naraburns nihil supernum 1d ago

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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naraburns nihil supernum 3d 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!

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naraburns nihil supernum 3d ago · Edited 3d ago

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.

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naraburns nihil supernum 3d 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.

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naraburns nihil supernum 4d ago

Is there somewhere where we can view AAQCs by user?

Here.

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AAQCs by User — Part 1 of 3

@ratanon — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"Satire is supposed to be a literary form of social criticism..." (12-10-17)

@__unterwasser — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I (November 2020)

@jkf — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

How gender reassignment is nothing at all like taking your hair dryer to work. (July 2021 1/2)

@-lvp- — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Banging Continents Makes Mountains (September 10th, 2018)

@-reman — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

This article is very sophomoric take on the age-old democracy vs technocracy debate. The form of technocracy varies from ideology to ideology (e.g. aristocracy, communism, fascism, scientocracy, etc.) (April 1st, 2019)

@asdflkaiuwemn — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

transgression being sexy, and what that means for the politics of sexuality (11-06-17)

@philwelch — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Hitler, the left-right spectrum (11-06-17)

@07mk — 17 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@0jzlenezwbzipv8l — 4 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@100prooftollbooth — 27 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@15impoundedcats — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

To give you a super-brief sketch of a skeleton of the cliffs' notes of the debate . . . . (May 27th, 2019)

@2d3d — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@4570_throwaway — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Incomparable Joy of Child-Rearing (November 2020)

@4bpp — 24 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@4qhurikzxs — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

So I was thinking about Scott's article "Sort by Controversial". Reddit has a "controversial" sorting option, which presumably surfaces comments which have received many upvotes and many downvotes. (January 14th, 2019)

@5434a — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@89237849237498237427 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Dysgenics (June 11th, 2018)

@895158 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Social class (July 23rd, 2018)

@a_motte_alt — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Yelp Employee Shares What Actually Goes On With Yelp advertising (October 1/2 2020)

@a_random_user27 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

@aaa — 2 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 you’d come up with. (May 2021 1/2)
Why? Politics and economics." (May 2021 1/2)

@abdul_alhazred2018ad — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Economic Life of a Millennial: Worst Uber Ride Ever (September 17th, 2018)

@abigguy4u — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@absox — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Frankly, it seems like the left will have a harder time sidelining their antisemitic supporters. Do you think Ilhan Omar is a friend to the Jewish people?" (October 2025)

@adiabaticshear — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Atomization promotes exploitative behaviors over cooperative/moral/pro-social behaviors." (September 2021 2/2)

@adnzzzzz — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I was in a very similar situation to yours and here's what helped me: (October 2019)

@aeiluindae — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on Steven Pinker on red-pilling and Trump. (01-04-18)
comment on the ideology of MLK (01-15-18)

@agentorange — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"For a given novel virus like SARS-CoV-2 the following steps are needed to produce an effective, safe, and most importantly manufacturable protein based vaccine." (November 2025)

@ahh_fuck_it — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"White identitarianism has gained traction online because of the way whites have been treated." (April 2024)

@aiislove — 5 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@ajijaak — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Speculate, out loud, about the fertility status of women you meet (June 24th, 2019)

@alancrowe — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

memetic power (04-30-18)

@alertconfusion3782 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"In light of the killing of Daunte Wright, the debate about the police is swirling again." (April 2021)

@alfrednachos — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Erisology and rationalism at the level of a community. (05-07-18)

@alivejessejames — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

stats dump on race relation (11-06-17)

@alphanumericsprawl — 6 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On using precise language and how policing language can be good. (09-30-17)

@alternativeebb — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"nice guys", vulnerability (04-02-18)
The sexual marketplace (05-14-18)

@amadan — 24 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@amadanb — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@ame_damnee — 26 AAQCs

🟢 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 roué 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@anatoly — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Great Brownie War (05-21-18)
"A Paper Down the Memory Hole (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

More Culture War Discussions and Less Culture-Warring, Please (October 2/2 2020)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Discussing 'a non-proportionate response to the Oct 7 incident' sounds like nonsense, because the Oct 7 started a war, not a 'response'." (October 2023)

@anechoicmedia — 9 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

There is a blog, called SlateStarCodex, written by Scott Alexander. (February 25th, 2019)

@anonymous_rocketeer — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Well, I went off to a fairly prestigious college as a bright-eyed 18 year old, trying for a degree in economics and engineering. I was told directly by the university that they'd give me lots of finan (April 8th, 2019)

@anti_dan — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Instead, what appears to have happened is a very odd plan by ICE. I don't know why they did what they did, whether it was just laziness, forgetfulness, pants on head level stupid, or an intentional ploy to generate a test case." (October 2025)

@anti-intellectual — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Always On Camera, Never the Cameraman (January 2020)

@anythingmachine — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Sharing Articles on the Future of Progressive Politics (December 2/2 2019)

@apostasy_is_cool — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"When someone gender-conforming lists his gender-conforming pronouns, he's basically declaring that his ideology has already won. He's raising the rainbow flag over the Reichstag." (October 2021 1/2)

@applesauceirishcream — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@apprehensivetheory — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"Post interesting algorithms few people know about" (04-18-18)

@appropriate-report — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Supplies for Border Crossers being an Attractive Nuisance (February 2020)

@approxknowledgesite — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

unfucking your life (11-01-17)
on gender transition and mental health (11-01-17)

@april16-1457bc — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@aqouta — 10 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 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_ — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

social peace in campus protests (11-06-17)

@ares — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@argumentumadlapidem — 10 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Are The Global Elites Coordinating (January 2023)
Push LGBT Acceptance And Gender Theory?" (January 2023)

@arjinferman — 8 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@armedtooheavily — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The current state of Portland makes the costs of these luxury beliefs ubiquitous and impossible to ignore." (March 2024)

@armlegx218 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

What Do Americans Want From a President? (May 1/2 2020)

@artimaeus332 — 7 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The purpose of society is to produce a stable living arrangement where as many people as possible feel that it is not worth it for them to for example, burn your shit down and then kill you, where you is every member of society." (March 2026)

@asdfasdflkjlkjlkj — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 6 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 4 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

He wasn’t being pedantic, he was trying to be clearer to help explain the point you clearly were not getting. It’s 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"How much worse off I would be if I decided these desires were 'simply the way I am' and constructed a worldview where any effort to improve my behaviour was 'not being true to myself'." (November 2023)

@ashlepius — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Harmful Academics (December 1/2 2019)

@aspiringalzabo — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

ICE vs Nazis (June 18th, 2018)

@astranagant — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Sunderland, UK, is on fire." (August 2024)

@at497 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Now for the hidden culture war: while the scientific community seemed pretty convinced that Data Colada's case was ironclad (if you have time to read the full blog posts, you can check this yourself too---the section "Excel files contain multitudes" seems particularly damning), Gino did have many defenders outside science." (January 2026)

@atomic_gingerbread — 4 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@attitudegratitude — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

You Don't Need a Coyote to Enter the Red Tribe (June 2/2 2020)

@augustuspertinax — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Deep Dive Into Police Killings (June 1/2 2020)

@auralgasm — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I personally don't have ethical issues with eating animals in general, but I do have issues with the way it's carried out in America, and your comparison to bicycles is simply not apt in any way. I fe (May 2019)

@aurondarklord — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Difficulties in Drafting a Culture War Peace Treaty (October 8th, 2018)

@autistic_hitler_666 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

the alt-right's mythos about Jews (04-02-18)

@autisticthinker — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Drug Problem in Yemen (September 24th, 2018)

@baazaa — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Problems with Progressive Education (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"These statistics really show the damage of Roe v Wade. Will its repeal make it worse in the short-term? Probably. But hopefully, it might also a first step to find a political compromise that is both viable and robust." (May 2022)

@bahramyou — 4 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"It seems to me that American hegemony has created such a prosperous peace in the remainder of the West that many non-American westerners have come to hold false beliefs about the nature of their prosperity and the quality of their societies, laws and governments." (November 2022)

@baj2235 — 10 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

~~Kermit the Frog~~ Jordan 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)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

how Vietnam also has societal problems (11-01-17)
The Vietnamese Palate (August 27th, 2018)

@barkappara — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Alienation of Marxmensip (Reply to /u/KulakRevolt) (December 1/2 2019)
On Political Needles (November 2019)

@barnabycajones — 60 AAQCs

🔵 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 press’s 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 — 4 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"It is clear that what educational and social institutions want are meek, inoffensive and productive men who do not question the rules of society." (March 2024)

@barristan_selmy — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

thread on the future of human rights (July 2019)

@bartender_venator — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@bassicallyboss — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Social Status (June 11th, 2018)

@bbqturtle — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Rationalist Contrarianism (June 4th, 2018)

@bearvert222 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Weird Dynamics of Conservative Moviemaking (June 1/2 2020)
The Tyranny of Meaningfulness (May 1/2 2020)

@beej67 — 8 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@beerwulf42 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Analyzing The Music in Hamilton (July 1/2 2020)

@belisarius — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@belisaurus_rex — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The History of The Bastille (July 1/2 2020)

@ben___garrison — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I get the feeling that many women think there's a huge divide between the predators that are getting caught in the #MeToo trap, and the type of normal men who they meet in their everyday life." (August 2022)

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Constructing a Feel-Good Civil War Historiography (April 2020)

@bernd — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@best_cat — 18 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

resident genetic editing sleuth (04-02-18)

@bibbledyboppit — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Some awesome regnancy and nursing advice (01-09-18)

@billydeewilliams1990 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

This post is very long, so I apologize in advance. Earlier today I read this article at The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/extremists-understand-what-tech-platforms-have- (March 18th, 2019)

@birb_cromble — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@bird_of_play — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The role of values in effective altruism (September 24th, 2018)

@birdsday — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A brief evaluation of numerous crypto "platforms" or "layers." (April 2021)

@bitter_cynical_angry — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Talisman of the Gun: Pro vs. Anti gun Fetishization (July 2nd, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

There's actually an entire book called "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Laney, which I read years ago and recall being a fairly accurate description of my mindset. There are also a number of pop-psy (June 17th, 2019)

@bkawcazn — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

a quick and informal neo-luddite manifesto (04-02-18)

@bl1y — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"How does Common Sense not perfectly explain the obesity epidemic?" (June 2022)

@bleep — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@blendorgat — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"If you could for a single moment bring yourself to break the frame that surrounds you, to slough off the buffer, then Lovecraft would terrify you." (March 2022)

@blooblyblobl — 7 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@bonedrained — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There have been two recent high profile shootings." (February 2024)

@bonjellairs — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"Here's a good heuristic for telling apart honest disagreement from lack of rationality - do we see people changing their mind? Admitting that they were incorrect, or that they were arguing based on emotion rather than evidence? If we were really discussing things 'rationally' that should be a common occurrence - people present their cases, bring evidence where they disagree, and everyone updates their priors based on the outcome of the discussion." (01-09-18)

@borealenigma — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

some skepticism about recycling (04-18-18)

@borzivoj — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

Reply to @ymeskhout (November 2023)

@bothafternoon — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The SPLC’s War on Christmas...Calendars? (June 18th, 2018)
Justice, Tabloids, and Witches (September 24th, 2018)

@botond173 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Woke USA is a Speeding Locomotive With No Brakes (June 1/2 2020)

@bpc3 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Consumer protection laws in Germany vs. the U.S. (12-10-17)
Environmentalism (June 4th, 2018)

@brberg — 9 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@bsbbtnh — 15 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"All these gender 'subcultures' are for the normies. They have absolutely no barrier to entry, you need no knowledge, there's no learning curve." (October 2022)

@bsmac45 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I didn't vote for Trump, but the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story was an absolutely brazen act of electoral interference, completely burying a nasty (and genuine!) October Surprise from the primary means that the plurality of Americans get their news." (April 2022)

@buddypharaoh — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Characteristics of the Internet (November 2019)

@burdensomecount — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"On ruling well as a substitute for morality" (October 2023)

@butlerian — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"As someone who believes democratic elections are indeed fixed structurally, watching Republicans flail around trying to catch literal voter fraud is very frustrating." (October 2022)

@byvlos — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Peaking in 1996. (March 2021)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There really should be more options for helping children with dysphoria, whatever the type. There really should not be a creepy movement to sterilize children based on a short conversation." (October 2022)

@caethan — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On the economics of doctors' salaries, with implications for the patients. (12-10-17)

@campfire — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"A breakdown of the Daniel Greene-Naomi King sexual misconduct scandal" (February 2025)

@campfiresmoreseaten — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Humanity going extinct is a function of AI capabilities. Those will continue to increase." (April 2024)

@cananopie — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Role of Organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the State Policy Network (SPN), and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) in American Politics (June 2/2 2020)

@candidvoice — 6 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

comment on being indoctrinated into leftism (04-18-18)

🟢 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 — 12 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Our sex culture needs a deeper culture change in order to work for most people again, but we have to find a way to fix this! Our whole future is riding on it." (August 2023)

@cantbeproductive — 8 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@cantrunn — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Disappointment in Artistic Culture of the Right: A Historical Meander (November 2020)

