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The Pig Hates It

How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People

Oct 8 • 

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Ideas, Identity, and Personality Tests: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with Tommy Blanchard

A recording from Linch's live video

Oct 6 • 

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Tommy Blanchard

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2:01:28

A Field Guide to Writing Styles

Windows, Mirrors, and Lenses: On Intentional Prose

Oct 1 • 

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September 2025

500 Subscribers: I Have Questions

In which I go on a listening tour for my constituents, erm, subscribers.

Sep 22 • 

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It Never Worked Before: Nine Intellectual Jokes

A curated collection of intellectual jokes that actually teach interesting ideas and make you think, not just rely on insider-jargon and smart-people…

Sep 18 • 

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From Fossils to Philosophy: A Deep Dive with Daniel Muñoz on Ethics, Discourse, and What We Owe to Ourselves

A recording from Linch's live video

Sep 15 • 

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Daniel Muñoz

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2:31:43

Why Academia Ignores FDT (Plus Aliens, Fiction, and A Priori Truths)

A recording from Linch+Flo's live video

Sep 9 • 

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Moralla W. Within

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1:36:45

The Puzzle of War

The game theory literature suggests that reasonable actors, under most realistic circumstances, always have better options than to go to war. Yet wars…

Sep 4 • 

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August 2025

Why "A Country Without Borders Will Cease to be a Country" is a Deepity

It rests on the rare “Argument from Homonym”, also known as the equivocation fallacy

Aug 20 • 

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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing

I really like Ted Chiang’s writing.

Aug 18 • 

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Which Ways of Knowing Actually Work?

Building an Epistemology Tier List

Aug 13 • 

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July 2025

A Tribute to Luke Farritor, American Hero

A fair-and-balanced companion to Bloomberg's slapdash article

Jul 31 • 

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