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The Slate Star Codex Essentials

Curated by Tenobrus (@tenobrus)

Twenty essential Slate Star Codex essays picked by Tenobrus, grouped into four loose themes — each capped with a piece of fiction. Around 75,000 words in total. A starting point for an archive of 1,500+ posts.

20 essays~8 hours total
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Moloch & Coordination

  1. 1.Meditations On Moloch
    2014 · 64 min
  2. 2.In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
    2014 · 28 min
  3. 3.Considerations On Cost Disease
    2017 · 30 min
  4. 4.Nobody Is Perfect, Everything Is Commensurable
    2014 · 16 min
  5. 5.The Goddess of Everything Else
    2015 · 11 min · fiction

Tribes & Discourse

  1. 6.I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
    2014 · 39 min
  2. 7.The Toxoplasma Of Rage
    2014 · 28 min
  3. 8.Different Worlds
    2017 · 20 min
  4. 9.Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning
    2017 · 16 min
  5. 10.Sort By Controversial
    2018 · 21 min · fiction

Categories & Epistemology

  1. 11.The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories
    2014 · 24 min
  2. 12.[REPOST] Epistemic Learned Helplessness
    2019 · 7 min
  3. 13.The Control Group Is Out Of Control
    2014 · 21 min
  4. 14.Against Tulip Subsidies
    2015 · 11 min
  5. 15.Book Review: Seeing Like A State
    2017 · 50 min
  6. 16.Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person
    2015 · 13 min · fiction

Mortality & Compassion

  1. 17.Who By Very Slow Decay
    2013 · 18 min
  2. 18.The Parable Of The Talents
    2015 · 27 min
  3. 19.Burdens
    2014 · 7 min
  4. 20.Answer to Job
    2015 · 6 min · fiction

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