Assistant Village Idiot

Scott Alexander, who is a psychiatrist, discusses the tradeoffs versus failures of schizophrenia as a jumping off point to discuss the pheno...

I have been thinking of this, because...I've been walking the dog and I can't get it out of my head.*  *Having written that, I have ...

David Foster has a new substack post " Destroying the Passwords, " about the erasure of history from a culture, starting with the ...

I watched ABC news with the sound off for a few minutes at someone else's house tonight. I could tell from the images alone what the sla...

We have discussed JB Phillips's book Your God Is Too Small here before, quite a few times in twenty years.  But two of the posts, Senti...

I  never saw the movie, only a few stills. But I could play a record until the grooves wore through to the other side, and of course I read ...

The Dwarkesh Patel interview with Terence Tao . I am always surprised at how young Patel is: 25. He started this podcast when he was 19.  Ta...

I don't usually post literary essays, even when they impact directly on politics or culture, but Rob Henderson's discussion of Dost...

Steve Stewart-Williams at N3 called it "One Bias to Rule them All" and links to Toward Parsimony in Bias Research.   ...the curren...

 I tried this strategy on the missus.   She's just rescued a dog I don't much like.  I can't explain it.

 Do we know this to be true?  Heartbreaking.

Halfway through 2014 already. With the internal links also being interesting, perhaps I should have divided this into two parts.   Revisitin...

It was thirty years ago that I first caught an glimpse of my grandfather in the mirror, and have seen each of them from different angles a f...

Tracy and I went to the exhibition in Cambridge of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes . Definitely recommended if it comes near you....

 ... has come a long way.  

The descriptions in this song sounds more like Spring than Summer, and in fact they are. People thought more in terms of two seasons, summer...