@capital_room — 14 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@captain_yossarian_22 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The terribleness of the "three boxes and equity" cartoon. (March 2021)

@carefulexamination — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Men play the victim and demand sympathy successfully all the time - look at the archetypal ‘powerful victim’ politician, for example. (May 20th, 2019)

@careless-question-57 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"If kids stayed home and did nothing until grade 10, they might know a bit less than they do now, but they wouldn't know much less, and the billions saved would make up for it." (May 2021 1/2)

@catbyself — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Imagining a Rationalist Hellscape (November 2020)

@catsnakes_ — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I think some protest movements (left or right) in the United States have a touch of "video game logic" to them, where if they do the right thing a victory screen will display and they get what they want." (January 2026)

@cdo_cubed — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@celluloid_dream — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Studying Race in the Shadow of the Holocaust (August 6th, 2018)
WWI’s role in the Rise of Nazism (July 9th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I submit that this misses the most powerful response, which we can semi-ironically refer to as 'the Bartleby'--refuse without fighting." (May 2021 2/2)

@chad_nauseam — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Also, asking for explicit consent doesn’t 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on drug dealers mostly having access to shit guns only (04-02-18)
payment processing (04-30-18)

@charmanda — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on nice guys and vulnerability (04-02-18)

@cheesecakegood — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Whether Pax Americana ultimately ends as a result of military conflict, or lack of military conflict, over Taiwan. (January 2021)

@cheezemansam — 14 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@chevalmalfet — 10 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Now who will grab their rifle, And keep the roof with me?" (November 2021 1/2)

@chineseforums — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"One of the more interesting cultural moments on the Chinese internet so far this year is (was?) Lying Flat, or tangping 躺平." (July 2021 2/2)

@chopsaver — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

physics! (04-23-18)

@chrisprattalpharaptor — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"And indeed, this is false - the vaccines did reduce spread (I linked 6 studies there with varying effect sizes) early in the pandemic, back when the vaccine actually matched the virus in circulation and (speculatively) the variant in question was much less infectious and more severe." (October 2022)

@chrisprattalpharaptr — 18 AAQCs

🟢 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 – 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@chrononological — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I think you're making the case here that he's just playing to win and that playing to win is justifiable. I think the argument has merit, so I wanted to respond. (February 2019)

@cimafara — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"Modernity is invincible." (02-01-18)

@cimarafa — 6 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 22 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"It is possible to strongarm policymakers with enough political will. But it’s not easy." (November 2023)

@cjet79 — 38 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@claramegveronica — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Nature of Emotional Abuse (When it is in the Public Spotlight) (September 24th, 2018)

@clementine — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I moderated a forum once." (July 2025)
"Why do I want a fourth kid?" (June 2025)

@clinicalgazesurbulge — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@clo — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@closedshop — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@codexrunicus — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Imagine for a moment we have a fixed space in an art museum and we need to allocate the space efficiently so visitors can enjoy good art. Let's simplify our assumptions for this toy problem such that (January 21st, 2019)

@coffee_enjoyer — 10 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@coloncaretcapitalp — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Maximizing personal autonomy or minimizing suffering is a very secular-Western moral foundation. The concept of having duties from the very start is found in many societies' traditions. See "filial pi (May 27th, 2019)

@comicsansstein — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Among Neigbhors, a documentary from last year, where in WWII animated flashback scenes demonic Poles with glowing red eyes hunt down the hiding Jews, and in the ruins of 1944 Warsaw heroic German soldiers aid them." (November 2025)

@commercialturnip — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Interpretations of the Law (June 11th, 2018)

@confuciuscorndog — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"It's not about actually improving the world, protecting anyone, or anyone's safety; it's about punishing people for being morally impure as considered by the privileged classes." (June 2024)

@conquerer7 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Facing a Senator's Racism as a Chinese-American (April 2020)
The Remarkable Verbal Intelligence of Active Politicians (April 2020)

@controlsfreak — 17 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@corvos — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@counselordegen — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

culture clash between American and European progressives (02-01-18)

@cplusplusdeveloper — 10 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 7 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Probability Theory and Stereotypes in Medicine (May 2/2 2020)

@crispyfriedbarnacles — 23 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@criticalduty — 14 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"They actually didn't 'ban Pride flags'; they banned flags of any race, religion, sexual orientation or political affiliation being flown on government property." (June 2023)

@crushedoranges — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Anime Tiddies Are the Salvation of Western Civilization (April 2020)

@curious_straight_ca — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Dr. Timnit Gebru's termination by Google and the putative racism of our machine-mind overlords (December 2020)

@d0themath — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Calculatons on Gun Accidents vs Car Accidents (July 2/2 2020)

@d1m1tr1rascalov — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Die Linke - The German Radical Left (March 2020)

@d357r0y3r — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On religion. (12-10-17)
Good Electronic Music Suggestions (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Shortcomings of Ecnomic Measures as a Metric for Human Flourishing (January 2020)

@daezor — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"But Christian conservatives I can only ever see as fair-weather friends - maybe we're allied on this particular political issue, but if your social milieu had gone another way, then we would've been enemies." (January 2023)

@daffodil_day — 11 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@daguerrean — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dalamplighter — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

This is one of my main concerns. Just my PhD research requires using cold-active enzymes produced by super geographically-restricted ice-residing bacteria living at the top of a mountain range. As the (December 31st, 2018)

@dalinks — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Chinese Housing (Memorial Day 2018)
Packing the House (October 15th, 2018)

@dangerous_psychology — 17 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 41 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 25 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dasfoo — 6 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@dasubermensch83 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

sexual marketplace (05-14-18)

@dazzilingmegafauna — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Ask and Tell in Gender Issues (February 2020)
the problem with historical counter-factuals (July 2019)

@dean — 62 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@deanthedull — 44 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@dedicating_ruckus — 11 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

@deluks917_ — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Being a self-professed leftist who opposed police brutality against the Capitol rioters. (January 2021)

@demonwaffle — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

If You Have To Shoot Someone, It'll Be Quite a Few Bullets (August 2020)

@denswend — 10 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The wording of the Amendment was designed to unambiguously include freed slaves, but exclude unconquered American Indian tribes." (February 2025)

@devinhelton — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Why do so many think that it is poverty that causes the crime?" (April 2021)

@difficult_ad_3879 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@dimension_door — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I guess I’m first to the punch on this. (January 14th, 2019)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Cyberchase was amazing and now it’s just okay, and I’m sad." (September 2022)

@diracspsi — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

This is interesting, right up until you realize that the company with better computing can do far more powerful data manipulation. The same unit of data is more powerful (has a lower marginal cost) fo (June 17th, 2019)

@dirtywaterhotdog — 3 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dishwaterdumper — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Finding new songs to listen to. (November 2021 1/2)

@djspook — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The stupidity of Donald Trump (August 20th, 2018)
The Legal Doctrines Surrounding Speaking on University Campuses (August 27th, 2018)

@dnetropy — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Fertility is an issue, it is THE issue of our time (assuming the agi does not arrive and humans remain in the loop of creation)." (April 2022)

@dnkndnts — 9 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Ecological and Demographic Stability of Different Cultures (August 6th, 2018)
cloning Twitter (October 29th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On the métis of being poor. (01-09-18)
We’re very close on this. (Summer 2019)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

In the grasshopper and the ant story, what should actually occur? (April 29th, 2019)
discusses dogwhistles (July 2019)

@doctorglas — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@dogaltine — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

“Drumpf” (August 6th, 2018)

@doglatine — 74 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@doktorglas — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dormin11 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

An in Depth Review of the Disaster Artist (April 2019)

@dormin111 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

How strong feminist messaging can have negative effect in the dating world (05-21-18)

@dovetailing — 7 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dr_analog — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dradisping — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@drinniol — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Innocuous Phrases as Political Slogans: A perfect motte and bailey (September 2020)

@drmanhattan16 — 11 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

communication and charity (04-30-18)
This exchange (04-30-18)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Learning from Camden's 2013 Police Reform (June 1/2 2020)
"Some culture war from India." (March 2022)
"The Civilization™ Fallacy" (September 2021 2/2)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Let’s Interview Fascism with Paul Gottfried" (December 2022)
Part 1 – The History of Transgenderism (January 2023)
Part 2 – The Causes and Rationalization of Transgenderism (January 2023)
Part 3 – How Transgenderism Harms Women And Children (January 2023)
Part 4 – How Transgenderism Took Over Institutions And How Some Women Are Fighting Back (January 2023)
Part 5 – Conclusion and Discussion (January 2023)

@dtulpa — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There are always a small number of people that would have their lives radically improved if society rearranged towards their preferences. That still leaves everybody else." (February 2024)

@duplexfields — 9 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@dwaxe — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On Election Integrity: An "Election" Is Really Thousands (October 1/2 2020)

@dwxxv — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"College was pretty strict about having to take leftist concepts for granted and it certainly exuded an exclusively leftist cultural pressure." (May 2021 2/2)

@eaturbrainz — 11 AAQCs

🔵 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 don’t 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 science’s 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@edalis — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Rise of Skywalker was a Romance (January 2020)

@edix — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"That Person Starting an Online Argument With You May Not Be a Bad Debater or a Bad-Faith Actor, They May Just Be Functionally Illiterate" (August 2021)

@edmund-nelson — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Not Trusting Prediction Markets (November 2019)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"How feasible is it to eat on food stamps" (March 2025)

@eetan — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"All people who talk about 'Havel's greengrocer' miss one important piece of context, that was absolutely clear to the intended audience - people of 1970's socialist country - and is necessary to understand the parable." (May 2021 2/2)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"What would history said about ancient Von Neumann? Something like this:" (October 2022)

@efficiencyplenty — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Inside View from a Jail Cell (August 2020)

@efficientsyllabus — 33 AAQCs

🟢 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 Madách. (April 2022)
How European:nationalism::American:corporatism. (January 2021)
Compartmentalizing your life is good for you and for society. (January 2021)
"It's Orbán'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)

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Analyzing "Strange Statisitcs" (June 2/2 2020)

@eihabu — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Inconsistencies in the Trayvon Martin Case (May 1/2 2020)

@eleventhkey — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

An Expert's Opinion on Dark Matter (October 1st, 2018)

@ellenvelemeny — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Nature of Information (August 20th, 2018)
Make-Up in General Just Making Women Feel Good (September 17th, 2018)

@eltargrim — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Science of Different Toothpastes (September 24th, 2018)

@enigmaticpm — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

So because I'm bored, I don't know where else to put this, and apparently international maritime law is now a hobby of mine, I have some opinions on on the recent drone shooting. (June 17th, 2019)

@entobat — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Cliff's notes on the Trump-Russia controversy (02-01-18)

@epakesa — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

response (05-21-18)

@epistaxis — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

disturbing classical music (11-06-17)

@epistemic_ian — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Urban transportation. (05-07-18)

@eqth — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The political development of Argentina. (April 2021)

@erwgv3g34 — 7 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

PUAs vs MRAs (October 1st, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@eryemil — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

This is going to sound like trolling but I'm honestly perplexed at how anyone could read something like this and not see a civilization at the brink of collapse. I also believe---in spite of the media (June 17th, 2019)

@escapement — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Freedom of Speech (July 23rd, 2018)

@esperanza — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Can you imagine a modern politician being in favor of legalizing something that they thought was deeply morally wrong?" (April 2023)

@ethan — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Coed settings have their own dynamic." (May 2023)

@euphoric-baseball-61 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@evilcorporation — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

reacting to racist remarks. (01-04-18)

@evilmaniacal — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The extent to which Millennials are facing economic hardship as a result of public policy. (June 2021 1/2)

@f3zinker — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I want to talk about 'the environment'." (July 2022)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Ground report from the UAE" (March 2026)

@faceh — 37 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@faioseam — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

a short tale about corporate governance, featuring Google (04-02-18)

@faith5 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"A few basic rules for confrontation..." (January 2022 2/2)

@faoiseam — 7 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 14 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@fauji — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@faul_sname — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@fcfromscc — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On Maintaining Charity (July 9th, 2018)

@fcfromssc — 87 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@feepingcreature — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Feminism vs Antifieminism, an Eternal Struggle at Behest Fnargl (August 13th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 7 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"tl;dr - recently I did a flyout for a humanities job in the US, and wow, it put me off returning to US academia in a big way." (May 2023)

@felis-parenthesis — 14 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@felz — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Some bespoke fanfiction in response. (August 2021)

@femmecheng — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Book Review: The Scout Mindset (June 2021 2/2)

@festering-soul — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I think there are two problems when an American tries to do journalism in Indonesia." (May 2022)

@fevzi_pasha — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

An Update on the Syrian Civil War (February 2020)

@ff29180d — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Defining "alt right" (August 6th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

In 2006, in the middle of Bush's second term, 23 intellectuals founded, under the aegis of the Future of Humanity Institute, Overcoming Bias, a group blog on the systemic mistakes humans make, and how (February 25th, 2019)

@ffcfromssc — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

wrote this (August 6th, 2018)

@fiexibeast — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@firesky7 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Taking a peek into insider perspectives on oil spills (December 2020)

@firmamenti — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@firmweird — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

