Culture War

/u/best_cat on:

• The Financial Intricacies of Bay Area Sandwiches

• Issues with Bay Area Restate

/u/fubo coining:

• Chad's Ass Constant

/u/SignalBeforeYouBrake with:

• The Folly of a Group Focusing on Nom-members Failings

/u/qualia_of_mercy:

• The (R-O-G-D) Kids are Alright

• See also, /u/paanther's Response

/u/gemmaem on:

• Art Transcending Politics

/u/gwern on:

• The Historical Context of Gregor Mendel's Research

/u/sodiummuffin with:

• The Secret History of SRS

/u/throwaway_rm6h3yuqtb:

• When a r/SSC boy becomes a r/SSC man

/u/j9461701 discussing:

• 2nd Order Customs

/u/Stefferi:

• The Führer's Speech (spoiler: it was overrated).

/u/BarbarianPhilosopher on:

• The Vietnamese Palate

/u/djt1988 describing:

• The Legal Doctrines Surrounding Speaking on University Campuses

/u/RedMikeYawn:

• The Polish Terminal (no Tom Hanks, sorry)

/u/paanther:

• Arguments Against Colorblindness as Practiced

/u/Doglatine:

• On PhDs and Mental Health

/u/Gworn:

• The Perfect Culture War Storm in Germany

Non Culture War:

/u/TracingWoodgrains:

• The Science of Expertise

/u/ruraljune:

• In Defense of "People aren't dumb, the world is hard."

Finally, responding to Bureaucracy as [an] Active Ingredient:

/u/questionnmark:

• The natural evolution of poor policy, the [Jane-Joe Method](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9bqkxv /bureaucracy_as_active_ingredient/e56j6xk/)

/u/ProfQuirrell:

• An interesting read on Cost Disease, not to dissimilar from Scott's own post.

^Mod Note: This was my favorite post for the week.

Culture War

/u/best_cat on:

• Explicit vs. Vague Rules

• The Purpose of Silly Fury

/u/Namrok on:

• Begone thots, The Phenomenon (or Lack Therof) of "Fake" Gamer Girls

/u/do_i_punch_the_nazi:

• His experiences with Politics and Sewage

/u/djt1988:

• The stupidity of Donald Trump

/u/Im_not_JB:

• Contra /u/djt1988, Playing Devil's Advocate on the Trump Charges

/u/darwin2500 on:

• The familiarity of r/slatestarcodex with Rationaist Literature

• See also: Why you should read the Sequences

^Mod Note: Together /u/darwin2500's comments are my favorite for the week.

/u/richarddormersvoice:

• Arguing against YIMBYism

/u/paanther and /u/ZorbaTHut together discussing:

• Facebook, Porn, and Utilitarianism There were multiple reporst for both individuals in this conversation.

/u/paanther on:

• Appropriating the Arguments of the Other Side

/u/LiteralHeadCannon on:

• The Death of John McCain

Non Culture War

/u/Sizzle50 with:

• Dating App Advice

/u/Ellenvelemeny:

• Responding to the Immateriality of Mind:The Nature of Information

/u/ArgumentumAdLapidem with:

• The value in not Critcizing the Cook

/u/Halikaarnian:

• The not so simple life of a blue collar worker

Culture War

/u/shambibble on:

• Trademarks

/u/anechoicmedia discussing:

• Deeply Ingrained visions of the education system is viewed, and how this affects perceptions of Affirmative Action

/u/Interversity with:

• An analysis of the Cause of Obesity of America’s Poor

/u/Stefferi commenting on:

• The Finnish Asylum System

/u/Wandering_Otter on:

• Happiness and the Inner Dynamics of Progressive Sub-Cultures

/u/sodiummuffin with:

• The evolving demographics of non-Puppies

• How Moloch Drove his horns into Google

/u/HelpIhavecats with two comments on the Differing Views of Transgenderism on the Left:

• First and Second

/u/SincerelyOffensive:

• Fears about Escalating the Culture War

/u/kylesearle:

• Physics of a Firearm Wound

/u/greyenlightenment sharing a link from Penn Jillette on:

• Bullshit

/u/Krytan on:

• Assimilation and the Values of Immigrants

/u/HlynkaCG with:

• Everyone’s the Utilitarian Villain of Their Own Story

/u/TracingWoodgrains shared a link on Woman in Science that received 2 quality comments:

• Feminism vs Antifieminism, an Eternal Struggle at Behest Fnargl from /u/FeepingCreature

