# The Library of Scott Alexandria

I've put together a list of what I think are the best Yvain (Scott Alexander) posts for new readers, drawing from _[SlateStarCodex](https://slatestarcodex.com)_, _[LessWrong](/user/Yvain/submitted/)_, and Scott's [LiveJournal](https://squid314.livejournal.com).

The list should make the most sense to people who start from the top and read through it in order, though skipping around is encouraged too. Rather than making a chronological list, I’ve tried to order things by a mix of "where do I think most people should start reading?" plus "sorting related posts together."

This is a work in progress; you’re invited to suggest things you’d add, remove, or shuffle around. Since many of the titles are a bit cryptic, I'm adding short descriptions. See [my blog](http://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexandria/) for a version without the descriptions.

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**I. Rationality and Rationalization**

*   [Blue- and Yellow-Tinted Choices](/lw/290/blue_and_yellowtinted_choices/)  ·····  An introduction to context-sensitive biases.
*   [The Apologist and the Revolutionary](/lw/20/the_apologist_and_the_revolutionary/)  ·····  Do separate brain processes rationalize and question ideas?
*   [Historical Realism](https://web.archive.org/web/20180502175735/http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html)  ·····  When reality is unrealistic.
*   [Simultaneously Right and Wrong](/lw/1d/simultaneously_right_and_wrong/)  ·····  On self-handicapping and self-deception.
*   [You May Already Be A Sinner](/lw/1u/you_may_already_be_a_sinner/)  ·····  Self-deception in cases where your decisions make no difference.
*   [Beware the Man of One Study](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-study/)  ·····  On minimum wage laws and cherry-picked evidence.
*   [Debunked and Well-Refuted](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/13/debunked-and-well-refuted/)  ·····  When should we say that a study has been "debunked"?
*   [How to Not Lose an Argument](/lw/3k/how_to_not_lose_an_argument/)  ·····  How to be more persuasive in entrenched arguments.
*   [The Least Convenient Possible World](/lw/2k/the_least_convenient_possible_world/)  ·····  Why it's useful to strengthen arguments you disagree with.
*   [Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders](/lw/e25/bayes_for_schizophrenics_reasoning_in_delusional/)  ·····  Hypotheses about the role of perception, evidence integration, and priors in delusions.
*   [Generalizing from One Example](/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/)  ·····  On the typical mind fallacy: assuming other people are like you.
*   [Typical Mind and Politics](/lw/10j/typical_mind_and_politics/)  ·····  Do political disagreements stem from neurological disagreements?

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**II. Probabilism**

*   [Confidence Levels Inside and Outside an Argument](/lw/3be/confidence_levels_inside_and_outside_an_argument/)  ·····  Should you believe your own conclusions, when they're extreme?
*   [Schizophrenia and Geomagnetic Storms](https://web.archive.org/web/20170708163037/http://squid314.livejournal.com/286229.html)  ·····  When bizarre ideas turn out to be true.
*   [Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale](/lw/2d/talking_snakes_a_cautionary_tale/)  ·····  Should we dismiss all absurd claims?
*   [Arguments from My Opponent Believes Something](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/13/arguments-from-my-opponent-believes-something/)  ·····  Ten fully general arguments.
*   [Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/17/statistical-literacy-among-doctors-now-lower-than-chance/)  ·····  Common errors in probabilistic reasoning.
*   [Techniques for Probability Estimates](/lw/3m6/techniques_for_probability_estimates/)  ·····  Six methods for quantifying uncertainty.
*   [On First Looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/08/06/on-first-looking-into-chapmans-pop-bayesianism/)  ·····  Reasons Bayesian epistemology may not be trivial.
*   [Utilitarianism for Engineers](https://web.archive.org/web/20170908070814/http://squid314.livejournal.com/353323.html)  ·····  Are there good-enough heuristics for comparing people's preferences?
*   [If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing with Made-Up Statistics](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/02/if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-with-made-up-statistics/)  ·····  The practical value of probabilities.
*   [Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted to Know](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/05/marijuana-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/)  ·····  Assessing marijuana's costs and benefits.
*   [Are You a Solar Deity?](/lw/2w/are_you_a_solar_deity/)  ·····  On confirmation bias in the comparative study of religions.
*   [The "Spot the Fakes" Test](/lw/34/the_spot_the_fakes_test/)  ·····  An approach to testing humanities hypotheses.
*   [Epistemic Learned Helplessness](https://web.archive.org/web/20180326045637/http://squid314.livejournal.com/350090.html)  ·····  What should we do when bad arguments sound convincing?

