Below is a master index of all my known Tweet Essays on @DemographicDoom and @BadDalaiLama, starting in December 2021 and going back as far as I can. Each link below leads to the top-node tweet of the series.
βͺIf coming here from Twitter...
- Glenn's Home Page: Glenn-Campbell.com
- Demographic Doom: DemographicDoom.com
- See separate index for Tweet Albums πΉπ·
Notes: A β means this index has been added to the thread, along with a link to a Twitter index (and confirming added to DoomLite). The date 2012-01-20 specifies the date the thread was started (may still be active). The hashtag (e.g. #de_ponzi) allows you to find the starting tweet without its address. π means the thread is now ended (but still useful). Most Tweet Essays are never "finished", only abandoned. I may resume a thread if you comment on it and give me something new to respond to. See the bottom of this post for more notes. β
π Most Important π
- Post-Nuclear Family Explained πβ’οΈπ¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ - #de_PNF - Also in a blog post. βοΈβ
- Ponzi Schemes of the Biden Era πβ΄βΆ - #de_ponzi 2021-01-20 - Also in a blog postβοΈβ
- Glenn's Personality Traits & History π¨π»β𦲠- #de_glenn 2021-01-31 -βοΈ
- My "Happily Homeless" Lifestyle - π«π - #de_homeless 2021-02-27 βοΈ
- Account Introduction Pinned to Top - #de_Top βοΈβ
- My Hashtag Empire - #de_Hashtag βοΈβ
- My Lymphoma Cancer Treatment - #de_cancer 2021-03-07 βοΈ
- Twitter Pluses and Minuses - #de_TwitterPlusMinus - 2012-02-23 βοΈ How Twitter can make you a better or worse person.
πReproduced in Blog
π° Economics
- Funny Money: The Explosion of Government Debt & Money Printing π€£π° - 2021-02-05 #de_funnymoney
- The Coming Stock Market Crash ππ₯ - 2021-03-15 #de_stocks
- The Economic "Big One" Is Coming π£π₯ - 2021-01-16 #de_BigOne βπ - Also in a blog post.
- Problems with the Biden Stimulus - 2021-03-13 #de_Biden
- Ponzi Schemes of the Biden Era πβ΄βΆ - 2012-01-20 #de_ponzi βπ
- Infrastructure Apocalypse π - #de_infrastructure 2021-03-04
- The Big Guys: Giant Monopolies That Rule Our Lives - #de_BigGuys 2021-03-01
- Virus Lockdowns: A Policy Disaster? π¦ π· - #de_Lockdown 2012-02-24 - Yes, but...
- A Parable of Asset Values π - #de_apples - Blog Post
- Urban Planning: Is It Dead - #de_urban - Blog Post 2012-01-23
- Keynes' Curse - #de_Keynes - βMarkets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.β
- Tesla Doomwatch - #de_Tesla
- Baumol Effect and Rising Prices - #de_Baumol
- #My Topics Index Tweets on Economic Topics βͺ Tesla/Musk
ππ Demographics
- Life Extension: Is It Possible? Dangerous? - #de_lifeextension #rsp_253 2021-03-06 βοΈ
- China Birth Policy - #de_ChinaBirthPolicy 2021-02-25 βοΈ - as they try to reverse the One-Child Policy
- Failure of Government Birth Incentives - #de_incentives 2021-01-25 - Also in a blog post βοΈ
- Parental Burden: Why People Don't Want Kids - #de_burden 2021-01-24 βοΈ
- Rise of the Haredim in Israel - #de_haredim βοΈ
πβ’οΈπ¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ Post-Nuclear Family
- Post-Nuclear Family Explained πβ’οΈπ¨βπ©βπ§βπ¦ - #de_PNF - Also in a blog post. βοΈβ
- Parenting PhilosophyβAs Applied to the Post-Nuclear Family - #de_Parenting 2021-03-07 βοΈ
π€ Applied Philosophy/Psychology
- Irish Potato Famine: A Critique of Effective Altruism - #de_Potato βοΈ
- Rationalism Debunked By Existentialism - #de_rationalism 2021-03-09 βοΈ
- Triagism: A Philosophy of Life Based on Medical Triage - #de_triagism βοΈ
- Why Criticism on Twitter Has Little Effect - #de_EchoChamber 2021-03-11 βοΈ
- Two Kinds of Altruism: Internal and External - #de_altruism βοΈ
- Effective Altruism Charity X - #de_charityX
- Opposition to Antinatalism - #de_antianti βοΈ
- Deaths of Despair/Effective Altruism (#RSP_246) - #de_angus βοΈ
- Gender and the Brain - #de_gender βοΈ
- Consensual Cannibalism/Moral Limits of Markets - #de_cannibalism βοΈ
- Do bicycle helmets save lives? - #de_helmets 2012-01-24 βοΈ
- My Topics - tweeted topic studies βΈ» The Handicap Principle - Darwin/evolution/genetics - Brain/Cognition - Existentialism - Babies - Occam's Razor - Quantum Physics - Sex - Religion - Personality - Addiction - Stockholm Syndrome - Sunk Cost Fallacy - Depression - Narcissism - Paranoia - Stupidity - Suicide - Titanic - Schadenfreude
π³οΈ Politics & Society
- Twitter Pluses and Minuses - #de_TwitterPlusMinus - 2012-02-23 βοΈ How Twitter can make you a better or worse person.
