HWFO Reading List April 2023

Compilation of articles, new and old, being discussed by the HWFO community

Herein, Haidt responds to some of the discussion around an article we linked last month:

Responses to comments on: Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Crisis

Followed by some charts and graphs discussing the same problem internationally:

The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 1: The Anglosphere

This post from Freddie inspired the Unified Theory of Wokeness HWFO post over the prior month:

Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means

A reader wrote this about criminal justice reform:

https://wayneboatwright.medium.com/criminal-justice-in-six-books-fcd444da8254

Scott Alexander dipped back into the fiction well for a moment and created this beauty:

Turing Test

Read this for the phrase “Crowdsourcing the Superego:”

https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/12/infidelity_and_other_taboos_me.html

How to use Bayes theorem to calculate your own Lab Leak Theory odds:

The Lab Leak Theory

One of my social groups liked this article, and another thought it was trash:

Homophobia is Heritable, too

The Reload chronicles more numbers of gun culture winning that war:

https://thereload.com/poll-americans-most-likely-to-respond-to-gun-violence-fears-with-training-or-weapons-purchases/

Here’s the breakdown of what the public blames for spree shootings:

• Mental health - 42%

• Access to firearms - 29%

• Social Media - 11%

• School problems - 7%

• Family problems - 6%

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/mental_health_leads_blame_list_for_mass_shootings

Matt Taibbi quits Twitter. This article is great if you can make it past the paywall:

Meet the Censored: Me?