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everythingstudies.com
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| | | | | A long postmortem of the conflict between Sam Harris and Ezra Klein over Harris's podcast with political scientist Charles Murray. I explain their disagreement as stemming from differences in interpretation of the original podcast, cultural expectations and psychological tendencies. Read more (36 min, 9100 words) | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | "If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" -variously attributed "I think of myself as running on hostile hardware." -Justin Corwin Yesterday I talked about how humans may have evolved a structure of political revolution, beginning by believing themselves morally superior to the corrupt current power structure, but ending by being corrupted by power themselves-not by any plan in their own minds, but by the echo of ancestors who did the same and thereby reproduced. | |
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unremediatedgender.space
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| | | | | This is a pretty good book about things we know about some ways in which people are different from each other, particularly differences in cognitive repertoires (Murray's choice of phrase for shaving nine syllables off | |
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www.historicalmaterialism.org
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| | | Sara Salem recently joined the Historical Materialism editorial board and is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick in the UK. Sara's research looks at questions of political economy, feminist and gender studies, postcolonialism, history, and Marxism in the particular context of the Middle East. She has recently published journal articles | ||