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Links For September 2025
Scott Alexander presents his monthly collection of interesting links and developments across technology, science, culture, and policy, with personal commentary on each item.
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Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection
Scott analyzes the sudden emergence of commercial trait-based embryo selection services, discussing both the scientific validity and ethical implications of selecting embryos for health outcomes, intelligence, and physical traits.
56 min read 8,637 words
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Links For July 2025
Scott shares his monthly collection of 56 interesting links and developments from July 2025, covering AI, politics, science, and culture, with brief commentary on each.
28 min read 4,200 words
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Links For January 2025
Scott shares various interesting links and news items from January 2025, covering topics from AI development and politics to historical curiosities and economic trends.
35 min read 5,422 words
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How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates
Scott Alexander examines Richard Lynn's controversial national IQ estimates and argues they are actually consistent with environmental rather than genetic explanations of IQ differences, while explaining common misconceptions about what low IQ means.
10 min read 1,517 words
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Links For November 2024
A diverse collection of news items, studies, and interesting facts from November 2024, covering topics from scientific discoveries to cultural phenomena.
42 min read 6,373 words
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Triple Tragedy And Thankful Theory
Daniel Böttger shares his traumatic medical experiences and develops a theory about 'survival-oriented' vs 'thriving-oriented' systems based on computer science concepts, offering insights for improving collaboration.
30 min read 4,649 words
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Links For September 2024
A compilation of 50 diverse news items and links from September 2024, covering topics from politics and economics to science and technology.
32 min read 4,892 words
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Links for July 2024
Scott Alexander presents a diverse collection of 41 links and news items, covering topics from science and politics to history and technology, with brief commentaries and insights.
21 min read 3,173 words
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Highlights From The Comments On Hanson And Health Care
Scott Alexander summarizes comments on his healthcare effectiveness debate with Robin Hanson, including clarifications, study author responses, and reader perspectives on various healthcare topics.
40 min read 6,106 words
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Response to Hanson On Health Care
Scott Alexander responds to Robin Hanson's reply on medical effectiveness, clarifying interpretations and reiterating arguments about the limitations of insurance experiments in evaluating medical care.
41 min read 6,243 words
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My Left Kidney
Scott Alexander recounts his experience donating a kidney, from initial motivation to post-surgery recovery, while discussing the broader context of organ donation.
48 min read 7,380 words
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Links For August 2023
Scott Alexander presents a diverse collection of 38 links and news items, covering topics from book reviews and religious history to AI developments and political trends, with brief summaries and comments on each.
26 min read 3,927 words
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Attempts To Put Statistics In Context, Put Into Context
Scott Alexander explores the difficulties in contextualizing statistics, providing numerous examples to show how the same data can be presented to seem significant or trivial.
9 min read 1,355 words
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Links For December 2022
Scott Alexander shares 57 diverse links and brief commentaries on topics ranging from politics and psychology to technology and culture.
35 min read 5,333 words
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Links For April
Scott Alexander shares 33 diverse links on topics ranging from history and science to technology and politics, offering brief summaries and commentary on each.
15 min read 2,290 words
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Book Review: Which Country Has The World's Best Health Care?
Scott Alexander reviews a book comparing international healthcare systems, finding it informative but lacking in explaining why some systems succeed while others fail.
22 min read 3,362 words
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Links For July
Scott Alexander presents a diverse collection of interesting links and news items from July, covering topics from science and technology to politics and culture, with brief commentary on each.
19 min read 2,849 words
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Prospectus On Próspera
Scott Alexander examines Próspera, a new charter city project in Honduras, detailing its plans, governance, and potential impact while addressing criticisms and limitations.
88 min read 13,541 words
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Links 5/20
Scott Alexander's links post covers historical oddities, scientific studies, social issues, and tech developments, ranging from pet monkeys to AI progress.
26 min read 3,906 words
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Employer Provided Health Insurance Delenda Est
Scott Alexander presents numerous examples of how the U.S. employer-provided health insurance system fails even insured, well-off individuals, arguing that almost any alternative system would be better.
9 min read 1,387 words
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SSC Journal Club: MacIntyre On Cloth Masks
Scott Alexander analyzes a study suggesting cloth masks may be harmful, but remains cautiously in favor of their use despite the uncertainty.
11 min read 1,652 words
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Links 10/19
A diverse collection of links on topics ranging from gerrymandering and health insurance to tech bubbles and extinction risk estimates, presented with minimal commentary.
20 min read 2,960 words
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Links 8/19
Scott Alexander shares a diverse collection of links on topics ranging from scientific studies to historical anecdotes, with brief commentary on each.
11 min read 1,705 words
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More Confounders
Scott examines studies linking sleeping pills to increased mortality, highlighting a new study that found no link after adjusting for 300 confounders, potentially challenging the validity of less thorough studies.
13 min read 1,928 words