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**III. Science and Doubt**

*   [Google Correlate Does Not Imply Google Causation](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/16/google-correlate-does-not-imply-google-causation/)  ·····  Peculiar correlations between Google search terms.
*   [Stop Confounding Yourself! Stop Confounding Yourself!](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/26/stop-confounding-yourself-stop-confounding-yourself/)  ·····  A correlational study on the effects of bullying.
*   [Effects of Vertical Acceleration on Wrongness](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/20/effects-of-vertical-acceleration-on-wrongness/)  ·····  On evidence-based medicine.
*   [90% Of All Claims About The Problems With Medical Studies Are Wrong](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/17/90-of-all-claims-about-the-problems-with-medical-studies-are-wrong/)  ·····  Is it the case that "90% of medical research is false"?
*   [Prisons are Built with Bricks of Law and Brothels with Bricks of Religion, But That Doesn’t Prove a Causal Relationship](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/prisons-are-built-with-bricks-of-law-and-brothels-with-bricks-of-religion-but-that-doesnt-prove-a-causal-relationship/)  ·····  Do psychiatric interventions increase suicide risk?
*   [Noisy Poll Results and the Reptilian Muslim Climatologists from Mars](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars)  ·····  Skepticism about poll results.
*   [Two Dark Side Statistics Papers](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/02/two-dark-side-statistics-papers/)  ·····  Statistical tricks for creating effects out of nothing.
*   [Alcoholics Anonymous: Much More Than You Wanted to Know](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/26/alcoholics-anonymous-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/)  ·····  Is AA effective for treating alcohol abuse?
*   [The Control Group Is Out Of Control](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/)  ·····  Parapsychology as the "control group" for all of psychology.
*   [The Cowpox of Doubt](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/15/the-cowpox-of-doubt/)  ·····  Focusing on easy questions inoculates against uncertainty.
*   [The Skeptic's Trilemma](/lw/2p/the_skeptics_trilemma/)  ·····  Explaining mysteries, vs. worshiping them, vs. dismissing them.
*   [If You Can't Make Predictions, You're Still in a Crisis](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/05/if-you-cant-make-predictions-youre-still-in-a-crisis/)  ·····  On psychology studies' replication failures.

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**IV. Medicine, Therapy, and Human Enhancement**

*   [Scientific Freud](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/19/scientific-freud/)  ·····  How does psychoanalysis compare to cognitive behavioral therapy?
*   [Sleep – Now by Prescription](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/28/sleep-now-by-prescription/)  ·····  On melatonin.
*   [In Defense of Psych Treatment for Attempted Suicide](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-treatment-for-attempted-suicide/)  ·····    Suicide is usually not a rational, informed decision.
*   [Who By Very Slow Decay](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/)  ·····  On old age and death in the medical system.
*   [Medicine, As Not Seen on TV](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/30/medicine-as-not-seen-on-tv/)  ·····  What is it actually like to be a doctor?
*   [Searching for One-Sided Tradeoffs](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/01/searching-for-one-sided-tradeoffs/)  ·····  How can we find good ideas that others haven't found first?
*   [Do Life Hacks Ever Reach Fixation?](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/03/do-life-hacks-ever-reach-fixation/)  ·····  Why aren't there more good ideas that everyone has adopted?
*   [Polyamory is Boring](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/06/polyamory-is-boring/)  ·····  Deromanticizing multi-partner romance.
*   [Can You Condition Yourself?](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/19/can-you-condition-yourself/)  ·····  On shaping new habits by rewarding oneself.
*   [Wirehead Gods on Lotus Thrones](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/28/wirehead-gods-on-lotus-thrones/)  ·····  Is the future boring? Transcendently blissful? Boringly blissful?
*   [Don’t Fear the Filter](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/28/dont-fear-the-filter/)  ·····  Does the Fermi Paradox mean that our species is doomed?
*   [Transhumanist Fables](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/27/transhumanist-fables/)  ·····  Six futurist fairy tales.

