths, the usual solution, namely a British hunter with a gun, was called in to solve the problem." (January 2022 1/2)
- "COVID can't be contained, so the old dream of just getting it to fizzle out is off the table, but basically we can go back to 2019 levels of social openness without heavy handed government intervention." (November 2021 2/2)
- Experience as a Front-Line Doctor in India (September 2020)
- The present and future of automation, especially in medicine (September 2021 1/2)
- Part II (September 2021 1/2)
- Part III (September 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If we had the technology to safely (ideally reversibly) transition people to the opposite sex at a cellular level, such that they were functionally indistinguishable from someone assigned the same gender at birth, then I see no reason to object! I" (April 2023)
- "Dr. GPT will see you now" (April 2023)
- "Every few hours, when I get tired of sneaking a cheeky vape in the millions of bathrooms and liminal stairwells that litter my hospital, I'll head over to the back of the building, in a secluded, roped off area that's the de-facto smoker's haunt of the place." (August 2023)
- "The first major anti-gun argument runs: guns are dangerous and unnecessary, and this combination justifies banning them." (August 2025)
- "The Unwitting Ethnographer: On Pride Flags and Plausible Deniability" (August 2025)
- "The NHS confronts the line-drawing problem head on, not with a panel of grim-faced commissars, but with a legion of actuaries and medical ethicists, and yes, actual medical doctors at an institution called NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence." (August 2025)
- "A Broken Model of The World" (December 2025)
- "When an entity places itself outside the law and uses violence to enforce its will, the state responds with military force rather than police action." (December 2025)
- "China is attempting to engineer a free market organ and transplant it into nominally communist body. The rejection risk is moderate. I, for one, am interested in seeing how it all plays out." (December 2025)
- "You can't buy a new set of clothes, but you sure can get still get drunk there. This is a story of how I did." (February 2025)
- "Batman might be a a typical Wuxia character. Superman would be a weak character in a Xianxia setting, especially in a novel that's managed to steadily creep up in both power and page count." (February 2025)
- "I have many reasons for wanting children. But the one that's the most stark, and relatively recent, is watching the elderly die." (February 2026)
- "You're being treated to a lowlight reel lovingly amassed by 4chan of all the wretchedness and misery a poor nation of 1.4 billion people has to offer. Did the incidents depicted happen?" (January 2025)
- "We're apparently living in a world where the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service believes that two men who've never met, after chatting on some unnamed internet platform, regularly arrange to meet in a hospital toilet cubicle to do... what, exactly?" (January 2026)
- "On (Noticing) IQ (When You're Allowed To)" (January 2026)
- Apologetics for America (July 2023)
- "Anime recommendation thread..." (July 2025)
- "An Indian Abroad: London 2, Electric Boogaloo" (July 2025)
- "Do Not Render Your Counterfactuals" (July 2025)
- "The brain is not a tool we built." (June 2025)
- "You're mostly right. Psychiatry is largely pre-paradigmatic. We only have very vague ideas about the underlying underpinnings of many of the most common diseases." (March 2024)
- "Any wonders I wish we could all be smarter so my chosen preference of letting everyone decide, for better or worse, about their health, would cost less in bodies and money? I'll still pay with mine." (March 2024)
- "I'm overwhelmed with nostalgia for the now, and feel hope tinged with dread for the future." (March 2025)
- "My Willing Complicity in 'Human Rights Abuse'" (March 2026)
- "It is incredibly myopic to focus on space exploration, colonization and industrialization in terms of 'what can it do for us buggers on Earth today?'." (March 2026)
- "A day in a psych ward will disabuse you of the notion that there's a bright line between sanity and insanity." (March 2026)
- "An Indian Abroad in Thailand" (May 2023)
- "My personal working hypothesis is that therapy acts as a decent substitute for a friend, a non-judgemental and understanding one who has seemingly endless time to listen to your problems, and is forbidden, on the pain of losing the way they make a living, from disclosing your troubles." (May 2024)
- "An Indian Abroad in the UK" (November 2022)
- "You're staring at a map, noting that the map is made of paper, and then worrying that the territory might be made of paper too." (November 2025)
@senord25 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Oh hey something on /r/ssc that I actually feel qualified to comment on! (December 3rd, 2018)
@sensitiveraccoon7371 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@serenabutler β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- what Anti-Fa activists think they're acomplishing (July 2019)
- on playing as the villians (July 2019)
- "...the question is, are dictionary editors really updating based on an actual, genuine, organic shift in the IRL mass use of the word?" (July 2022)
- Having thought about it some more, I now have a theory, and it goes something like this: (June 17th, 2019)
@serfal123 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- similar issues (Memorial Day 2018)
@serialstatelinexer β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@seriously_try_lsd β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Response on succinct terminology (July 23rd, 2018)
@seshfan2 β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I'm not sure. I've worked with suicide researchers in graduate school but it's a bit outside my area. If I had to write about it I'd probably start with Dr. Joiner's interpersonal theory of suicide, w (March 18th, 2019)
- Those types of attacks aren't particularly new - Karl Rove sabotaged McCain's presidency in 2000 by suggesting that he had an illegitimate black child, and I'm sure Swiftboat convinced more than a few (March 18th, 2019)
- Thank you for the well thought out reply. I wanted to hit all of your posts so sorry if I jump around a bit here. (May 13th, 2019)
- From my (limited) understanding, a "dark night" refers to people who suffer negative experiences or negative effects from meditation. The casual day to day 10 minute meditations most people seem unlik (May 27th, 2019)
- A couple of sources (1; 2; 3) seem to pinpoint the term's political origin as being used by liberals in 1930: (May 6th, 2019)
@seven β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The 7 Habits of Highly Fertile People" (January 2025)
@shakes β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "What are we talking about, am I being baited, did Spengler put you up to this? America has no civilization? America invented the modern world!" (March 2026)
- "Maybe Greenland really is important to the Danes, but every time I ask I get drivel about human dignity and what good allies they've been. Since it can't be explained it seems totally irrational." (March 2026)
@shakesneer β 34 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I just made this post about the Easter Worshippers controversy but would like to make a separate point about how partisans frame arguments. (I also hope that putting two posts in the mod queue will le (April 22nd, 2019)
- The alt-right was at the time all about smoothing over its public image, becoming approachable, more mainstream. βThey didnβt have swastikas covering their foreheads,β as McHugh put it. The very (April 29th, 2019)
- This is the subject of Michel Houellebecq's "Submission," which sees France poised to adopt Islam. Not because of Islamic immigration per se, but because the French who rejected secularism turned to I (April 29th, 2019)
- "Guns, bullets, weapons, and knives -- these goods were continuously traded between natives and Europeans." (August 2022)
- "I would not say the entire History of Europe and the West is Christian. But the Church is probably the most important single element." (August 2022)
- What would the Martians Think? (December 1/2 2019)
- East-West divides in American Politics (Extremely Late 2019)
- Why we have a Single Thread (Extremely Late 2019)
- Multigenerational Projects (February 2020)
- The evergreen greatness of Wii Sports. (February 2021)
- Settling matters of political dispute by simply exhausting the opposition. (February 2021)
- Ford vs Ferrari - A male confict (January 2020)
- "I'd like to submit my favorite incidents that took place in the US Capitol (ranked in rough order of seriousness / interestingness)." (January 2022 1/2)
- Review of the Psychology of Totalitarianism in Orwell's "1984" (July 2019)
- on the importance of chronology to understanding history (July 2019)
- talks about pragmatism and morality (July 2019)
- on the differences between verbal and written communication (July 2019)
- "It's often forgotten that basically all of Britain's aims in fighting Nazi Germany (and many of America's) were never achieved." (July 2021 2/2)
- "No, I don't reject reality, when my dog complains about being hungry, I feel hunger too and I understand -- but perhaps that is the only thing I really understand." (July 2021 2/2)
- The Irregularaties of American Elections (June 2/2 2020)
- "My point is not that black people are better or worse than white people, or that systemic forces don't exist -- rather, when we talk about black outcomes being different from white outcomes, we assume that white outcomes are the desired outcomes." (May 2021 1/2)
- "Are we being capably lead? Why did we turn to Fauci? Did we place in him too much trust? Will he be punished and does he deserve to be?" (May 2021 2/2)
- Robert Mueller just gave a brief address without questions and closed the office of the special counsel. (May 27th, 2019)
- Do you think that Mueller is being an active political actor and using his position in an inappropriate way? (May 27th, 2019)
- Here we are, nearly one-fifth of the way through the Twenty-First Century, and many music lovers, if not most, have yet to come to terms with what happened to concert music during the Twentieth Century, during the last century, during them Good 'Ole Days. Well, we are far enough past those Good 'Ole Days that a certain perspective has been achieved, and appropriate appraisals can now be made. -- First Lines (May 27th, 2019)
- I think this story makes for a nice contrast with the food fight over Steven Crowder, especially with this line: (May 27th, 2019)
- I think /u/GrapeGrater is right that "conservatives winning the internet" doesn't even begin to pass the smell test. Conservatives aren't winning the internet. The internet is, in fact, almost inheren (May 27th, 2019)
- I think /u/GrapeGrater is right that "conservatives winning the internet" doesn't even begin to pass the smell test. Conservatives aren't winning the internet. The internet is, in fact, almost in (May 27th, 2019)
- Grammatic Changes People Are Willing to Accept (November 2019)
- The Phonetic Problems with Latinx (November 2019)
- Why Minorities Vote Democrat (November 2019)
- McPherson's "The Battle Cry for Freedom" (November 2019)
- Election Fraud Allegations: What Trump Supporters Are Thinking (November 2020)
- "In that context blackface was transgressive and radically anti-conservative. It was the drag culture of its day." (October 2021 1/2)
@shambibble β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Trademarks (August 13th, 2018)
- Administrative Procedures Act (July 30th, 2018)
- Nixon's Leaked Tax Return (September 17th, 2018)
@shirayuki β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@shiro β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@shnufflemuffigans β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on the masculinity of Home Improvement (July 2019)
- I worry about this sub. The culture war used to be one of my favourite threads and I looked forward to it every week. But more and more I feel this culture war thread is turning into a place where I (June 24th, 2019)
@shockz0rz β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@shredophile β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@shrike β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "There is a process for laundering such leaks or rumors into consensus reality, often quite literally via the New York Times." (February 2024)
- "However, if your rivals have been enforcing their rules without regards for fairness, good things can actually come of returning the favor and enforcing your rules with no regard for fairness." (February 2025)
@siahsargus β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Reddit Fitness Brain meme (September 10th, 2018)
@signalbeforeyoubrake β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Folly of a Group Focusing on Nom-members Failings (August 27th, 2018)
@silver-cheesecake-82 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I think the cluster model does better describe what information is being conveyed between people when they use gendered terms." (July 2022)
- "Shifting the norms towards sex occuring only if it is mutually high preference does strike me as a likely outcome of women gaining economic power." (July 2022)
@sincerelyoffensive β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- explaining the 'red tribe' position on gender dysphoria (09-23-17)
- Fears about Escalating the Culture War (August 13th, 2018)
@sinity β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- It is kinda CW-related." (July 2022)
@sinxoveretothex β 8 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The fact that pacifism is so easily exploited is evidence that it isn't a sustainable system. Being pissed at people exploiting its flaws is like having a super secure fortress⦠with a big red self-de (April 22nd, 2019)
- Law as A Reflection of Society (December 2/2 2019)
- Viewpoints advantaged by Internet Communication (Extremely Late 2019)
- Accountable vs Unaccountable Movements (January 2020)
- on how ideology provides cover for grifters (July 2019)
- The easier it is to survive on your own thanks to improvements in technology and economics, the less beholden people are to a culture that tries to force them to conform to any particular set of (June 10th, 2019)
- I'm not sure how compatible this is with your take although it feels a bit different. (March 25th, 2019)
- Canadian Culture War on: Quebec vs Alberta (November 2019)
@sirjohnfalstaff β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The fantasy of the younger girl is one of nostalgia for one's own lost youth, the freedom and opportunity inherent therein." (August 2025)
- "It used to be that the internet could never hurt you. Now it seems that it can only hurt you." (October 2025)
@situation__normal β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "There are three right-of-centre groups in the European Union's parliament"--discuss. (April 2021)
- "Last week, representatives from 16 European parties, including OrbΓ‘n, Salvini, and Polish Deputy Prime Minister JarosΕaw KaczyΕski, signed a declaration written by Marine Le Pen for the EU's ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe." (July 2021 1/2)
- "After months of silence on these ongoing issues, Pope Francis took a bold stand on Friday by... imposing new restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass!" (July 2021 2/2)
- The matter of papal supremacy. (July 2021 2/2)
- "A few years ago, Spain was seen as a nation where Franco had ended any chance for right-wing government." (November 2021 1/2)
@sizzle50 β 33 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Some surprises incurred when visiting Cuba as a tourist. (02-08-18)
- on the realpolitik of prosecuting accusations of sexual misconduct in the court of public opinion (12-20-17)
- Dating App Advice (August 20th, 2018)
- In what sense does the SJ-left, broadly construed, seek to be manly? In my experience, it's quite the opposite, with the culture in a race to outpace each other as the biggest victim via self-deprecat (December 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Over 2010-2020, the number of people killed by police marginally declined or at worst plateaued, yet perceptions re: policing drastically changed due to concerted, obsessive focus on bad outcomes by an activist media establishment." (April 2021)
- Contra Scott Alexander on Mencius Moldbug and Protests (August 2020)
- "CBP Estimates Border Crossings Reached Highest Level in 21 Years Last Month" (August 2021)
- "So the take-away I'm left with is: performance, facts, reality, behavior simply do not matter in contemporary politics." (August 2021)
- "Certainly, I would've expected some resignations in disgrace - or, frankly, summary terminations - from the Generals who botched this so badly and who spent $100B of Americans' tax dollars training and equipping an army that crumpled like tissue paper without even putting up a fight." (August 2021)
- "President Biden foretells 'winter of severe illness and death' for the unvaccinated..." (December 2021 1/2)
- Political self-identification and quantitative knowledge of fatal police shootings. (February 2021)
- A case-by-case examination of fatal shootings in Minneapolis. (February 2021)
- Do Journalists Believe What They Write? (July 2/2 2020)
- "According to the CDC, the US had a homicide total of 24,692 in 2020, an increase of 5,551 compared to 2019, and an average of 595 extra homicides every month since May." (July 2021 1/2)
- Part 2 (July 2021 1/2)
- Part 3 (July 2021 1/2)
