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Feeling Old: Leaving your 20s in the 2020s
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Triangle Opportunity
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Frame Control
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Long Now, and Culture vs Artifacts
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Feminism and Femininity
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Why Are Women Hot?
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College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game
devansh
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Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
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Aaron Bergman
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Scott Alexander
12y
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Pretending to be Wise
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Science as Attire
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15y
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Everyone is an Imposter
Tharin
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Disarming status
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Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
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Bay area OB/LW meetup, today, Sunday, March 29, at 5pm
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Naming the Nameless
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Things you are supposed to like
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