What Motivates Support for Trump (October 8th, 2018)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Israel has completely torched their reputation with the youth of both the left wing and the right wing. Nobody on the left gives a single shit about accusations of anti-semitism anymore, because those accusations have been used on people like Ms Rachel." (October 2025)

@fishtwanger — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I think national businesses have correctly gotten the message that Seattle now lacks the consistent political will to create a good business environment." (February 2024)

@fivehourmarathon — 80 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@flailingace — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"In short, the fear of all the Western players is nuclear escalation." (November 2024)

@flitter — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Is private equity delivering the Georgist promise?" (May 2024)

@flyinglionwithabook — 7 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Developed nations don’t 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Natural Law is the philosophical setting out of which all modern Western societies came." (April 2023)

@flyonthewall — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"To be clear - everything I said only proves that even race-blind policies (as opposed to segregation, a different justice system for different races, ethnic cleansing, etc) would be anti-White." (April 2024)

@fnovd — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Sea of Information (November 2019)

@folamh3 — 25 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@footnotetoafootnote — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Do Insects Suffer? (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"'Lived experience' is a concept used almost exclusively by progressives, but by all rights it ought to be a conservative concept." (April 2021)

@fren — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Sorry, I have to say it. This is good for crypto." (November 2022)

@fribble — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"So when I'm interviewing (for a junior position), I look for the curiosity, the trouble shooting ability, the engagement. This is particularly challenging because interviewing has become very scripted, at least where I work currently." (June 2024)

@frosty-beginning5601 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"The CDC doesn't try to figure out what the optimal risk-reward or health-fun tradeoff is, they give advice about what the healthiest thing to do is and then everyone ignores it." (May 2021 1/2)

@fruck — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@fruitfullemonylemons — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Principled Centrism (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

My pet theory is everybody's neurotic (according to the old psychoanalytic definition, substitute "mentally ill in a very broad and general sense" if you wish). When you're neurotic you often want to (February 25th, 2019)

@ftttg — 11 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@fubo — 17 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Follow-up question: if we're not a cult, should that change?" (June 2021 2/2)

@functionplastic — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Edit: man, I did not expect this many replies. Despite being a communist and on the internet, I don't really have the patience and time to argue all of this, I'm sorry. (April 1st, 2019)

@functor — 3 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A first hand account of paralysis (December 1/2 2019)

@gaashk — 7 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@gaberockking — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Trump is the first modern politician to truly realize the power of fandoms." (September 2024)

@gaiusleviathanxv — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Jordan Peterson (04-02-18)
an autopsy of New Atheism from the inside (04-23-18)

@gamedori3 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@gapigzoomalier — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"We are in the authoritarian phase of the sexual revolution." (April 2022)

@gary_oldman_sachs — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@gattsuru — 84 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@gavinskulldrinker — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Analyzing Narratives on the Arbery Shooting (May 1/2 2020)

@gaygroyper100pct — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"From the perspective of someone from Delhi or Calcutta, 'native rule' is so far in the past that it's silly to consider the British as removing it." (December 2022)

@gbdub87 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@gbrk — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Legal immigration is good but illegal immigration is WAY better." (March 2025)

@gcz77 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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_ — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 39 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 it’s 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@gen_mcmuster — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@genusnihilum — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

How Forums Self-Select by Writing Style (January 2020)

@george_e_hale — 10 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@georgemonck — 10 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 23 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@geriatriczergling — 11 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Should Magical Rome Have Female Legionnaires? (April 2020)

@gheobhadsa — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@giblfiz — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Hmm, I feel like a lot of this advice (and the advice from the original one at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HEn2qiMxk5BggN83J/boring-advice-repository ) is actually trying to edge into "interesting (Summer 2019)

@glassnoser — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@glenera — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

climbing the economic ladder (Memorial Day 2018)

@glenra — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Role of Subscriptions in the Downfall of Yellow Journalism (August 13th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

on factory bathroom breaks (July 2019)

@glopknar — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Virtue vs Virtue Signaling (August 6th, 2018)

@glorkvorn — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Most of Portland isn't downtown, and even downtown (however you define downtown, which everybody defines differently) isn't covered in protests." (April 2021)

@gloster80256 — 12 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@goldplateddalek — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

An insider's view of college athletics (April 1st, 2019)
Reflections on Covington, News, and Memory Holes (February 2020)

@goodguy — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@googly-poogly — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I’m bad with links and on mobile, but the reaction to the recent SCOTUS abortion case is fascinating to me. Long story short, an opinion a year or two ago struck down a Texas law requiring abortion p (February 2019)

@googology — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

some guidelines (04-18-18)

@gorge — 11 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@gossage_vardebedian — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Worrying Rise in Armchair Pundits (May 2/2 2020)

@gpoas — 19 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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 — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@grapegrater — 6 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

thread on the ideology of MLK (01-15-18)

@greatjasoni — 10 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Shortest AAQC (November 2019)

@grendel-kahn — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

This is basically "The United 93 Election" for Democrats. Like, "sure, (candidate) may be a dumbo with an incoherent/ill-formed policy vision, but damn it, this is our moment and we either go all-in o (February 25th, 2019)

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@grendel-khan — 19 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Alissa Walker for Curbed LA, "Elon Musk debuts test tunnel in Hawthorne: ‘I really think this is incredibly profound’". (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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@greyenlightenment — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Bullshit (August 13th, 2018)

@grinningvoid — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Giants Will Walk the Land Once More (November 2020)

@guesswho — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Basically, if you have the freedom inside a system to act mostly how you want and have steering power over your own future, you have free will." (March 2024)

@gurung99 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

post about cross dressing in China (July 2019)

@guzey — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 7 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@gworn — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Perfect Culture War Storm in Germany (August 27th, 2018)

@hackatatonton — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Campus Speech Codes (June 4th, 2018)

@hailanathema — 9 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

This subreddit's demographic breakdown by political ideology. (01-15-18)
Inside ~~baseball~~ SCOTUS (June 4th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@halftrainedmule — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

on Newtonian ethics (July 2019)

@halikaarnian — 7 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

So, today, Tumblr has decided to change policy towards adult/NSFW content, saying it is no longer allowed on the site. Don't let the language of that posting fool you, they're using what seems to be a (December 3rd, 2018)

@hanikrummihundursvin — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Thoughts On Disparate Racial Sentencing (May 2/2 2020)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I can't join a pity party for people like Rowling who have excessively enjoyed the luxury of being able to dehumanize their opponents instead of actually making an effort in understanding and discussing things with them." (February 2023)

@happybelichick — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

In Quillette, a freelance journalist in Ohio published an essay covering the recent Oberlin/Gibson’s trial. (June 24th, 2019)

@harbo — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"...conservatives tend to see sex as dangerous outside of very specific boundaries, and progressives tend to see sex as safe outside of very specific exceptions." (March 2022)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"One of the most sensible things that Jordan Peterson said recently was pointing out that body dysmorphia is normal among women with mental health issues." (February 2023)

@haroldbkny — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I grew up listening to The Who, and I love the song Won't Get Fooled Again." (January 2022 2/2)

@haroldlloyd888 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Uncle ~~Buck~~ Trump (June 18th, 2018)

@havelsonly — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"America First is an anti-doctrine. It anti-manufactures consent domestically." (August 2023)

@hellestal — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

But TBH, none of these really address the kind of predictions I care about. Stuff like the effects of minimum wage and immigration laws on unemployment, or of taxation and regulation on the econom (April 15th, 2019)

@hellogunnit — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I'll go one-by-one to websites from Fortune 500 companies in descending order and see how white or nonwhite the photos of people on their home page are." (November 2023)

@helmut_hofmeister — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The Biden admin was right back there with pressure to expand credit to 'underserved communities' until the very end, and I can see the cycle continuing." (February 2026)

@helpihavecats — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Apprenticeship Online (October 2021 1/2)

@here — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I went to the protests tonight as a legal observer because there were reports that arrests were 'imminent.'" (April 2024)

@hereandgone — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"So to sum it up: the Oz book(s) were banned at various times for various reasons, but not a blanket ban in 1928 and, so far as I can tell, not for having Strong Independent Lead Female Characters Who Don't Need No Man." (March 2025)

@hereandgone2 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On ChapoTrapHouse adn Cumtown (November 2019)

@heywaitiknowthatguy — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Explaining why children at least should not be allowed on social media (December 2020)

@hh26 — 5 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@hieronymus — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@highlandclearances — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Things are not going well in Canada." (December 2023)

@highresolutionsleep — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 27 AAQCs

🔵 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)
Everyone’s the Utilitarian Villain of Their Own Story (August 13th, 2018)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@hmmuhh — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Issues with First Past the Post (FPTP) - Queue CGP Grey (December 2/2 2019)

@hoardingelixirs — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Executive Function (June 11th, 2018)

@hoffmeister25 — 20 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@honeypuppy — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I’ve been thinking about Godwin’s Law/Nazi analogies. (January 7th, 2019)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I agree, a really interesting glimpse of the decline of Rome. (January 7th, 2019)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"That 'since they're gays and addicts, let's just let them die' appeared to have been the Reagan administration's policy / is often how it's characterized, thus the title of the famous history of the early years of the epidemic, And the Band Played On." (January 2025)

@hooser — 5 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@housefromtn — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@humandrinkingtea — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Humility of Scott Alexander (June 2/2 2020)

@huskycriminologist — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Free market capitalism and identity" (September 2022)

@hydroacetylene — 11 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@hypersoar — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On Indicting a President (November 2019)

@hyphenomicon — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 24 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, redux. (02-08-18)
Schooling and Goodhart's Law (04-30-18)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@ididnoteatyourcat — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I'm a practicing scientist (a physicist), so for me this (giving me a reductive explanation of how skepticism is important to science) is an example of what this very thread is scrutinizing. Yes, skep (February 2019)

@igi-111 — 7 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Why the Province of British Columbia only owns one building. (March 2021)

@ihavegreypoupon — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Disciplinary hearings for Lawyers (05-21-18)

@ihcoyc — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Confucianism is of course a vast subject, and I am not a product of a Confucian culture so my grasp of it is necessarily incomplete. But I am specifically thinking of the way Confucianism holds that (March 4th, 2019)

@ilforte — 79 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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 TheMotte’s 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 «harmonious society» (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 «theories» 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 ‘race’ – 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 party’s 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 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Playing Devil's Advocate on the Trump Charges (August 20th, 2018)
a pair of letters (Memorial Day 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@immortal_lurker — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Statistical Analysis of False Convictions (February 2020)

@impassionata — 12 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Economics and marginal costs (June 18th, 2018)

@impossible_campaign — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"War brides and loot goblins: The Iliad" (October 2023)

@incognitomaorach — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"TL;DR: Sectarian violence imported from the Indian subcontinent bubbles over into a UK city that has previously been deemed an example of "good" diversity, with the potential for much scarier and wider violence in larger cities if the police/community don't get it under control." (September 2022)

@independantthut — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Isaiah Berlin's "foxes" and "hedgehogs" (04-23-18)

@infoteddy — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@inh5 — 11 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A primer on UFOs. (June 2021 1/2)

@intarnationallyknown — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

presentation and attraction (04-30-18)

@intboom — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Someone like Michael Forest Reinoehl openly declares his support for Antifa and shoots someone for politically motivated reasons, yet still somehow that terrorist organisation has counted for 0 deaths in 25 years, you kind of have to start asking what's going wrong with data gathering." (April 2021)

@interversity — 6 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On flirting (11-14-17)
An analysis of the Cause of Obesity of America’s Poor (August 13th, 2018)
Street Trees (August 13th, 2018)
You should (Probably) Lift Weights (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Examples of High Quality Journalism (July 2/2 2020)
Comparing Responses to Kavanaugh and Biden Scandals (May 1/2 2020)

@iprayiam — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Sex Discrimination and the Civil Right's Act (June 2/2 2020)

@iprayiam2 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Examining Bigotry and Kindness (November 2020)
Diversity of Opinion Means More Than Two Sides (October 2/2 2020)

@iprayiam3 — 31 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@iron-and-rust — 7 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@is_not_strained — 6 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On using Google Scholar as a layperson. (01-15-18)

@j_says — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Political tribes around the world (June 18th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 50 AAQCs

🔵 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 “silenced” (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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Mesoamerica is basically defined by the fact that it had stratified, urban societies (alongside a number of other key common traits, like pyramids, blood worship, the ball game, etc)." (February 2022)

@jacksonharrisson — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

three meanings for "neoliberalism" (04-23-18)
A Different Article on the Same Retracted Paper (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@jacobin93 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Hate AAA Games-As-A-Service? Follow Indie Gaming Instead (October 1/2 2020)

@jacobindeeznutz — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Post (July 23rd, 2018)
Loserdom (June 4th, 2018)

@jacsonharrison — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

response (June 4th, 2018)

@jake — 6 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@japanthrowaway13467 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A response (July 2019)

@jarjarjedi — 5 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

on samizdat and security through obscurity (July 2019)
Low-Level Fears of an Accurate Conspiracy (May 1/2 2020)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@jay520 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@jdoe1029384756 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I think story telling (in religious, national or any other sense) is very very important part of any society because the stories we tell serve as a guidance to how to live your life and determine the (December 24th, 2018)