- "In my view, the push for race to be 'irrelevant, of course' was made earlier by the fans annoyed with the overt, on-the-pitch racial activism before every game, and it was roundly rejected by cultural elites, including the players themselves, who insisted on race being an overt consideration in the commentary around their matches." (July 2021 1/2)
- "Really, we have enough evidence to make an incredibly strong conclusion about the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak: it was almost certainly a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology." (July 2021 2/2)
- "The entire Nice Guyβ’ phenomenon stems from the fact that naΓ―ve men who gullibly internalize feminist social messaging feel betrayed and get upset when they realize the messaging is totally false and SNL logic is correct." (July 2021 2/2)
- "Despite the pandemic being an international, global phenomenon - and the lockdowns being de rigueur throughout the first world - nowhere but the US saw astonishing, historically unprecedented rises in crime, and the US did not see the crime surge until the #BLM 'racial reckoning' in the aftermath of the George Floyd coverage." (June 2021 2/2)
- "If proponents of the 'policing deaths catastrophizing' were optimizing for saving life hours, one imagines they would also allow their aggressive, omnipresent social engineering campaigns to bring focus to the simple and obvious concept that one should never flee or resist arrest." (June 2021 2/2)
- Andrew Yang, Esq. is an enigma wrapped in a cipher folded into a fortune cookie. For years he was the CEO of Manhattan Prep, a braintrust of presumed geniuses who each scored in the 99th percentile on (March 11th, 2019)
- The impact of bureaucracy on COVID-19 vaccination approvals. (March 2021)
- Distorted Reality and the Cultural Salience of the Arbery Story (May 1/2 2020)
- Anti-Black Bias in Policing: A Counter-Argument (May 2/2 2020)
- policing the community (May 2021 2/2)
- "The idea that we should have taken COVID more seriously is so alien to me as to be barely comprehensible." (May 2021 2/2)
- The response to COVID-19 was worse than the disease--by the numbers. (May 2021 2/2)
- Critiquing 'The Watchmen' (November 2019)
- Vaccine Production, Release, and Politics (November 2020)
- The True Cost of BLM (November 2020)
- Contra Nate Silver on Polling Errors (November 2020)
- The Provenance of Certain Hard Drives (October 2/2 2020)
@sizzle60 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- American Cultural Dominance Abroad (April 22nd, 2019)
@skibboleth β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@skulldrinker β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@sl1200mk5 β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- It would be evidence that the status quo is still "someone in the outgroup goes viral, an avalanche of harassment will follow" (December 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- As Hong Kong goes, so will our Future (Extremely Late 2019)
- >There are some who argue that this is impossible due to the nature of dopamine and whatnot (March 11th, 2019)
- Hold on to your jimmies: this starts on a mellow note (pretty desert flowers!) but escalates quickly. (March 18th, 2019)
- Give it another decade, and it'll be all privilege, all the way down. (March 25th, 2019)
@slightlylesshairyape β 8 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How liberals see socially conservative muslims (Extremely Late 2019)
- The Mythical Man Month (Extremely Late 2019)
- Anti-Anti-Work (January 2020)
- on appeasing bad behavior (July 2019)
- Extending the Standards of Our Time to the Villians (June 2/2 2020)
- The benefits of preventing people from being put into the criminal justice system in the first place. (March 2021)
- Slogans As Calls For Relative Movement (May 2/2 2020)
- Framing the hill to (not) die on. (May 2021 2/2)
@sloot β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Men's preferences, such as that for female youth and chastity, are demonized as creepy fetishes. Women's preferences, such as that for male height and status, are deemed valid..." (December 2024)
- "So even under the 30% scenario, genotypic IQ still matters plentyβmuch less the 50% or heaven forbid, 80% scenario." (December 2025)
- "But yeah, I too have Noticed that the vibes of gay clubs tend be to tamer and less horny than what straight men might have in their heads as a stereotype." (January 2026)
- "It's Male Expendability: The Movie, where not even Manic Pixie Dream Chad was immune to male expendability. Who do men have to relate to?" (June 2023)
- "So itβs natural if some annoyance results, especially when men's experiences in romantic contexts suggest that women are not, in fact, strong independent hyperagentic girl-bosses (more like the opposite)." (June 2023)
- "Horseshoe theory strikes again: Feminists and manospherians agree, the primary worth of women is sex and child-bearing." (November 2024)
@slootando β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The fragility of a comfortable lifestyle and the strength of those with nothing to lose. (February 2021)
- "It strains credibility to me that Redfin doesn't see how most people would view the absence of (violent) crime to be a chief component of safety." (February 2022)
- "What youβve noticedβthe evolution of 'incel' into a generalised ad hominem to keep men in lineβhas been around sufficiently long that counter-memes have arisen against it." (July 2022)
- Why Large Relationship Age Gaps Are Less Controversial With Younger Males (May 2/2 2020)
@slowboy β 5 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Google, undoubtedly, put their finger on the scale to produce this absurd Gemini AI." (February 2024)
- "Hillary didn't deliberately allow her personal emails to be hacked. She just created the exact conditions in which, if it's not inevitable, it was extremely likely. She had no legitimate reason to do this." (June 2023)
- "Thinking about these policy wonk ideas isn't a more elevated form of politics stripped from emotion and chance. It's actually a degeneration." (June 2024)
- "It's been a long time since we've discussed Trump, and there have been a number of developments in the court cases against him, and so I'm here to say that our long mottizan nightmare of peace and tranquility is finally over." (May 2024)
- "The problem is that a lot of the data he relies on is bad. A lot of the polling industry is still wrong." (November 2024)
@slowlikeafish β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@slowtalkingnomad β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The whole thing was incredibly polarizing, so there aren't many good sources of coverage. I'm summarizing from memory here, but I'll try to remain neutral: (April 1st, 2019)
@snapdragon64 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Arg. I know you mentioned this offhandedly in a comment downstream, but I think it really, really needs to be emphasized. The statistic Bernie Sanders quoted is extremely useless and misleading. (February 11th, 2019)
- And today's society is more tolerant of weird behaviors like being gay, there's less potential for blackmail there, especially with today's decentralized and saturated media environment. (May 20th, 2019)
@snnapaagrin β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Different approaches to Constitutional interpretation, and how they relate to the political spectrum. (February 2021)
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nihil supernum
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AAQCs by User β Part 3 of 3
@sodiummuffin β 21 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On how the meaning of "gaslighting" has evolved in recent years. (01-04-18)
- "Scott avoids using the term SJW and tends to say "social justice community" or the like, but there's a tendency in this thread to go even broader and say "blue tribe" even when there's no blue/red conflict going on." (01-09-18)
- Survivorship bias with regards to censorship of the Intellectual Dark web (IDW). (05-07-18)
- why we're not all using MySpace (10-14-17)
- image board dynamics (11-06-17)
- The evolving demographics of non-Puppies (August 13th, 2018)
- The Secret History of SRS (August 27th, 2018)
- This isn't quite what you asked for but here's my favored steelman as someone fairly sympathetic to socialism. I think a good chunk of socialists would dismiss it via the βSocialism is when the govern (January 21st, 2019)
- Never Changes (June 18th, 2018)
- Memes in Internet Political Discourse (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- >For neo-Redpillers, however, taking the red pill means accepting that the world is secretly controlled by women, and that by understanding this they will be able to transcend that power structure (April 1st, 2019)
- "Somehow despite talking about the importance of implementation over ideas your impression of effective altruism seems to be entirely based on internet drama and you apparently didn't notice that the implementation happened years ago and was successful." (August 2021)
- "Imagine a society where, if a black student 'acted white' in school, his friends and teachers encouraged him to consider whether he had a 'white racial identity', with the school potentially referring him for skin-bleaching treatments." (August 2022)
- "It's literally the same people but it's mainstream anti-racism or fringe anti-semitism based on whether you mention they're white or jewish." (May 2022)
- "A famous problem with diagnosis is that it's easy for the false-positives to overwhelm the true positives depending on the combination of how common the condition is in the tested population and how prone to false positives the detection method is." (May 2022)
- HBD Proponents On Jewish Brilliance (October 2/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Native children didn't go to residential schools because they were 'kidnapped', they went because their parents believed it was better than the alternatives, including the alternative of not going to school at all." (August 2023)
- "A treatment as far-reaching and poorly-understood as preventing puberty should not be adopted as standard practice without conducting the research required to know if it is safe and effective." (May 2025)
- "I think the biggest takeaway here is exactly how little evidence is required for WPATH to declare something a 'gender identity' requiring 'medically necessary gender-affirming care'." (November 2022)
- "In the same way that parapsychology serves as a control-group for science, I think identities like otherkin, transracialism, and systems/plurals/headmates function as a control-group for gender identity." (October 2022)
- "For example the Gamergate surveys showed GG to have strongly left-wing demographics - but who would you trust to not fire you if a media campaign was screaming about how you were a racist, a group of Republican activists or a group of Gamergators?" (September 2022)
@sohois β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π£ TheMotte.org era
@solarity52 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on the fragility of progress (July 2019)
@sololipsist β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- So I have a similar, relevant story. (November 12th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- People are going to try to give you over-complicated reasons. The answer is really that it's more simple than you're making it out to be. (April 29th, 2019)
- So Feminism. (June 17th, 2019)
- Now a lot of speculation is about to follow, so take this with a grain of salt (March 11th, 2019)
@solomute β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Futility of Riots (June 1/2 2020)
- A Resident's Account of the Minneapolis Riots (June 1/2 2020)
@solowingpixy β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "At some point you're going to have to quit blaming those pesky Confederates and either come up with a solution or admit that you don't have one, because it's not our fault that black kids in Baltimore can't read." (July 2023)
- "I find it interesting how siblings who by and large grew up in the same house can have radically differing opinions of their relatives..." (May 2025)
@solowng β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A True Hillbilly Eliegy (June 2/2 2020)
- Why Not More Anti-Police Riots In the South? (May 2/2 2020)
- Examining the GOP history with black voters (November 2020)
@somealarbalo β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@somethingmusic β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Writing a diatribe on the state of classical music is a whole lot easier than practicing said music, so here goes!" (October 2021 1/2)
@sophisticatedbean β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Culture War Science, Cherry Picked, 7th ed. (September 17th, 2018)
@sophisticatedhillbilly β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@sorie_k β 12 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I recently finished Ron Chernowβs excellent biography βAlexander Hamilton,β and wanted to discuss it a little." (August 2021)
- "'Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World,' is Niall Fergusonβs history of the British Empire, supposedly from the perspective that British colonialism was 'a good thing.'" (December 2021 2/2)
- "What's the deal with tariffs?" (February 2022)
- "Is the East Asian Miracle just having really good deals with the US?" (February 2022)
- βRegulating the Poorβ Book Review (January 2022 2/2)
- "Was British Colonization Good for India? (No)" (January 2022 2/2)
- "Decoupling Industrial Policy and Pro-Worker Policies" (March 2022)
- "The Horseshoe of Dictatorship and Democracy" (November 2021 1/2)
- "I had never analogized Slavic unification to the German and Italian projects, and it caused me to ask: why did the formal collapse while the latter two endured?" (October 2021 1/2)
- Book Summary: "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century" (October 2021 1/2)
- Book Summary: "The Grand Strategy of the Hapsburg Empire" by Wess Mitchell (October 2021 1/2)
- "The woke arenβt Post Liberal; Classical Liberals are." (October 2021 2/2)
@soriek β 24 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "OβTooleβs criticisms of trains are not inherent to their engineering, but in very large part contingent on the way the investment in car infrastructure saps away their ridership." (April 2023)
- "Why isnβt anarchism talked about more?" (April 2023)
- "Has the Beinoff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Report been discussed yet here?" (August 2023)
- "OSHA Effectiveness: MMTYWTK" (August 2023)
- "How does the IRA affect Pharma rearch and development?" (August 2023)
- Transnational Thursdays 7 (July 2023)
- Transnational Thursdays 8 (July 2023)
- Transnational Thursdays 9 Special Edition: Forgotten Wars (July 2023)
- Transnational Thursdays 10 (July 2023)
- "How much did America contribute to decolonization?" (July 2023)
- "Legislative Updates: Senate Appropriations Committee Mark Up" (July 2023)
- last month's quality contribution report (June 2023)
- International Updates 2 (June 2023)
- "Thucydidean Thursdays (International Updates) 3" (June 2023)
- "Transnational Thursdays 4" (June 2023)
- "Transnational Thursdays 5" (June 2023)
- "Transnational Thursdays 6" (June 2023)
- "From Institution Building to Identity Building and Back Again" (June 2023)
- "Book Review: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles" (March 2023)
- "Book Summary: The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s by William Hitchcock" (March 2023)
- "Consolidated Markets in Healthcare" (May 2023)
- "International Updates" (May 2023)
- "What would privatizing Social Security look like?" (October 2023)
- "Drawing Connections between Distant Events" (October 2023)
@soulburster β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- How many people should you hang in a real game of Werewolf? (September 2020)
@southkraut β 10 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "We're all just closing our eyes and holding our ears in the hope that no matter how many dysgenic incentives society provides, there will never be a dangerous amount of people accumulating on the minimum acceptable supported bottom of public welfare." (April 2021)
- Putting On a Preaching Hat (July 2/2 2020)
- "Historical injustices are impossible to resolve productively, especially in a moral framework that rejects every kind of group in favor the individual, and even more so now that some groups are re-introduces as acceptable as long as they belong to the canon of historical victims." (May 2021 2/2)
- "Making cars more complex, more expensive to buy and maintain, and less enjoyable to drive, and doing as much damage to the myth of the car as possible, seem to me to be obvious intermediate goals here." (October 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Most Germans reflexively and thoroughly hate anything smelling of right-wing wrongthink, in a way that even American wokes have not yet come close to." (December 2022)
- "But for us Germans, the state was never truly a democracy; the most we ever managed was to be handed whatever form of democracy our betters thought suitable for us, by the state and against the people." (February 2024)
- "This place is, to me, like a martial arts club. You go in, you find someone to spar with, and by the end of the day you learned something about your weaknesses and bad habits." (July 2025)
- "The pioneers of yesteryear most likely would have turned out just like Harold, had they lived in a Schlaraffenland where you get paid for existing and sugar comes in through every pore." (July 2025)
- "IMO we should be able to apply our hindsight and come up with better judgement than 'Lee did good' or 'Lee did bad'." (November 2023)