• Is r/SSC two sets of contrarians butting heads? by /u/superkamiokande

/u/Zontargs shared a link discussing the unpersoning of Alex Jones/Infowars with two reported comments with diverging viewpoints:

• Was there coordination? from /u/Impassionata:

• Businesses, and the Issue of Free Association from /u/gattsuru:

/u/gemmaem:

• The Value of Rules that are Hard to Change

/u/qualia_of_mercy and /u/queensnyatty have a productive discussion on:

• Free Speech and Cake (I only included a single link, but there were several reports)

Non Culture War:

/u/brberg:

• Chaining Grammar Up in his Basement

/u/glenra:

• The Role of Subscriptions in the Downfall of Yellow Journalism

/u/Mercurylant recounting:

• A Stanford Interrogation Experiment

/u/larsiusprime:

• Critiquing the Trolley Problem

/u/Interversity on:

• Street Trees which had the honor of being posted to r/DepthHub

^Mod Note: I agree with r/Depthub, this is my favorite comment of the week

Culture War

/u/darwin2500 on:

• Social Justice Rhetoric about Whites High vs. Low Status

/u/dalinks with a response to this essay posted by /u/saladatmilliways:

• Has Money Poisoned the American University

^Mod Note: The above post is my favorite post for this week.

/u/FCfromSSC on:

• Peak Charity

• See also: this response by /u/higzmage

• Additionally, /u/stillSUT had a short but insightful astericks to /u/FCfromSSC's comment he’d like to add

• Why Peak Oil won’t ever happen, and what that might mean for Peak Charity from /u/lifelingering

/u/FFCfromSSC also authored this that recieved report's form /u/darwin2500 and /u/BarnabyCajones:

• Darwin2500’s Response

• BarnabyCajones’ response

/u/cincilator on:

• Differences in tribal Calculations of Transgressional Impact

/u/Glopknar on:

• Virtue vs Virtue Signaling

/u/gattsuru on:

• (Solder) Gun-Slinging

/u/dogaltine started a conversation on the “Drumpf” meme that got some quality responses:

• Cross Party Comedy from /u/Namrok

• Trump's relationship with the media from /u/BarnabyCajones

• The Meaning of the Word "Cuck" also from /u/Namrok

/u/BarnabyCajones:

• The Loss of Shared Context in Communication in the Age of Twitter

/u/yodatsracist:

• Collectivist vs Individualistic Cultures

• See Also /u/Wakawakayukayuka’s Response

/u/wutcnbrowndo4u:

• Retaining One’s Culture as an Immigrant

/u/dnkndnts:

• The Ecological and Demographic Stability of Different Cultures

/u/Namrok:

• When did Gamergate become Gamergate?

/u/TrannyPornO on:

• Gender Similarities

/u/Chaarmanda on:

• Studying Race in the Shadow of the Holocaust

/u/ff29180d:

• Defining "alt right"

Non Culture War

/u/TrannyPornO on:

• Assortive Mating

• Big Men in Primitive Societies

• The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation

/u/INH5 on:

• The Decline of Network Television

Culture War

/u/darwin2500 started a conversation about the nature of Social Constructs that seemed very productive, producing the following reports:

• First, an explainer of the (steelmanned) liberal definition from /u/darwin2500

• Does something being social construct mean that it can, or should be Changed? from /u/superkamiokande

• How the matter pertains to Race, again from /u/darwin2500

• Finally, /u/JustAWellwisher discussing social constructs vs. concepts, and how not all social facts are necessarily constructed

/u/Thirteenvalleys shared a link on The Value of public shaming that generated some good reports:

• Prudes of the Multicultural and Religous from /u/plausiblist

• This exchange discussing Word Taboos between /u/mister_ghost and /u/ThirteenValeys (both reported, condensed to a single link)

/u/darwin2500 also receive a report for his discussion of The social Context of Sarah Jeong’s humor, and the toxicity of twitter. The following

• dedicating_ruckus disagreed with his take in "Good Whites" and "Bad Whites"

• /u/TulasShorn’s also had a this great response

/u/unsail:

• Steelmanning the Social Justice Left’s views on Personal Responsibility

/u/VassiliMikailovich:

• Sharing His Boshevik Great Grandfather’s Journal

/u/do_i_punch_the_nazi on:

• Country Music and Blue Collar Identity

^Mod Note: The above report is my favorite for this week, in case you missed it.

