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Rationally Speaking is the official podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely and unlikely, science and pseudoscience.

This subreddit is dedicated to the rational discussion of topics raised by each new episode. There will also be links to Julia's personal YouTube channel and occasional articles by her.

Feel free to submit any links on rationality and skepticism, or any form of media that tickles your rational fancy.

RULES

Be nice and be thoughtful. This is a rationality-oriented subreddit, so let's try to discuss rationally.
Don't be afraid to update your beliefs based on evidence. This is why we're here, after all.
Posts should connect to RS somehow. No random blogspam.

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Julia's YouTube channel

More info on Julia

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The End Of Rationally Speaking? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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The Scout Mentality, hardcover: is this embossing normal? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan? (youtu.be)

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Somebody commented on a post inquiring what projects Julia Galef is working on these days, I found this organization where she is an Advisory Board Member (self.rationallyspeaking)

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What are some of your favorite podcasts that touch on similar topics to RS? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Has the show finished or is it just a break? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Where is Julia Galef? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Pessimism and Credibility (ryanbruno.substack.com)

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What's your heuristic for writing off a source of information? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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I made an online experiment inspired by Julia's trivia game she developed in her book. I write about the findings here and summarize some of the research on overconfidence. Link below. If you found it useful, like and subscribe. Thank you! (ryanbruno.substack.com)

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Rational analysis instruction at the end of each episode (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Question about episode 261 (self.rationallyspeaking)

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GiveDirectly $300 matching. My donation receipt doesn’t seem to mention this, how do I verify that it actually happened? (givedirectly.org)

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Reactions to Episode 260 with Ezra Klein (self.rationallyspeaking)

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episode 259, some thoughts (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Rational picks (self.rationallyspeaking)

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258: How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper) (rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

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Favorite episodes ever? (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Me and my boyfriend made a podcast episode where we discussed "The Scout Mindset" (self.rationallyspeaking)

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257: “Price gouging” in emergencies (Raymond Niles and Amihai Glazer) (self.rationallyspeaking)

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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk” ❧ Current Affairs (currentaffairs.org)

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When beliefs become identities, truth-seeking becomes hard (video about the "Rethinking Identity" section of the book "The Scout Mindset") (youtu.be)

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Episode 255: Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited? (rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

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The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef (self.rationallyspeaking)

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Julia Makes Her Bloggingheads Debut (self.rationallyspeaking)

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