- "Such is the dominant discourse in Germany, as imposed by the victors of WW2, and you're getting a taste of it now." (September 2025)
@sp8der β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Wokeness as luxury belief system, status signaling framework, and/or religion in the US versus UK. (January 2021)
- Analyzing 4Chan's Opnions on Sex, Women, and Gays (Mod Note on: Oh My!) (November 2019)
@spacehammerhead β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@spacerenrgy2 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Our story ends there, with our young girl trapped in a cult facility, final fate unknown." (May 2022)
@spadflyer12 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@specialdisaster9 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@split16 β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- letting Gorillas play in the NFL (04-30-18)
- an n=1 experiment about forcing people to carry weapons (11-14-17)
@spookykou β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So I might be projecting, but when I hear someone say that 'maybe the religious doomsayers were on to something', it speaks to me." (February 2024)
@spreek β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@sqxleaxes β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@sscbooks β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "In my experience, "Boys will be boys" basically exists to assuage the worries of concerned mothers." (02-01-18)
- Stuff that genuinely sucks about rationalism (02-08-18)
- Warhammer 40k, fascism, and LARPing (04-02-18)
@sscreader β 12 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Remember in movies where they would give the other person a free punch at them so they would feel better? That, but groups." (January 2022 2/2)
- "If you don't find God as a Christian as strange and unsettling and weird, then I would argue, you haven't paid attention." (July 2022)
- ...or do they? (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It's either staggering incompetence or a scapegoat for the loss, but at least in PA, The Republican party were all for mail in voting... until they weren't." (August 2023)
- "To recap, to the progressive movement Kamala is black and Black, but to many Black people themselves, she is merely black." (August 2024)
- "If you want more babies, you have to convince enough socially influential women to shame and judge other women for not having enough kids." (February 2023)
- "Rick Priestley was a Classics and Ancient History graduate and states that 40K is what happens if a medieval society was a spacefaring one." (January 2024)
- "Academia does not create the Blue Tribe, it is in its current form created by the Blue Tribe." (July 2025)
- "You have to want to actually communicate with the people whose ideas you hate and find violently dusgusting I think, to get the most out of this space." (March 2025)
- "Predators will use different tactics in different situations and both situations have failure modes. This absolutely should be kept in mind in both scenarios by everyone who is involved." (October 2022)
- "But at some point if there is to be a real long lasting peace deal (and that is by no means certain), then at some point in the future Israelis are going to have to get past the deaths that occurred at the weekend and Palestinians will have to get past the deaths happening now." (October 2023)
- "You are confusing the online edgy alt-right types for MAGA republicans." (September 2022)
@stackathon β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on wild animal rights (04-02-18)
@standard_order β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Pre-WWII Allied Propagana Against the Germans (June 2/2 2020)
- Feminism and Nice Guyism - Their Problems have the same causes (November 2019)
- The Unmaking of John T. Flynn: A Parallel to Greenwald (November 2020)
- Has Egalitarianism Gone Too Far? (November 2020)
- Problematizing Chess (October 1/2 2020)
- A few notes on QAnon (September 2020)
@stayspooky420 β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Value of a BA (July 23rd, 2018)
- A suggested reading list for understanding the left (July 2nd, 2018)
- On German Philosophers and the left (July 2nd, 2018)
- A Blue collar Stranger in a Strange Middle Class Land (June 18th, 2018)
@stefferi β 35 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- comment on the ideology of MLK (01-15-18)
- Cliff's notes on MLK's ideology (02-01-18)
- history of the german political party Die Linke (03-08-18)
- the LaRouche movement (04-02-18)
- response to werttrew (05-14-18)
- the crisis of European social democracy (11-01-17)
- The Finnish Asylum System (August 13th, 2018)
- The FΓΌhrer's Speech (August 27th, 2018)
- Capturing the American Flag (July 16th, 2018)
- OKcupid on the demographics of politics (July 23rd, 2018)
- Linguistic Nationalism (July 30th, 2018)
- European left and right in the 20th century (June 11th, 2018)
- Critiquing the"NPC" Meme (October 15th, 2018)
- Problems with the word Woke (September 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Reading notes on Fountainhead" (August 2022)
- An insider look at Finland's COVID-19 response (December 2020)
- "Recently, Finland has gone through another bout of discussion about nuclear power." (December 2021 2/2)
- The LaRouche Movement (Extremely Late 2019)
- Okay, effortpost: (February 18th, 2019)
- The Tactics of Sander's Socialist Branding (February 2020)
- "Cultural appropriation" as a matter of people being territorial about status indicators. (February 2021)
- "Culture war in Finland: Covid 2022 edition" (January 2022 1/2)
- "Essentially everything about Finnish security policy revolves around Russia." (January 2022 2/2)
- "Inspired by Canada, Finland has now had a weekend of convoy protests in Helsinki, as well." (January 2022 2/2)
- There are TERFs and There are "TERFs" (June 1/2 2020)
- American Conservatism Is a House Built Against Itself (May 1/2 2020)
- "I can't help but see all AI discussions in the light of my own profession; translation." (May 2022)
- So, the European Parliament elections happened. All the countries in the EU elected their delegations to the 750-member European parliament. There were some surprises in the results, and not in the wa (May 27th, 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "During the present war the Finnish society has been firmly pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian." (January 2023)
- "And 'putting a hippy-dippy sheen on processes designed to make money' describes quite a bit of what WEF does, really." (January 2023)
- "One of the problems is that we are so used to living in the World That Liberalism Made that we can't really often see how radical the core ideas of liberalism were and, indeed, are (if you don't take them as given)." (March 2024)
- "The reasons for why civil rights legislation, including affirmative action, have been enacted and are maintained in the US have at least at much to do with external as with internal policy." (March 2024)
- "The Finnish government has spent most of the last weeks squabbling (November 2022)
- obscure even in Finland β SΓ‘mi issues." (November 2022)
- "In many ways, these sort of 'tankies' are another representation of what I've called "ossified progressivism"in reference to TERFs..." (October 2022)
@steve132 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Overwhelming Cultural Victory of Copyright Reform Movement (November 2020)
@steveagain β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A lot has been made of demands for "ideological purity" on the left, but imo this completely misses the mark." (April 2025)
- "So a border patrol agent was killed by a trans vegan-extremist terror cult that came out of Bay Area rationalist culture." (January 2025)
@stillerthanthestorm β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Peterson, Pronouns, and the (Ir)relavence of Self Identification (June 2/2 2020)
@stillsut β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- astericks (August 6th, 2018)
@stjohnofpatmos β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@stockuserid β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Has Cthulhu really swum left? (July 23rd, 2018)
- existential threats (Memorial Day 2018)
@strappingfrequent β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- " If Ukraine is willing to fight -- and polling indicates that they are -- then NATO has no reason to disrupt this status quo." (January 2023)
@stucchio β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Assimilating in India (July 9th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...are we getting too close to the scary prospect of making your claims falsifiable?" (August 2022)
- Wondering if President Trump's distaste for bureaucrats made him the MVP in global COVID-19 response (December 2020)
- "Nothing about us without us." (February 2022)
- Why EM radiation from your cell phone should not be high on your list of health concerns. (January 2021)
- on bad laws (July 2019)
- "The only thing comparable to modern cancellation that I can think of was the Hollywood Blacklist. Even that wasn't anywhere near as wide ranging as modern cancellation." (July 2022)
- "At this point, it seems that to very little fanfare, Ron DeSantis has become a great champion of YIMBY." (July 2022)
- The United States of America is much bigger than New York and San Francisco--combined! (March 2021)
- "...our views on housing policy are horribly warped by the fact that a crazily disproportionate number of people writing about them live in NYC or SF and don't actually know what America is like." (March 2022)
@subrosian_smithy β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On Blanchard's typology of trans gender (02-01-18)
@substantialfrivolity β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@sudonhim β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Biologist Julian Huxley predicted scientism in culture war (02-01-18)
- One of my favorite takes on the sex/gender issue, from enye-word. This one centered on "non-binaries", but its relevant to the pronouns issue. Source (December 31st, 2018)
@summerspeaker β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On their experience at a recent BLM event (09-30-17)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Intro (February 11th, 2019)
@sunday02 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Intrinsic Superiority of Literature as Storytelling Format (June 1/2 2020)
@sunshine β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It seems like journalists and government officials have been spreading disinformation since before the invention of the telegraph." (July 2025)
- "The Reincarnation of Julius Caesar or: Why So Many People Give Trump a Pass for Corruption" (May 2025)
- "I agree, but I want to present a different way of looking at it: Men and women are offended by different things." (October 2025)
@supah_schmendrick β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- The Rise, Decline, and Stubborn Persistence of the Alt Right and Their Ideas (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Like, yes, black people were treated as socially inferior. But you really, REALLY can't draw a straight line from that fact to a particular economic outcome." (April 2022)
- Pet theory - both sides are out of power ... at least, "power" as they understand it. The Republicans / conservative movement, whose ideology emphasizes Bukean "little platoons," limited government (February 25th, 2019)
- This only happens when the host culture has strong assimilatory pressures. In the first part of the 20th century, those pressures were so strong they look rather oppressive to modern eyes. There w (February 25th, 2019)
- While I know this is yesterday's controversy (yesterday being metaphorical rather than literal here, because the news cycle is so thick and fast I can't keep track of anything anymore), I thought some (June 24th, 2019)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "In fact, the checking of one aggressive force (wokism) by an equally and oppositely-aggressive one (Trumpism) is precisely the balancing of powers and passions contemplated by Madison and the federalists." (February 2025)
- "Once someone realizes they're being defected against in the game of civilization, they've been thrown back into the Hobbesian state of War, and are justified in looking out for the Big Idea..." (March 2023)
- "Better to focus positive efforts on the things close by, to which I am already bound." (November 2022)
- "For example: no-one suppresses the speech of Ibram X. Kendi, Ta-Nahesi Coates, or thinks about reining in the legion of diversocrats who make a profession out of demonizing 'whiteness,' when radicalized black racialists kill white people, or torture white people, or assault random white people because they are white." (November 2022)
- "Unless there is some significant increase in productivity to drive prices back down, people are still having to pay more for goods and services than they did previously; their money is worth less and they are poorer now than they were previously." (October 2023)
@superkamiokande β 3 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the concept of multi-generational stressors (04-18-18)
- Is r/SSC two sets of contrarians butting heads? (August 13th, 2018)
- Does something being social construct mean that it can, or should be changed? (July 30th, 2018)
@sushiandwow β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Software works like this. It just does stuff the way it was programmed, it needs no memory of having been programmed. (October 2019)
@syrrim β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The importance of myth in protecting and developing fragile psyches (December 2020)
- Re-examing Who is Doing the Opressing (November 2019)
@tailcalled β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@tanista β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Yes, everyone knows the caveats to the statement 'men and women are the same'. But it's hardly my fault that we continually allow some people to turn the ratchet in one direction until we're now arguing about men in women's sports." (August 2024)
- "Things are sacred if you'll pay a price for violating them." (January 2025)
- "Textual criticism for Muslims is a train: they reach their station (Bible is corrupted and they took out the references to Mohammed) and get off." (June 2023)
- "Is the Gender War the oddest 'culture war?'" (October 2022)
- "Whenever a seemingly egregious firing or cancelling happens there's always some apologist who comes out to tell us that either we're missing the holy Context and that X, Y and Z awful and 'problematic' things happened behind the scenes or it's basically just made up, playing on conservative hysteria." (October 2022)
- "If the recent trans thing has shown anything, it's that turning identities into mere markers for self-expression that can be donned and doffed at will can functionally destroy them and the goods they provided." (September 2022)
@teleoplexy β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Canadians, you don't have to give up multiple streets of your beautiful city. This city doesn't really need to stay medieval." (March 2025)
- "Fundamentally, we have less opportunities to exercise agency anymore and that shapes one's mind in a weird way. It embeds the Watchers in the back of your mind when they are not there physically." (November 2025)
@temppaleo β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Genetic Drift (June 18th, 2018)
@tenaz β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I would never have expected to develop an aversion to Adderall--it seems to solve basically all my problems--but to some small extent that has happened." (April 2024)
- "I recently heard of yaslighting, which is where instead of convincing someone their true beliefs are delusional, you affirm their delusional beliefs and convince them they're true." (May 2024)
@tequilamockingbird β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@testing123 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@tetridict β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@tetsugakusei β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on the Lacanian gaze. (01-04-18)
@texas_rockets β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@texasjefferson β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Apologies in advance, but I'm going to use some private vocabulary because I'm far too tired to bother looking up the standard terms. (November 12th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- X/Harm when evaluating claims (December 1/2 2019)
@tfowler11 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Negligence in Police Firearms Training (January 2020)
@thbb β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@the_fooder β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Firsthand View of Gang Culture at Work (July 1/2 2020)
- I just finished this wikipedia article about the Black Legend, the "theory that anti-Spanish political propaganda from the 16th century or earlier, whether about Spain, the Spanish Empire or Hispanic America, was sometimes "absorbed and converted into broadly held stereotypes" that assumed that Spain was "uniquely evil." (May 20th, 2019)
@the_golem101 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@the_lords_prior β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I'm skeptical that Valentines day really has as much signalling power as you're claiming. (February 2019)
@the_nybbler β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Clearly the Supreme Court can make decisions which have effect; they just chose not to." (July 2024)
