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community

Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew

economics

Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Why I'm skeptical of universal basic income
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

explainer

What happens if you don't fill out that ethnicity form?
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious
Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

gameTheory

Comparative advantage and when to blow up your island

math

Simpson's paradox and the tyranny of strata
Temperature conversion for the lazy and simple-minded
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious

philosophy

Pragmatic reasons to believe in formal ethics
It's hard to use utility maximization to justify creating new sentient beings

policy

What happens if you don't fill out that ethnicity form?
Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
Policy proposals and what we don't know about them
The veil of darkness
Your ratios don't prove what you think they prove
Doing discourse better: Stuff I wish I knew

science

Napoleon's failure in Russia as an analogy for T-cell based viral immunity
Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier you can make in 30s
Temperature conversion for the lazy and simple-minded
What happens if you drink acetone?

statistics

Policy proposals and what we don't know about them
Simpson's paradox and the tyranny of strata
The veil of darkness
Your ratios don't prove what you think they prove
Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious