What is truth, quoth Pontius Pilate. Asches to Asches is one of those witty stories by Scott Alexander. It illustrates precisely the source of my anxiety when reading non-fiction: I think I can be conned into believing anything if yo

Speak about writing to a narrow target demographic: This is a rationalist short story by Scott Alexander, exploring the impact of logic and colonialisation on an island tribe. KIDDING! While technically correct, it is also false, and I can'

What is it with rationalist fiction and that stilted style? Can't people make an argument without sounding like badly written robot hybrids? Ars Longa, Vita Brevis is not one of Scott Alexander's best stories. Skippable, to me, because t