@the_propaganda β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@the_reason_trump_won β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π’ r/TheMotte era
@the_straylight_run β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@the-rotting-word β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Comparing Programmers to HR (September 2020)
@theantipopulist β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A summary of where I think AI stands for software developers as of 2025." (December 2025)
- "Predictions of AI progress hinge on two questions that nobody has convincing answers for." (May 2025)
@thebookofallan β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@thecanadianzoomer β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Whatever Happened to Youthful Rebellion?" (September 2021 1/2)
@thecircusweakman β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Can someone help me understand the continuing opposition to Citizens United?" (June 2024)
- "A rule freeing cops from having to articulate probable cause for certain kinds of minimally-intrusive searches would greatly increase the crime-fighting ability of law enforcement, at negligible cost to the law-abiding masses." (May 2025)
@thedag β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It may be time to stop assuming that the causes of our problems originate directly from the outside world and update to a view that many more major problems could be solved if we simply change our cultural beliefs." (February 2023)
- "For a young man in a contemporary world that is entirely individual-centric, what is the appeal of any altruistic act?" (July 2023)
- "It's ironic that so many folks in the movement will tell you to your face they don't care about credentials, only impact, and yet the entire leadership is nothing but blue-blooded Ivy League grads and other well-connected elites." (November 2022)
@thedarklyblue β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Incredibly, I have heard city and state elected officials who were opponents of the project claim that Amazon was getting $3 billion in government subsidies that could have been better spent on ho (February 18th, 2019)
@theegoslaststand β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Part one. (March 2021)
- Part two. (March 2021)
- Part three. (March 2021)
- Part four. (March 2021)
- Part five. (March 2021)
- Part six (March 2021)
- in two parts (March 2021)
@thefooder β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Yes, I'm making a prediction: wholesale deportation won't happen." (December 2024)
- "Most of the K-12 stuff is state level with recommendations from DoE with few hard requirements." (September 2024)
@thegolem_101 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Seaweed cultivation and the causes of famine in the world today. (April 2021)
- "Corruption is not a side effect of systems, something a thin layer of bad people do because no one is watching. It is the system." (November 2021 1/2)
@theguineapig21 β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I don't know if there's one single good way to nutshell it. There's a corruption element, there's governance issues, partisan politics. Protectionist policies and bad regulations hurt. But more to the (February 11th, 2019)
- "Erin O'Toole is out as Conservative Party leader" (January 2022 2/2)
- "...the biggest mass shooting in Canadian history occurred over April 18/19, 2020..." (June 2021 1/2)
- OK, I need to put the obligatory "I'm not an expert disclaimer ahead of this, but I've read a fair amount of history that although not necessarily directly about slavery, was slavery-adjacent. (March 4th, 2019)
- What if Hitler Died in 1939? (May 2/2 2020)
@thehivemindspeaketh β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- As a resident lefty, I feel compelled to reply. (November 19th, 2018)
@thejdizzler β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "What Robinson is highlighting with his trilogy about colonizing Mars, perhaps the ultimate scientific endeavor, is that unless this changes, the science is not going to get done properly in the real world." (August 2025)
- "In Defense of A Song of Ice and Fire and George R. R. Martin" (December 2024)
- "Books I read in 2024" (January 2025)
- "As promised my review of Peter Attia's Outlive." (January 2026)
- "I started the first volume of Capital with an offshoot of my philosophy book club last July, and we wrapped up the book late last month." (March 2026)
- "So I finally finished The Years of Rice and Salt by KSR by recommendation of @self_made_human and my 15-year-old self." (November 2025)
@theknowledgehammer β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Voting Peculiarities in Georgia (May 2022)
@theladyinviolet β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Many Uses of "Non-Binary" (September 2020)
@thelastderail β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@themadrevelation β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Nature versus nurture in trans-Atlantic crime demographics. (February 2021)
@themoosh β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@themotte-jmw β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "The Catholic Mass changed significantly with the aftermath of Vatican II." (December 2021 2/2)
@then_election_7412 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why we should mostly just abolish penitentiaries. (March 2021)
@thenateross β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π’ r/TheMotte era
- (Epistemic status: not half-assed necessarily, but not totally thought out either--maybe two-thirds-assed?) (March 25th, 2019)
@thenelection β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A boy is at least one order of magnitude more likely to be murdered by his mother than a girl by an incel (though both happen extraordinarily rarely). Should we make a TV show about it?" (April 2025)
- "Data centers are far, far more complicated than setting up a desktop and WiFi in your home network times a million." (December 2025)
- "The issue with homeless shelters is quite simple: other homeless people." (March 2025)
@theoutlaw1983 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@there342 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Political discourse as small talk" (October 2025)
@thesingularthey β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Pain, Rage, and the Lion with the Infected Tooth (June 1/2 2020)
- Musings on Normiefication (March 2020)
@thesmuganimegirl β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@theunitofcaring β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@theutilitaria β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Sam Harris gives a TED interview (November 5, 2018)
@thewalrusischad β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Contestant selection is a big one. (December 17th, 2018)
@thewolfetoneofwallst β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Federal Law Enforcement Overreach on the West Coast (July 2/2 2020)
@thirdtimesthecharm β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Living On A Narrowboat (July 1/2 2020)
@thirteenvalleys β 21 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Trying to get into the minds (June 18th, 2018)
- Rights (Memorial Day 2018)
- Based on this thread and this one, I worry that this forum is reaching a place where the law of the land is that no leftist belief is ever legitimate or authentic, that it's virtue signaling or brainw (November 12th, 2018)
- What Would it Take to Create National Unity in the US (October 1st, 2018)
- 4 Signposts Signaling the End of the Culture War (October 8th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The N-Word as Rules Lawyer Test (April 2020)
- "Why should we expect political linearity across time and space to be the rule rather than the exception?" (April 2021)
- "The point of this post is primarily to talk about what that 'middle' might be, such that it includes most of the good faith actors and doesn't shelter the bad ones." (April 2021)
- Overinterpretation, a Game (February 2020)
- How the world looks when you see high-status, high-paying jobs as rewards for the deserving rather than responsibilities for the capable. (February 2021)
- The "Noticed Class(es)" (July 1/2 2020)
- post on trans issues (July 2019)
- Abandoning the Blue Tribe Faith, But Keeping Its Epistemology (June 1/2 2020)
- Binary Political Weapons (June 2/2 2020)
- Societies with cohesive values don't need liberalism in the first place, because everybody gets along anyway. Liberalism is supposed to be a solution to how a bunch of people with different values can (June 24th, 2019)
- The Origin of Boomer-Hate (March 2020)
- In Favor of a Social Safety Net (March 2020)
- Anything can be right-wing, if you're far enough to the left. (March 2021)
- The Archetypal Loathing of Karens (May 2/2 2020)
- Viruses Do Not Care About Signaling (May 2/2 2020)
- "My experience with hundreds of area high school students over two years does not paint a picture of a generation failed by institutional incompetence." (May 2021 1/2)
@thisismymilitaryalt β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Interplay of Race and Race Narratives in the US Military (July 1/2 2020)
@thisissin β 6 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I think there's an article waiting to be written about the two genders actually being "capital" and "labor", and transgenderism is best defined by what happens when you cross those lines." (February 2023)
- "If that happens, the furries ... will have been responsible for putting the Musk dynasty in charge of the entire world and the flag of the future will be a pawprint softly caressing a human face forever." (February 2023)
- "The ultimate problem with the P320 is that it's a case study in extreme cost cutting." (July 2025)
- "it's supposed to feel like losing every single virginity at once to a beautiful woman who takes you to bed simply because you asked her to" (March 2025)
- "This is more a 'take stock of one's blessings' post than anything else..." (October 2023)
- "What happens when a society structured around food scarcity runs into the brick wall that is the hydroelectric generating station, the internal combustion engine, the assembly line, the farming combine, smokeless powder/dynamite/the other trappings of modern chemistry, the Haber-Bosch process, practical fixed-wing aviation, and hundreds of thousands of others?" (October 2025)
@thomanou β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@thomasthepaineengine β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "As a naturalized American, and out of curiosity about recurring public rituals, I decided to spend some time this morning to research this holiday." (November 2022)
- "It's a vibes-based world out there. So lay down your arguments, your charts and numbers, your ideas on cause and effect, and start vibing." (September 2022)
@throwaway_rm6h3yuqtb β 6 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- When a r/SSC boy becomes a r/SSC man (August 27th, 2018)
- > witchparty (January 28th, 2019)
- Succinct Terminology (July 23rd, 2018)
- We're less than 6 months from the 20th anniversary of Columbine, and there's something I've noticed that I wanted to ask about here. I remember Columbine as a media frenzy that found a spot on the nig (October 22nd, 2018)
- Leaky Abstraction in Law Enforcement (October 8th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The MCAT has questions that require you to answer the SJ approved answer to political content. (April 22nd, 2019)
@throwaway05 β 8 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Okay so occasionally a student comes up to me and goes: 'Um, what do we do for patient's with insomnia?'" (April 2025)
- Several (August 2024)
- posts (August 2024)
- intertwining (August 2024)
- "I do get asked 'how do I find a good doctor then.' I don't have good advice for this." (January 2025)
- "On Provision of Violence: (And some mild trauma processing)." (January 2026)
- "Every physician I know who doesn't have a financial stake in midlevels (and isn't in admin) tells their friends and family to only see doctors whenever possible. That's for a reason." (May 2024)
- "Imagine you are a trauma surgeon." (September 2024)
@throwaway1013342 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- hyphenomicon has it pretty much covered below, but I wanted to add a few bits. (January 14th, 2019)
@throwaway20230125 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- Six Months in the Life of a Civil Engineer (January 2023)
@throwaway5675348 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Moral Relativism and #Metoo (October 1st, 2018)
@throwawaygendertheorist β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Why biological sex and not 'gender identity' matters (April 2023)
- norms, culture and language" (April 2023)
@thrownaway24e89172 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@thrw2534122019 β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@tidus_gold β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Thinking about what vegans, pro-life activists, and abolitionists have in common (December 2020)
- A first-person account of the effects of MDMA. (January 2021)
- The Platform (2020), a Kafkaesque Illustration of the Molochian Trap (May 1/2 2020)
- The Desire for Freedom as Recognition (November 2020)
- Cleaving Apart Tolerance and Normalcy (October 2/2 2020)
@tikimixologist β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@tilting_gambit β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An in-depth look at possible military conflict in Taiwan. (January 2021)
@tiltinggambit β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@time_to_poast β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Mottes and Baileys of "Believe All Women" (May 1/2 2020)
@timthe7th β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@tinyjibble β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@titaniumbutterfly β 4 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The Birmingham City Council employed (employed) garbagemen, roadworkers, and grave diggers, who naturally were mostly men." (April 2025)
- "Civ4's treatment of unit consolidation and movement makes vastly more sense than any later entry in the series." (December 2024)
- No, I don't think that captive animals, except perhaps those taken from the wild, have any idea what they're missing. But that doesn't mean they're not missing it. (February 2024)
- "A husband is a Daddy you choose" (February 2026)
@titus_1_15 β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The importance of Ireland to the UK and the EU (December 2020)
- The development of Ricardian free trade. (July 2021 2/2)
- "Proposing that some people be un-peopled, placed beyond the bounds of universalist common-feeling, is a massive civilisational retrograde step. That's why, as a general principle, we should give a fuck about social grievances." (July 2021 2/2)
- IQ and Ireland: A Test Case (June 2/2 2020)
- "No taxation without representation" is a canard (October 1/2 2020)
@titus_1_16 β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "This is the sense in which, post-2010s, all marriages are gay marriages." (December 2022)
- "Oppression makes brutes of a people, and the oppressor ends up riding a tiger." (December 2022)
- "Michelle Obama, and millions of other mannish-looking women, have been negatively impacted by trans liberation." (March 2025)
@tk-421 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@to_mandalay β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Groups that once had high violent crime rates but don't anymore..." (December 2022)
- "A couple weeks ago I had an argument with people on here about the Sexual Revolution, and its terrible effects on society, or lack thereof." (January 2024)
- "Is it possible to be genuinely religious in the modern secular west?" (July 2023)
@toadwarrior β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@toadworrier β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I'd say that looking at SSM and taboos against it is looking through the wrong lens. Marriage involves a whole lot of issues about kids and family, and yes also monogamous love. But modern western s (June 10th, 2019)
- We just had an election here in Oz, the incumbent conservatives won and it seems some of our journalists really want their own Donald Trump. But Scott Morrison, the most boring Prime Minister in livi (May 13th, 2019)
@toakraka β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@toegut β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "It appears that racial segregation is back in the vogue." (April 2021)
- Why the "color-blind" paradigm of federal science grants may be coming to an end. (January 2021)
@toenailseason β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@toham31 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Economist here. I have a few points to mention. (April 15th, 2019)
- Economist here. This is a tricky enough subject that most students don't really learn it well until graduate school. (May 27th, 2019)
@tollund_man4 β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@tophattingson β 7 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I've discussed the topic of what COVID means for homosexuality before, so to try to summarize half a dozen streams of thought at once..." (June 2022)
- "This is a pretty damning outcome, because it means lockdowns have broke a ton of 'eggs' but have no 'omelette' to show for it." (March 2021)
- "And, of course, covid existing is a fraudulent excuse for imprisoning the entire population." (May 2022)