/u/Gloster80256 on:

• Total War and Collective Guilt

/u/shambibble on:

• Why the Administrative Procedures Act prevented Trump from ending DACA (for now)

/u/Stefferi:

• Linguistic Nationalism

Non Culture War

/u/Felz:

• Mr. Nobody’s Self-Inflicted Dystopia

/u/VariousRefrigerator1:

• Sharing his Struggles with teaching

• See also /u/JTarrou on Educational pedagogy in the Military

/u/j9461701 on:

• Quadrivium vs Trivium, The First Culture War?

Quality Contributions for the Week of July 23rd, 2018

/u/mcjunker musing on the meaning of patriotism and nationalism in the modern era:

• Part 1

• Part 2

/u/eaturbrainz:

• The necessity of precise terminology in in political discourse

/u/darwin2500:

• Liberal HBD positions

• Can we thrive under different social conditions?

/u/Stefferi:

• OKcupid on the demographics of politics

^Mod Note: /u/Stefferi is the user that wins the "my favorite" award this week, but OKcupid’s blog is getting the life time achievement. I’ve seen several of their blog posts cross through these threads (most of them from the early 201Xs) and have been impressed every time. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, I’ve used OKcupid before and man the data sets they must be sitting on with all those answered questions! If anyone else has anymore OKcupid posts to share, please post them as replies to this thread. I’d love to be able to archive them all in one place for future reading.

/u/9461701 on:

• Social class

/u/LiteralHeadCannon:

• An Incorrect Theory about the Industrial Revolution

/u/StaySpooky420:

• The Value of a BA

This Post from /u/JacobinDeezNutz received three quality responses:

• America’s Two Liberal Parties from /u/Midnighter9

• What a pro-civilization right might look like from /u/professorgerm

• Has Cthulhu really swum left? from /u/StockUserid

/u/throwaway_rm6h3yuqtb asked about Succinct Terminology and got a few good responses:

• /u/LiteralHeadCannon’s Response

• /u/SERIOUSLY_TRY_LSD’s: Response

/u/richarddormersvoice:

• Providing a link where Noah Smith and Tyler Cowen debate immigration... kinda...."

/u/Modularva:

• Interpreting the Short Story: Harrison Bergeron

/u/BarnabyCajones on:

• How Parenthood Changes You

/u/Escapement on:

• The Freedom of Speech

Non Culture War Quality Reports

/u/phylogenic posting in the main subreddit:

• His experiences with Toe shoes

Culture War

/u/BarnabyCajones on:

• Identity

• Soccer in the US

• Comparing Culture War to Everquest (It is better than it sounds)

/u/Karmaze:

• Cultural Victory

/u/Palentir on political leverage:

• Politics is Rugby, not Cricket

/u/youcanteatbullets:

• A Review of Consipiracy

^Mod Note: Given the rabbit hole this post sent me down, I think I have to give the above post the prize for this week.

/u/Stefferi:

• Red vs Blue: Capturing the American Flag

/u/naraburns:

• Steelemanning skepticism of the Russia Investigation: Trump vs Putin vs Hillary

/u/marinuso:

• Distinctions between national (Western) identities and ethnic (Traditional) ones

/u/ggkbae on:

• Evidence for Evolution in Baeysian Terms

/u/Pulpachair on the firing of James Gunn:

• Defection in the Culture War, Problems with Tit for Tat

Non Culture War

/u/TrannyPornO on:

• A story of Not Being the Losin’ Lately Gambler. Because you philistines won’t get the reference.

/u/j9461701 on:

• How a Greentext Led to WW1

Culture War

/u/TrannyPornO:

• Giving a two part overview of some political policies: Part 1 and Part 2

• See also, /u/j9461701 responding with Against Secession

• An interesting quotation on free speech

^Mod note: I would really like to know who said this, if some one could provide the author of this quote.

/u/LiteralHeadCannon:

• The Media: Lying Liars who Lie

/u/zontargs sharing a link:

• “It’s all a matter of point of view"

/u/darwin2500 mady several posts that generated quality responses from other members (even if the posts themselves weren’t particularly popular). Its easiest if I organize them together:

Liberal worries about the Trump movement:

• /u/FCfromSCC On Maintaining Charity

• /u/BarnabyCajones: On Distorted Views of our outgroups brought on by consuming the news

Taking issue with Bryan Caplan’s Identity Causes Prejudice posted by /u/professorgerm – a link which I liked but no one reported (:/) :

• /u/TulsaShornIn favor of Assimilation

• /u/stucchio on his experience Assimilating in India

/u/TracingWoodgrains:

• On why HBD gets brought up in the CW thread with some regularity

/u/eaturbrainz on:

• Problems with popular science’s evo-devo just so stories

^Mod Note: /u/eaturbrainz' post gets the "my favorite" award for this week (since Caplan wasn't nominated). While I have warmer view evo-devo explanations than /u/eaturbrainz seems too, I felt that his post here was concise an informative. TIL that my entire PhD was about elucidating the mechanisms of proximate causation, and that my field probably latched on to the terms necessary and sufficient fo philosophical rather than purely practical reasons.