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**V. Introduction to Game Theory**

*   [Backward Reasoning Over Decision Trees](/lw/dbj/backward_reasoning_over_decision_trees/)  ·····  Sequential games, and why adding options can hurt you.
*   [Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points](/lw/dc7/nash_equilibria_and_schelling_points/)  ·····  Simultaneous games, mixed strategies, and coordination.
*   [Introduction to Prisoners' Dilemma](/lw/dd3/introduction_to_prisoners_dilemma/)  ·····  Why Nash equilibria are sometimes bad for everyone.
*   [Real-World Solutions to Prisoners' Dilemmas](/lw/del/real_world_solutions_to_prisoners_dilemmas/)  ·····  How society and evolution ensure mutual cooperation.
*   [Interlude for Behavioral Economics](/lw/dgc/interlude_for_behavioral_economics/)  ·····  Fairness, superrationality, and self-image in real-world games.
*   [What is Signaling, Really?](/lw/did/what_is_signaling_really/)  ·····  Actions that convey information, sometimes at great cost.
*   [Bargaining and Auctions](/lw/dm8/bargaining_and_auctions/)  ·····  Idealized models of correct bidding.
*   [Imperfect Voting Systems](/lw/dp6/imperfect_voting_systems/)  ·····  Strengths and weaknesses of different voting systems.
*   [Game Theory as a Dark Art](/lw/dr9/game_theory_as_a_dark_art/)  ·····  Ways to exploit seemingly "economically rational" behavior.

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**VI. Promises and Principles**

*   [Beware Trivial Inconveniences](/lw/f1/beware_trivial_inconveniences/)  ·····  Small obstacles can have a huge effect on behavior.
*   [Time and Effort Discounting](/lw/6jw/time_and_effort_discounting/)  ·····  On inconsistencies in our revealed preferences.
*   [Applied Picoeconomics](/lw/ep/applied_picoeconomics/)  ·····  Binding your future self to your present goals.
*   [Schelling Fences on Slippery Slopes](/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippery_slopes/)  ·····  Using arbitrary thresholds to improve coordination.
*   [Democracy is the Worst Form of Government Except for All the Others Except Possibly Futarchy](https://web.archive.org/web/20171214152559/http://squid314.livejournal.com/352406.html)  ·····  Like democracy, futarchy (rule by prediction markets) has the advantage of appearing impartial.
*   [Eight Short Studies on Excuses](/lw/24o/eight_short_studies_on_excuses/)  ·····  When should we allow exceptions to our rules?
*   [Revenge as Charitable Act](https://web.archive.org/web/20161019200037/http://squid314.livejournal.com/309196.html)  ·····  Revenge can be a personally costly way to disincentivize misdeeds.
*   [Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up?](/lw/15c/would_your_real_preferences_please_stand_up/)  ·····  Are we hypocrites, or just weak-willed?
*   [Are Wireheads Happy?](/lw/1lb/are_wireheads_happy/)  ·····  Distinguishing "wanting" something from "liking" it.
*   [Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants](/lw/51f/guilt_another_gift_nobody_wants/)  ·····  An evolutionary, signaling-based explanation of guilt.

