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. If the link is broken, please let me know and search for the given hashtag instead.
This is the definitive list of Tweet Essays but most of them are also listed on the Master List of Demographic Doom Resources
Notes: A ✔️ means the top node has been retweeted on @DoomLite™. A ✓ means this item has been added to the Master List. The date 2012-01-20 specifies the date the thread was started, but it could still be active. The hashtag (e.g. #de_ponzi) allows you to find the starting tweet without its address. A Tweet Essay is 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. ↓
🏆 Most Important 🏆
- Post-Nuclear Family Explained 🚀☢️👨👩👧👦 - #de_PNF - Also in a blog post. ✔️✓
- Ponzi Schemes of the Biden Era 😎⁴⁶ - #de_ponzi 2021-01-20 - Also in a blog post✔️✓
- Glenn's Personality Traits & History 👨🏻🦲 - #de_glenn 2012-01-31 -✔️
- My "Happily Homeless" Lifestyle - 🚫🏠 - #de_homeless 2021-02-27 ✔️
- Account Introduction Pinned to Top - #de_Top ✔️✓
- My Hashtag Empire - #de_Hashtag ✔️✓
- Twitter Pluses and Minuses - #de_TwitterPlusMinus - 2012-02-23 ✔️ How Twitter can make you a better or worse person.
📝Reproduced in Blog
💰 Economics
- The Economic "Big One" Is Coming 💣💥 - #de_BigOne - Also in a blog post. ✔️
- Ponzi Schemes of the Biden Era 😎⁴⁶ - #de_ponzi 2012-01-20 ✔️✓
- Funny Money: On Money Printing 🤣💰 - #de_funnymoney 2021-02-05 ✔️✓
- The Big Guys: Giant Monopolies That Rule Our Lives - #de_BigGuys 2021-03-01 ✔️
- Virus Lockdowns: A Policy Disaster? 🦠😷 - #de_Lockdown 2012-02-24 ✔️ - Yes, but...
- A Parable of Asset Values 🍎 - #de_apples - Blog Post ✔️✓
- Urban Planning: Is It Dead - #de_urban - Blog Post 2012-01-23 ✔️
- Keynes' Curse - #de_Keynes - “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” ✔️
- Tesla Doomwatch - #de_Tesla ✔️✓
- Baumol Effect and Rising Prices - #de_Baumol ✔️
- #My Topics Index Tweets on Economic Topics ➪ Tesla/Musk ✓
📈📉 Demographics
- China Birth Policy - #de_ChinaBirthPolicy 2012-02-25 ✔️ - as they try to reverse the One-Child Policy
- Failure of Government Birth Incentives - #de_incentives 2012-01-25 - Also in a blog post ✔️
- Parental Burden: Why People Don't Want Kids - #de_burden 2012-01-24 ✔️
- Rise of the Haredim in Israel - #de_haredim ✔️
🤔 Applied Philosophy/Psychology
- Irish Potato Famine: A Critique of Effective Altruism - #de_Potato ✔️
- Triagism: A Philosophy of Life Based on Medical Triage - #de_triagism ✔️
- Two Kinds of Altruism: Internal and External - #de_altruism ✔️
- Effective Altruism Charity X - #de_charityX
- Opposition to Antinatalism - #de_antianti ✔️
- Deaths of Despair/Effective Altruism (#RSP_246)- #de_angus ✔️
- Gender and the Brain - #de_gender ✔️
- Consensual Cannibalism/Moral Limits of Markets - #de_cannibalism ✔️
- Do bicycle helmets save lives? - #de_helmets 2012-01-24 ✔️
- My Topics - tweeted topic studies ⸻ 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
🗳️ Politics & Society
- Twitter Pluses and Minuses - #de_TwitterPlusMinus - 2012-02-23 ✔️ How Twitter can make you a better or worse person.
- Trump Banned From Twitter - #de_Ban ✔️
- More on Trump's Twitter Ban - #rsp_250 2021-01-21.
- January 6 Capitol Riot - #de_Jan6 ✔️
- Trump Voters: Can They Be Dissuaded? - #de_trumpvoters 2021-02-16 ✔️✓
- 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. ✔️
- Higher Education Meltdown - #de_highered 2021-02-12 ✔️
- Racism - #de_racism #rsp_249 ✔️
- Immigration/Open Borders - #de_immigration #rsp_243 ✔️
- Trump & Covid are not to blame for the economic collapse - #de_blame ✔️
- My Topics ⸻ Trump -
🎭 Arts/Popular Culture
- Best Movie Robots - #de_movierobots 2020-12-25 ✔️
- The Dancing Robots of Boston Dynamics - #dd_ai 2021-01-02 ✔️
- Jake Angeli, the "Horned Hat Guy" on Jan. 6
- Cargo Cults of the South Pacific - 2021-01-22 #de_cargo ✔️
🛫 Travel/Advice
- Car Camping Advice - 2021-01-19 #de_carcamping
- My "Happily Homeless" Lifestyle - 🚫🏠 - #de_homeless 2021-02-27 ✔️
- Twitter Cheats and Tips - 2021-02-08 #de_cheats ✔️
- San Lorenzo a Merse, Tuscany - 2021-02-07 #ge_ruffians ✔️
- Mt Olympus Resort, Wisconsin - 2021-03-01 #dd_usWI
👶 Family/Babies
- "Just a Baby" app connects women with sperm donors 2021-01-15 #de_justababy ✔️
- Questions About The Post-Nuclear Family to be answered in a blog post 2021-01-15 - #de_pnrqa
🦕 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
⚖️🗣️🎙 Responding to RSP
Some essays below may be duplicated above with different #de_ codes.
- 251: Billions of Americans 👎 - #rsp_251 - Best burn! 🔥
- 249: Racism - #rsp_249 ✔️
- 247: Consensual Cannibalism/Moral Limits of Markets - #rsp_247 ✔️
- 246: Deaths of Despair/Effective Altruism - #rsp_246 ✔️
- 245: Boomers vs. Millennials - #rsp_245
- 243: Immigration/Open Borders 👎 - #rsp_243 ✔️
- 240: Goodhart's Law 👍 - #rsp_240 ✔️
- 239: Gender and the Brain - #rsp_239 ✔️
- 236: Baumol Effect and Rising Prices - #rsp_236 ✔️
- 233: Coding Culture - #rsp_233
- 215: Long-Term Future - #rsp_215 ✔️
- 207: Gopnik on Parenting 👍 - #rsp_207 ✔️
- 167: Is Tech Getting Too Complex? - #rsp_167
- 136: Microcredit - #rsp_136 ✔️
- 78: IQ Testing / Myers-Briggs - #rsp_078 ✔️
- Long Now: Robot's Rebellion, etc - #jgv_longnow ✔️
- Can Rationality be Taught? - #de_rationality ✔️
- 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 -
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 proper header. 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").
- If #dd_TweetEssay and the #de_ tag don't appear in the tweeted link above, they appear in a quote-tweet for that tweet.
- 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.) 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 so—even years later—so 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.
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