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            <title><![CDATA[Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is GDP a Kind of Factory?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Steelmanning the Eruv]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[If there were no journalism, how would we find out?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Domestic Product]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[DOGE in context]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Si No Se Puede]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Predation as Payment for Criticism]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ethical Veganism is Wrong]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Parliamentary and Other Powers]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Levels of Republicanism]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Systems of Bullshit Work]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[LLMs for language learning]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gentrification and Nationalism]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I am no longer anti-Trump]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guilt, Shame, and Depravity]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Preference Inversion]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Debtors' Revolt]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Normies vs Statistical Normality]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Suffering as Cybernetic Failure]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Some Buddhist Teachings]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[CPTSD and Attachment]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jargon and Attachment]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Honey Butter and the Grain War]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Self-Criticism vs Self-Blame]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inner Ring as Adversary]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Floating into Awareness]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who controls the vertical? Who controls the horizontal?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Language, Power, and the Categorical Imperative]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Trauma Coup]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Civil Law and Political Drama]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Childhood Memory]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[D is for COVID]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[D is for COVID]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Logic of Pol Pot]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Logic of Pol Pot]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/compassionate-defetishization-by-mindfully-viewing-pornography/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[To-Do Stress]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/to-do-stress/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[To-Do Stress]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Transgressive Coordination]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-transgressive-coordination/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On Transgressive Coordination]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Straussian Esoteric Readings]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On Straussian Esoteric Readings]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is Stockholm Syndrome?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What is Stockholm Syndrome?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Against Conservative Liberalism]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Against Conservative Liberalism]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Aphorisms from Twitter]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/aphorisms-from-twitter/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Aphorisms from Twitter]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reason as an Identity Group]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reason-as-a-faction/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Reason as an Identity Group]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The motivation to write]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The motivation to write]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can crimes be discussed literally?]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-crimes-be-discussed-literally/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Can crimes be discussed literally?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-the-equity-premium-help-us-identify-stock-market-bubbles/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/when-to-reverse-quarantine-and-other-covid-19-considerations/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Simulacra and Subjectivity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Simulacra and Subjectivity]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Approval Extraction Advertised as Production]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/approval-extraction-advertised-as-production/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Approval Extraction Advertised as Production]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/judgment-punishment-and-the-information-suppression-field/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/alarm-fatigue-systematic-critique/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On street violence]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-street-violence/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On street violence]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blatant lies are the best kind!]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blatant-lies-best-kind/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Blatant lies are the best kind!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reason isn't magic]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reason-isnt-magic/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Reason isn't magic]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A drowning child is hard to find]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/drowning-children-rare/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A drowning child is hard to find]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Xanadu riffs]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/xanadu-riffs/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Xanadu riffs]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A War of Ants and Grasshoppers]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/war-ants-grasshoppers/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A War of Ants and Grasshoppers]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/towards-optimal-play-as-villager-in-a-mixed-game/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pecking Order and wings]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/hierarchy-wings/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Pecking Order and wings]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blame games]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blame-games/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Blame games]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-effective-altruism-be-at-war-with-north-korea/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Authoritarian empiricism]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authoritarian-empiricism/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Authoritarian empiricism]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Totalitarian ethical systems]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/totalitarian-ethical-systems/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Totalitarian ethical systems]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Commentary on Philosophy War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Commentary on Philosophy War]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blackmailers-are-privateers-in-the-war-on-hypocrisy/</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[MeToo is good]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/metoo-is-good/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[MeToo is good]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I am no longer supporting REACH]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-no-longer-supporting-reach/</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why I am no longer supporting REACH]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Moral differences in mediocristan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Moral differences in mediocristan]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Financial investment is just a symbolic representation of investment projected onto a low-dimensional space inside a control system run by the US government]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-barbell-strategy/</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Financial investment is just a symbolic representation of investment projected onto a low-dimensional space inside a control system run by the US government]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On proofs of the existence of God]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On proofs of the existence of God]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zetetic explanation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Zetetic explanation]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More on personal archaeology and archives]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[More on personal archaeology and archives]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Model-building and scapegoating]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Model-building and scapegoating]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[There is a war.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There is a war.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Talents]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Talents]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oops Prize update]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Oops Prize update]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Humans need places]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Humans need places]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kidneys, trade, sacredness, and space travel]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Kidneys, trade, sacredness, and space travel]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What strange and ancient things might we find beneath the ice?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Explicit content]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Poets are intelligence assets]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Poets are intelligence assets]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Defense against discourse]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the construction of beacons]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the construction of beacons]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Some things I learned about camping and other solitude-seeking activities]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Some things I learned about camping and other solitude-seeking activities]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the fetishization of money in Galt’s Gulch]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the fetishization of money in Galt’s Gulch]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sabbath hard and go home]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sabbath hard and go home]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-not-a-quaker-even-though-it-often-seems-as-though-i-should-be/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Request: Cabin [RESOLVED]]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Request: Cabin [RESOLVED]]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thank you for listening]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Thank you for listening]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Taking integrity literally]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Taking integrity literally]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I'll pretend to ask, and you'll pretend to answer]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pretend-ask-answer/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I'll pretend to ask, and you'll pretend to answer]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The order of the soul]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-order-of-the-soul/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The order of the soul]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/geometers-scribes-structure-intelligence/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oops Prize]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oops-prize/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Oops Prize]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Silicon Valley real?]