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Essays on free will

3 essays

Nov 4, 2019SSC

Samsara

Fiction by Scott Alexander

30 min read 4,562 words

May 1, 2014SSC

Links For May 2014

A monthly links post collecting and commenting on various interesting articles and studies from around the web, ranging from scientific research to philosophy to economics.

14 min read 2,117 words

Amazon economics FDA

May 30, 2010LW

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott argues that debates about whether conditions like obesity are "real diseases" are ultimately questions about sympathy, blame, and treatment that should be addressed directly rather than through the misleading disease framework.

19 min read 2,929 words

blame cluster structure consequentialism