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Essays on common knowledge

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May 23, 2018SSC

Can Things Be Both Popular And Silenced?

Scott Alexander argues that the Intellectual Dark Web can be both popular and silenced, explaining various mechanisms of social censorship and how they apply to controversial thinkers.

42 min read 6,450 words

Oct 15, 2015SSC

It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue

Fiction by Scott Alexander

41 min read 6,334 words

atheism common knowledge creative writing