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Essays on Robert Anton Wilson

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Aug 6, 2013SSC

On first looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”

Scott Alexander defends Bayesianism as a valuable epistemology, contrasting it with absolutist and nihilistic approaches, and argues for its usefulness in complex reasoning.

14 min read 2,110 words

Apr 3, 2013SSC

Against Anton-Wilsonism

Scott criticizes the approach to mysticism popularized by Robert Anton Wilson, arguing it provides false rewards and promotes harmful dabbling instead of genuine practice.

10 min read 1,501 words

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