@jeebusjones — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on separating artistic from political merit in movies (04-18-18)

@jerdenizen — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Book Review - Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson (June 2021 2/2)

@jeroboam — 7 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@jesuischarlie — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@jhanicmanifold — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

How to experience gratitude on a walk through Walmart. (February 2021)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The current scientific knowledge on optimizing muscle growth states that muscle growth mainly depends on 2 key variables under your control: daily protein intake and weekly workout volume. I'll go into each of these before mentioning other stuff." (January 2023)

@jimm — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"This is an easy case, and if we can't even refrain from thumbing the scale when our ideological enemies are so easily defeated by pointing to the truth, we have no chance on anything remotely hard." (August 2023)

@jiro_t — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I think this analysis mixes up two different aspects of libraries. (May 27th, 2019)

@jjeder — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I contend that the Men's Rights movement, Red Pill, etc are asking for comfort in a wavelength females only dimly perceive." (April 2022)

@jjmcloy — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I want to talk about the "lying to the FBI" charge against Michael Flynn, because it raises a lot of questions to me about the nature of power both in the United States and in general theory. (March 25th, 2019)

@jmdlh123 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

As someone who was deep into the Occupy movement, I’m gonna come out hard in favor of the twinkle fingers. The rationale for the twinkle fingers is much more sophisticated than being deaf-friendly or (November 12th, 2018)

@joeofhouseaverage — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Warning: this post contains the somewhat unfocused ramblings of a melancholic Pole." (February 2022)

@john_doe_fletcher — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"tl;dr simple RES ripoff for The Motte" (July 2024)

@johnburidan — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

For the past several years I have done all the technology training for the teachers at our school. We have used several digital gradebook systems: Schoology, Renweb, Gradelink and I have configured th (Summer 2019)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise? (July 1/2 2020)

@johnfabian — 6 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@joshsteich — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Problems with the Sub (Extremely Late 2019)

@jtarrou — 36 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@judahloewben — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on IV fluids (03-08-18)

@jukkaserioustea — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

British socialism and political movements in general (04-30-18)

@julianrota — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@juliusbranson — 4 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@jurijfedorov — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I used to be a huge Russian patriot and liked Putin quite a bit." (February 2022)

@justawellwisher — 11 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

(I apologize in advance for any factual inaccuracies - I am only a first year student still) (October 29th, 2018)

@karmaze — 17 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 10 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I've never seen any evidence that children are more likely to be affected. That seems to be the part that is manufactured by the rightwing media - you can make anything more urgent by making it about (May 6th, 2019)

@kellykebab — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Struggling with the Death of God (December 1/2 2019)

@khainebot — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Immigration, particularly asylum seekers appears to be a hot topic across the Western World. I thought I would bring to light Australia's approach to dealing with asylum seekers to allow a comparison (November 5, 2018)

@kingshorsey — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Responding to Tradition is Smarter than You (September 10th, 2018)

@kinoite — 11 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@kistaro — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A matrix of views on the Rittenhouse and Babbitt shootings. (January 2021)

@kky — 7 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@klutzytraining — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Virtuous Victims Bias (January 2020)
Potential Benefits of Mild Censorship (June 2/2 2020)

@kmc — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

This (October 2023)
reply (October 2023)

@knowstuffsolveprobs — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I want to steelman and say that Critical Theorists don't deny that there is a world outside of themselves. That, I think, is as far as it goes. The nature of the world is constructed through discourse (May 20th, 2019)

@kolmogorovcomplicity — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Corporatizing Marriage (March 2020)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"A lot of people will likely choose to be thinner in a transhumanist future, but that doesn't make me want to celebrate bulimics as transhumanist pioneers." (March 2023)

@kopperfish — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There's plenty of good music." (January 2024)

@kreuzguy — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Summarizing "The Son Also Rises" (September 2020)

@kromkonto69 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@krytan — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Assimilation and the Values of Immigrants (August 13th, 2018)
Genuine vs Strategic Belief in Free Speech (June 18th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 36 AAQCs

🟢 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. Godwin’s 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 “Constitutional” 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)
“My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred.” (September 2020)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@kulaks_deserved_it — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Public Schooling (June 11th, 2018)

@kurwakatyn — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"It's fun to imagine those staffers, and the circumstances that lead the Liberal Party and Parliament to have nobody in the entire chain equipped to realize that 'fought against the Russians in WWII' needs a second look. What an unbelievable unforced error." (August 2023)

@kuusatim — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Internal politics of Sweden with regards to forming a government (Memorial Day 2018)

@kylesearle — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Physics of a Firearm Wound (August 13th, 2018)

@lacklustrefriend — 17 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@lactationlover1215 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Hi, someone with this fetish checking in with a throwaway account. (May 2019)

@larsiusprime — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Critiquing the Trolley Problem (August 13th, 2018)

@lawofthegrokodus — 8 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There is a reason we don't just leave cigarettes or alcohol or sexual activity to the good judgment and curious nature of children." (April 2023)

@lazar_taxon — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

on motivated reasoning (July 2019)

@lazylongposter — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@lemongrab — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

a steelman of HBD (04-18-18)

@letsallsitdown — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I just got back from visiting Iraq, and thought I'd share my thoughts." (January 2024)

@letsstaycivilized — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@lifelingering — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Why Peak Oil won’t ever happen, and what that might mean for Peak Charity (August 6th, 2018)

@lightandlight — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I don't think there are any cheat codes, unfortunately (but if someone finds them, please tell me) (May 2019)

@likeafox — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

However, I doubt that the proportion of such people has changed within the last few years, so what has? Why are things so much more desperate now than they were before, that people are willing to (April 22nd, 2019)

@literalheadcannon — 9 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There is this meme/observation - in the 60s the car manuals included how to adjust the valves, Today the warning is to not drink from the washing fluid." (August 2023)

@logisticks — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On the Author Brandon Sanderson, and the Success of the BYU Writing Program (November 2019)

@londondare — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"How UN manipulates the Gender Development Index" (August 2023)
"Troubles with life expectancy gender gap" (October 2023)

@long-walk-short-pier — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Little Interminable Indiginities (July 1/2 2020)

@longjumpinghurry — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Deep Dive Into the Question of Chauvin's Guilt (June 1/2 2020)

@looking_round — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Reconsidering Effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine (May 2/2 2020)
Why Immigrate to Signapore (November 2019)

@looksatanimals — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Idiocy of 'Most People' (June 2/2 2020)

@lordjelly — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Faith in the Chronicles of Narnia (September 3rd, 2018)

@lorelei_on_the_rocks — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Humans are not equal." (August 2022)
Gender balance in the True Crime Community (January 2022 1/2)

@loren_dc — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I work in government transparency, and chose to go into it in part because I wanted to make a (tiny, incremental) difference for public trust in government. In my opinion, though, all three of these r (Summer 2019)

@loresnacks — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Trump as Scapegoat For Health Expert Failures (October 1/2 2020)

@losvedir — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 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 — 6 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Reflections on being a left-wing hereditarian. (February 2021)

@lucas-200 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

A Russian Proverb (June 4th, 2018)

@lucben999 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I have an anecdote you might find interesting on subreddit drift, I've seen this preference to one side develop organically in different subreddits dealing the culture war that started as neutral ground, each going in a (June 10th, 2019)

@lukipuki — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Where is the promised exponential growth in COVID-19? (May 2/2 2020)

@lunaranus — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Japanese Military Songs (April 2020)

@lykurg480 — 17 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 15 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@magic9mushroom — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@magicweasel — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 6 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The central cultural importance of striving. (February 2021)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@maisonoiko — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Reflections on a Positive Protest Experience (June 1/2 2020)

@majormajorcalebmajor — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Biological Theorycrafting in Rationalist Spheres (May 1/2 2020)

@majorsomeday — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Seeing Your Political Enemies As Human (November 2020)

@majusculeminiscule — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

How It Feels To Walk Around Town With a Little Baby (October 1/2 2020)

@maketotaldestr0i — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I frequently see people trying to convince themselves that preparing for economic crashes, social upheaval, and other catastrophes is pointless, not because they think these events are unlikely but be (January 7th, 2019)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

An Unknown Crisis (December 1/2 2019)
Bringing pigeons out of their pigeoholes (December 2020)

@mangosail — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@mantergeistmann — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Why People Don't Admire the Marvels of Civil Engineering (June 2/2 2020)

@marcruise — 7 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@marinuso — 18 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"You guys need to organize your elections better. The reason people will believe Trump when he yells 'fraud', is because election fraud looks to be plausible." (September 2024)

@markass — 2 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"With several conflicts around the world that endanger American Geopolitical interests how will the Army try to boost their numbers of foot soldiers? Will its attempt(s) be effective?" (January 2024)

@martiannight — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@martin_samuelson — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On the definition of steelmanning (09-30-17)

@martinus_de_monte — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Some Dutch culture war today; colonialism, (accusations of) genocide denial and more." (January 2022 1/2)

@master-thief — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Lawyer here. (March 25th, 2019)

@mathiastrex — 2 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@mattaan — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

a near-future dystopia in the United Kingdom (04-02-18)

@maximumcuddles — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Just because the earthquake stopped and the house is still standing doesn’t mean it is not still in the process of falling over." (March 2024)

@mbdxjst2 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On certain political lessons that the US could learn from the rest of the developed world (02-01-18)

@mc_dark — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 40 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 Station~~ Grocery 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"The United States is so wealthy we can ignore nearly any aspect of reality we see fit and just pretend we were right." (April 2022)

@medecine4goat — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I’m stuck inside due to the Australian lockdown so I thought I’d write an effort post." (August 2021)

@memory_shell — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

This is a very interesting question. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything that replies accurately to your query. (Summer 2019)

@mercurylant — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

A Stanford Interrogation Experiment (August 13th, 2018)
Being in College with a Learning Disability: Money Helps (October 8th, 2018)

@meriadoc — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@metrotrumper — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Calibrating priors on the career trajectory of people who bomb the U.S. Senate. (January 2021)

@mexatt — 14 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 6 AAQCs

🔵 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)
America’s Two Liberal Parties (July 23rd, 2018)
America Soured on My Multi-racial Family (September 3rd, 2018)

@midnightrambulador — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

productivity growth and perceptions of greatness, along with the idealizing of strongman politics (11-06-17)

@miley_cyrus_superfan — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Putin is a terrible man and he is ultimately responsible for his actions, but provocation is real and we have been poking the bear for a long time for no reason other than a deep-seated hatred of Russians swimming in the very DNA of our ruling class." (October 2022)

@mirror_truth — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"It isn't necessary for any machine to fully model the world to understand it." (April 2021)

@misatek — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

between-gender differences in libido (11-01-17)

@miserablemusic — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

We on the right love to say that "God created men, and Sam Colt make them equal". Inspired by the horror of my tweenage daughter's social media life, I'd like to propose an addendum: (May 6th, 2019)

@mister_ghost — 15 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Interpreting (July 23rd, 2018)

@mokoroo — 7 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The Fussy Suitor Problem: A Deeper Lesson on Finding Love" (April 2024)

@moneychurch — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Gettier problems in epistemology (04-02-18)

@monfreremonfrere — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 6 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Valve: Censorship and Business Model (June 4th, 2018)

@morcovi — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Talking Political Prediction Markets (August 2020)

@moredonuts — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Fall of the American Empire (02-01-18)
I’m so indie that my Tumblr don’t fit. (December 10th, 2018)
Crafts and Purpose (July 2nd, 2018)
The Entire History Rationalism, I Guess (July 9th, 2018)

@motteanon12345 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Counterpoint: slander and misinformation need to be banned." (September 2021 1/2)

@motteolotteo — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Why ex-Mormons seem so much more anti-religious than the median ex-Christian. (January 2021)

@motteposting — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@mottizen — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Wendigo Psychosis Theory of Jordan Peterson (October 2/2 2020)

@mountain-dig — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Personal View of Autogynephilia (January 2020)

@mramazing818 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

An Unsolved Problem in #Metoo (October 1st, 2018)

@mrmarfanman — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Why High Speed Rail is Such a Hard Sell in the US Specifically (October 2/2 2020)

@mrnanaue — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Selecting for Cynicism in the Ivy League" (October 2025)

@mscantrell — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Hail Damage (June 4th, 2018)
On Where to Ask Questions (October 1st, 2018)

@mseebach — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@muninn — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Insanity: mental health treatment in my corner of America" (November 2024)

@muserallusion — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Doctor here. (April 1st, 2019)

@musicmage4114 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

For a lot of these people (leftish activist types), "the personal is political" is their motto and they believe politics/culture war has to be brought into everything to achieve "justice" (March 11th, 2019)

@namrok — 15 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"The Netherlands is the literal second biggest agricultural exporter in the entire world, if you judge by money rather than tonnage." (July 2022)

@naraburns — 111 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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, Thompson’s 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)

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@natalyarostova — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I'm about as successful as I think I can be given my interests and my natural ability. I work in a technical sciencey job at a big tech company. I don't do anything flashy, just modest statistical mod (October 22nd, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Sanity Checks Against Solving Problems with Terrorism (January 2020)