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-silicon-valley-real/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Is Silicon Valley real?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bad intent is a disposition, not a feeling]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bad intent is a disposition, not a feeling]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Actors and scribes, words and deeds]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Actors and scribes, words and deeds]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is self-recommending]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is self-recommending]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-openai-board-seat-is-surprisingly-expensive/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[OpenAI makes humanity less safe]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/openai-makes-humanity-less-safe/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[OpenAI makes humanity less safe]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Against responsibility]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-responsibility/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Against responsibility]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dominance, care, and social touch]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dominance-care-social-touch/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dominance, care, and social touch]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New York culture]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/new-york-culture/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[New York culture]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sincere-confirmation-bias-indistinguishable-science/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bindings and assurances]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bindings-and-assurances/</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bindings and assurances]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Humble Charlie]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humble-charlie/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Humble Charlie]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Against neglectedness considerations]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-neglectedness/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Against neglectedness considerations]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell and the problem of partial funding]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-and-partial-funding/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GiveWell and the problem of partial funding]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The humility argument for honesty]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humility-argument-honesty/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The humility argument for honesty]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Quaker and the Parselmouth]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-quaker-and-the-parselmouth/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Quaker and the Parselmouth]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Between honesty and perjury]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honesty-and-perjury/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Between honesty and perjury]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Guess culture screens for trying to cooperate]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/guess-culture-screens-for-trying-to-cooperate/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Guess culture screens for trying to cooperate]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Honesty, magic, and science]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honesty-magic-science/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Honesty, magic, and science]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exploitation as a Turing test]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/exploitation-as-a-turing-test/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Exploitation as a Turing test]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Automemorial]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/automemorial/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Automemorial]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/claim-explainer-returns-to-scale/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The engineer and the diplomat]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/engineer-diplomat/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The engineer and the diplomat]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[Improve comments by tagging claims]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/improve-comments-by-tagging-claims/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Improve comments by tagging claims]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Canons (What are they good for?)]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/canons-what-for/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Canons (What are they good for?)]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Be secretly wrong]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/be-secretly-wrong/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Be secretly wrong]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mic-Ra-finance and the illusion of control]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/mic-ra-finance-and-the-illusion-of-control/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mic-Ra-finance and the illusion of control]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Philosophers Against Malaria]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On Philosophers Against Malaria]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[This is not what the 21st century wanted to be doing with its anxiety.]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/trump-yudkowsky-tweetmashup/</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is not what the 21st century wanted to be doing with its anxiety.]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 6]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 6]]></description>
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        <item>
            <title><![CDATA[It's crying wolf all the way down]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's crying wolf all the way down]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sample means, how do they work?]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sample-means-how-work/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sample means, how do they work?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Social vs objective respect]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/respect-status-ability-character/</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Social vs objective respect]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On just not getting it]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On just not getting it]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't panic. Think.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Don't panic. Think.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Authenticity vs factual accuracy]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authenticity-vs-factual-accuracy/</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Authenticity vs factual accuracy]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2016 election endorsements and decisions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[2016 election endorsements and decisions]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Matching-donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest]]></title>
            <link>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/matching-donation-fundraisers-can-be-harmfully-dishonest/</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Matching-donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 5]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 5]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vote-trading and personal honor]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Vote-trading and personal honor]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On writing more]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On writing more]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 4]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 4]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Costs are not benefits]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Costs are not benefits]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 3]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 3]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 2]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[It is not a scandal that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child onstage.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 1]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six principles of a truth-friendly discourse]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Frank Loesser and corruption in America]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Increase bottleneck throughput by shortening queues?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Puppy love and cattachment theory.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Minimum viable impact purchases]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Some excerpts from Catistotle's Kittycatean Ethics]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Some excerpts from Catistotle's Kittycatean Ethics]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Yell at Mars to call swans]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why have my parents gotten wiser as I have gotten older?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why have my parents gotten wiser as I have gotten older?