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**VII. Cognition and Association**

*   [Diseased Thinking: Dissolving Questions about Disease](/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_questions_about/)  ·····  On verbal disagreements.
*   [The Noncentral Fallacy — The Worst Argument in the World?](/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/)  ·····  Judging an entire category by an emotional association that only applies to typical category members.
*   [The Power of Positivist Thinking](/lw/48/the_power_of_positivist_thinking/)  ·····  Focus on statements' empirical content.
*   [When Truth Isn't Enough](/lw/4h/when_truth_isnt_enough/)  ·····  It's possible to agree denotationally while disagreeing connotationally.
*   [Ambijectivity](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/05/ambijectivity/)  ·····  When a question is both subjective and objective.
*   [The Blue-Minimizing Robot](/lw/6ha/the_blueminimizing_robot/)  ·····  A parable on agency.
*   [Basics of Animal Reinforcement](/lw/6iu/basics_of_animal_reinforcement/)  ·····  A primer on classical and operant conditioning.
*   [Wanting vs. Liking Revisited](/lw/6kx/wanting_vs_liking_revisited/)  ·····  Distinguishing motivation to act from reinforcement.
*   [Physical and Mental Behavior](/lw/6l6/physical_and_mental_behavior/)  ·····  Behaviorism meets thinking.
*   [Trivers on Self-Deception](/lw/6mj/trivers_on_selfdeception/)  ·····  The conscious mind as a self-serving social narrative.
*   [Ego-Syntonic Thoughts and Values](/lw/6nb/ego_syntonic_thoughts_and_values/)  ·····  On endorsed vs. non-endorsed mental behavior.
*   [Approving Reinforces Low-Effort Behaviors](/lw/6nz/approving_reinforces_loweffort_behaviors/)  ·····  Using your self-image to blackmail yourself.
*   [To What Degree Do We Have Goals?](/lw/6oo/to_what_degree_do_we_have_goals/)  ·····  Are our unconscious drives like an agent?
*   [The Limits of Introspection](/lw/6p6/the_limits_of_introspection/)  ·····  Are we good at directly perceiving our cognition?
*   [Secrets of the Eliminati](/lw/6pm/secrets_of_the_eliminati/)  ·····  Reducing phenomena to simpler parts, vs. eliminating them.
*   [Tendencies in Reflective Equilibrium](/r/lesswrong/lw/6r6/tendencies_in_reflective_equilibrium/)  ·····  Aspiring to become more consistent.
*   [Hansonian Optimism](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/31/hansonian-optimism/)  ·····  If ego-syntonic goals are about signaling, is goodness a lie?

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**VIII. Doing Good**

*   [Newtonian Ethics](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/17/newtonian-ethics/)  ·····  Satirizing moral parochialism and sloppy systematizations of ethics.
*   [Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...](http://www.effective-altruism.com/ea/5e/efficient_charity_do_unto_others/)  ·····  How should we act when our decisions matter most?
*   [The Economics of Art and the Art of Economics](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/21/the-economics-of-art-and-the-art-of-economics/)  ·····  Should Detroit sell its publicly owned artwork?
*   [A Modest Proposal](https://web.archive.org/web/20161019200116/http://squid314.livejournal.com/2008/11/29/)  ·····  Using dead babies as a unit of currency.
*   [The Life Issue](https://web.archive.org/web/20170722055332/http://squid314.livejournal.com/338026.html)  ·····  What are the consequences of drone warfare?
*   [What if Drone Warfare Had Come First?](https://web.archive.org/web/20180217055155/http://squid314.livejournal.com/338607.html)  ·····  A thought experiment.
*   [Nefarious Nefazodone and Flashy Rare Side-Effects](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/25/nefarious-nefazodone-and-flashy-rare-side-effects/)  ·····  On choosing between drug side-effects.
*   [The Consequentialism FAQ](https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20161019090958/http://raikoth.net/consequentialism.html)  ·····  Argues for assessing actions based on how they help or harm people.
*   [Doing Your Good Deed for the Day](/lw/1d9/doing_your_good_deed_for_the_day/)  ·····  Doing some good can reduce people's willingness to do more good.
*   [I Myself Am A Scientismist](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/25/i-myself-am-a-scientismist/)  ·····  Why apply scientific methods to non-scientific domains?
*   [Whose Utilitarianism?](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/08/whose-utilitarianism/)  ·····  Questioning the objectivity and uniqueness of utilitarianism.
*   [Book Review: After Virtue](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/10/book-review-after-virtue-or-somebody-here-is-really-confused-and-i-just-hope-its-not-me/)  ·····  On virtue ethics, a reaction against modern moral philosophy.
*   [Read History of Philosophy Backwards](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/read-history-of-philosophy-backwards/)  ·····  Historical texts reveal our implicit assumptions.
*   [Virtue Ethics: Not Practically Useful Either](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/11/virtue-ethics-not-practically-useful-either)  ·····  Is virtue ethics useful prescriptively or descriptively?
*   [Last Thoughts on Virtue Ethics](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/last-thoughts-on-virtue-ethics)  ·····  What claims do virtue ethicists make?
*   [Proving Too Much](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/13/proving-too-much/)  ·····  If an argument sometimes proves falsehoods, it can't be valid.

