Jan 18, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/15/contra-contra-contra-caplan-on-psych/
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In 2006, Bryan Caplan wrote a critique of psychiatry. In 2015, I responded. Now it’s 2020, and Bryan has a counterargument. I’m going to break the cycle of delay and respond now, and maybe we’ll finish this argument before we’re...
Jan 16, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/13/2019-adversarial-collaboration-winners/
Thanks to everyone who participated and/or voted in the 2019 Adversarial Collaboration Contest. And the winner is…
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Adrian Liberman and Calvin Reese, for Does Calorie Restriction Slow Aging?.
An extraordinarily close second place...
Jan 11, 2020
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/08/what-intellectual-progress-did-i-make-in-the-2010s/
One of the best parts of writing a blog is being able to answer questions like this. Whenever I felt like I understood new and important, I wrote a post about it. This makes it easy to track what I learned.
I think the...
Jan 9, 2020
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/06/a-very-unlikely-chess-game/
Almost 25 years after Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, another seminal man vs. machine matchup:
Neither competitor has much to be proud of here. White has a poor opening. Black screws up and loses his queen for no reason. A few moves later, white screws...
Jan 8, 2020
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/05/hardball-questions-for-the-next-debate-2020/
[Previously: Hardball Questions (2016), More Hardball Questions (2016). I stole parts of the Buttigieg question from Twitter, but don’t remember enough details to give credit, sorry]
Mr. Biden: Your son Hunter Biden was on the...