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is not a no-brainer]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is not a no-brainer]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Modeling intelligence as a project-specific factor of production]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[PSA on outing]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Copernican revolutions, lordship, and bondage]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Group cognition]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Projects of philosophers]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Backwards and in feels]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solve your problems by fantasizing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Solve your problems by fantasizing]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Emotional qualia are mediated by somatic responses]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reading, writing, and thinking, with your brain]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exploding the sociability binary]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Exploding the sociability binary]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Admonition]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Admonition]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Review: Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Physical empathy and channels of communication]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Physical empathy and channels of communication]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fixin' my fiction addiction]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Fixin' my fiction addiction]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Skipping developmental levels]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Skipping developmental levels]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Extraversion, object permanence, and investing in relationships]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On the display of negative emotions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[On the display of negative emotions]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Paths to singleton: a hierarchical conceptual framework]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Paths to singleton: a hierarchical conceptual framework]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Confutatis and cold comfort]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Confutatis and cold comfort]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shape the query]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Shape the query]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What is a conceptual hierarchy?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 8: Prioritization, finishing, inventories, and working memory]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Make more disjunctions explicit]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Make more disjunctions explicit]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Authenticity and instant readouts]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 7: conceptual vocabulary, writing, feedback, lit review]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Safety in numbers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My life so far: motives and morals]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Idolatry taboo as integrity constraint]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heterosociality hypotheses]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 6: Working on a research hierarchy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 5: writing, organizing my research]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 4: Refining the two-factor economic model of AI takeoff]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[On purpose alone]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 3: Diligence vs obsession, and a long (overdue) update]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lego my Ego]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Steve Jobs and the Impossibility of Parents]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A still small voice: a method for integrity]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 1: Research Agenda, Paths to AI]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Update 2: Shortest paths, Arrogance]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My new project: model the world]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nature and Nature's Bod: Attachment, Desire, Empathy Overload, and Embodiment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nature and Nature's Bod: Attachment, Desire, Empathy Overload, and Embodiment]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anxiety, heart attack, or stroke?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soma: my best friends have bodies]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Model-building about desire - a worked example]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Social trade]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Apgar of crushes]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Three puzzles]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The predator in the herd]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lupin around again: responses to the Werewolf model]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Connections and alliances]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Be Faire]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to ride a skrode]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Un gioco solido che aumenti per l'occasione]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fragment of an Oz Ymandias]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Melusine]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[An offer]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Two free verse poems in the bitter aesthetic]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tempted to help]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Firestones]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The biggest sensation that I have ever seen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The cost of cryopreservation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The performance of pain as a political tactic]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Phoenix and the Skroderider]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[True friendship is being counterfactually hugged by vampires]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Statusphere]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Looking at your story, looking at the world]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Verbal communication]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Vision, Hearing, and Autism-Like Symptoms]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iterated self-improvement - a worked example]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Werewolf feelings]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I ask for feedback]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On doing more good than war is bad]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Nature]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How I travel]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to find a job like a privileged person with lots of options]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Art is Like a Well-Ordered Ship]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Art is Like a Well-Ordered Ship]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Say it wrong first]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The top six reasons why I am procrastinating]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The top six reasons why I am procrastinating]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Spock]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Spock]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elas, elas, that great city!]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Elas, elas, that great city!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Want to Summon Less Animal Suffering?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Want to Summon Less Animal Suffering?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Tried a Thing to Affect Policy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Orders of Doom]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Veganism Correct?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Is Veganism Correct?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Appointment With Death]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Kol Nidre]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Georg^^^Georg]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Should You Get Therapy?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is It Unfair that Social Workers are Underpaid?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[For You]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Listening Nonjudgmentally]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Birthday Wish]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Whatever Is Not Best Is Forbidden]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Yay So-Called Redundancy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reinforcement]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nobody Knows What It's Like]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[I So Curious]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Communication From Another Dimension]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[F-ing Statistics, How Do They Work?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gel Culture: No Boots]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[National Identities]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Not Enough About Too Much]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Not even a real links post, just a blatant ad]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why I Am Not Celebrating International Tell Your Crush Day]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cauliflower Bread, Twice Attempted]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Positive Queries - How Fetching]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Short Pieces - Two Stories and an Inspiration]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Special Discount Just For You, and The Importance of Lost Opportunities]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Civics and Seamonsters, Calvin and Hobbes]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cherry Awesomes in the Snow]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Plus, Is Greedy]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Appearances and The Things Themselves]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Null Results]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wasted Talent: Parody]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ask Ben: Seafood in DC]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Specific Techniques for Inclusion]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pay It Again, Sam]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall, Staircase, Hallway: Obstacles Are Scary]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Worry, Be Canny]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pay Today or Pay More Tomorrow]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fire, Telepathy, Bandwidth]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Doubt, Science, and Magical Creatures]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[CFAR - Second Impression and a Bleg]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sharks are Forever]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bye Grandma]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Give Smart, Help More]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[I'm Sorry but I Kant Let You Do That]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Two Tones, One Mouth]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Handshakes. What's New?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sacrificial Rituals]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can God Make a Rock So Big He Can't Pick it Up? Or, Why Does My Calculus Textbook Start With This Chapter About Unions and Intersections?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rationality Cocktails]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Words and Techniques]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wait vs Interrupt Culture]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Nietzsche Said to Me]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[A First Impression Review of the CFAR NY Workshop]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Actually, you haven't adjusted your expectations.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dreamloss]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Leveling Up]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Last night I dreamt I lost a tooth.]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bad at Math]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Three Ways Not to Buy a Computer]]></title>
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