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**IX. Liberty**

*   [The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom)](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-libertarian-faq/)
*   [A Blessing in Disguise, Albeit a Very Good Disguise](https://web.archive.org/web/20180221200902/http://squid314.livejournal.com/331948.html/)
*   [Basic Income Guarantees](https://web.archive.org/web/20170907150338/http://squid314.livejournal.com/304643.html)
*   [Book Review: The Nurture Assumption](https://web.archive.org/web/20180210164249/http://squid314.livejournal.com/319587.html)
*   [The Death of Wages is Sin](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/24/the-death-of-wages-is-sin/)
*   [Thank You For Doing Something Ambiguously Between Smoking And Not Smoking](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/)
*   [Lies, Damned Lies, and Facebook (Part 1 of ∞)](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/04/lies-damned-lies-and-facebook-part-1-of-%E2%88%9E/)
*   [The Life Cycle of Medical Ideas](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/12/the-life-cycle-of-medical-ideas/)
*   [Vote on Values, Outsource Beliefs](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/08/vote-on-values-outsource-beliefs/)
*   [A Something Sort of Like Left-Libertarian-ist Manifesto](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/08/a-something-sort-of-like-left-libertarianism-ist-manifesto/)
*   [Plutocracy Isn’t About Money](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/19/plutocracy-isnt-about-money/)
*   [Against Tulip Subsidies](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies/)
*   [SlateStarCodex Gives a Graduation Speech](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-speech/)

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**X. Progress**

*   [Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism](/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/)
*   [A Signaling Theory of Class x Politics Interaction](/lw/83b/a_signaling_theory_of_class_x_politics_interaction/)
*   [Reactionary Philosophy in an Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/)
*   [A Thrive/Survive Theory of the Political Spectrum](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/)
*   [We Wrestle Not With Flesh And Blood, But Against Powers And Principalities](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/07/we-wrestle-not-with-flesh-and-blood-but-against-powers-and-principalities/)
*   [Poor Folks Do Smile… For Now](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/06/poor-folks-do-smile-for-now/)
*   [Apart from Better Sanitation and Medicine and Education and Irrigation and Public Health and Roads and Public Order, What Has Modernity Done for Us?](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/22/apart-from-better-sanitation-and-medicine-and-education-and-irrigation-and-public-health-and-roads-and-public-order-what-has-modernity-done-for-us/)
*   [The Wisdom of the Ancients](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/22/the-wisdom-of-the-ancients/)
*   [Can Atheists Appreciate Chesterton?](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/16/can-atheists-appreciate-chesterton/)
*   [Holocaust Good for You, Research Finds, But Frequent Taunting Causes Cancer in Rats](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/31/holocaust-good-for-you-research-finds-but-frequent-taunting-causes-cancer-in-rats/)
*   [Public Awareness Campaigns](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/22/public-awareness-campaigns/)
*   [Social Psychology is a Flamethrower](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/)
*   [Nature is Not a Slate. It’s a Series of Levers.](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/25/nature-is-not-a-slate-its-a-series-of-levers/)
*   [The Anti-Reactionary FAQ](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/)
*   [The Poor You Will Always Have With You](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/31/the-poor-you-will-always-have-with-you/)
*   [Proposed Biological Explanations for Historical Trends in Crime](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/18/proposed-biological-explanations-for-historical-trends-in-crime/)
*   [Society is Fixed, Biology is Mutable](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/)