@nathaniela — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

To be honest with you, I had never heard of this field and I had to Google just about everything you just said. Acknowledging my 30 minutes of expertise in this field, I'm going to mention my initial (March 25th, 2019)

@nationalismisfun — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

War Isn't That Bad (September 2020)

@nausk1 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Edit: sources (Summer 2019)

@navalgazer420xx — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Once the victim responds everything turns to picking apart their defense and hounding them for it." (September 2022)

@ndclavier — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@neal_davis — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"So just for 'fun', let's game this out using the numbers from the CRS report and the defenses I outlined above, making some reasonable assumptions..." (March 2022)

@nelsonrushton — 7 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Here are some thought on the current relationship recession going on." (March 2026)

@netstack — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@netstack_ — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Is there any point to right-wing political victories at all? To left-wing ones?" (August 2022)

@newsaddiciton — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Boston's Failures in Technology (September 24th, 2018)

@newworkaccount — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@niallsnine — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Whether the point of "Pride" parades to reject one thing, or to normalize something else. (May 2021 2/2)

@nicolordofchaos99999 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Clarifying Marx for mcjunker (January 2020)

@ninety_three — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Pushback and Details on a "Bill to End Encryption" (March 2020)

@njordsier — 19 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@no_bear_so_low — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

@noahtheduke — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Cars, tools and everything "useful" improves with time (February 18th, 2019)

@nomagicpill — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Uganda Trip Report" (March 2025)

@nomenym — 9 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@nonclandestine — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on the Trump-Russia controversy (02-01-18)

@not_of_here — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Introduction to The Unit of Caring. (12-10-17)

@notary_reddit — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@notmymainacct2118 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

what its like working for amazon (05-14-18)

@notsoincandenza — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Potential For War Over Race and IQ (July 2/2 2020)
The Homogenizing Power of Academy Awards (September 2020)

@nouveau_compte — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"A theory that apparently explains the crime drop is the security hypothesis." (May 2021 2/2)

@nowitandnoskill — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Where Ezra Klein Went Wrong in the Klein-Harris Debate (April 2020)

@nullhypothesis — 9 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@nullshun — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

It's easy to expand rural communities or start new ones. The mystery is why people keep bidding up property values in the cities. Why do they crawl over each other to pack themselves into these arbi (Summer 2019)

@nullusinverba — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I grew up partly in Moscow in the early 90s. The public transport situation was actually pretty similar to what's in NYC: great subway, some commuter rail but heavy reliance on buses to fill the gaps (May 20th, 2019)

@numbers2357 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Sexualization and Social Pressure in the Market (April 2020)
Critically Analyzing the Electoral College (October 1/2 2020)

@nyctosaurus — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 7 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

One subtlety about taxes in general, which several posters alluded to but didn’t fully articulate, is the importance of elasticity in what you are taxing. A good (I am sure you know this, but for the (May 13th, 2019)

@ofhdbekzucsknxj — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I think that SJ ideology is different in that views individual prejudice to be the origin and replicating force of social oppression. They can talk about "structural forces" all they want, but the fac (January 28th, 2019)

@oldlamps — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

What political movements look like from the outside. (02-08-18)

@oleredrobbins — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I Was Born in Slavery (May 2021 2/2)

@olivetapenade — 17 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@omegaile — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

A View of Modern Masculinity (October 15th, 2018)

@onlybestcasescenario — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"Fret not, the concept of Moloch is typically horribly abused and probably just not understood outright..." (12-10-17)

@onyomi — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Overwhelming Leftward Bias of Reddit (March 2020)

@oracleoutlook — 14 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@orangejake — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Thinking Marx was right about class (December 2020)
A Look at Amy Coney Barrett in Her Own Words (September 2020)

@orthoxerox — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"With no simple nationalism to fall back to, what can Russia base its identity on?" (February 2022)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@oscarjeff — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Jurisdiction of Federal Courts (January 2020)

@oumard — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Power-users and Think-fluencers in the Boardroom (September 17th, 2018)

@ouroborostriumphant — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"If a Democratic Congressman knows that grabbing his secretary's ass has a good chance of ending his career, then the fact that the Republican across the hall can grab all the ass he wants doesn't change the fact that the Democrat's secretary is safer than she would have been." (12-10-17)

@overthinksstuff — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I have also noticed that white-male CS candidates are much more likely to have autistic-traits than other races in tech." (June 2022)

@oxioxioxi — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

massive discussion with regards to the recent quarantine of /r/Redpill (October 1st, 2018)

@p-necromancer — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@paanther — 18 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

COVID-19, Respiratory Diseases, Strokes, and When to Panic (April 2020)

@palentir — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

talks about "the perception gap" and acedemic bubbles (July 2019)

@papardus — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"What I really want is for you to be proactive in telling me which you mean, rather than just talking about what you don’t consider to be racism." (January 2024)

@pasha — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@passsinglunatic — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

SJW Fundamentalism (June 4th, 2018)

@pb34 — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

For a while, people didn't fully understand the weather, and so believed that God(s) caused it. Eventually, we were able to explain why it rained with science, and so this view fell out of favor. The (March 4th, 2019)

@pbmonster — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Really, it is hard to understate how bad the Artemis program was (and is) managed." (February 2026)

@penpractice — 6 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@peterfloetner — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@phailyoor — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"All the 'experiments' to get local people to work on the farm failed because they didn't seriously try and it was too easy to give up and say it's impossible." (June 2025)

@phoneosaur — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Present-day US vs the Soviet post-Brezhnev Gerontocracy (March 2020)

@phosphorous_rex — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Reflection on Becaming a German Citizen" (September 2022)

@phosphorus2 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@phylogenic — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Toe shoes (July 23rd, 2018)

@pierremenard — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Is it still a conspiracy if they're not literally wearing capes and bathing in blood?" (March 2024)

@plausiblist — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Prudes of the Multicultural and Religous (July 30th, 2018)

@pm_me_ur_obsidian — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Gates is right, IP is not the concern." (April 2021)

@pmmeclassicmemes — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Epistemic Status : It is 3:16 am and I have returned from the strippers." (October 2022)

@pmmecutepones — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Every year during National Day, the Prime Minister of Singapore (currently PM Lee) makes speeches to address, among other things, contemporary political issues like race relations." (August 2021)

@pmmeexistentialdread — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On Guns, Gun Culture, etc. (November 19th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

We didn't start the fire (April 15th, 2019)
Defending Greta Thunberg (Extremely Late 2019)
Analyzing "Inteligent Trumpism" (November 2019)

@pointsandcorsi — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Jobs Aren't Rewards (February 2020)
on the weaponization of language (July 2019)
Opinions on Trolling (November 2019)

@pokerpirate — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@polabud — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Some Fact-Checking on COVID-19 IFR (October 1/2 2020)

@polishbearsneeze — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

De-evolution of Pop Culture (November 2019)

@politicsthrowaway549 — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Export of Firearm Schematics (July 9th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

People aren’t really considering the actual reality of their proposals in any kind of detail. They see rich people and poor people and intuitively believe we can just give the extra stuff the rich peo (May 20th, 2019)

@popocatepetl — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@positronicman — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Sharing a White paper on Memetic Tribes and Culture War (October 1st, 2018)

@possibleastronaut — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Nobody watches Middle-Earth to think about New York." (September 2022)

@primaprimaprima — 13 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"On The Concept of Male Entitlement" (July 2022)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@pro_sprond — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The Virtue Theory of Money" (August 2023)

@problem_redditor — 34 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@procrastinationrs — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Pseudo-Irony (August 2020)
Fake Identities, Incels, and Relationships (July 2/2 2020)
response on political violence (July 2019)

@professorgerm — 22 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Unique Value of Military University (May 1/2 2020)

@promotor — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"...I think this is ultimately why George R.R. Martin hates fan fiction." (December 2024)

@pssandwich — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Interestingly, one thing we know about this song is that Mozart was especially proud of the Aria, even to the end of his life... (12-20-17)

@pulpachair — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Problems with Tit for Tat (July 16th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Conspiracy in the Mock Government (February 2020)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Ballard could be the hero he is made out to be or a grifter." (August 2023)

@puntifex — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@purecalumny — 1 AAQC

🟢 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_ — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On Mask-Wearing: The Virtue Is In the Choosing (July 2/2 2020)

@pyotrverkhovensky — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@q-ball7 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@qualia_of_mercy — 10 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@quantumfreakonomics — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The purpose of empathy is to approximate good decision theory." (May 2023)

@queensnyatty — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

economics and charity regarding rent control (Memorial Day 2018)

@questionnmark — 6 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@quite_vague — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Funneling one's culture war energy Productively (September 3rd, 2018)

@qwert123321z — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Appeal of Bronze Age Pervert (Extremely Late 2019)
Medical School Not Being Very Useful (February 2020)

@raakaa — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@rabitology — 8 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Many of the problems with modern dating aren’t specific to dating, they’re common to every type of social relations." (January 2026)

@raggedy_anthem — 20 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@raiderofalosttusken — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Simple, One-Line Way to Fix Traffic Fine Incentives (October 1/2 2020)

@rakkur — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

response (October 2023)

@randomdnamugations — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Responding (September 3rd, 2018)

@randomerican — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Old School Feminism: Gender Abolitionists and Gender Essentialists (July 1/2 2020)
Thoughts on seeing Cuties (September 2020)

@randomranger — 25 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@randomsourceanimal — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"History is replete with examples of simple factual statements being signifiers in ideological fights that are, in turn, manifestations of power struggles between competing political factions." (May 2021 2/2)

@randomthrowaway410 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I think that society will be much better off when we realize that these racial disparities are not going away anytime soon, and we need to give the Critical Race Theorists and Grievance Studies the same treatment that we gave Alchemists." (June 2021 2/2)

@rarely_beagle — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

@rayon — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@recovering_rationaleist — 3 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Against Open Borders (November 2019)

@reddit4play — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

@redmikeyawn — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Polish Terminal (August 27th, 2018)

@regan-regan — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Lower-class Perceptions of Social Programms (February 2020)

@remarkablestatistics — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Critique of Critical Theory In Response to Adam Neely (October 1/2 2020)

@renos — 13 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@rholles — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@riceowlguy — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

asking for a framework with regards to the re-appropriation of terms (05-14-18)

@richarddormersvoice — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 you’re navigating a minefield, you’ll look silly (September 24th, 2018)
Discussing the Evolution of Tennis (September 3rd, 2018)

@ridrip — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@rifhen — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Politicians are getting better at their jobs over time and it’s destroying our society (October 1/2 2020)

@rip_finnegan — 6 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

discussed gender roles (July 2019)

@robertliguori — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

some approaches to winning the AI box experiment (04-02-18)
Who should it be acceptable to hate? (June 18th, 2018)

🟢 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)

🟣 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@rogerdodger_n — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Joys of Superstimuli (October 1/2 2020)

@rokmonster — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@rokosbasilganglia — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Why You Should Take an Improv Class (October 1st, 2018)

@rokosbasilica — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@rolabond — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Freeing Government Cheese From Cheese Caves (April 2020)

@rolfmoo — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@rov_scam — 76 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@roygbivensaction — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 14 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@ruecondorcet — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Imagine you are a young 18-year old boy living in rural America. Your father is a farmer and your mom is a stay-at-home mom. Your brothers are typical low-education Americans living in red states. How (January 21st, 2019)

@ruhend — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Weakness of Meta-Awareness (April 2020)

@ruleandline — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

adverse selection bankrupting insurance companies (11-06-17)

@rulerfrancis — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

And it’s not just Instagram. Twitter is proliferated with “Follow Me, I’ll Follow Back” accounts that serve no purpose but to turn your follower count into an arbitrary score. Snapchat has the notorio (Summer 2019)

@rumpole_of_the_motte — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Hawaii as Melting Pot, and the Perks of Casual Racism (April 2020)
Lefties: Born This Way (October 2/2 2020)

@ruraljune — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

In Defense of (OG) Star Wars (December 1/2 2019)

@rwkasten — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On baseball, revenge, and Peter Thiel. (01-15-18)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

A Brief History of the Cubs (November 2019)

@rxzys — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

talks about moderator decisions (July 2019)
Re-imagining the Role of Testing and Teachers (November 2019)

@ryandv — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@ryeixn — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Differences between White and Black Southern English (September 3rd, 2018)

@ryhmeofcuing — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Long ago, when yields began to rise through industrial farming practices, when farmers first started to store their grain in large metal silos, when the pace of harvest began to increase, they encountered a problem." (January 2022 2/2)

@sabu113 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Existential threats faced by Millennials (Memorial Day 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

discusses why you should be skeptical of the news (July 2019)

@saiyanprinceabubu — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Pre-judicial gag orders (05-21-18)
Misgendering (05-21-18)

@saladatmilliways — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Has Money Poisoned the American University (August 6th, 2018)

@saltcheck — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"In Hungary, the biggest political scandal in years has been unfolding over the last two weeks, and has included the resignation of the (ceremonial) president of the republic, Katalin Novák." (February 2024)