- "The broad requirement that human-rights violating policies be the absolute minimum necessary to successfully stop an emergency demands that, once you've started, you have to keep pretending it worked, regardless of what the reality is." (November 2021 2/2)
- "Legislators threatening the entire public with arrest are somewhere between a thousandfold and millionfold more powerful than the person calling them to be arrested for human rights violations in return as part of a rant on social media, yet we're supposed to be concerned by the latter rather than the former for some reason?" (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Further context on this is that criticism of Two-Tier policing began with the difference in how anti-Lockdown protesters were treated by the police compared to BLM protesters in 2020." (August 2024)
- "The Chagos Islands Deal, or, The Next Westminster Scandal Is Already Here, You Just Haven't Noticed It Yet" (February 2025)
@tracingwoodgrains β 98 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Woman in Science (August 13th, 2018)
- The Science of Expertise (August 27th, 2018)
- Are you sure? (December 31st, 2018)
- Cataloguing my own response to this ad and the Gillette one with an aim towards self-reflection: (January 21st, 2019)
- Earlier in this thread, I talked about some of this, so I'll try to avoid unnecessary repetition in this post. The respectful tone of the post was nice to read and makes it worth considering and respo (January 21st, 2019)
- Hey! I'd be up for an adversarial collaboration but honestly, I don't think I have that much disagreement with pro-life people who support adoption, contraception, artificial wombs and earlier viabili (January 21st, 2019)
- In the middle of many news sources damaging their credibility, there is one source that deserves positive recognition: The Atlantic. This whole mess has shifted them from probably-my-favorite-online (January 21st, 2019)
- Values Drift in this Subreddit (July 2nd, 2018)
- How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Fransisco (July 2nd, 2018)
- On why HBD gets brought up in the CW thread with some regularity (July 9th, 2018)
- Can we sieze the means of
productiongaming for productive purposes? (July 9th, 2018) - A few threads of thought have been kicking around my mind lately. Epistemic status: wild speculation (May 2019)
- Does anyone really believe that the complaining parties somehow made it through their own adolescence without committing equally offensive acts on multiple occasions? Who exactly are these parago (November 12th, 2018)
- From /u/TheHiveMindSpeaketh: (November 5, 2018)
- An analysis of the culture war in an interview with Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History: (October 22nd, 2018)
- Is it too clichΓ© to say βBe the change you want to see in the worldβ? (October 22nd, 2018)
- this reply on de-mormoning (October 15th, 2018)
- The Continuously Evolving Culture War (September 10th, 2018)
- The utility of helping those closest to oneself (September 24th, 2018)
- Mormonism and Feminism (September 3rd, 2018)
- Book review-ish: Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger's essay on teaching reading to 2 year olds (September 3rd, 2018)
- I'm not an expert in the field, but I've always liked spaced repetition a lot, I'm always looking out for good experiments around this, and I've been on a major kick recently (77 straight days in Anki (Summer 2019)
- As one resident recently deconverted young adult who still feels a psychological tug towards religion, I feel called out, but hey, let's take a look at religion-building. (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why "The System" Gives Bad Candidates, and Steps to Fix It (April 2020)
- Evaporative cooling of group beliefs in the Mormon faith. (April 2021)
- The Atlantic published a piece arguing that gifted programs are "the other segregation" in American schools. I felt strongly enough about it to write a letter to the editor. My letter, frankly, mostly (April 22nd, 2019)
- BYU's political science valedictorian came out during his commencement speech, making front-page news on reddit and elsewhere. See also Newsweek, Salt Lake Tribune. This is a personal story for me for (April 29th, 2019)
- Amusing Ourselves To Death Review (August 2020)
- "Rather, what ties New Atheism and 'wokeness' together, in my mind, is a commitment to an activist, proselytizing morality openly scornful towards the idea of civility." (August 2021)
- "From my own angle, religious people don't accept death at all." (August 2022)
- The Drunk Mormon Hypothesis (December 1/2 2019)
- Criticisms of Bernie Sanders and His Movement (December 1/2 2019)
- Part 1: On Maya Forstater and J. K. Rowling - Rifts in Feminsm (December 2/2 2019)
- Part 2: No True Feminist (December 2/2 2019)
- 1 (December 2021 1/2)
- 2 (December 2021 1/2)
- Coming to accept (his) homosexuality (Extremely Late 2019)
- Introducing Ian Bogost (Extremely Late 2019)
- I'm in the mood to whinge once more, this time as a result of Scott's recent explanation of some emotions around his decision to move the CW thread and a frustrating article that's making the rounds o (February 11th, 2019)
- The Democratic Primary Candidates (February 2020)
- Reinventing the Wheel (February 2020)
- Okay, I'll bite. (February 25th, 2019)
- Inherent Inequality: A Christian Perspective (January 2020)
- "Travel is great, so long as you travel between roles and not just locations." (January 2022 2/2)
- "/r/antiwork: A Tragedy of Sanewashing and Social Gentrification" (January 2022 2/2)
- "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, and the Righteous Struggle Against Nature" (January 2022 2/2)
- In Defense of Tracking (July 2/2 2020)
- On Heritage: A Pioneer Day Reflection (July 2/2 2020)
- epic four part review of Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First 1 (July 2019)
- epic four part review of Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First 2 (July 2019)
- epic four part review of Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First 3 (July 2019)
- epic four part review of Lee Kuan Yew's From Third World to First 4 (July 2019)
- post on public service (July 2019)
- response (July 2019)
- old-fashioned info dump on IQ and the Flynn Effect (July 2019)
- makes a case for making ones case (July 2019)
- "I suppose it's likely incumbent on me to give the ex-Mormon take^TM here." (July 2021 1/2)
- "What were the costs of the US and UK allying with the Soviet Union during World War II?" (July 2021 2/2)
- "Something that could be called intersectionality is obviously true and straightforwardly useful. Intersectionality as coined by Crenshaw and used in academic circles, not so much." (July 2021 2/2)
- Reflections on Antiriots: The Next-day Cleanup (June 1/2 2020)
- How Tribal Narratives Evolve Around Evidence (June 1/2 2020)
- Building a Structurally, not Ideologically, Diverse University (June 1/2 2020)
- Bridging the Inferential Gap: Why TradCons Dislike Consent Culture (June 1/2 2020)
- Building a Narrative for Building (June 2/2 2020)
- RIP to K. Anders Ericsson, the Father of Expertise Research (June 2/2 2020)
- Mormons and Voluntary Organization: Much More Than You Wanted To Know (June 2/2 2020)
- Let me see if I can illustrate it a bit. (June 24th, 2019)
- If I were a supervillain bent on destroying the world, βconvince smart, conscientious people who care about the future they have a moral responsibility to avoid reproductionβ would be near the top of (March 11th, 2019)
- Last night, I visited a liberal Christian church service. It was a pleasant experience for a number of reasons, watching a group of passionate people earnestly discuss how to create an inclusive space (March 18th, 2019)
- Very interesting post! (March 18th, 2019)
- I dislike this entire conversation in a visceral, personal way. There absolutely is a systemic problem in the United States with equitable access to top high schools. Huge numbers of bright, eager s (March 18th, 2019)
- The experience of working through a genuinely adversarial collaboration. (March 2021)
- Betsy DeVos recently broke rule 1 of politics: (March 25th, 2019)
- A Moderation Policy that Would Ban Biden (May 1/2 2020)
- This isn't exactly culture war, but discussion from it could easily move in a CW direction so I'm placing it here. (May 13th, 2019)
- Memes as Postmodern Art (May 2/2 2020)
- Neoreaction, Synthesized and Regurgitated (May 2/2 2020)
- A Sense of Deep Revulsion Towards Rioters (May 2/2 2020)
- "The myth that top students can take care of themselves is a damaging one, used to excuse people not even trying to meet their needs." (May 2021 1/2)
- Gauging Joseph Smith (November 2019)
- Christian Schisms (November 2019)
- Imposing Morality (November 2019)
- Testing Apitude (November 2019)
- On Utah and Bebies (Zerfrank Voice) (November 2019)
- Mormonism as 1950s America (November 2019)
- Hope for all, a mandate for none: The future is open for those who choose to seize it (November 2020)
- The Enraging Thought of Student Loan Forgiveness (November 2020)
- Nathan Robinson is Mencius Moldbug and Should Not Be Taken Seriously (September 2020)
- "People want these stories to be true. . . . Personally, I advocate for the path that doesn't drive cultural rifts yet deeper." (September 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "People often defend surrogacy with the idea that people have the right to do what they want with their bodies. I appreciate and respect those willing to stand in a libertarian defense of something I value, but for my part, I strongly prefer a more affirmative case." (April 2023)
- "Rarely is the chasm between my own thought and mainstream thought so apparent as when conversation turns to advertisers." (April 2023)
- "But I grew up in the early 2000s, so I became a gay furry instead." (August 2023)
- "The Republican Party is doomed." (December 2023)
- "That's the part that caught my interest: how did the rationalist community, with its obsession with establishing better epistemics than those around it, wind up writing, embracing, and spreading a callout article with shoddy fact-checking?" (December 2023)
- "Heaven save me from misleading social science papers." (January 2023)
- "In Defense of the New College Takeover" (January 2023)
- "I wrote a rather long post on my reflections in the wake of affirmative action, detailing why I'm mostly ambivalent about its end and what I see as the core problem with college admissions." (July 2023)
- "New from me: Reliable Sources, investigating how longtime malicious critic of this community, RationalWiki sysadmin, and Wikipedia administrator David Gerard launders his grudges into the public record." (July 2024)
@tractatus β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@trannyporno β 26 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on losing weight (04-02-18)
- on big butts (04-18-18)
- feudal power structures (04-18-18)
- on market power (04-18-18)
- labour vs R&D (04-23-18)
- the small dating pool of Pitcairn Islanders (04-23-18)
- ad hoc justifications: nuclear families. (05-14-18)
- On sexual competition (05-14-18)
- narratives around the decline of racism (05-14-18)
- Gender Similarities (August 6th, 2018)
- Assortive Mating (August 6th, 2018)
- Big Men in Primitive Societies (August 6th, 2018)
- The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation (August 6th, 2018)
- Because I don't want to type out things I've written before, I'll just explain (quoting from) some studies that I think are fairly important for their caveats: (December 3rd, 2018)
- Not Being the Losinβ Lately Gambler (July 16th, 2018)
- Acne: A Disease of Civilization (July 2nd, 2018)
- Giving a two part overview of some political policies: Part 1 (July 9th, 2018)
- Part 2 (July 9th, 2018)
- An interesting quotation on free speech (July 9th, 2018)
- Jensen Effects (June 11th, 2018)
- response (June 4th, 2018)
- Integration and ability (Memorial Day 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- This whole idea reminds me of the field of cryptid studies. Some real scholars have broached this field and tried to propose classification schema to legitimise research and make it more scientific. H (April 29th, 2019)
- >It's interesting how much offense I'm taking at pseudonymous comments on reddit. (May 13th, 2019)
- Death Memes (May 13th, 2019)
- How do you explain the top 5% thing (ie, the whole curve moving upwards similarly)? (May 20th, 2019)
@transgenicsolution β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@tree β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@tretiak β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Well Iβm sorry, but thatβs βlifeβ. Life is about doing a 100 things every single day that you donβt want to do." (October 2025)
@trpjnf β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is student debt and practical solutions to reducing it. What I've come up with is a ranking of colleges by how fast their students can repay loans. I've (April 22nd, 2019)
- Two cheers for bullying! (March 2021)
- Two weeks ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a plan for universal free public college and cancellation of student loan debt. I've been struggling to put into words why I have such a problem with t (May 6th, 2019)
@truebutnotprovable β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@trutharooni β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "IMO the publisher/distributor distinction should not be the primary place people look to establish a legal framework to attack big tech monopolies..." (August 2021)
- "The point is to expose that they do in fact tolerate Whiteness... only to the point and so long as it does not advocate for itself openly in any fashion, even to the point of simply putting up a poster saying 'It's okay to be White.'" (November 2021 1/2)
@tuirseach279 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the symbolism of anal sex in Dante's works (04-02-18)
@tulasshorn β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- great response (July 30th, 2018)
- I don't think you are entirely wrong - this is clearly a right-wing space, and various aspects of that burn leftists so much that they usually leave after a while. (well, to be clear, a very much anti (November 12th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I feel like you should trust economists when their conclusions are merely about economics. (April 15th, 2019)
- I think a lot of left-leaning posters will interpret this post as an admission that the red tribe is nakedly partisan and has no ideals. I think this is sort of true, but I would expand it to, very fe (April 22nd, 2019)
- The Tension Between Wokeness and Christianity (July 2/2 2020)
@tulsashorn β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- In favor of Assimilation (July 9th, 2018)
@turbopony β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Canada: Nationalism, Post-Nationalism, and the Progressive Future (October 2/2 2020)
@turnpikelad β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- I was looking at these GPT-2-Yud paragraphs and hoping that they had been inspired by a real argument: (April 2019)
@twheatlet β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@twinksforsharia β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why Coronavirus Will Likely Recur (March 2020)
@u__v β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Mandatory Vaccination (July 9th, 2018)
- More Recent Contributions by Philosophers (October 8th, 2018)
@uanchovy β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Explaining Catholic Integralist Goals (April 2020)
- Democrat Hostility Towards Christians (April 2020)
- To What Extent Are Shared Values Needed? (August 2020)
- "Christianity takes a really interesting position here: absolute condemnation of the sin coupled with a policy of indulgence and forgiveness towards the sinner." (February 2022)
@uberseoul β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@udfgt β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I have the unique experience of growing up in a town that had both a coal power plant and a nuclear power plant." (August 2022)
- "If we fail to like it any longer, then we the people have every right to restructure our government in whatever way we please. There is nothing holy or sacred about it." (January 2022 1/2)
@ufi3rynvf46u β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@ultraredspectrum β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Jewish Over-Representation and Antisemitism (August 2020)
- Thoughts on Gender: Subjects and Objects in Literature (January 2020)
@ulyssessword β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- on the overton window (July 2019)
@un_passant β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@unauspicious_cultist β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Postmodernism (June 18th, 2018)
- Working class vs Middle class (June 18th, 2018)
@uncleweyland β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Life Pro Tips For Fighting Aging (December 2/2 2019)
@unearnedgravitas β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I'd recommend that any young Canadian White Male considering a career in anything considered high(er) status in large organizations (government or private) seriously consider these changes and their trajectory." (January 2022 2/2)
- "sad notes from Ottawa" (January 2022 2/2)
@unopenedenvilope β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Opera! (March 2025)
- Now this is in my wheelhouse." (March 2025)
@unsail β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@unsaying β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Discrimination is pervasive, overt, systemic, and often explicitly codified." (April 2023)
