82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer
I Don't Speak German
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The Power of Niceness
I stopped going to these after one guy went into this huge rant about how racial IQ differences are totally true and it's pinacious nonsense to say they aren't. So I decided we didn't want to go to these anymore. It was quite an experience. You've canceled them then with your fanatical close minded workism. I did. My lethal weapon is my work. But like he's one of these people his superpowers he projects and niceness fields civility fields, which it's hard to describe. This doesn't require a person to actually be nice or be civil but somehow they have this area about them that people will sort of be on their best behavior around them.
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