@sandypylos — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Physical versus mental coercion, propaganda and myths, truth and lies. (February 2021)

@satirizedoor — 8 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@saxifragethegreen — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 6 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

TL;DR: At the risk of coming off like a 4chan user, I get less autistic. (December 3rd, 2018)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On the Loss of Faith In Experts (April 2020)

@schizosocialclub — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Drones and the Second Nagorno Karabakh War (October 1/2 2020)

@sciencemcgee — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

All You Ever Wanted to Know about Adolescent Transition (February 2020)

@scienceordidnthappen — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Growing up Progressive (July 2nd, 2018)

@sclmlw — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

explains Chesterton's Fence (July 2019)

@scottalexander — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on why he sometimes goes back and edits old posts (04-23-18)

@screye — 10 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@second_last_username — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Canadian Literacy (June 4th, 2018)
Regulating Social Media like a Utility (September 3rd, 2018)

@securesignals — 12 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@seedelek — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 43 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@senord25 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Oh hey something on /r/ssc that I actually feel qualified to comment on! (December 3rd, 2018)

@sensitiveraccoon7371 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"After recently revisiting the fall of the Roman republic, I gotta say we still have a long way to go until the comparison becomes valid." (June 2022)

@serenabutler — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

similar issues (Memorial Day 2018)

@serialstatelinexer — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"So if you're trying to promote hatred of the rich and build a consensus for more redistribution, obviously you want to talk about wealth, and not consumption, so that's what we get." (November 2024)

@seriously_try_lsd — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Response on succinct terminology (July 23rd, 2018)

@seshfan2 — 5 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@seven — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The 7 Habits of Highly Fertile People" (January 2025)

@shakes — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@shakesneer — 34 AAQCs

🟢 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. “They didn’t have swastikas covering their foreheads,” 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 — 3 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Trademarks (August 13th, 2018)
Administrative Procedures Act (July 30th, 2018)
Nixon's Leaked Tax Return (September 17th, 2018)

@shirayuki — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"So if the dating market is FUBAR and money has questionable marginal utility, what else is left to encourage men to work hard?" (June 2025)

@shiro — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"If there was a point where you can point to in Brazil's history and say 'only downhill from here', it's the 'Proclamation of The Brazilian Republic'." (August 2024)

@shnufflemuffigans — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@shockz0rz — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

discusses "Distributed Gish Gallops" and social games (July 2019)

@shredophile — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Just wanted to say I appreciate the zooming out to the int'l level you do in this comment. I grew up abroad and while I often didn't think about such matters (how did one learn about the local LGBT co (Summer 2019)

@shrike — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@siahsargus — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Reddit Fitness Brain meme (September 10th, 2018)

@signalbeforeyoubrake — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Folly of a Group Focusing on Nom-members Failings (August 27th, 2018)

@silver-cheesecake-82 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@sincerelyoffensive — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

explaining the 'red tribe' position on gender dysphoria (09-23-17)
Fears about Escalating the Culture War (August 13th, 2018)

@sinity — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

It is kinda CW-related." (July 2022)

@sinxoveretothex — 8 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@situation__normal — 5 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@sizzle50 — 33 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@sizzle60 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

American Cultural Dominance Abroad (April 22nd, 2019)

@skibboleth — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I think there's a conceptual muddle (everywhere, not just here) between LARPing ... and Cargo Cult behavior..." (May 2025)

@skulldrinker — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"My point is that I keep failing to get phone numbers or contact info, or I collect contact info and do nothing with it, even when women are blatantly eye-fucking me, because I still have the lingering trauma of living in 2010s geek culture." (June 2025)

@sl1200mk5 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 8 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 6 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@slootando — 4 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@slowboy — 5 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@slowlikeafish — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"But what I'm supposed to do in front of a person who gleefuly gloats about how they are so safe in the knowledge that they can destory anyone who doesn't agree with them ? ... This, to put it mildly, is not how an underdog speaks." (June 2022)

@slowtalkingnomad — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@snnapaagrin — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Different approaches to Constitutional interpretation, and how they relate to the political spectrum. (February 2021)

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naraburns nihil supernum 4d ago

AAQCs by User — Part 3 of 3

@sodiummuffin — 21 AAQCs

🔵 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 “Socialism is when the govern (January 21st, 2019)
Never Changes (June 18th, 2018)
Memes in Internet Political Discourse (September 17th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@sohois — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

translated a Chinese satirical article enthusiastically drawing parallels between the American progressive movement and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (08-19-17)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Has there been a UK election post yet? I suppose there's not much room for culture war when all the main parties are slightly different flavours of neoliberal Blairites, but still..." (June 2024)

@solarity52 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

on the fragility of progress (July 2019)

@sololipsist — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

So I have a similar, relevant story. (November 12th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Futility of Riots (June 1/2 2020)
A Resident's Account of the Minneapolis Riots (June 1/2 2020)

@solowingpixy — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@solowng — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

a criticism of steel-manning as practiced around these parts (03-08-18)

@somethingmusic — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Culture War Science, Cherry Picked, 7th ed. (September 17th, 2018)

@sophisticatedhillbilly — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The same boiling that hardens the egg softens the potato" (April 2023)

@sorie_k — 12 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I recently finished Ron Chernow’s excellent biography “Alexander Hamilton,” and wanted to discuss it a little." (August 2021)
"'Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World,' is Niall Ferguson’s 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)
“Regulating the Poor” 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 aren’t Post Liberal; Classical Liberals are." (October 2021 2/2)

@soriek — 24 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"O’Toole’s 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 isn’t 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

How many people should you hang in a real game of Werewolf? (September 2020)

@southkraut — 10 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@sp8der — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Counselor Troi on Star Trek is one of the most under-appreciated characters in the franchise. And she is under-appreciated because of a failure to understand the profoundly relative nature of human tr (October 29th, 2018)

@spacerenrgy2 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Our story ends there, with our young girl trapped in a cult facility, final fate unknown." (May 2022)

@spadflyer12 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Overall I was absolutely flabbergasted at the magnitude of shit-tier science that came out in an effort to disprove or discredit everything Trump said to try and instill hope." (June 2021 1/2)

@specialdisaster9 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The damning part is that reading about privilege makes white liberals less sympathetic toward poor white people, without making them more sympathetic toward poor black people. (April 29th, 2019)

@split16 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Not sure if you are interested in how to forecast better or how to make money. I think I am fairly good at making money but not all that great at predicting. (Summer 2019)

@sqxleaxes — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"All in all, the story is about someone who, having pinned all of his hopes to a fantasy, does everything within his power to avoid endangering that fantasy." (July 2021 2/2)

@sscbooks — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 12 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@stackathon — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on wild animal rights (04-02-18)

@standard_order — 6 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 35 AAQCs

🔵 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 Führer'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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@steve132 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@steveagain — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@stillerthanthestorm — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Peterson, Pronouns, and the (Ir)relavence of Self Identification (June 2/2 2020)

@stillsut — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

astericks (August 6th, 2018)

@stjohnofpatmos — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Now, I'm not really a defender of modernism in art, and I do think the past 100 years have been largely a period of decline and loss of previous artistic achievements - but I am a defender of serious analysis and criticism, and this essay is a complete joke on those fronts." (July 2025)

@stockuserid — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Has Cthulhu really swum left? (July 23rd, 2018)
existential threats (Memorial Day 2018)

@strappingfrequent — 1 AAQC

🟣 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 — 10 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Assimilating in India (July 9th, 2018)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On Blanchard's typology of trans gender (02-01-18)

@substantialfrivolity — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I don't give a damn if the characters share my skin color, religion, or gender. That stuff is surface level. What actually matters is having people who live like you do, and have experiences similar to yours." (March 2023)

@sudonhim — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On their experience at a recent BLM event (09-30-17)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Intro (February 11th, 2019)

@sunday02 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Intrinsic Superiority of Literature as Storytelling Format (June 1/2 2020)

@sunshine — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@supah_schmendrick — 10 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

The Rise, Decline, and Stubborn Persistence of the Alt Right and Their Ideas (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@superkamiokande — 3 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

For MtF transsexuality, I recommend The Man Who Would Be Queen, which is about femininity in men (with the last third of the book dedicated to how this relates to transsexuality) and Men Trapped In Me (February 11th, 2019)

@tanista — 6 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@teleoplexy — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@temppaleo — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Genetic Drift (June 18th, 2018)

@tenaz — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@tequilamockingbird — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Is your 'AI Assistant' smarter than an Orangutan? A practical engineering assessment" (July 2025)

@testing123 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I want to take a break from talking about how modern politics and the culture war is ruining society to explain how modern politics and the culture ruined one my favorite book to movie adaptations: The Long Walk." (September 2025)

@tetridict — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Today, the 23rd of March, marks six years since Boris Johnson implemented the first Covid Lockdown in the United Kingdom." (March 2026)

@tetsugakusei — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on the Lacanian gaze. (01-04-18)

@texas_rockets — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I think it really comes down to the fact that activists are insatiable. when they’re actually given the reins, asked what exactly they want, and allowed to implement policies, they don’t actually know." (August 2022)

@texasjefferson — 2 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

X/Harm when evaluating claims (December 1/2 2019)

@tfowler11 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Negligence in Police Firearms Training (January 2020)

@thbb — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I do the compost for my residence of 43 housings (for fun). From a strict perspective of how much energy and CO2 and waste is spared, it is almost stupid. The total equipment costs about $40/year am (Summer 2019)

@the_fooder — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@the_golem101 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"...I think you're making a historical error to include things like the Bengal famine and even the Irish potato famine in with the holodomor uncritically - especially using the same term for both Ukraine and Ireland." (February 2025)

@the_lords_prior — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I'm skeptical that Valentines day really has as much signalling power as you're claiming. (February 2019)

@the_nybbler — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Clearly the Supreme Court can make decisions which have effect; they just chose not to." (July 2024)

@the_propaganda — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I think Marshall McLuhan had the answer to this problem 50 years ago and Neil Postman 30 years ago. The way that we choose to communicate ideas (the medium) affects the nature of the ideas we communic (May 13th, 2019)

@the_reason_trump_won — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on the little-known fact that black community leaders of yesteryear also pushed for harder sentencing on drug crime (11-14-17)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Obviously, everyone is just upset about our new abortion laws. I get it. But I find the whole response on reddit to be utterly childish, unsophisticated, and destructive in the worst way. This is (May 13th, 2019)

@the_straylight_run — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I don't think that the specific net positive/negative analysis being performed contains a wide enough context to be conclusive. In my view the inclusion of other factors may make full legalisation a s (November 5, 2018)

@the-rotting-word — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Comparing Programmers to HR (September 2020)

@theantipopulist — 2 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"At one point I would have considered myself a white nationalist, although only in the way a nineteen-year-old university student would consider themselves a Marxist." (November 2023)

@thecanadianzoomer — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Whatever Happened to Youthful Rebellion?" (September 2021 1/2)

@thecircusweakman — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@thedag — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@thedarklyblue — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 7 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

As a resident lefty, I feel compelled to reply. (November 19th, 2018)

@thejdizzler — 6 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Voting Peculiarities in Georgia (May 2022)

@theladyinviolet — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Many Uses of "Non-Binary" (September 2020)

@thelastderail — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"In effect, anti-death messages have now shifted from being somewhat vaguely anti-right or anti-conservative coded, to being pro-right and pro-conservative coded. As someone who cares a lot about the field, this new development frightens me." (April 2021)

@themadrevelation — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Nature versus nurture in trans-Atlantic crime demographics. (February 2021)

@themoosh — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"All signs point to Israel continuing the war until at least the middle of 2024." (January 2024)

@themotte-jmw — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"The Catholic Mass changed significantly with the aftermath of Vatican II." (December 2021 2/2)

@then_election_7412 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Why we should mostly just abolish penitentiaries. (March 2021)

@thenateross — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

"From Emma Lindsay, Sexual Coercion is Part of a Larger Culture of Coercion..." (01-15-18)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

(Epistemic status: not half-assed necessarily, but not totally thought out either--maybe two-thirds-assed?) (March 25th, 2019)

@thenelection — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@theoutlaw1983 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"I really think Grey Tribe/nerdy/etc. guys end up in spirals of their own making, while a lot of normie dudes complain once or twice to their circle of friends, and that's the end of it." (May 2021 2/2)

@there342 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Political discourse as small talk" (October 2025)

@thesingularthey — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Pain, Rage, and the Lion with the Infected Tooth (June 1/2 2020)
Musings on Normiefication (March 2020)

@thesmuganimegirl — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

*Disclaimer: I'm not great at making long, analytical posts such as this one, so please excuse me if the formatting is rough or if my post comes off as rambling. Note that when I talk about "right-win (December 17th, 2018)

@theunitofcaring — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Distortionary Pressure of Holding Perceived Authority and Reasonableness (March 2020)

@theutilitaria — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Sam Harris gives a TED interview (November 5, 2018)

@thewalrusischad — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Contestant selection is a big one. (December 17th, 2018)

@thewolfetoneofwallst — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Federal Law Enforcement Overreach on the West Coast (July 2/2 2020)

@thirdtimesthecharm — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Living On A Narrowboat (July 1/2 2020)

@thirteenvalleys — 21 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Interplay of Race and Race Narratives in the US Military (July 1/2 2020)

@thisissin — 6 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@thomanou — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

some notes on the European Commission on Human Rights (04-02-18)

@thomasthepaineengine — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@throwaway_rm6h3yuqtb — 6 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The MCAT has questions that require you to answer the SJ approved answer to political content. (April 22nd, 2019)

@throwaway05 — 8 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

hyphenomicon has it pretty much covered below, but I wanted to add a few bits. (January 14th, 2019)

@throwaway20230125 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

Six Months in the Life of a Civil Engineer (January 2023)

@throwaway5675348 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Moral Relativism and #Metoo (October 1st, 2018)

@throwawaygendertheorist — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Why biological sex and not 'gender identity' matters (April 2023)
norms, culture and language" (April 2023)

@thrownaway24e89172 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Maybe the men you are complaining about would care more about women's concerns about bodily autonomy here if some reciprocity were ever shown, if men's concerns were treated as valid rather than being tarred as misogyny." (June 2022)

@thrw2534122019 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

My read is that this won't change a thing at Oberlin institutionally, which has already gone all in on woke branding and can't reverse course now even if cooler heads in administration and faculty (June 10th, 2019)

@tidus_gold — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Treasury management - the most basic practice of any corporate finance department - is the practice of managing corporate cash in order to earn interest on what isn't being used , ensure that whatever cash is needed by the business is available, and also minimize tail risks like your bank going belly up." (March 2023)

@tilting_gambit — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

An in-depth look at possible military conflict in Taiwan. (January 2021)

@tiltinggambit — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"There's a lot to it, but ultimately the only thing that prevents the underprepared and inadequate Taiwanese military from being crushed in three days is the underprepared and inadequate Chinese military that has been tasked to do it." (January 2026)

@time_to_poast — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Mottes and Baileys of "Believe All Women" (May 1/2 2020)

@timthe7th — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The hypocrisy of locking down weddings, but not particular political protests (December 2020)

@tinyjibble — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

what the fuck did you just say about me, you little bitch? (04-23-18)

@titaniumbutterfly — 4 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@titus_1_15 — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The ACAB / Defund the Police chatter has quieted down nationally but is still very strong at the local level and they fight to reduce the budget for officers - and even previously budgeted spots that aren't filled represent money that can eventually be clawed back." (October 2025)

@to_mandalay — 3 AAQCs

🟣 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

So if there is something anti-fragile in history, it's not the taboo against SSM. It's a whole conceptual framework about marriage. Christians partially get this when they say modern society is l (June 10th, 2019)

@toadworrier — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@toakraka — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The Washington Post complains that 'Southwest had a constitutional right to issue a memo expressing its disagreement with the jury verdict'." (August 2023)

@toegut — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"The more Africans consume, the less resources they'll export, alternatively the more they'll import. The implication here is the end of cheap resources for Europe." (June 2022)

@toham31 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic, tells the story of the seven signatories of the 'Proclamation of The Republic', the people who led the Easter Rising of 1916..." (December 2022)

@tophattingson — 7 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@tracingwoodgrains — 98 AAQCs

🔵 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 ~~production~~ gaming 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 cliché to say “Be the change you want to see in the world”? (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)

🟢 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, “convince smart, conscientious people who care about the future they have a moral responsibility to avoid reproduction” 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@tractatus — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The modern buzzword du joure 'Parasocial Relationship' was coined not in 2020, but in 1955; much different than the modern use . . . it described disconnected housewives who legitimately behaved as though the fictional characters on the soap operas were really their friends." (September 2025)

@trannyporno — 26 AAQCs

🔵 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 Losin’ 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I think successful development of a trusted open model rivaling chatgpt in capability is likely in the span of a year, if people like you, who care about long-term consequences of lacking access to it, play their cards reasonably well." (February 2023)

@tree — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The thing is, a lot of ‘traditional’ jobs are bullshit now." (June 2025)

@tretiak — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Well I’m sorry, but that’s ‘life’. Life is about doing a 100 things every single day that you don’t want to do." (October 2025)

@trpjnf — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@truebutnotprovable — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on not being indoctrinated into leftism while in college (04-18-18)

@trutharooni — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@tuirseach279 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

the symbolism of anal sex in Dante's works (04-02-18)

@tulasshorn — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

In favor of Assimilation (July 9th, 2018)

@turbopony — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Canada: Nationalism, Post-Nationalism, and the Progressive Future (October 2/2 2020)

@turnpikelad — 1 AAQC

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Disclosure: I'm an author on this paper. :) Yes, the association between spiky shapes and words like "kiki" has been known for a very long time --and it's been found in multiple cultures -- but *wh (Summer 2019)

@twinksforsharia — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Why Coronavirus Will Likely Recur (March 2020)

@u__v — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Mandatory Vaccination (July 9th, 2018)
More Recent Contributions by Philosophers (October 8th, 2018)

@uanchovy — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

This is the first time I've ever heard of the Tulpa subculture but after reading about it, it lead me to an epiphany about something I've been thinking about for a while. So here's some more wild spec (May 2019)

@udfgt — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@ufi3rynvf46u — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Taking the NYT to task over the Trump administration's COVID planning (December 2020)

@ultraredspectrum — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Jewish Over-Representation and Antisemitism (August 2020)
Thoughts on Gender: Subjects and Objects in Literature (January 2020)

@ulyssessword — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

on the overton window (July 2019)

@un_passant — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I don't know of an official name, but I think of it as Unprincipled Component Analysis. While Principal Component Analysis tries to choose the dimensionality reduction so as to maximally preserve info (June 10th, 2019)

@unauspicious_cultist — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Postmodernism (June 18th, 2018)
Working class vs Middle class (June 18th, 2018)

@uncleweyland — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Life Pro Tips For Fighting Aging (December 2/2 2019)

@unearnedgravitas — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Opera! (March 2025)
Now this is in my wheelhouse." (March 2025)

@unsail — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Steelmanning the Social Justice Left’s views on Personal Responsibility (July 30th, 2018)

@unsaying — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@urquan — 33 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@urquan5200 — 8 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@usingmyowntokens — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Reasons for Opposing Open Borders (November 2019)
Political Campaigns Varying by Electorate (November 2019)

@valdarno — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I'm actually not sure on podcasts. There might be if you look, though! (February 2019)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@variousrefrigerator1 — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Sharing his Struggles with teaching (July 30th, 2018)

@vassilimikailovich — 7 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

🟢 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 — 21 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"What occurs to me is that we started with the same policy suite of checks and balances to avoid premature transgender HRT and surgery. And those checks and balances weren't enough." (October 2022)

@veqq — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Historically, the key event which formed Ukraine was the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth forming in 1569 (from a centuries long personal union)." (January 2023)

@verda-fiemulo — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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_ — 1 AAQC

🟢 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 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Life as a Jehovah's Witness (August 2020)

@vivatcomoedia — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

on how men and women may experience sexual assault differently (02-01-18)

@voc_cartographer — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Overlooking the Lockean principle of having "enough, and as good, left in common for others." (March 2021)

@vogue_epiphany — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On Effective And Ineffective Precommitment (October 1/2 2020)

@vonthe — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

So... I started a reply and then cancelled it. This is surprisingly hard to write about. I thought I'd left this behind me years ago. But you have no idea who I really am. I'm just an anonymous name a (March 11th, 2019)

@vorpa-glavo — 5 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@vortex_god — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Cards Against Humanity: History and its Place in Blue Tribe Culture (September 24th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Innovations of the XFL (February 2020)

@vosmyorka — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Attempt at a list. This kind of thing is hard to be complete, since it requires a lot of judgment. Some of the most famous cases, like the Falklands War or the Gulf War, are not included since this is (May 20th, 2019)

@voxelvexillologist — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"...I sometimes think that the Culture War is best described as bike shedding at the scale of governance..." (November 2023)

@wakawakayukayuka — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Response (August 6th, 2018)

@waltbismarck — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"You might not care about race, but race cares about you." (April 2024)

@walterodim — 10 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@walterodim79 — 6 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@wandererinthewilderness — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@wandering_otter — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Happiness and the Inner Dynamics of Progressive Sub-Cultures (August 13th, 2018)

@wavesacross — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

massive discussion with regards to the recent quarantine of /r/Redpill (October 1st, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I was thinking about doing a post on this. (April 8th, 2019)

@weaponomics — 5 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Pigou–Knight–Downs paradox Regarding Transportation (January 2020)
"Guys aren’t 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 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Whether a female academic was fired "not only for soliciting feedback on her performance regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion, but also for soliciting the said feedback using the kind of speech patterns typical of women." (March 2021)

@weedlayer — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I'm not sure if I'm merely misunderstanding, but something about his account of the origin of empathy doesn't sit right with me. (Summer 2019)

@wemptronics — 11 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

On Labels (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@wereitas — 9 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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 — 5 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 15 AAQCs

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@wgk_elphinstone — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Reporting Someone in an Online Game - An Introspection (February 2020)

@whateverhappenedtonorman — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"A few thoughts on the male feminist sex pest." (February 2025)

@whatihear — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Where are all the scientists?" (February 2023)

@which-witch-is-which — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Brexit (October 1st, 2018)

@whiningcoil — 26 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@williamlp — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Human activity, in particular emission of greenhouse gasses, is the most important driver of the observed warming we see. This appears to be completely undisputed in the scientific community now. (June 24th, 2019)

@winter_shaker — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

The Multicultural Attraction of the Major Scale (April 2020)

@withmymindsheruns — 4 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 17 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Praising the Creativity of the Chans (October 15th, 2018)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@wokeandredpilled — 2 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Contemplating the financial incentives of the divorce industry (December 2020)
An Effortpost on Child Support (November 2020)

@wondroustrange — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

On Straussianism - Saving the Author (July 1/2 2020)

@wqnm — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"The more accurate way of looking at things probably isn't 'Men's sports vs Women's sports', it's 'Sports' without any qualifiers for biological advantage (this is where all the men compete, and have always competed), vs 'Women's Sports' (which has qualifiers)." (August 2024)

@wugglesthemule — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

I feel like we're losing the ability to see humor as a form of in-group bonding and recognition. There is an immense value in making fun of your friends which is why friends make fun of each other *al (January 21st, 2019)

@wulfrickson — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

@wutcnbrowndo4u — 4 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Retaining One’s Culture as an Immigrant (August 6th, 2018)
An actually constructive exchange about the family separation issue (June 18th, 2018)
Explaining Encryption (September 10th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

I can't even imagine what kind of person thinks that this is a salutary exercise: many of these incidents do suck, but collecting anonymous, politically-loaded grievances from 100k employees seems lik (June 24th, 2019)

@xantoscell — 6 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Sex/Life or How I Learned to Like Asbestos TV" (August 2021)
Part 2 (August 2021)
"I, for one, don’t wish to be a garlic chive 🧄. 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 — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Urban development and planning in Houston versus Austin. (January 2021)

@yakultbingedrinker — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Response to Doglatine (September 24th, 2018)

@ye_guilty — 3 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@yellerto56 — 2 AAQCs

🟢 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I'm not super anti-porn, but I am in favor of these policy changes." (January 2024)

@ymeskhout — 53 AAQCs

🟢 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 §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)
"Aella’s 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)

🟣 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 — 13 AAQCs

🔵 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 — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I know that a forum supposedly comprised of high-iq journeypeople probably doesn't give a shit about how to make a great, grilled hamburger. But just in case you do...." (March 2023)

@you-get-an-upvote — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Gallery of graphs: https://imgur.com/gallery/DOpz6H6 (November 5, 2018)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Now that something smells fishy, we can look up Qatar's GDP and realize that CNBC is claiming that Qatar has spent at least 120% of their GDP on the World Cup." (November 2022)

@youcanteatbullets — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

comment on reservoir sampling (04-18-18)
A Review of Consipiracy (July 16th, 2018)

@yrrosimyarin — 4 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

So my pet peeve on gender discussions in all forms is the degree to which they seem to sneak in "male" or "female" gendered social norms as simply "good" or "bad." The OP here was getting into some of (May 27th, 2019)

@zachariahskylab — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"My point is that we should be skeptical of the fanfare accompanying the rollout of the vaccines." (June 2022)

@zalbertusmagnusz — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Political Clothing as Bonding (September 2020)

@zanarkandabesfan — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"Very broadly speaking, and using these terms in the American context, liberals and conservatives are fine-grained and coarse-grained thinkers respectively." (September 2025)

@zecaurubu — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

To Make Jobs that Do Not Crush the Soul (November 2020)

@zeke5123 — 3 AAQCs

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"...are mask mandates creating a situation where they assign cost to the least cost avoider?" (August 2021)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@zephyr — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@zergling_lester — 5 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Alex vs Bob (Memorial Day 2018)
This is a lot to unpack, yikes. (Summer 2019)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

@zerokelvincorral — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

Merging and Separating the Four Spheres of Modern Activity (April 2020)

@zestridingteufel — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"Some culture war material from India." (August 2022)

@zeuspater — 1 AAQC

🟢 r/TheMotte era

"The mother, who was willing to abort her foetus, was horrified at the thought of her baby dying once it was alive and outside her." (April 2021)

@zontarg — 2 AAQCs

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

Climate Change (June 4th, 2018)
on #MeToo hurting business women (Memorial Day 2018)

@zontargs — 10 AAQCs

🔵 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)
“It’s all a matter of point of view" (July 9th, 2018)
SF&F publishing (June 18th, 2018)

🟢 r/TheMotte era

(Amateur hour, errors are likely, corrections welcome) (February 11th, 2019)

@zorbathut — 38 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"I'm trying to figure out how I would make either characters that are never called attention to, or characters that are an allegory . . . for trans people." (July 2023)

@zortlax — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

this reply on de-mormoning (October 15th, 2018)

@zrslashrifle — 2 AAQCs

🟣 TheMotte.org era

@zzinfoteddyzz — 1 AAQC

🟣 TheMotte.org era

"It is extremely concerning to me that they chose to go after Cloudflare, a service that primarily provides DDoS protection. . . . It calls into question their entire ethics, and their ethical reasoning (or lack thereof) is arguably troubling." (September 2022)

@zzyxas — 1 AAQC

🔵 r/SlateStarCodex era

response on Bach at Burger King (05-21-18)

@zzzyxas — 11 AAQCs

🔵 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)

🟢 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)

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naraburns nihil supernum 4d 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...