- "So it seems to me that if I'm to be a Christian, this directly implies feeding my child to the dogs. And if I'm to do otherwise, this fully generalizes to Hitler." (May 2023)
@urquan β 33 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "But I also can't help feeling that people have just lost interest in romantic relationships in general." (April 2024)
- "Once we keep people who intentionally do harm out of our cities, then we can talk about keeping machines that accidentially do harm out of them." (April 2025)
- "Women are concerned about victims, men about perpetrators." (August 2024)
- "Social media and the internet make entertaining yourself without interacting with other people trivial." (August 2025)
- "I think many people on the left believe legitimately and truly that there is no way the Overton window ever shifts back towards views they disagree with." (December 2022)
- "This is why I ultimately find complaints about Western colonialism and the recent (and by that I mean the past 100 years or so) anti-colonial movement don't resonate well with me." (December 2022)
- "There are no more coffee pots: there are Keurigs or there are artisanal espresso machines. Which way, western man?" (December 2024)
- "Anyway, this has been my schizopost about how I hate nationalism, I hate war, and I think conscription is a bad thing." (February 2023)
- "But the big thing I think that's changed is just social trust." (February 2026)
- "I think the main issue with any model of masculinity is that it's typically enforced in one of two ways: the carrot of women's attention, and the stick of men's violence." (February 2026)
- "'Free debate amongst dissenting people' became right-coded, and hence the motte did too." (January 2023)
- "The highest predictor of political liberalism is Openness to Experience, but the second-most is sometimes called 'orderliness,' or concern about order, contamination, structure." (January 2026)
- "You say that this stuff is the result of importing American culture war into Australia, but as far as I can tell the land acknowledgement stuff in the US, such as it exists, is the exact opposite." (July 2025)
- "If the film is creating a dramatic version of a historical event, I believe it's fundamentally important to try and nail a depiction of the time and place -- including important demographic features like race." (July 2025)
- "This isn't a goodbye, but it is a soft retirement. I hope it has been a refreshing reprieve from the usual flame-out." (June 2023)
- "So my problem with the sex recession is not that I think promiscuity is great and I lament its decline, it's that the problem with the sex recession isn't actually about sex at all -- it's an underlying intimate relationship recession and a loneliness crisis." (June 2024)
- "I wanted to make a brief post about another piece of free software drama..." (March 2023)
- "The current paradigm is 'women's bodies are defective male bodies, men's brains are defective women's brains.'" (March 2024)
- "For that reason, a lot of the dating and marriage complaints just come across as petty and boring, not meaningfully different from the complaints that you could hear about boyfriends and husbands in 1980 or 1999." (March 2026)
- "We rarely agree on things, but I absolutely agree with you that the gay and trans movement is motivated by the same impulse that motivates individualist, get-the-government-out-of-my-wallet libertarian conservatism." (May 2023)
- "We need transformational leadership, and a positive identity." (May 2024)
- "Police reform and accountability would be a winning issue in the US if the left would stop making it exclusively a racialized issue and the right would acknowledge that at least some police corruption hits black people worst." (May 2024)
- "It can be hard to see on the motte, where disagreeableness is common, but agreeableness is necessary for the maintanence of society." (May 2025)
- "Orthodoxy feels foreign, alien, even converts often feel somewhat odd or unusual, and very often its prescription to Westerners is 'reject your people, RETVRN to ours.'" (May 2025)
- "That underscored to me how serious the rot was in the Anglican Church in America, even back then; it really did seem like Anglicans saw the church as a social club, and took or left portions of their faith as it served their other interests." (May 2025)
- "But that's a very different sort of criticism than my broader criticism of feminism -- that it is a lobbying movement pretending it isn't one." (November 2022)
- "There's actually a rather long history of Christians debating what sins should and should not be made illegal by the state." (November 2022)
- "That's not to say that men can't engage in very positive, productive conversations with a lot of affection -- or that women can't be openly insulting." (November 2024)
- "Excess funds from the Social Security 'trust fund' have always been plundered by the government to apply to general spending." (October 2022)
- "I think you may not realize the extent to which 'people who spam racial slurs' and 'people who respectfully hold right-wing positions, even passively' are conflated by the moderation of many of these spaces." (October 2022)
- "It's not so much that your life doesn't belong to you (although if you pressed us, we'd say it ultimately doesn't), as it is that it is immoral to do certain things with your life, including ending it." (October 2022)
- "So while the pain of gun violence victims is real and sympathetic, I don't think that, given their terrible personal circumstances, their personal political opinions are especially helpful or useful, though it certainly illustrates the harm that comes from guns in society." (October 2022)
- "MultiMC is a third-party launcher for Minecraft, and it's one I used for a long time as I enjoy playing various versions and mod-compilations of the game." (October 2022)
@urquan5200 β 8 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- " I might not agree with some of your opinions, but I'm happy to hear your personal reasoning for it and consider that I might be wrong, if you're willing to do the same." (August 2022)
- "Conservatism in its traditionalist forms places a great premium on following received wisdom from the ancestors, the fathers, society, whatever, and that's the received wisdom -- women make the babies, men don't." (July 2022)
- "I was at the doctor's office the other day, and I saw a curious poster on the wall.... (July 2022)
- it was about moral injury, which is an idea I'd never heard of before." (July 2022)
- "Youβre free to think this is all nonsense. But if youβre going to criticize us, at least criticize what we mean." (July 2022)
- "If you want people in America to listen to you, talking about how Americans are fat and ugly and have nothing that is beautiful and are exemplars of 'poor human capital' is not how to go about it." (June 2022)
- "I would argue that rather than being an obstacle that required a "great miracle" to overcome, the apocalyptic message of early Christianity was the key to its success." (May 2022)
- "I think that adopting the pro-life position requires that one not only adopt fetal personhood as an idea, but also a manner of thinking about sex and sexuality that is alien to the current zeitgeist and much of the feminist movement." (September 2021 1/2)
@usingmyowntokens β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- food for thought: (December 17th, 2018)
- possibly it was not correct of me to loop in goodhart's law, due to the specific examples I had in mind, but as a hypothetical example. (December 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Reasons for Opposing Open Borders (November 2019)
- Political Campaigns Varying by Electorate (November 2019)
@valdarno β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Femme Coverture (See also, his book recommendation below) (December 1/2 2019)
- This is a breathtakingly complicated question, and honestly it's outside my bailiwick. But I'll make a suggestion: (February 25th, 2019)
- Marxism is, I think, better approached as a theory of sociology than as a theory of economics. The economics is a reasonable description of nineteenth century Manchester, and wholly unhelpful beyond t (May 13th, 2019)
- So much of what I've seen as modern poetry strikes me as garbage masquerading as avant guard. I want to be able to look at a poem and understand what the author is trying to do and/or critique (May 27th, 2019)
@variousrefrigerator1 β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Sharing his Struggles with teaching (July 30th, 2018)
@vassilimikailovich β 7 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "When I was younger, I always loved games that explored philosophy, games that presented different points of view, even games that pushed explicit political messages. Yet today, I find myself disliking the games that seemingly fulfill those requirements." (12-10-17)
- Sharing His Boshevik Great Grandfatherβs Journal (July 30th, 2018)
- Hey Reporter, Iβm Against Slavery! (June 18th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Russian Reflections on "Trespass" (April 2020)
- The international chip shortange and lumber price records--rather earlier than most of the corporate news media caught on. (April 2021)
- GameStop stock and the market as a Potemkin village. (January 2021)
- "When it comes to foreign policy unwittingly alienating a population and pushing them to your enemies is far easier than winning them over." (March 2022)
@velveteenambush β 21 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On some asymmetries between Christianity and Islam. (01-15-18)
- differential perceptions of racial identity politics (11-06-17)
- Sure. If you look at the world's most successful religions -- Christianity being the one I'm most familiar with, but I think Islam too -- the "memetic fitness function" seems to have shaped their theo (December 17th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- A Hot Take: Weinstein's Real Crime (April 2020)
- "But it does feel kind of surprising and dismaying that basically I feel like I've been tricked into believing that blacks are worse off than they actually are, in at least a few respects." (August 2021)
- "We've been paying attention to all of this oppression stuff for a while now and the ripe fruit has been picked and either eaten or discarded, which leaves only the eschatological wing of the movement." (August 2022)
- Steelmanning Rape Culture (February 2020)
- "The best mental exercise I can come up with to see things through Putin's eyes is as follows:" (February 2022)
- Reflecting on reasons to support the GOP after a lifetime as a Democrat. (January 2022 1/2)
- "My concern is about Trump's attempt to execute Eastman's legal theory, and not about the January 6 riot." (January 2022 1/2)
- "So, my positive right-wing vision is to Make America Great Again, in that specific sense... to organize a country that sees achieving greatness as a central objective and terminal value, not just as a side-effect of economic progress or utilitarian optimization..." (July 2021 1/2)
- Stereotype Accuracy and the Bias in Machine Learning (June 2/2 2020)
- "I can't imagine CCP looking at our gruesome example and agreeing that the path to healing leads through acknowledgement of any kind." (June 2021 1/2)
- "So, my challenge for people who are lining up to condemn fat people but who like to think of themselves as engaged in something other than literal bullying for its own sake: Prove it!" (June 2021 1/2)
- "Honestly, the 'LGBT family' is totally dysfunctional, with the constituent members generally not enjoying or even necessarily tolerating one another's company." (June 2022)
- "I don't actually believe that the lives of urban professionals in client-service industries are entirely devoid of meaning, but subjectively their values system does feel unusually empty to me." (June 2022)
- Elections are cleansing. If a candidate has a scandal, and then he's elected anyway, then that means the electorate has considered and dismissed that scandal. (March 18th, 2019)
- Smuggling In Open Borders (March 2020)
- "If Kyle gets acquitted, then the rioters have no one to look to but themselves." (November 2021 1/2)
- "COVID-19 has been torture for me, not because any of the restrictions were particularly burdensome in an absolute sense, but because it has been a parade of dumb orders from dumb institutions that I have been coerced into obeying." (October 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@veqq β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@verda-fiemulo β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Do Memes Exist? Can They Kill? (August 2020)
- Delving into the Works of Bloom and Leo Strauss (July 1/2 2020)
- Thoughts on "Ethnicity Without Groups" (July 2/2 2020)
@viking_ β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- It's like... a person who doesn't wash their hands after handling raw meat and then goes home to their apartment is making the same formal mistake as a pediatrician who doesn't wash his hands aft (February 18th, 2019)
@vincent_waters β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- An Interpretative History of /r/TheMotte and its Predecessors (July 1/2 2020)
- Why String Theory Appealed, and What Could Come Next (July 2/2 2020)
- The Archetypal Imagery of Dark Lord Trump and His Bible (June 1/2 2020)
@viva_la_muerte β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Life as a Jehovah's Witness (August 2020)
@vivatcomoedia β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@voc_cartographer β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Overlooking the Lockean principle of having "enough, and as good, left in common for others." (March 2021)
@vogue_epiphany β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On Effective And Ineffective Precommitment (October 1/2 2020)
@vonthe β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@vorpa-glavo β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "To me, it seems like there's no principled way to separate gender from any other kind of identity or trait." (April 2022)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Benjamin Franklin famously described the government created by the Constitutional Convention as 'A republic, if you can keep it.'" (February 2025)
- "When you grow up in an atmosphere where all the information about a practice is freely available, when many of the practices have already slowly secularized and been unbundled from religion, it is very easy to become a tourist going here and there, and never matching the achievements of a true pilgrim who sets out for a specific destination and knows where they're going." (January 2023)
- "A Defense of Race Swapping in Adaptations" (November 2023)
- "I strongly suspect that being 'Bohemian' or a 'black sheep' or a certain kind of 'weird' is strongly correlated with certain kinds of bullying in middle and high school, and often leads to adopting a more liberal/progressive perspective later in life..." (September 2025)
@vortex_god β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Cards Against Humanity: History and its Place in Blue Tribe Culture (September 24th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Innovations of the XFL (February 2020)
@vosmyorka β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@voxelvexillologist β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "...I sometimes think that the Culture War is best described as bike shedding at the scale of governance..." (November 2023)
@wakawakayukayuka β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Response (August 6th, 2018)
@waltbismarck β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@walterodim β 10 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "So, basically, I model the court as three left-votes, two-three centrist votes, two-three right votes, and one true wildcard (that does tend right)." (December 2023)
- "Confession - I am a NIMBY" (February 2023)
- "Presumably the first 1,000 were selected basically at random and showed a 9.5% voting rate among people that had been deemed mentally incompetent and weren't allowed to vote." (February 2024)
- "I want to reiterate my objection to referring to education as a public good..." (June 2023)
- "During my run yesterday, I gave a listen to the oral arguments from Murthy v. Missouri that had happened earlier in the day." (March 2024)
- "Health, Fitness, Obesity, and Politics" (March 2024)
- "It's not possible to distinguish by merits, preference, difference, or interests if the top goal is to provide an inclusive environment to everyone in every place." (May 2024)
- "This latest bout of examining SBF and his crew just fills me with a sense of absolute disgust and contempt." (November 2022)
- "Have we talked about the squirrel? Sigh. Let's talk about the squirrel..." (November 2024)
- "This isn't to say that Republicans don't have use power, or don't use power in ways that I don't like, but it is to say that I will absolutely stand on the belief that Democrats want to exercise control over many, many more aspects of my life than Republicans." (September 2024)
@walterodim79 β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "When you send police after armed criminals, people get killed some of the time. Whether that's sad or not, it's an entirely foreseeable, expected consequence." (April 2021)
- "Basically, I'm sick of being forced to pay for products that I will absolutely never need for people who can't be bothered to take care of their own health to even a baseline level." (August 2022)
- "I've harped on about the uselessness of public health 'experts' before, but I want to once again highlight how inconsistent the formal advice of the CDC is with how people actually live their lives and what I would personally consider to be anything like a reasonable approach to living a good life." (January 2022 1/2)
