analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

Everything Is Ideology

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analects under the categories btrmt. believes in, as set out in the manifesto

analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

sequences of articles gathered around a more focused idea

  • is culture socially costly 30 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Risks and Social Costs of High Culture: High culture now functions like a counterculture, entailing a conscious act of dissent from the...
  • the personal and private nature of smartphones 25 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones: because smartphones are considerably more personal and private than PCs, using them activat...
  • caligula as an anti-ideology 19 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Was Caligula Depraved as Suetonius Would Have Him?: it is hard to resist the conclusion that, whatever kernel of truth they might have, the...
  • why individuals avoid information 17 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Why Individuals Avoid Information: A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs o...
  • politics and spirituality are entangled 16 Jun 2025 [marginalium] for many of those who self-identified as “evangelical,” it is not just about devotion to a local church, but to a general orientation to the...
  • preferring skilled migration enhances xenophobia 7 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Preferring skilled migration appears to make us less amenable to migrants more broadly. This is an email about the Australian situation—we o...
  • what is centrism? 6 Jun 2025 [marginalium] What Is Centrism? This is a mildy interesting critique of centrism as a political destination, and of the flaws in the Democratic approach t...
  • the era of the business idiot 23 May 2025 [marginalium] The Era Of The Business Idiot. Intro through some of the sillier uses of AI into a critique of the Rot Economy: a useful description for ho...
  • the universe as black hole reproduction 8 May 2025 [marginalium] I’m not going to pretend to understand this properly, but the main thing I took away is that old mate reckons: direct-collapse supermassive...
  • metaphors shape minds 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Metaphors shape minds: Scientific analogies can crackle too. Consider one of the puzzles of the visual system: saccades, those rapid, darti...
  • social media and moore's law 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Social Media and Moore’s Law. From Tyler Cowan, who is confusing me recently, but I still like his predictions. I have a draft article that...
  • the religious don't trust scientists' moral character 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The religious don’t trust scientists’ moral character (in the US) How do perceptions of scientists’ moral values relate to support for scie...
  • the epicenter of conspiracy belief 10 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The epicenter of conspiracy belief: The economically left-leaning and culturally regressive the results show a clear picture: Individuals w...
  • the roots of democratic legitimacy 3 Apr 2025 [marginalium] The Roots Of Democratic Legitimacy. This is a technical article, but you can skim it to draw out the main point. We balance majority (repres...
  • a brief history of accelerationism 21 Mar 2025 [marginalium] A Brief History Of Accelerationism. What started as a neo-Marxist vision of breaking capitalism by moving through it: what the acceleration...
  • the woke right 21 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Refreshing article about the obvious faction of the right, and the more subtle one: a stark division is revealed between those who opposed...
  • handbags as a key to evolution 13 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Yale Review article asks ‘Was an accessory the secret to evolution?’ The value of the handbag was interesting. I myself have found myself ad...
  • personality traits and gender gaps 7 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Personality traits and gender gaps: Higher conscientiousness and emotional stability and lower agreeableness levels enhance earnings and jo...
  • are women more left 1 Mar 2025 [marginalium] Are women more left? No: Women are not more Leftist, per se. Rather, the specific variety of Leftism that is currently riding high is extre...
  • fun critique of rationalists 6 Feb 2025 [marginalium] Finally! Someone wrote this up. Several thousand words complaining about the obviously doomed rationality project, all couched in a story ab...
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