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Ozy’s Anti Heartiste FAQ
[Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ozy Frantz. I do not necessarily endorse everything it says, but I do contingently agree with a lot of it. Content note for profanity, social justice stuff, manosphere stuff, and graphic descriptions … Continue reading
Meditations On Moloch
[Content note: Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!] I. Scattered examples of my reading material for this month: Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom; Moloch by Allan Ginsberg, On Gnon by Nick Land. Chronology is a harsh master. You … Continue reading
HeartMath Considered Incoherent
[Note: all opinions expressed here are my own. Nothing to be taken as medical advice.] This is not a skeptic blog and I find much skeptic-blogging distasteful. But as the saying sort of goes: “You may not be interested in … Continue reading
SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Miri – the person, not the organization – writes about depression. There’s a lot there worth thinking about, but one part caught my eye: I’m a little tired of being told that SSRIs “don’t work” when they’re part of the … Continue reading
Social Justice And Words, Words, Words
[Content note: hostility toward social justice, discussion of various prejudices] “Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through. First from him, now from you. Is that all you blighters can do?” – Eliza Doolittle … Continue reading
Things That Sometimes Help If You Have Depression
Some of my friends have depression and have asked me for some suggestions. These will be inferior to reading official suggestions, but you will probably not read official suggestions, and you may read this. Just so we’re clear, all opinions … Continue reading
Living By The Sword
[Trigger warnings: sexual abuse, scary Internet mobbing.] [Try not to link to this everywhere because I feel bad about discussing it and don’t want to spread it to more of the Internet than it has to be or make this … Continue reading
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism
I. Forty years ago, Robert Nozick proposed a very strange utopia, which he considered the culmination of libertarian principles. Ten years ago, Mencius Moldbug proposed the same utopia, considering it the culmination of conservative principles. Three years ago, unaware of … Continue reading
SSC Gives A Graduation Speech
[Trigger warning for deliberately provoking horror about graduates’ real-world post-college prospects] [Epistemic status: intended as persuasive speech, may somewhat overstate case] Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to have been invited to speak here at the great University of [mumble]. … Continue reading
The Control Group Is Out Of Control
I. Allan Crossman calls parapsychology the control group for science. That is, in let’s say a drug testing experiment, you give some people the drug and they recover. That doesn’t tell you much until you give some other people who … Continue reading