- " Over the weekend, my NYT digest pinged me with the now one year old wellness article Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?" (July 2022)
- "...it would seem like a hell of a coincidence to me if an administration that has prominent environmental policy people that want gas prices to increase presided over a gas price increase and it was a total accident." (March 2022)
- "Some slight physical discomfort is easy to shrug off if you're helping, but intensely aggravating if it also comes with a sense that you're betraying yourself." (October 2021 2/2)
@wandererinthewilderness β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "If such a movement - 'Reform Progressivism'? - existed, I would be a card-carrying member. It doesn't yet. But it can, and it must. How would you treat it, if it did?" (January 2025)
- "Prove to me categorically that the Holocaust only killed, say, two hundred thousand Jews, and all you've told me is that the Nazis were incompetent as well as monstrous." (September 2025)
@wandering_otter β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Happiness and the Inner Dynamics of Progressive Sub-Cultures (August 13th, 2018)
@wavesacross β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- massive discussion with regards to the recent quarantine of /r/Redpill (October 1st, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I was thinking about doing a post on this. (April 8th, 2019)
@weaponomics β 5 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- PigouβKnightβDowns paradox Regarding Transportation (January 2020)
- "Guys arenβt attracted to 18 year olds as much as they are simply attracted to their own memory of being 18." (January 2022 2/2)
- response (July 2019)
- post on direct instruction and pedagogy (July 2019)
- It's Just a "Nuclear-Cannon-Sized" Black Powder Cannon, Officer (October 2/2 2020)
@weaselword β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome (05-21-18)
- blanking out context (11-14-17)
- Cargo-cult Science (June 11th, 2018)
- I am extremely skeptical about these claims. Take the claim that "hunter-gatherers usually lived to old age": that is directly contradicted by the mortality statistics for hunter-gatherer groups (bot (October 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@weedlayer β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@wemptronics β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- On Labels (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Here's an alternative plan: do everything the same the first months. Tanks roll in, bad guy defeated, no WMDs found etc. Then pull out. Let Iraq fall into civil war (this might sound callous, but (March 4th, 2019)
- > Female players make up about 10% of soccer players as a whole, so even accounting for biological differences your prospects of becoming a professional soccer player are much better if you are a w (March 4th, 2019)
- I was on my evening run listening to the latest episode of NPR's Hidden Brain podcast (I hope the text-based mafia can forgive me for this instance of indiscretion) and it hit me like a brick wall. Th (May 27th, 2019)
- Analyzing the Correlation Between Anti-Police Protests and Violence (September 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Meet the Little-Known Activist Group That Has Tens of Thousands of Doctors Registering Patients To Vote" (August 2024)
- "Did The Motte already speak about this small story surrounding some controversy at psychology/psychometrics journal Intelligence?" (December 2024)
- "Last week Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County Circuit Court was found guilty of felony obstruction by a jury." (December 2025)
- "Wand waving Narcan does not look like compassion or tough love to me. Withholding the best medicine available doesn't sound decent to me." (February 2025)
- "A Report on the Relatively Recent Desire to Kill for Preah Vihear Temple & Thai Politics" (July 2025)
- "If I were a California resident, and my city left me dissatisfied, I would probably vote for Prop 36 just to send a signal to officials." (September 2024)
@wereitas β 9 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- "Girl Power" might be scratching a specific itch, and movies without the heavy-handed branding might not work as substitutes. (December 17th, 2018)
- This could be as simple as differing levels of suspension of disbelief. (December 24th, 2018)
- I understood history in a totally different way. (December 31st, 2018)
- Sara Constantin has an article on "Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups" that explains this beautifully. (January 14th, 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- This could be a consequence of a voting system that rewards pluralities. (April 1st, 2019)
- Spicy Hot Take: It's easy to describe a healthy community as a conspiracy, especially if you're not from a healthy community. (April 29th, 2019)
- This is a dispute about status within a peer group. (April 8th, 2019)
- (Wearing my tinfoil hat) (March 11th, 2019)
- Haidt & Lukoanoff are over complicating something very simple. (March 4th, 2019)
@werttrew β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Cryptonormativism (02-08-18)
- 10 year restrospective (05-14-18)
- Bach at Burger King (05-21-18)
- Evidence for Racism in the Criminal Justice System (September 17th, 2018)
- Response on Evidence for Racism in Criminal Justice (September 17th, 2018)
@westphalianpeace β 15 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "NATOwave started (April 2022)
- Hearts of Iron 4 mod subreddit." (April 2022)
- "Everyday when I wake up I curse 1000 plagues upon Woodrow Wilson." (August 2021)
- The absence of incentives for China to "drink from the Ohio river." (February 2021)
- Starvation as a means of war. (January 2021)
- "I absolutely wish the Council on Foreign Relations had one tenth of the power that it is sometimes ascribed to have. The world would be a far less stupid and irrational place." (June 2021 1/2)
- "People like Samantha Power really do think in terms of 'if we just acted we would have lost a few dozen and saved hundreds of thousands in Rwanda.' but lets take a different look." (May 2021 1/2)
- China and the Tragic Universalism of Liberalism (November 2020)
- An Ode To Penn's Woods (October 1/2 2020)
- A Rebuke of Drive-By Snark from the Watching Lurkers (October 1/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It's not intended to be demoralization, no one actually sits down and goes bwahaha now I will make the world ugly to demoralize my enemies. It's exaltation." (April 2024)
- "In summary, yes. What's beautiful in art is what's beautiful in nature." (April 2024)
- "One of the things Scott does not bring up is the lack of an easy narrative from the anti-woke right to allow people to an easy out." (July 2024)
- "I find this forum to be a civilizational candle in the dark in these ircivilizational times. And that means taking the religious among us here seriously." (March 2024)
- "I think it's difficult to understate just how important the effect of Stalin's takeover the Soviet Union had on American/European Marxist circles." (October 2023)
@wgk_elphinstone β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Reporting Someone in an Online Game - An Introspection (February 2020)
@whateverhappenedtonorman β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A few thoughts on the male feminist sex pest." (February 2025)
@whatihear β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Where are all the scientists?" (February 2023)
@which-witch-is-which β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Brexit (October 1st, 2018)
@whiningcoil β 26 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "I drunkenly commented to my wife last night, that maybe all this LGBTQ+ shit which seems ubiquitous amongst youth, is because pop culture just fucking sucks." (April 2022)
- "My fundamental problem with all this talk, is this entitlement people feel that a product needs to be for them." (January 2022 2/2)
- "They go to unfreeze their eggs, and it turns out they all had freezer burn. Not a single viable embryo results." (July 2022)
- Being of many minds regarding relations between the sexes. (May 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "It's this spirit of 'nobody else's business' that has been lost." (August 2023)
- "How on Earth was Danny Masterson actually convicted?" (August 2023)
- "I built a gaming table." (August 2024)
- "A Wooden 486" (December 2023)
- "I'd take fear mongering around Tate a lot more seriously if they didn't condemn in the same breath Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Trump, and virtually every man who displays any masculinity what so ever." (December 2024)
- "...I think people truly underestimate how utterly brainwashed people can be by media." (February 2024)
- "I can only imagine how obnoxious an American ghetto would be in Japan." (February 2025)
- "It sucks realizing in your 20's that you were raised wrong." (July 2025)
- "I was born in the 80's. In the late 90's for reasons that are utterly baffling to me, my Virginia town began to get flooded with illegal immigrants." (July 2025)
- "We're All Sitcom Characters Now" (June 2025)
- "At some point I got hit with belief fatigue. I can scarcely tell what's true from last week." (June 2025)
- "Never Meet Your Heroes, Even Posthumously" (June 2025)
- "You left out 4) Men aren't allowed to have anything to themselves anymore, ever." (March 2024)
- "A Map for the Regulation and Destruction of Free Software." (March 2024)
- "The behavior of those in the media is completely unhinged and totally detached from reality, not to mention nakedly self serving." (March 2025)
- " Whatever kayfabe social signaling hating cis white males, normal women, or wholesome white families used to mean, the people uncritically consuming it and signal boosting it now don't understand it's only supposed to be insincere virtue signaling." (November 2023)
- "Historical pogroms also aren't a single event, but a steady roil of targeted racial violence with peaks of mob violence, and occasionally lethality." (November 2023)
- "So, I watched Escaping Twin Flames this week. It's basically a documentary about a cult, with a fun twist at the end." (November 2023)
- "In this context, at this time, the hypocrisy of academic Jews, or Jews pulling their donations from colleges, and acting all surprised and horrified that anything like this could possibly be happening, despite it happening to my people for going on 10 years, is rich." (November 2023)
- "Most people totally immersed in the mores of the sexual revolution will never be able to entertain the notion that those mores harmed them." (October 2023)
- "I'm not shocked Starlink got cut out, they threaten to end someone else's corrupt grift. I can draw no other conclusion." (September 2024)
- "Now it feels like that's how everything works. Everything is an app, and every app has dark patterns trying to steal from you." (September 2025)
@williamlp β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@winter_shaker β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Multicultural Attraction of the Major Scale (April 2020)
@withmymindsheruns β 4 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I knew a woman in this category when I was younger. (April 15th, 2019)
- Signaling, status, and focus (December 2020)
- Whether joy is primarily a function of novelty, and how that relates to psychedelics. (January 2021)
- The Male Environment, Childhood, and Imitation Learning (November 2020)
@wlxd β 17 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Praising the Creativity of the Chans (October 15th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Why People are Against Obesity (February 2020)
- Defending Microsoft against selective application of anti-anti-competition arguments. (January 2021)
- "If you're high quality black, top schools, top businesses, top institutions will fall over themselves and compete among each other to get you. Why would you then bother to stay within your own black community and try to improve it?" (July 2021 1/2)
- How the Protests Cured COVID (June 1/2 2020)
- The USA have one of the worst public planning of any developed country for people who don't own cars (June 10th, 2019)
- On the Inner Workings of Wikipedia (March 2020)
- The pejoration of "human biodiversity" as just another step along the linguistic treadmill. (March 2021)
- "Let me remind you what Trump actually asked Zelensky for..." (March 2022)
- "That's how I'd want the constitutional right to abortion to exist, if we are to have any: not through total bullshit legal 'reasoning,' but through clear and unambiguous political process." (May 2021 2/2)
- Quote Dr. Reich On Genome Bloggers and Ancient Admixtures (November 2019)
- Contra Judith Jarvis Thomson on Abortion (October 1/2 2020)
- The System Hasn't Even Tried To Quash Riots (October 1/2 2020)
- Cutting Through Statistical Sophistry on Red State Tax Deficits (October 2/2 2020)
- "But, the reason why HBD is so crucial in culture war is that alleging racism and sexism is the strongest weapon in the arsenal of leftist side, by far." (October 2021 1/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "Lickly literally promoted his own fiancee to the position he was leaving behind, and half a century later, not only we never hear about Dan Lickly (say his name to not forget), but we get fed the story of the leader of the team that wrote the software that sent the man to the moon, without ever hearing that she only received this position when the whole thing was already done from the guy she was sleeping with." (February 2023)
- "Overall, the guiding idea is to make people start having kids much earlier, and once they take the plunge, make having a second kid much smaller marginal cost/effort compared to returning to work ASAP." (February 2023)
@wokeandredpilled β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Contemplating the financial incentives of the divorce industry (December 2020)
- An Effortpost on Child Support (November 2020)
@wondroustrange β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- On Straussianism - Saving the Author (July 1/2 2020)
@wqnm β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@wugglesthemule β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
@wulfrickson β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Engaging with evil art (05-21-18)
- RationalWiki grew out of the culture of 2000s atheism, back when atheists defined themselves as a "reality-based community" in opposition to the Bush presidency. It has all the common characteristics: (December 3rd, 2018)
@wutcnbrowndo4u β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Retaining Oneβs Culture as an Immigrant (August 6th, 2018)
- An actually constructive exchange about the family separation issue (June 18th, 2018)
- Explaining Encryption (September 10th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@xantoscell β 6 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Sex/Life or How I Learned to Like Asbestos TV" (August 2021)
- Part 2 (August 2021)
- "I, for one, donβt wish to be a garlic chive π§. Perhaps I'll spend some more time lying flat." (August 2021)
- "Fantastic Mr. Fox is furry-porn for non-furries and trad-porn for non-trads." (May 2021 2/2)
- A Personal Experience of the Motte's Influence (October 1/2 2020)
- A 2020 Election Fanfic (October 2/2 2020)
@xx69sixty-nine69xx β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Urban development and planning in Houston versus Austin. (January 2021)
@yakultbingedrinker β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Response to Doglatine (September 24th, 2018)
@ye_guilty β 3 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "This doesn't concern 'where do you draw the line,' but one aspect of what I consider 'cancel culture' is diffusion of responsibility." (August 2024)
- "So there is very little that gets my hackles up more than hearing somebody say that something someone brings up as worth worrying about is too unimportant." (December 2022)
- "I don't think it's an accident that utilitarian altruists start out with hypothetical scenarios about bodily harm to children." (November 2022)
@yellerto56 β 2 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Egalitarianism in Starship Troopers (December 2/2 2019)
- The use of "woman" as an applause light amidst the conceptual erosion of gender. (March 2021)
@ymeshkout β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@ymeskhout β 53 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The Value of True Diversity in Media (April 2020)
- "I want to highlight the issue of driver license suspensions in light of Arizona ending the practice for unpaid debts." (April 2021)
- "But to recall one of the adages I rely on too often when talking to my clients: 'Do you want to be right or do you want to win?'" (April 2021)
- "I consider myself a Β§230 fanboy slash apologist, and think it's one of the greatest piece of internet-related legislation in history." (August 2021)
- "'Decoder Ring' argues that the Franzen/Oprah feud marked the beginning of the end of the concept of selling out." (August 2021)
- "Whenever the topic of video games as a distinct medium comes up, I jump at the chance to highlight what they can offer that other media (such as film, books, etc.) cannot." (August 2021)
- "I want to share a few anecdotes from work, nominally about the confluence between the traditionally stodgy criminal justice system and the ever-changing nascent gender ideology, but also touching upon related issues." (January 2022 1/2)
- 's top-level comment (July 2019)