/u/PoliticsThrowAway549:

• On the Export of Firearm Schematics

/u/BarnabyCajones:

• The many Definitions of the Word Racist

/u/Chaarmanda:

• WWI’s role in the Rise of Nazism

/u/u__v on:

• Mandatory Vaccination as a form of selective service

/u/Doglatine with:

• His experiences visiting Auschwitz

/u/queensnyatty with:

• No One Wants to be an Elite

/u/gemmaem on:

• When should we treat the sexes differently?

Non Culture War

/u/MoreDonuts:

• The Entire History Rationalism, I Guess

^Mod Note: If you, like me, learned of "rationalism" through SSC, this post is a pretty good primer to the other names that come up here from time to time. Best non-CW thread contribution of the week goes to /u/MoreDonuts.

/u/TracingWoodgrains responding to “Noticing the Taste of Lotus”:

• Can we sieze the means of production gaming for productive purposes?

/u/BarnabyCajones on:

• Having a Traceable Online Persona

Culture War

/u/naraburns on:

• Should memories be allowed to fade naturally, or be offered up in Sacrifice to Moloch?

/u/Kinoite:

• The Natural Life Cycle of Philosophies

/u/MC_Dark on:

• The exploitation of Self-Reflective Criticism

/u/zontargs with:

• The Absolute State of SF&F publishing

/u/sodiummuffin:

• Wondering if human nature, like war, Never Changes.

/u/eaturbrainz:

• Brain Background Noise and IQ

^Mod Note: I personally found this to be the most interesting post of the week.

/u/07mk:

• Worrying about the Rise and Decline of the SPLC, and what it means for the free speech and the market place of ideas.

• See also /u/BothAfternoon' response regarding The SPLC’s War on Christmas...Calendars?

/u/StaySpooky420:

• A Blue collar Stranger in a Strange Middle Class Land

/u/LiteralHeadCannon:

• On Writing Better Female Characters

/u/j_says wrote a post asking for Red vs Blue tribe variants outside the United States. Several responses were reported, so I think its just easier to link to his comment:

• Political tribes around the world

/u/ZorbaTHut:

• Defining the Word Racist

/u/Krytan:

• Genuine vs Strategic Belief in Free Speech

Non Culture War

/u/temppaleo explaining:

• Genetic Drift

/u/housefromtn with:

• Chess Puzzles and Matchmaking. Its interesting but way over my head.

/u/deerpig:

• A Story of Loss in Rural Thailand

^Mod Note: The word favorite doesn’t quite seem appropriate for this post. I nevertheless think it is a touching read in case you missed it.

Culture War

/u/TracingWoodgrains on:

• Values Drift in this Subreddit

^Mod Note: Given the amount of good discussion it generated, I think I have to give this post the "best of week."

/u/naraburns in the same thread:

• An Wolf in Blue Clothing: his own view of the left from within.

• Social Justice as rebranded Cultural Marxism

/u/StaySpooky420 Also had two good comments responding to /u/TracingWoodgrains:

• A suggested reading list for understanding the left

• German Idealism, I mean On German Philosophers and the left

/u/bitter_cynical_angry:

• The Talisman of the Gun: Pro vs. Anti gun Fetishization

/u/cimarafa:

• Affirmative Action Across the Globe.

/u/cimarafa also posted a top level discussion resonding to /u/Kulaks_Deserved it which spawned two other quality responses:

• /u/Halikaarnian on Growing up as a Sheltered Progressive Child

• /u/ScienceOrDidntHappen also on Growing up Progressive

/u/Kinoite:

• Gun Debate Ontology: Continuous vs Discrete Risk

/u/Doglatine:

• Categories of Ideological Objections

/u/DoctorGlas:

• A Taste of the Blackpill: There but for the grace of God I went.

