This is the bi-weekly visible open thread (there are also hidden open threads twice a week you can reach through the Open Thread tab on the top of the page). Post about anything you want, but please try to avoid hot-button political and social topics. You can also talk at the SSC subreddit or the SSC Discord server – and also check out the SSC Podcast. Also:

1. Popular posts this week on the subreddit: Dormin111 reviews Hillbilly Elegy; werttrew reviews some of CS Lewis’ ideas (heavily related: Screwtape’s advice on tempting rationalists)

2. Comments of the week: Paul the Fossil shares his experiences from a lifetime in the environmentalist movement; andrewgillen shows off his web tool that lets you examine how the prices of different resource bundles have changed over different time periods.

3. I’m going to keep the newest-first comment order for another two weeks, to give everyone a chance to form an opinion. Then I’ll probably make a poll the next visible Open Thread on whether people want to keep it or switch back. I’ve heard some people say they want oldest-first for real posts and newest-first for Open Threads. This seems like a good idea to me but I don’t think WordPress natively supports having different comment orders on different posts. If that’s what we decide on, I might beg or commission one of you programmers to make me a plugin.