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naraburns nihil supernum 4d ago · Edited 4d ago

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...

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naraburns nihil supernum 6d 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.

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naraburns nihil supernum 7d ago

Post CW content in the CW thread, please.

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naraburns nihil supernum 19d ago

Hello, welcome to the Motte!

These three short posts you've made at the top level are all a bit out of phase with community norms. They contain just enough "culture war" material that they should probably be posted as posts in the weekly CW thread. But also, maybe rate limit your posting--give people a chance to respond to one post before dropping another? These aren't exactly hard and fast rules, but basically, this site is not an LLM that you can just spam with shower thoughts. The goal is engagement with others, and that should be reflected in your posting behavior.

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naraburns nihil supernum 20d ago

Yeah, sadly I think this has become the new equilibrium in many contexts, including a lot of U.S. politics. Losers seek coexistence. Winners exterminate the opposition. The fact that this seems to inevitably descend into a cycle of conflict which both sides would be better off having never entered in the first place is simply shrugged off as a problem for some later generation. It's maddening.

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naraburns nihil supernum 20d ago

Okay, but it's not clear to me what I am supposed to conclude from all that.

I am trying to speak as descriptively as possible, here. If you think Israel should not exist (is that what you think?) then like--I don't have much to say about that. I'm not interested in (or, probably even very capable of) defending any particular Israeli action on the international stage. The country exists. Like all countries, I'm confident that they get up to some shady stuff. I don't know all the answers to your (rhetorical?) questions, but I don't think that any of them have any substantive bearing on my point.

If there were a group of oppressed Jews somewhere in the world, then Jewish communities worldwide would be pressuring their governments to intervene.

We do see some of that, though interestingly some American Jews seem to also be of the view that Israeli Jews should, ultimately, be subjected to mass migration or genocide (though they would not phrase it that way, it would be the result of their advocacy succeeding). Politics makes strange bedfellows! But one perhaps important difference between Middle Eastern Muslims and Middle Eastern Jews is that there are many Muslim countries, both in the Middle East and outside of it, and there is only one Jewish country. Strangely, very few Muslim countries are therefore willing to open their borders to Palestinians. Indeed, in many Muslim circles, Palestinians are scarcely better than Jews! Outside of Israel/Palestine, the Middle Eastern Muslim attitude toward Palestinians seems to be that they are useful idiots and foot soldiers, but you wouldn't want your daughter to bring one home for dinner.

If you're right that (A) Israel's nukes are what is substantially destabilizing the region and (B) Israel is safe because it has nukes then you are suggesting, deductively, that the stability of the region depends on Israel no longer being safe. I think that what I am doing here is agreeing with you, while pointing out that "therefore Israel should stop being safe" is neither a humane nor a plausible solution to the problem as you've described it. Indeed, it seems like your real argument boils down to something like "Israel's existence is what destabilizes the Middle East, so probably the rest of the world would be better off if Israel didn't exist."

I have my doubts about this--I think that the Middle East would be filled with different conflicts, absent Israel--but even if I'm wrong about that, I find myself quite unable to endorse "allow the expulsion and/or extermination of Middle Eastern Jews and Christians from Israel/Palestine" as a humane approach to the problem. YMMV! But that seems like one hell of a Danegeld.

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naraburns nihil supernum 20d ago

I do not think there is any country safer in the Middle East than Israel. They are nuclear-armed...

Sure, that clearly matters.

No single group is safer. I just do not see a reality in which Israel is threatened.

Perhaps not! And yet your own recommendation seems to have been in part--

we need to get rid of Israel’s nukes

By your own logic, Israel should give up (at least some portion of) their safety. And my response was, and is--that is not plausible, but even if it was, it seems very likely to end badly for them.

a significant percentage of Muslims will not be satisfied with anything less than the total annihilation of Israel

I’m not so sure.

I mean, sure, #notallMuslims, but as a rule a majority of Palestinians report that their preference is for Israel to cease to exist. (I believe that the reverse is now true as well, though my memory is that it did not used to be--most Israelis today apparently report a preference that e.g. all Palestinians be expelled from Gaza. I'm less sure about the West Bank.) Likewise, Egyptians do not seem to favor the existence of Israel. Other Muslims in the region seem to broadly follow this pattern. People want peace in theory, and favor de-escalation in principle, but are nevertheless comfortable with the proposition that Israel should not exist, that they should not do business with Israel, nor accept aid from Israel, nor come to Israel's aid in case of a natural disaster, etc.

Muslims are a diverse group, with a lot of factions and infighting, so there are always counterexamples, of course. Whether they should be required to coexist with Jews is an interesting question! But as things stand, I do not think there is very much likelihood of Muslims willingly coexisting with Jews anywhere Muslims wield significant political influence. I don't think it requires a person to be "pro-Israel" to observe the reality of public opinion among the Middle Eastern Muslim demographic clearly favoring the destruction of Israel. Realistically, I suspect that without the United States' continued involvement, we would eventually be looking at the genocide of Middle Eastern Jews as an inevitable historical outcome. Perhaps it is inevitable anyway. But certainly there is no Israeli capitulation beyond mass migration that I see the Muslim world accepting on a permanent basis, and I'm sure Israel knows that; certainly, they are beginning to behave as if they know it.

(But only beginning. If Israel still exists in 200 years, it may only be because they have, and perhaps will have used, nuclear weapons.)

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naraburns nihil supernum 21d ago

get them out of their occupied land

Which land is that, exactly? "From the river to the sea?"

I would not characterize myself as "pro-Israel" but it's weird to me that you (and many, many others) present anti-Israel as the neutral position. The fact is, a significant percentage of Muslims will not be satisfied with anything less than the total annihilation of Israel. If the Muslims and Arab colonists terrorizing the non-Muslims in the region stop fighting, there will be no more fighting. If Israel stops fighting, there will be no more Israel.

Of course, "no more Israel" is plausibly a more stable equilibrium than "some Israel remaining!" But I don't think one needs to be "pro Israel" to suspect that "just somehow convince all the Jews and Christians to vacate the region, or agree to be subjugated under under Islamic rule" is neither a humane nor a plausible position.

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naraburns nihil supernum 21d ago

Welcome to the Motte. There's enough Culture War content in this post that it probably belongs in the CW thread. Post removed.

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naraburns nihil supernum 21d ago

While promoting your Substack is not strictly against the rules, when a freshly made account with no community engagement begins with self promotion, it's difficult to distinguish from simple linkspam. Post removed.

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naraburns nihil supernum 1mo ago

There are almost a thousand billionaires in the United States. About one third of them inherited their wealth; in the U.S., 70% of billionaires are billionaires because they started a company and were successful at it. Most of their wealth is tied up in their ownership stakes; if you were to confiscate the wealth of every single billionaire in the country, it would not fund the United States federal government for more than a single year. Asking them for money "when it's time to contribute to the public good" is pure grandstanding. They simply haven't got that much real, actual money. Their valuation is as real as international borders, that is: it takes its reality from the collective faith and expectations of humanity.

I know a handful of billionaires and many, many multimillionaires. I have also met government officials whose control over the economy and other things makes them effectively billionaires and millionaires, for all practical purposes, even when their personal assets are not that great. Wealth and power are functionally interchangeable. People in all such positions often develop strange outlooks on the world! They are frequently out of touch with the "normies."

To my eyes, then, your post reads approximately like this: "there are some powerful people doing things that upset me, and I think it's because they are too powerful and it has driven them insane. Can we pick some different people, empower them, and take this current batch down a peg?"

But of course, you've already seen what happens when people get power. Giving different people the power will not fix the problem. It will simply cycle the cast. China is full of "billionaires," not just the ~500 monetary billionaires but all the government officials with contextually absolute power. They're not any better (or worse), over there. They're just different people.

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naraburns nihil supernum 1mo ago

It’s simply that the Jews control the U.S. government, likely through Epstein-related blackmail operations.

Proactively provide evidence in proportion to your claims.

But also, most of your posts are extremely low-effort one liners, and it has been less than a year since you were threatened with a permanent ban. I would stop a bit short of calling you a true single-issue poster, but when you put in any effort at all it seems to be limited to making sweeping claims about "Jews" or occasionally other ethnic whipping-boys. At minimum, sweeping posts about "Jews" nearly always violate the rule about posting on specific rather than general groups.

You're banned for three months. And that's probably on the lenient side, which is something you should keep in mind should you wish to return to posting at that time.

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naraburns nihil supernum 1mo ago

Are your parents aware that this is a taxable event, and that they are essentially throwing a large chunk of that money at the government by not structuring it properly?

If they are aware and you are simply eliding structural details, then... carry on! But I can imagine they are not aware simply because the previous gift took place internationally and so may have been overlooked by taxing authorities. Of course, the IRS doesn't always notice these things, but often they do.

You might thus "discourage" the gift by requesting that they structure it for tax avoidance, e.g. by creating an appropriately drafted trust (use a reputable lawyer, this should cost somewhere between several hundred and a few thousand dollars depending on the details, much less than the anticipated tax bill). Of course, you then must rethink the timing of your benefits.

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naraburns nihil supernum 1mo ago

I think trans issues have largely, albeit by no means completely, supplanted homosexuality issues in the culture war meta as compared with, say, 20 years ago. And this is one of the few online spaces that enforces neither a trans-advocacy orthodoxy nor a trans-critical orthodoxy, so it's a pretty perennially popular topic here.

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naraburns nihil supernum 1mo ago

Thanks. It does feel a little like that, sometimes. But I do not nominate AAQCs, I only winnow them down from among those nominated by the userbase. So it's more like a whole bunch of people giving each other awards while I wander about snatching most of them back...

Upvotes, by contrast, are immune from my penurious pilfering.

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naraburns nihil supernum 1mo ago · Edited 1mo ago

I have a great many objections to the way that you've framed this presentation, but this in particular really stood out to me:

I bring this up last because it really goes to the heart of conservatism and the first principle. The idea underlying all of these objections is one of deserving. Certain poor people don't deserve access to government food assistance.

Why do you take "government food assistance" for granted, here? Any conservative worthy of the name is going to hold that no poor people "deserve" government food assistance. For one thing, "government food assistance" is just a fancy way of saying "confiscating some people's property for the benefit of other people." Indolent people do not deserve food, even if it is morally praiseworthy to provide them with some.

Some people warrant charity, particularly when they have contributed, do contribute, or can reasonably be expected to contribute to society. But to insist upon the charity of others is quite morally objectionable; the only appropriate response is gratitude. The entitlement that many indolent people clearly feel toward my labor is absolutely appalling, quite regardless of whether they are afforded a life of luxury or relative privation. The strangeness that you are tracking in your post is not a problem with conservatism, it is a problem with conservatives trying to meet you halfway. They recognize that for various systemic reasons it would probably be a bad idea to just abolish food assistance entirely, so they fuss over details (like donuts) in vague and dissatisfying compromise. Then, having been given an inch, you reach for the mile.

The economics of food and government subsidies is--I'm sure you well know--complex. Farm subsidies here, food subsidies there, "cui bono" becomes an impossible labyrinth of special interests, not all of them neatly aligned to the red/blue grid. But another principle of conservatism is that you can't just decide to burn the system to the ground and start over. You must live in the real world, not the world of splendid ideas. So you try to at least put reasonable limits on the ways in which the government steals from the productive to benefit (or at least mollify) the unproductive.

No conservative criticizes food stamps on the one hand and speaks of an obligation to help the poor on the other.

I infer from this that you have surprisingly little life experience with conservatives. I haven't seen the inside of a church in a goodly while, but as a child I was treated to many sermons on both the evils of government assistance, and the obligation to help the poor. I understand that Trumpism has introduced a lot of confusion into political discourse on the right (as well as the left), but here you just seem to be indulging a maximally uncharitable stereotype of your outgroup.

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