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**XI. Social Justice**

*   [Practically-a-Book Review: Dying to be Free](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/02/practically-a-book-review-dying-to-be-free/)
*   [Drug Testing Welfare Users is a Sham, But Not for the Reasons You Think](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/14/drug-testing-welfare-users-is-a-sham-but-not-for-the-reasons-you-think/)
*   [The Meditation on Creepiness](https://web.archive.org/web/20180209131419/http://squid314.livejournal.com/328800.html)
*   [The Meditation on Superweapons](https://web.archive.org/web/20180207111358/http://squid314.livejournal.com/329171.html)
*   [The Meditation on the War on Applause Lights](https://web.archive.org/web/20180206012221/http://squid314.livejournal.com/329471.html)
*   [The Meditation on Superweapons and Bingo](https://web.archive.org/web/20180215090129/http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html)
*   [An Analysis of the Formalist Account of Power Relations in Democratic Societies](https://web.archive.org/web/20180212175147/http://squid314.livejournal.com/354385.html)
*   [Arguments About Male Violence Prove Too Much](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/18/schrodingers-rapist-proves-too-much/)
*   [Social Justice for the Highly-Demanding-of-Rigor](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/20/social-justice-for-the-highly-demanding-of-rigor/)
*   [Against Bravery Debates](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/18/against-bravery-debates/)
*   [All Debates Are Bravery Debates](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-bravery-debates/)
*   [A Comment I Posted on “What Would JT Do?”](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/28/a-comment-i-posted-on-what-would-jt-do/)
*   [We Are All MsScribe](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/23/we-are-all-msscribe/)
*   [The Spirit of the First Amendment](http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/29/the-spirit-of-the-first-amendment/)
*   [A Response to Apophemi on Triggers](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/12/a-response-to-apophemi-on-triggers/)
*   [Lies, Damned Lies, and Social Media: False Rape Accusations](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/17/lies-damned-lies-and-social-media-part-5-of-%E2%88%9E/)
*   [In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-community-and-civilization/)

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**XII. Politicization**

*   [Right is the New Left](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/)
*   [Weak Men are Superweapons](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/)
*   [You Kant Dismiss Universalizability](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/16/you-kant-dismiss-universalizability/)
*   [I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/)
*   [Five Case Studies on Politicization](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/16/five-case-studies-on-politicization/)
*   [Black People Less Likely](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/11/black-people-less-likely/)
*   [Nydwracu’s Fnords](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/24/nydwracus-fnords/)
*   [All in All, Another Brick in the Motte](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-brick-in-the-motte/)
*   [Ethnic Tension and Meaningless Arguments](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/04/ethnic-tension-and-meaningless-arguments/)
*   [Race and Justice: Much More Than You Wanted to Know](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/)
*   [Framing for Light Instead of Heat](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/03/framing-for-light-instead-of-heat/)
*   [The Wonderful Thing About Triggers](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/30/the-wonderful-thing-about-triggers/)
*   [Fearful Symmetry](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/14/fearful-symmetry/)
*   [Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-communitarianism/)

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**XIII. Competition and Cooperation**

*   [The Demiurge's Older Brother](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/21/repost-the-demiurges-older-brother/)
*   [Book Review: The Two-Income Trap](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/28/book-review-the-two-income-trap/)
*   [Just for Stealing a Mouthful of Bread](https://web.archive.org/web/20170903164812/http://squid314.livejournal.com/352024.html)
*   [Meditations on Moloch](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)
*   [Misperceptions on Moloch](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/01/misperceptions-on-moloch/)
*   [The Invisible Nation — Reconciling Utilitarianism and Contractualism](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/24/the-invisible-nation-reconciling-utilitarianism-and-contractualism/)
*   [Freedom on the Centralized Web](http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centralized-web/)
*   [Book Review: Singer on Marx](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/13/book-review-singer-on-marx/)
*   [Does Class Warfare Have a Free Rider Problem?](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/14/does-class-warfare-have-a-free-rider-problem/)
*   [Book Review: Red Plenty](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/)

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