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20
Dec

Interesting Stuff: China Edition

Gamifying Obedience in China: "Although Liu hadn’t signed up for Zhima Credit, the blacklist caught up with him
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04
Dec

Interesting Stuff: 04/12/2017

Maria Schneider against Net Neutrality: "But that’s only part of the story. The elephant in the room, that
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03
Dec

Interesting Stuff 03/12/2017

Eliezer Yudkowsky on whether objects travelling away from you at the speed of light disappear: "Suppose I transmit a
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20
Nov

Interesting Stuff 20/11/3017

Marginal Revolution: "suppose a private firm and the federal government both value a worker’s output at $100k/yr
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16
Nov

Interesting Stuff: 14/07/2017

Do elephants have souls. It seems obvios that some animals qualify as people. "One of the major clues that
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11
Nov

Where there is a will, there is a way

There's a story that's been playing in my head. A girl. Stupid. Retarded. The blows rain
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07
Nov

Interesting Stuff 07/11/2017

Judge Alex Kozinski’s Dissenting Opinion (line 569): "All too many of the other great tragedies of history— Stalin’
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28
Oct

Evolution as an existential threat

SSC on evolution as the ultimate existential threat: "Suppose you are one of the first rats introduced onto a
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21
Oct

Interesting Stuff: October 21st 2017

//Contains descriptions of domestic violence. Compass Rose on Integrity: "Kant famously considers the case of someone who comes to
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16
Oct

Interesting Stuff: October 16th 2017

Beware Isolated Demands for Rigour. SSC on Intellectual Dishonesty A Vet Remembers: To many of us there, the war was
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