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Give Up Seventy Percent Of The Way Through The Hyperstitious Slur Cascade

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Role of All Lives Matter in Political Opinion

The campaign to turn the Confederate flag into a slur successfully turned it into a slur. I think use of all lives matter had very low, maybe 51 to 49 correlation with political opinion when it was first used. Now it's probably 99 to 1. Black people commit more crime is a hyperstitious slur in the sense that racists talk about it more than non-racists. This helps it become a signal for racism.

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