Title: Theory / Unimportant / Art / Œuvre / Novel / Scott Alexander

Title: UNIVERSAL LOVE, SAID THE CACTUS PERSON
Description: To test whether people in drug hallucination have real superpower, the protagonist asks them to factor the product of two huges prime number.
They repeat «universal love» «transcendant joy».
They use a metaphor, our world are people driving cars. They want to learn button to «leave the car», but noone can answer them, «leaving the car» makes no sens.
They answer that they can't factorize number until he is «out of the car», and his question is nonsens
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the-cactus-person/
Kind: Short Story

Title: In the balance
Description: A cursed artifact allow the hero to choose the state of the world. A lot of demon arrive and tell him what to do. Order, chaos, balance between them. Then meta demon arrive, with excess telling not to tell anything balanced, then a meta balance, and many level of meta, and infinite regression.
The hero choose first level balance to stop the deamon talking.
Thousand of year later, heroes don't understand why they search for balance, which seems a bad thing
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/12/in-the-balance
Kind: short story

Title: A MODERN MYTH
Description: Greek god in todays world.
Discover that zodiac sign determine what makes sacrifice important. It uses to be ares, then pisces. No its water.
Thanks to Athena's water, she become very powerful
Thanks to Prometheus, they find how to beat her. Has a side effect, a medicine destroying malaria also destroy eagles.
Two golden apples, Trump, who elects Miss Universe, decide who of the three godess he gives the apple to
Creators: SCOTT ALEXANDER
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In: slatestarcodex
Kind: Short story

Title: the demiurges older brother
Description: An AI, to ensure its existence precomitt that it will be at peace with all other AI capable of having the same reasonning. Furthermore, they won't influence any civilization which may evenutally create an AI.
A man ask earth's AI the reason of the Fermi Paradox. AI answer that, as god, it can protect human from before its existence.
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/21/repost-the-demiurges-older-brother/

Title: CHAMETZ
Description: Story of a jew vampire. A kind of jew try to escape by saying he is not kasher. In fact, he was walking to its home.
The vampire is not exactly vampire, so can still come
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/13/chametz/

Title: PARTIAL CREDIT
Description: Parody of an explorer, getting freed because he predict the sun eclipse. Except that it's a partial eclipse, so not really impressive. Finally, he want to be eaten to avoid the traffic of everyone leaving from the eclipse
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/13/chametz/

Title: A HISTORY OF THE SILMARILS IN THE FIFTH AGE
Description: Explanation of how the two left Silmarils are depicted in Pulp Fiction and belongs to santa claus, on the nose of is red-nosed reinder rudolph
Creators: Scott Alexander

Title: CURRENT AFFAIRS’ “SOME PUZZLES FOR LIBERTARIANS”, TREATED AS WRITING PROMPTS FOR SHORT STORIES
Description: Some newspaper tried to prove that libertarian makes no sens using questions to make it look silly, and answering itself.
The author wrote short stories showing how nonsensical those answer are, and that, to weak argument, you can answer weaker argument
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/21/current-affairs-some-puzzles-for-libertarians-treated-as-writing-prompts-for-short-stories/

Title: Should You Reverse Any Advice You Hear?
Description: Post explaining that most good advice are also bad advice for other people, and the ones hearing them is not always well aligned
Creators: Scott Alexander
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In: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/should-you-reverse-any-advice-you-hear/
Kind: Blog post