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. A ✔️ means the top node has been retweeted on @DoomLite™. See the bottom of this post for more notes. ↓
A Tweet Essay is never "finished". I may resume a thread if you comment on it and give me something new to work with.
🏆 Most Important 🏆
- Post-Nuclear Family Explained 🚀☢️👨👩👧👦 - #de_PNF - Also in a blog post. ✔️
- Ponzi Schemes of the Biden Era 😎⁴⁶ - #de_ponzi 2012-01-20 - Also in a blog post✔️
- The Economic "Big One" Is Coming 💣💥 - #de_BigOne - Also in a blog post. ✔️
- Account Introduction Pinned to Top - #de_Top ✔️
- My Hashtag Empire - #de_Hashtag ✔️
📝Reproduced in Blog
💰 Economics
- Ponzi Schemes of the Biden Era - #de_ponzi 2012-01-20 ✔️
- 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 ✔️
📈📉 Demographics
- Failure of Government Birth Incentives - #de_incentives 2012-01-25 Also a blog post ✔️
🤔 Applied Philosophy
- Irish Potato Famine: A Critique of Effective Altruism - #de_Potato ✔️
- Two Kinds of Altruism: Internal and External - #de_altruism ✔️
- Opposition to Antinatalism - #de_antianti ✔️
- Deaths of Despair/Effective Altruism - #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 ✔️
- Parental Burden: Why People Don't Want Kids - #de_burden 2012-01-24 ✔️
🗳️ Politics
- Trump Banned From Twitter - #de_Ban ✔️
- More on Trump's Twitter Ban - #rsp_250 2021-01-21.
- January 6 Capitol Riot - #de_Jan6 ✔️
- Rise of the Haredim in Israel - #de_haredim ✔️
- MAGA Idiots - #de_MAGAidiots - those who sacrificed their lives for Trump 2021-01-15
- Racism - #de_racism ✔️
- Immigration/Open Borders - #de_immigration ✔️
- Trump & Covid are not to blame for the economic collapse - #de_blame ✔️
🎭 Arts/Popular Culture
- Best Movie Robots - #de_robots
- Jake Angeli, the "Horned Hat Guy" on Jan. 6
- Cargo Cults of the South Pacific - 2021-01-22.
🛫 Travel/Advice
- Car Camping Advice - 2021-01-19 #de_carcamping
👶 Family/Babies
- "Just a Baby" app to connect with sperm donors 2021-01-15
- Questions About The Post-Nuclear Family to be answered in a blog post 2021-01-15 - #de_pnrqa
Recurring Features
Below are linked by keywords and are not in the same thread.
- On My Bucket List - Ignominious bucket list items
- Oxymoron Alert
- Language Police
- Songs Overanalyzed
- Word of the Day
- All my Topic Searches - #gpc_MyTopic
⚖️🗣️🎙 Responding to RSP
Some essays below may be duplicated above with different #de_ codes.
- Racism - #rsp_249 ✔️
- Consensual Cannibalism/Moral Limits of Markets - #rsp_247 ✔️
- Deaths of Despair/Effective Altruism - #rsp_246 ✔️
- Boomers vs. Millennials - #rsp_245
- Immigration/Open Borders - #rsp_243 ✔️
- Goodhart's Law - #rsp_240 ✔️
- Gender and the Brain - #rsp_239 ✔️
- Baumol Effect and Rising Prices - #rsp_236 ✔️
- Coding Culture - #rsp_233
- Long-Term Future - #rsp_215 ✔️
- Gopnik on Parenting - #rsp_207 ✔️
- Is Tech Getting Too Complex? - #rsp_167
- Microcredit - #rsp_136 ✔️
- 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
The above list is partially indexed on Twitter, via #dL_essays
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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{This blog post backed up to email: 1/16/21