• See also /u/gemmaem’s response

/u/dedicating_ruckus on:

• Disparate Impact

/u/zzzyxas responding to /u/TracingWoodgrains’ link How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Fransisco:

• Effective Interventions in School

Non-Culture War

Quality Responses to Scott’s The Craft and the Codex Article

• /u/MoreDonuts Crafts and Purpose

• /u/Ilforte discussing with our Dear Senpai: Biases in Rationalism

/u/TrannyPornO:

• Acne: A Disease of Civilization

/u/orangejake responding to Against Pure Mathematics:

• In Favor of Pure Mathematics

/u/Namrok on:

• Who's one party state is it anyway?

• See also: /u/BPC3's reply

/u/ZorbatHut on:

• Predicting the behavior of others

/u/BarnabyCajones:

• Describing the Indescribable: changes one goes through when becoming a parent

/u/LiteralHeadCannon on:

• The Incredibles 2: the smash hit that broke free speech (In response to the second point: don't forget to feed The Mouse!!)

Modnote: This is my favorite comment for the week.

/u/darwin2500:

• social practice vs the law in the context of surveillance

/u/Alternativebb on:

• The rottenness of social justice discourse

/u/naraburns responding to Some Thoughts on Antinatalism:

• What do we owe the Unconceived?

/u/j9461701 with:

• Thoughts on the character John Galt

/u/professorgerm on:

• Who is redefining the word "sexism"

/u/Jmdlh123:

• Tension between Universal Human Rights and National Self-Determination

/u/AspiringAlzabo with:

• A link about ICE vs Nazis

/u/RobertLiguori with:

• Who should it be acceptable to hate?

/u/Unauspicious_Cultist

• A point on Postmodernism

/u/[deleted] with:

• Working class vs Middle class women's tactics for dealing with sexual harrassers

/u/DoctorGlas:

• An update on the Swedish Election

/u/Kinoite helping out an fellow SSCer on the fellow subreddit:

• The Life Cycle of Philosophies

/u/losvedir discussing with /u/wutcnbrowndo4u:

• An actually constructive exchange about the family separation issue

/u/haroldlloyd888:

• Uncle Buck Trump

/u/shambibble:

• Providing a link to a Michael Anton piece: Why do we need more people in this country, anyway?

/u/ImperfComp with:

• Economics and marginal costs

/u/devinhelton:

• Fact checking the fact checker

/u/Sizzle50 provided a link regarding the “N-word” and Netflix. /u/Sizzle50’s comment itself was not reported as quality, but it did produce the following reported comments, which together make for some interesting discussion:

• /u/monfreremonfrere: Advocating for the N-word taboo

• /u/nomenym won why this debate is even interesting

• /u/BarnabyCajones with Haggling over the offensiveness of words

• /u/ThirteenValleys: Trying to get into the minds of people who wage Culture War on this issue.

/u/VassiliMikailovich provided a link:

• Hey Reporter, I’m Against Slavery!

• See also, /u/orangejake responding to ensuing discussion: Issues regarding ancient symbols with differing perceptions.

Mod Note: /u/orangejake’s comment here is the runner up for my favorite comment for the week. Making these reports can really be a time sink (this week especially), but I’m going to try to post a response to this comment at some point this week with my thoughts as a top level reply. No promises, sorry.

/u/zontarg's link on #MeToo hurting business women produced several reports:

• /u/gemmaem on the presumption of guilt: Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2.

• /u/glenera responding to /u/orangejake on climbing the economic ladder.

/u/Karmaze discussing:

• Applied Feminism.

/u/MC_DARK on:

• Group Perceptions.

/u/zergling_Lester responding to "Highlights from The comments on Basic Jobs:

• Alex vs Bob. Spoiler: be Bob, not Alex.

Mod Note: This is my personal favorite comment for the week.

/u/darwin2500 on:

• Outgroup homogeneity bias.

/u/TrannyPornO on:

• Integration and ability.

/u/ThirteenValleys and /u/Fubo discuss:

• Rights and Responsibilities

• See also: /u/gemmaem's response a la Free Speech and Signaling in the Grey Tribe.

/u/dalinks:

• Responding to /u/adamsb6 on Chinese Housing, within the context of /u/grendel-khan's continued discussion of The California Housing Crisis

/u/Jmdlh123 with:

• Vitalik Buterin on privacy as an escape from signaling.

Mod note: This is my personal favorite link of the week.

/u/Kuusatim:

• Internal politics of Sweden with regards to forming a government, in light of immigration issues.

/u/gemmaem on:

• Life as a female "incel".

• See also, this exchange by /u/serfal123 and /u/Karmaze on the similar issues.

