May 7, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/05/book-review-contest-call-for-entries/
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a book review and send it to me at scott[at]slatestarcodex[dot]com before August 5th 2020.
Interested? Here’s the small print (written in normal-sized print, for your...
May 2, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everything-else-2/
[Related to: Specific vs. General Foragers vs. Farmers and War In Heaven, but especially The Gift We Give To Tomorrow]
They say only Good can create, whereas Evil is sterile. Think Tolkien, where Morgoth can’t make things himself, so perverts...
May 1, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/29/predictions-for-2020/
At the beginning of every year, I make predictions. At the end of every year, I score them. So here are a hundred more for 2020.
Rules: all predictions are about what will be true on January 1, 2021. Some predictions about my personal life, or that refer to...
Apr 29, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/27/give-yourself-gout-for-fame-and-profit/
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Actually, no. You should not do this. Most of you were probably already not doing this, and I support your decision. But if you want a 2000 word essay on some reasons to consider this, and then some other reasons why those reasons are...
Apr 25, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/24/employer-provided-health-insurance-delenda-est/
My last post didn’t really go to deep into why I dislike the way we do health insurance so much.
Of course, there are the usual criticisms based on compassion and efficiency. Compassion because poor people can’t get access...