Feb 26, 2021
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bay-area-plant-based-meat-reviews
By this point you’ve probably tried Impossible Burgers, and you know that restaurants can do some pretty impressive things with them. But there are so many interesting meat dishes - what if you want something other than a burger? This market is...
Feb 26, 2021
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans
Read this first: Book Review: Fussell On Class
Dear Republican Party:
I hear you're having a post-Trump identity crisis. Your old platform of capitalism and liberty and whatever no longer excites people. Trump managed to excite people, but you...
Feb 25, 2021
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on-class
I.
Paul Fussell wants to talk about class.
(well, wanted, past tense, it's a 1983 book, we'll come back to that later)
He recognizes this might not be the most popular topic. When he tells people he's writing a book on class in America, "it is as if I...
Feb 24, 2021
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/mantic-monday-judging-april-covid
Since this is getting broader than just Metaculus, I'm changing the name to Mantic Monday, after an obscure word for "oracular" (and changing the preview image to a mantis, since I don't know how else to visually represent "mantic". And posting...
Feb 22, 2021
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-look-down-track-b
I.
Depression probably has something to do with decreased synaptogenesis in the brain, maybe the hippocampus in particular. Neurons are less likely to respond to stimuli by connecting to other neurons. The whole network becomes sparser than usual, and...