Josh
Two Years of Covid
(Note: This is a personal history, which I am writing as a record of my own thoughts and experiences over the last two years; it may be...
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Josh
Oct 13, 20212 min
Andrew Yang Goes Meta
"When they go low, we go so high that we are above the whole system looking down at it with contempt." Andrew Yang has bitten the bullet...
Josh
Aug 4, 20215 min
Please Stop Thinking in Binary about COVID
I see binary thinking as the central error being committed by nearly everyone when discussing topics surrounding the pandemic and the...
Josh
Mar 23, 20217 min
In Dating, The First Cut is the Deepest
(N.B. All advice is personal and results will always vary; you may need to hear the exact opposite of what I have to say here. Maybe just...
Josh
Mar 10, 202114 min
Scott Alexander vs NYT: Meta-Analysis, Part 3
See Part 1 and Part 2. This took longer than expected both for personal reasons, and also because the articles are on average much longer...
Josh
Feb 22, 20219 min
Scott Alexander vs NYT: Meta-Analysis, Part 2
See here for Part 1, including Scott Alexander, Fredrik DeBoer, Jacob Falkovich, and Elizabeth Spiers. Minor correction: rereading Jacob...
Josh
Feb 18, 20218 min
Scott Alexander vs NYT: Meta-Analysis, Part 1
This week the New York Times published the piece on Scott Alexander that led him to shut down his blog, SlateStarCodex, for six months....
Josh
Feb 4, 20215 min
"Childish Humor"
My toddler nephew likes to play a game where I introduce myself ("Hi, I'm Josh, nice to meet you!") and he replies by introducing himself...
Josh
Jan 22, 20215 min
Trump: Worst of Times, Best of Times
(Some of this is from memory, and may not be perfectly accurate. Correct me where I am wrong!) The last four years have been pretty...
Josh
Nov 22, 20204 min
Pulling as hard as you can
Listening to a Rationally Speaking episode from last year (ostensibly about the debate over sex differences in the human brain), I ran...
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