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creative writing (87) humor (48) community engagement (29) wordplay (12) puns (6)

Swifties 3: The Race Is Not To The Swifty

Scott Alexander presents 50 new 'Tom Swifties', a form of wordplay combining quotes with punning adverbs, in his third collection of these jokes.

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Oct 2, 2015 896 words 0 likes 116 comments Read Read
rationalist community (39) community building (22) anthropology (14) group dynamics (6) micronations (3) social structures (2)

A Cascade Of Dunbar Numbers

Scott Alexander discusses the challenges of community growth, relating his experiences with micronations and rationalist groups to theories about natural group size limits.

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Mar 5, 2015 1,560 words 0 likes 234 comments Read Read
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