- talks about Love Canal (July 2019)
- offers an inside look at the criminal justice system (July 2019)
- How the COVID pandemic has changed the way we see the world. (July 2021 2/2)
- Eleven Magic Words (July 2022)
- Outside Court, Legal Analysis is a Jigsaw Puzzle with Half its Pieces Missing (June 1/2 2020)
- Analyzing the Flynn Case in Light of Proscecutor Prerogative (June 2/2 2020)
- How resources get doled out in criminal defense. (June 2021 1/2)
- "If you think this level of research is too much work, the solution is to be at peace with the idea of abandoning insufficiently supported conclusions." (June 2022)
- Hacking the process of voir dire. (March 2021)
- The death of a client. (March 2021)
- "Aellaβs specific definition both conveys less information and is needlessly loaded. Seems like the worst of both worlds." (March 2022)
- A Scandalous Confession (May 1/2 2020)
- Unmasked by Andy Ngo (May 2021 2/2)
- PUA - A Cargo Cult that Works Until You Know its A Cargo Cult (November 2019)
- The Shift and Internal Conflict of the ACLU (November 2020)
- " I haven't kept up with the Rittenhouse trial specifically (because I have my own trial), but the disparate manner evidence is handled has long been a problem. And it's a problem with no clear solution." (November 2021 2/2)
- Skepticism Towards FBI "Plot-Busting" Stories (October 1/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "A long time ago, some primitive apes got addicted to rocks." (April 2023)
- "Given...certain recent events, there might be a renewed interest in discussing what redress (if any) we might have when a prosecutor misbehaves." (April 2023)
- "IQ is real, genetics matter, and progressives are not going to be reasoned out of an ideology they didn't reason into." (April 2024)
- "Why Cross-Examination Is So Damn Great" (August 2023)
- "Other Mistakes Were Made (some by me)" (August 2023)
- "Defunding My Mistake: Confessions of an ex-ACAB" (August 2023)
- "Public Pretenders" (August 2023)
- "The 11th Circuit put the whole Mar-a-Lago Special Master saga to bed last week." (December 2022)
- "Follow-Up On That Jewish Conspiracy" (December 2023)
- "If anyone was looking for evidence that the DEI industry is and has been a sham with self-perpetuation as its primary measure of success, Okun's own words are the rotary excavator digging its hole." (February 2023)
- "So if we set aside the grimdark sci-fi scenarios for the moment, what are some near-term risks of humans using AI for evil?" (January 2023)
- "Does Trump sue just to fundraise?" (January 2023)
- "Two months ago (an eternity in podcasting, I know) I was on the Bayesian Conspiracy podcast to discuss polyamory with Aella and Eneasz, both of whom are hella fucking poly." (January 2024)
- "As a barometer of community sentiment, I tried to understand why my questions would be met so negatively and so this post is my attempt to formulate some theories." (January 2024)
- "In This House, We Believe in Gender Stereotypes" (June 2023)
- "There Are No Amendments In Islam" (June 2023)
- "For the most part, verifying that a prosecutor has met their Brady obligations is near-impossible." (March 2023)
- "Sexual Panopticon (March 2023)
- Kingdom of Morocco" (March 2023)
- "Affirmative Action or Transparency, Pick One." (March 2023)
- " But ultimately, how scary is it to know your deeply held convictions are subject to materialistic opportunism?" (May 2023)
- "Defamation Bear Trap" (May 2023)
- "What are the limits of the weak man?" (May 2023)
- "There's still a lot of alpha in being skeptical and googling shit. Be safe out there." (November 2022)
- "The Jewish Conspiracy To Change My Mind" (November 2023)
- "The Overkill Conspiracy Hypothesis" (October 2023)
- "Clarence Thomas's Gun Control Snare" (October 2023)
- "We don't have exact numbers about 'engagement' but as far as I can tell Twitter remains the haven for the journalistic class, despite their grumblings and promises to evacuate to bluesky/threads/mastodon." (October 2023)
@yodatsracist β 13 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- on the interplay between lineage and denomination among Jews (01-04-18)
- on the ontology of the claims of social movements (08-19-17)
- changes in the well-established genders, ethnicities, etc. of characters in film adaptations and remakes. Spoiler: they're a decent litmus test for executive meddling, with some caveats. (10-07-17)
- ideological "true believers" and horseshoe theory (10-07-17)
- guns rebuttal (10-14-17)
- the expression of horseshoe theory in France and elsewhere (10-14-17)
- "black bodies" (11-01-17)
- the history of entryism (11-01-17)
- cultural symbols (11-14-17)
- Republicans and the national budget deficit (11-14-17)
- Red Tribe, Blue Tribe as being about shared symbols. (12-10-17)
- Collectivist vs Individualistic Cultures (August 6th, 2018)
- Describing How One Might go About Understanding the Israel-Palsestinian Conflict (October 15th, 2018)
@yofuckreddit β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@you-get-an-upvote β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Gallery of graphs: https://imgur.com/gallery/DOpz6H6 (November 5, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal About Racial Preferences' (April 2022)
- Weakness of Will as Internalities (Extremely Late 2019)
- Old Man Yells At Motte (June 1/2 2020)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@youcanteatbullets β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- comment on reservoir sampling (04-18-18)
- A Review of Consipiracy (July 16th, 2018)
@yrrosimyarin β 4 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the historical context of the second amendment (04-02-18)
- Reciprocity (June 4th, 2018)
- Why the Gracie Family's Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu Became King (October 15th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
@zachariahskylab β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "My point is that we should be skeptical of the fanfare accompanying the rollout of the vaccines." (June 2022)
@zalbertusmagnusz β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- Political Clothing as Bonding (September 2020)
@zanarkandabesfan β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@zecaurubu β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- To Make Jobs that Do Not Crush the Soul (November 2020)
@zeke5123 β 3 AAQCs
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "...are mask mandates creating a situation where they assign cost to the least cost avoider?" (August 2021)
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "The pro vax redditor repeated the simple talking points drilled into his or her head during an emotional time and identified Novak as a villain." (August 2023)
- "As communist bloc showed, economies are too difficult for human design. Social credit system is again trying to put human design back into the system which will cause the same problems." (December 2022)
@zephyr β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I think that the perception is that extremely long occupations (or similar) tend to be corrupted by the bureaucracy, and end up spending hundreds of millions of dollars on doing nothing." (January 2026)
- "Sexual frustration can make you do weird things, because it's hard to be lonely." (September 2025)
@zergling_lester β 5 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Alex vs Bob (Memorial Day 2018)
- This is a lot to unpack, yikes. (Summer 2019)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- I liked the example of divestment in South Africa the most, because it's an almost entirely ideologically neutral, purely technical description of a particular failure mode of public discourse that pr (June 24th, 2019)
- I'm generally very much averse to conspiracy theorizing, but recently accidentally happened to be in my personal fringe skepticism camp for a bit, so I was in a position to observe what was different (May 20th, 2019)
- When the Radicals are the Core (November 2020)
@zerokelvincorral β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@zestridingteufel β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
- "Some culture war material from India." (August 2022)
@zeuspater β 1 AAQC
π’ r/TheMotte era
@zontarg β 2 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Climate Change (June 4th, 2018)
- on #MeToo hurting business women (Memorial Day 2018)
@zontargs β 10 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- Christian gaming review (03-08-18)
- eating on the cheap (04-02-18)
- some engineering schools are hardcore, usually as a means of filtering out students (04-02-18)
- "This is the blogging equivalent of George Lucas fucking up Star Wars." (04-18-18)
- Misfeature - my new favorite word. (05-07-18)
- political art (05-21-18)
- discussing the unpersoning of Alex Jones/Infowars with two reported comments with diverging viewpoints (August 13th, 2018)
- βItβs all a matter of point of view" (July 9th, 2018)
- SF&F publishing (June 18th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- (Amateur hour, errors are likely, corrections welcome) (February 11th, 2019)
@zorbathut β 38 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- economics of moderating (04-30-18)
- Facebook, Porn, and Utilitarianism (August 20th, 2018)
- Because multiple people can't make a single post as a gestalt, I've ended up being the head mod of the new subreddit, and I'm the one currently putting the organizational effort in to make the switcho (January 28th, 2019)
- Predicting the behavior of others (June 18th, 2018)
- Defining the Word Racist (June 18th, 2018)
- massive discussion with regards to the recent quarantine of /r/Redpill (October 1st, 2018)
- Infectious Identification (September 10th, 2018)
- Responding to the Bodily Autonomy Pro-Choice Argument (September 10th, 2018)
- On Large ports (September 24th, 2018)
- Stable Equilibrium in the Culture War (September 3rd, 2018)
- On Charity, Generalizations, and Valuable Discussion (September 3rd, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- What Would a Video Game Socialist Economy Look Like? (April 2020)
- Redefining Roguelikes (April 2020)
- "There's this running joke I have, which is that only gamedevs understand how to make realtime stuff." (April 2022)
- Just to stick to gender issues, there are actually terms and concepts that are heavily indicative of something much more radical and extreme than they might be intended. Something like "Gynocentr (April 22nd, 2019)
- Even if developed countries start to cut back, there's still no good answer to the needs of developing countries. Developing countries benefit massively from the easy access and high energy-densi (April 22nd, 2019)
- I think this really demonstrates the core problem, which is that the Olympics is meant to be about "normal people" who strive really hard to be the best. It's meant to be a celebration of human dedica (April 8th, 2019)
- Using CCG meta to teach us about the inanity of recommending reforms without identifying tradeoffs (December 2020)
- "This is more important than ensuring that random people on the Internet can't accuse me of allowing diversity of thought." (December 2021 1/2)
- The Long Tail of Trying Yourself (February 2020)
- The capacity of extant automobile AI to peg you for a jaywalker in advance. (February 2021)
- Perfecting Market Exploitation in MMO Economies (January 2020)
- "Videogame writing is really bloody hard and we still don't know how to do it well." (January 2022 2/2)
- the meta thread (July 2019)
- on moderation (July 2019)
- and the problem faced by Facebook (July 2019)
- "Provide more food. Buy more boxes. Build more roads. Fix the damn problem." (July 2021 2/2)
- "'Well-regulated' is actually a tricky phrase here." (June 2022)
- "The problem with Unity is that it's not made by game developers and it's not made for games." (June 2022)
- But in aggregate, the metaphor still holds, because there is still a good side and an evil side, and politics is still about the conflict between good and evil. (June 24th, 2019)
- The concept of "race" looking a lot like the results of a clustering algorithm. (March 2021)
- "Journalism didn't get killed by Substack, it got killed by us all slowly waking up from the long nightmare of Gell-Mann Amnesia." (March 2021)
- Oh man where do I start. (March 4th, 2019)
- "One big issue with social communities is that . . . ugh, this is hard to explain." (May 2022)
- Destroying the Illusion of Better (November 2019)
- "I got in another conversation about public transportation and ended up coming up with some equations that I think are potentially valuable." (September 2021 2/2)
- "At no point were they lying, at no point was there a conspiracy, they just don't have a lot of incentive to actually give rights back, and a lot of incentive to not do so..." (September 2021 2/2)
π£ TheMotte.org era
@zortlax β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- this reply on de-mormoning (October 15th, 2018)
@zrslashrifle β 2 AAQCs
π£ TheMotte.org era
- "I'll steelman white nationalism for you even though I'm not and have never been a white nationalist." (April 2024)
- "The reason talking about HBD is important is that so much policy is based on the false premise that not-HBD." (February 2024)
@zzinfoteddyzz β 1 AAQC
π£ TheMotte.org era
@zzyxas β 1 AAQC
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- response on Bach at Burger King (05-21-18)
@zzzyxas β 11 AAQCs
π΅ r/SlateStarCodex era
- the Boy Scouts of America (04-30-18)
- I sometimes have the privilege of coming into contact with extremely smart high schoolers. My standard "what I wish I'd known" goes something like (1) spaced repetition, (2) calculus opens doors, (3) (January 28th, 2019)
- Pretty much every technical field assumes you understand calculus. Going the other way, you should be able to get through most introductory textbooks with just calculus. Examples: (January 28th, 2019)
- I would love to hear some well-reasoned arguments from the other side of the aisle, about why initiatives like Lambda School should just be mocked and not even actually engaged with. (January 7th, 2019)
- Effective Interventions in School (July 2nd, 2018)
- My Life as a Pick Up Artist (June 11th, 2018)
- > Is this argument by assertion or do you have actual examples of evopsych theories with real predictive power? (November 26th, 2018)
π’ r/TheMotte era
- The artist doesn't get to decide what their work means. Once it is released into the wild, whoever sees their art is going to interpret it the way they wish. (April 1st, 2019)
- Combining Strengths of Podcasts and Journalism (April 2020)
- An Inside View on Institutions Preventing Child Abuse (February 2020)
- A Dive Into Musical Tradition and Theory (October 1/2 2020)
naraburns
nihil supernum
24d ago
Interesting, Claude says reddit is blocked from its network so it can't do the work directly. But it is building me a tool for this, or so it claims. I am already in way over my head, so. I will report later whatever I manage to pull off, here...
Someone paying for premium would be able to do an audit of the past 2 years or so.
If all you want is a count-per-user, I would think that one could use the wiki to very quickly assemble a list. You wouldn't even have to follow all the links.
EDIT: I have a "max" Claude account (for a little while), I don't find it very useful so I almost never use it but if there's something someone else wants me to do with it for the forum, I'd at least take that under advisement...
naraburns
nihil supernum
26d ago
Welcome to the Motte. Short version: I'm not approving this post, sorry.
Longer version: this is a discussion website for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. It might be a good place for you to recruit people for your project, but that is not why it exists nor do we have any particular reason to help you use the site for that reason. This is also a reputation economy where, if you were an established poster with a known history, we might let you post something like this anyway. But as you lack that particular reputation, your post is functionally indistinguishable from linkspam. We're not here to help you sell your Substack.
I don't want to come across as scolding or unfriendly; you're welcome to participate here, and if that participation organically results in benefits to your project, we're not in principle opposed to that! But we get a lot of people trying to sell their Substack manifestos, here, and that isn't really the point of this space. We're a discussion site; participating in discussion is the point.
You can talk to Zorba about the details, but there is a "janitor" bot that already does this, and has been doing it since late 2019. The AAQC list is not strictly handcrafted but rather the bot compiles the entire list of user AAQC nominations, and then the moderators (in theory; in practice this is my contribution) whittle those down from about 200 per month to the top (roughly) 40. The final list gets a "commit" which (mostly) auto-formats the monthly post, and Zorba keeps that "commit" list in a database somewhere. That database was at one point fed into the "Vault" project for sorting but I don't think Zorba has touched the Vault in quite some time.
I do assume it would for someone with coding experience indeed be "trivial" to generate a list like this from that database. My suspicion however is that anyone who is both (A) adept at coding and (B) willing to contribute to the Motte's code needs would be significantly more valuable to the site working on, like, literally anything else in our list of priorities. But if spinning up a "running tab" of per-user AAQCs seems like a fun project for you, I doubt anyone would discourage its development.
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