- Trump Banned From Twitter - #de_Ban βοΈ
- More on Trump's Twitter Ban - #rsp_250 2021-01-21.
- January 6 Capitol Riot - #de_Jan6 βοΈ
- Trump Voters: Can They Be Dissuaded? - #de_trumpvoters 2021-02-16 βοΈβ
- MAGA Idiots - #de_MAGAidiots - those who sacrificed their lives for Trump 2021-01-15
- The Gender Bias Conundrum - #de_bias 2021-02-03 - Gender bias is unsolvable because any solution requires gender bias. βοΈ
- Higher Education Meltdown - #de_highered 2021-02-12 βοΈ
- Racism - #de_racism #rsp_249 βοΈ
- Immigration/Open Borders - #de_immigration #rsp_243 βοΈ
- Trump & Covid are not to blame for the economic collapse - #de_blame βοΈ
- My Topics βΈ» Trump -
π Arts/Popular Culture
- Best Movie Robots - #de_movierobots 2020-12-25 βοΈ
- The Dancing Robots of Boston Dynamics - #dd_ai 2021-01-02 βοΈ
- Jake Angeli, the "Horned Hat Guy" on Jan. 6
- Cargo Cults of the South Pacific - 2021-01-22 #de_cargo βοΈ
π« Travel/Advice
- Car Camping Advice - 2021-01-19 #de_carcamping
- My "Happily Homeless" Lifestyle - π«π - #de_homeless 2021-02-27 βοΈ
- Travel Hacks and Discoveries - #de_TravelHacks 2021-03-14 βοΈ
- Twitter Cheats and Tips - #de_cheats 2021-02-08 βοΈ
π·πΉ Photo/Video Series
- See separate index for Tweet Albums
- π Master Index - #de_AlbumIndex 2021-03-20 βοΈ
π Personal History
- Glenn's Personality Traits & History π¨π»β𦲠- #de_glenn 2021-01-31 -βοΈ
- My Lymphoma Cancer Treatment π- #de_cancer 2021-03-07 βοΈ
- My "Happily Homeless" Lifestyle - π«π - #de_homeless 2021-02-27 βοΈ
πΆ Family/Babies
- "Just a Baby" app connects women with sperm donors 2021-01-15 #de_justababy βοΈ
- Questions About The Post-Nuclear Family to be answered in a blog post 2021-01-15 - #de_pnrqa
π¦ Prehistoric Tweet Series
Tweet series prior to 2020, where tweets aren't linked together.
- Transition from Childhood - #de_ChildhoodTransition 2011-03-04
Recurring Features
Below are linked by keywords and are not in the same thread.
- On My Bucket List - Ignominious bucket list items
- Songs Overanalyzed
- Oxymoron Alert
- Language Police
- Word of the Day
Other Topic Searches
- All my Topic Searches - #gpc_MyTopic
- Highlighted in a tweet: Monsters - Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Cancer
- Direct Search
βοΈπ£οΈπ Responding to RSP
Some essays below may be duplicated above with different #de_ codes.
