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Your Incentives Are Not The Same As Media Companies'
Scott Alexander critiques toxic Twitter behavior, explaining its personal and social costs, and warns against imitating confrontational media tactics.
5 min read 699 words
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Essays on emotional responses
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Typical Mind and Politics
Scott explores how innate neurological differences in emotional responses might drive political disagreements, suggesting that people form intuitive reactions first and rationalize them later, making political debate extremely difficult.
13 min read 1,864 words
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The Mystery of the Haunted Rationalist
Using a haunted mansion thought experiment, Scott argues that one mind can hold separate levels of belief about ghosts: what it professes, what it bets on, and what it fears.
6 min read 890 words