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2026

My Social Experimentsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
Why We Need And Lose Institutionsoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
What Do People Who Have Committed Sexual Harassment or Sexual Assault Say About Why They Committed It?original ↗
2 Jul 2026
What’s Between Us and Realityoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
The Mental Models You Don’t Know Aboutoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Does Meditation Really Demonstrate There Is No You?original ↗
24 Mar 2026
Age Of Gurusoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2026

2025

Will The U.S. Legal System Get You Justice?original ↗
29 Dec 2025
A problem with correlations: rare traits usually have small correlations to other things, just by virtue of being rareoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2025
Four ways to get more pleasure from good thingsoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
Psychological Words That Don’t Mean What You Thinkoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Don’t Use The Baseline Value As One Of The Predictors When You’re Predicting A Change In The Same Variableoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
Is Taking Every Supplement That Might Work A Good Idea For Health?original ↗
6 Dec 2025
People May Value Universal Happiness And Reduction Of Suffering More Than They Realizeoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusingoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2025
Facts That Contradict Common Narratives About The United Statesoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
Categorizing The Causes Of Bad Things In The Worldoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2025
If AI Replaces Human Labor Does That Have To Strip Human Lives Of Meaning?original ↗
16 Nov 2025
Common Misconceptions About Anger?original ↗
3 Nov 2025
But Does Social Media Use Actually Cause Bad Mental Health?original ↗
2 Nov 2025
Something Unexpected That May Help Some Common Chronic Medical Conditionsoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2025
To What Extent Are Women In The U.S. Actually More Social Justice Oriented Than Men?original ↗
30 Oct 2025
The Pattern Where Populist Leaders Rise To Power And Take Advantage Of The Populaceoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Paradoxical Goals That Fail If You Pursue Them Directlyoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2025
Alternatives To Circling For Facilitating Group Connectionsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Fascinating Obscure Concepts That Are Worth Knowingoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2025
You’re right about everythingoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2025
Narcissists Aren’t Necessarily Who You Think They Areoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2025
Does The Music You Listen To Predict Your Personality?original ↗
23 May 2025
Is it a problem if students cheat using AI?original ↗
23 May 2025
The Oddly Absent “Wesearch”original ↗
23 May 2025
For Health And Longevity, Be Wary Of Mechanismsoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
When is it worth it to argue over definitions?original ↗
10 Apr 2025
When are tariffs beneficial?original ↗
7 Apr 2025
Can you trust survey responses?original ↗
29 Mar 2025
Is IQ Legitimate or B.S.?original ↗
25 Mar 2025
Five types of people who spread misinformationoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2025
Predictions of extinction are not like other predictionsoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2025
Why can’t society agree on who is a “man,” who is a “woman,” and who is neither? An empirical and philosophical investigation into the metaphysics of gender.original ↗
8 Feb 2025
The Crud Factor: what’s the average correlation between totally random human traits?original ↗
24 Jan 2025
Educators Helping To Improve Rational Thinkingoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025
The effects of AI on chessoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2025

2024

Is magic “real”?original ↗
14 Dec 2024
Trusting the scienceoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2024
Why do people often disagree about what’s immoral?original ↗
16 Nov 2024
At what step do you disagree regarding the ethics of factory farming?original ↗
9 Nov 2024
How do we make our group conversations better?original ↗
3 Nov 2024
Three hypotheses to consider when a medical issue can’t be diagnosedoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2024
Breaking out of Futility Loopsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2024
Has every made-up anecdote already happened?original ↗
14 Sept 2024
A major (overlooked) reason why smart people fall for stupid thingsoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2024
How are personality traits distributed in the most popular personality frameworks?original ↗
12 Sept 2024
Squeeglee – a missing emotion word in English for when you experience something that’s cuteoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2024
Conducting Instantaneous Experimentsoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2024
What happens when your beliefs can’t change?original ↗
13 Aug 2024
Companies shirking their responsibility to make AI text detectableoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
Run Your Own Organic No-Prep City Scavenger Huntoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2024
Understanding the Landscape of Viewpoints on the Risks and Benefits of AIoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2024
Merlin: a tribute to a cat I loveoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2024
Always Conduct the “Simplest Valid Analysis”original ↗
10 Jul 2024
Creating more moments of attentionoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2024
The “Lizardman’s Constant” Causes the “Nonsense Factor:” a hidden source of false conclusions in researchoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
Four extremely bad ideas that have been popularoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
How heritable are human traits like personality, height, mental health, physical health, education, religiosity, and conservatism? (h^2 estimates)original ↗
12 Jun 2024
Are happiness and well-being the only things that people value?original ↗
5 Jun 2024
Categorizing types of beliefs: Valuable Truths, Bitter Pills, Philosophical Disorders and Helpful Falsehoodsoriginal ↗
25 May 2024
How can big problems get solved?original ↗
5 May 2024
How to spot real expertiseoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2024
Three motivations for believing original ↗
20 Apr 2024
The benefits and soul-crushing downsides of A.I. progressoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
In memory of Daniel Kahneman, who accelerated our understanding of the mindoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2024
Seven simple but effective methods for improving your connection with othersoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2024
Does money buy happiness, according to science?original ↗
29 Feb 2024
I’m an extreme non-credentialist – what about you?original ↗
28 Feb 2024
Do we all have strange beliefs?original ↗
2 Feb 2024
When Is Gossip Good?original ↗
28 Jan 2024
How great is the U.S., really?original ↗
5 Jan 2024

2023

Think smarter about what’s “good”original ↗
20 Dec 2023
Dichotomizer (or Oversimplifiers) vs. Difference Deniers: a dynamic regarding group differences that leads to rage and confusionoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2023
Understanding two of the weirdest theorems in math: Gödel’s incompleteness original ↗
17 Nov 2023
Four reasons art is made – and how they shape the art worldoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2023
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) really, and how could he have done what he did? – three theories and a lot of evidenceoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2023
Improving your feed using the Law of Social Media Manifestationoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2023
Some Signs of Harmful or Untrustworthy Relationshipsoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2023
How to make LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude work better: my favorite custom instructionsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2023
People often ask – why do girls like bad boys? But do women like bad guys, or do they actually prefer “powerful good guys”?original ↗
25 Oct 2023
Human universals: 6 remarkable things I think are true of nearly all adultsoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2023
Don’t let justified terror or rage cause you to do immoral thingsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2023
What is Lightgassing? A way we harm people by validating their false beliefsoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2023
Eight ways you can validate someone’s emotions in a healthy way (and four strategies to avoid)original ↗
2 Oct 2023
Five rules for good science (and how they can help you spot bad science)original ↗
22 Sept 2023
Three reasons to be cautious when reading data-driven “explanations”original ↗
11 Sept 2023
How to avoid feeding anti-science sentimentsoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2023
Dealing with chronic pain: it’s in the way you moveoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
Paving the road to hell with good intentions: four examples of good actors screwing things uporiginal ↗
5 Aug 2023
Six fresh takes on wisdom to help you become wiseroriginal ↗
1 Aug 2023
Valuism and X: how Valuism sheds light on other domains – Part 5 of the sequence on Valuismoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2023
False Beliefs Held by Intellectual Giantsoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2023
If you think technological progress is inevitable, you’re mistakenoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2023
What countries have the most billion-dollar startup companies per capita?original ↗
28 Jun 2023
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