- 255:
- 254:
- 253: Vitalik Buterin: Life Extension, Prediction Markets, etc. - #rsp_253 2021-03-09
- 252:
- 251: Billions of Americans π - #rsp_251 - Best burn! π₯
- 250:
- 249: Racism - #rsp_249 βοΈ
- 247: Consensual Cannibalism/Moral Limits of Markets - #rsp_247 βοΈ
- 246: Deaths of Despair/Effective Altruism - #rsp_246 βοΈ CβHββNOβ
- 245: Boomers vs. Millennials - #rsp_245
- 243: Immigration/Open Borders π - #rsp_243 βοΈ
- 240: Goodhart's Law π - #rsp_240 βοΈ
- 239: Gender and the Brain - #rsp_239 βοΈ
- 236: Baumol Effect and Rising Prices - #rsp_236 βοΈ
- 233: Coding Culture - #rsp_233
- 215: Long-Term Future - #rsp_215 βοΈ
- 207: Gopnik on Parenting π - #rsp_207 βοΈ
- 167: Is Tech Getting Too Complex? - #rsp_167
- 136: Microcredit - #rsp_136 βοΈ
- 78: IQ Testing / Myers-Briggs - #rsp_078 βοΈ
- Galef Interviewed by Wright on Rationalism - #jgv_wright 2021-03-19
- Long Now: Robot's Rebellion, etc - #jgv_longnow βοΈ
- Can Rationality be Taught? - #de_rationality βοΈ
- Imperfect Charity - #jgv_charity
- Brain is Not AI
- Advice for Fiction Writers
- Why Are Moral Philosophers Immoral
- Are Kids Natural Scientists?
- How To Criticize - #de_criticize #jgv_criticize
- The Blindness of Experts - #jgv_experts
- Motivated Reasoning - #jgv_ted #de_motivated
- Sunk Cost Fallacy -
- The Repugnant Conclusion - #jgv_repugnant
- Problems with Rationalism & Effective Altruism - 2021-02-14 -
- Responding to an Article on Rationalism - 2021-02-15 -
- Rationalists in Flatland - 2021-02-19 -
- Skills of the Military Scout - 2021-02-20 -
- Every Trail Has A Purpose - 2021-03-23
The above list is the most comprehensive available. #dd_TweetEssay covers many but not all of them. #dL_essays is no longer maintained.
Notes On My Tweet Essays
- Sometimes I know when I'm going to start an essay. Other times, they just evolve organically and I go with it. If I know I'm creating an essay, I start off with the β¦ Proper Header β¦. If it evolved organically, I add the header later by quote-tweeting the top of the thread.
- All Tweet Essays are tagged with #dd_TweetEssay on the top node only (only once for each essay). The top node also contains a unique hashtag starting with #de_ (for "doom essay"). All Tweet Albums, consisting mainly of photos and videos, are tagged with #gpc_TweetAlbum but are still labeled with #de_
- If #dd_TweetEssayοΌ#gpc_TweetAlbum and the #de_ tag don't appear in the tweeted link above, they appear in a quote-tweet for that tweet.
- Every entry in the list above includes a hashtag so that you can find the header node even if you have only a printed or screenshot version of this index. (I regularly back up this index on Twitter at #dd_BlogBackup)
- The only firm rule of Tweet Essays is that I can't "break the chain". Once a tweet is added and another is added after it, I can't delete the first tweet. I have to live with it forever. (However, if a tweet is the last post on the thread, I can delete and repost it as many times as I want, and I might go back to rewrite the tweet before that.) The fact the each tweet in the chain is permanent and unchangeable has a profound effect on how I write.
- I may add more posts to a Tweet Essay whenever I am inspired to do soβeven years laterβso no essay is ever "finished".
- A Tweet Essay is usually hierarchical, starting with the most important information first and drilling down to the details.
- My first use of the #dd_TweetEssay hashtag was 4 July 2020, but I didn't start using it comprehensively until 2021. Old tweet threads will be repackaged as Tweet Essays and retweeted to @DoomLite as I rediscover them.
- If any link above is broken, please let me know. (As a fail-safe alternative, search for the given hashtag instead.)
- If you would like me to resume a particular thread, feel free to comment on any tweet in it. If you make a good point or ask a good question, it may prompt me to return to the subject.
- I would want to turn each of these Tweet Essays into a blog entry, like I did for The Post-Nuclear Family Explained and six others at the top of this list. Unfortunately, the transcription process is just too time-consuming. If you want to turn any of these Tweet Essays into a more readable format on your own blog or website, you have my blessings. You don't need my permission, so long as you follow these rules:
- Reproduce the tweets as accurately as you can, including emoji, links and images. (See my six existing examples above for ideas.)
- Give me appropriate credit and include in your post a link to the top node of original Tweet Essay.
- On Twitter, add a comment on my top node with a link to your blog entry.
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