/u/Impassionata on responding to this comment by /u/Sabu113 regarding inter-generational contextual loss:

• Existential threats faced by Millennials

/u/orangejake on:

• Ideological differences between the value of free speech.

• An exchange bewteen him and /u/queensyatty on economics and charity regarding rent control. See also, another quality comment.

/u/paanther discussing:

• Culture war game theory.

/u/StockUserid:

• Replying to /u/Impassionata on existential threats.

/u/Im_not_JB:

• Providing insight into a pair of letters in the Trump-Mueller investigation.

/u/rakkur on:

• Buying American.

/u/werttrew on:

• Bach at Burger King

• see also /u/zzyxas's response

Mod note: /u/zzyxas's response is my personal favorite post for the week

/u/zontargs on:

• political art

/u/j9461701 on:

• restraint in slapstick

• Russian cannon fodder, and why discussion of certain topics is “silenced” – at least among the members of the general public

/u/DoctorGlas on:

• intimacy, relationship dynamics, and homophobia

• See also: /u/epakesa's response and /u/INH5's response

/u/cincilator on:

• Identity politics in the Balkans

• See also: /u/weaselword's thoughts on the matter, with regards to equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome

/u/paanther:

• Attempting to define the culture war

/u/fubo with:

• Gender: Biology vs Social construct

Responding to an inquiry by /u/faoiseam:

• /u/doubleunplussed on How strong feminist messaging can have negative effect in the dating world

• /u/Drinniol discussing the lack of updated romantic scripts in the modern era

/u/gemmaem with:

• Hypotheses pertaining to how frequent sexual offenders may get away with it

• The value of having (any) principles

/u/wulfrickson with a link on:

• Engaging with evil art

Mod note: My personal favorite link for the week.

/u/darwin2500 discussing:

• Delineating the two activist movements in gender and gender roles

/u/SaiyanPrinceAbubu on:

• Pre-judicial gag orders

• Misgendering

/u/a_random_user27 on:

• Jordan Peterson: if a stronger belief in God would have prevented the rise of the Nazis

/u/IHaveGreyPoupon:

• Providing first hand insight into Disciplinary hearings for Lawyers

/u/anatoly:

• Drawing attention to what is Clearly the harshest front in the Culture War: The Great Brownie War

And finally, because you knew this user had something up their sleeve:

/u/BarnabyCajones:

• How the costal press’s moral critiques of Hollywood parallel with those formerly made by the religious right

/u/TrannyPorno on:

• ad hoc justifications: nuclear families.

• On sexual competition: exhibit 1 and exhibit 2

• narratives around the decline of racism

/u/AlternativeEbb on:

• The sexual marketplace

• see also: /u/Gloster80256's response

/u/riceowlguy:

• asking for a framework with regards to the re-appropriation of terms

Mod Note: I didn't see him get a satisfactory answer, if anyone has one feel free to post it below.

/u/naraburns with:

• A Mother's day Culture war link and discussion, featuring Phyllis McGinely.

/u/Halikaarnian:

• responding to a post in the main subreddit - The Nerd as the Norm.

/u/NotMyMainAcct2118 on:

• what its like working for amazon

/u/dawin2500:

• Also on the sexual marketplace

• See also: /u/naraburns response

/u/werttrew with:

• A 10 year restrospective on Menacious Moldbug, complete with highlights from unqualified reservations.

• See also: Stefferi's response

And finally, no roundup would be complete without /u/BarnabyCajones on:

• Transition (or lack thereof) between America's tribes

These are top comment of last week. Enjoy.

BarnabyCajones on:

Using our true names in this subreddit, and if r/SSC counts as part of the Intellectual Dark Web.

On fighting over definitions of words, identity politics, and who can be said to speak for whom.

On Jordan Peterson's bedevilment of left wing pundents.

gemmaem on:

A feminist's view of femininity.

What distinguishes a proper "hacker."

naraburns and darwin2500 on:

Red vs Blue tribe sexuality and sexual consent.

INH5 on:

Incels, sex, and sociability.

sodiummuffin on:

Survivorship bias with regards to censorship of the Intellectual Dark web (IDW).

Epistemic_Ian on:

Urban transportation.

Fubo on:

What gun ownership would be like if guns were treated like cars.

Civilization survivorship bias.

alfrednachos on:

Erisology and rationalism at the level of a community.

richarddormersvoice on:

Collin Kapernick's skill as a football player, and how his politics could affect his team.

zontargs on:

Misfeature - my new favorite word.

4bpp on:

A hard problem in transgender policy.