Archive

2025-07-28 Steelmanning the Eruv
2025-06-16 If there were no journalism, how would we find out?
2025-04-11 The Domestic Product
2025-04-09 PTSD vs Moral Injury
2025-03-17 DOGE in context
2025-02-12 The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government
2025-02-02 Si No Se Puede
2025-01-29 Predation as Payment for Criticism
2025-01-28 Ethical Veganism is Wrong
2025-01-16 Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?
2025-01-02 Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism
2025-01-01 The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic
2024-11-08 Parliamentary and Other Powers
2024-09-08 Levels of Republicanism
2024-08-29 Systems of Bullshit Work
2024-08-27 Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency
2024-05-27 LLMs for language learning
2024-05-16 Gentrification and Nationalism
2023-12-19 Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation
2023-12-04 Why I am no longer anti-Trump
2023-10-06 Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir
2023-09-06 Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library
2023-08-12 There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.
2023-07-24 What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.
2022-12-07 Guilt, Shame, and Depravity
2022-11-21 It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.
2022-07-18 Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.
2022-06-02 Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics
2022-05-05 Preference Inversion
2021-12-25 The Debtors' Revolt
2021-11-26 How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers
2021-08-23 Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X
2021-08-13 Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis
2021-07-25 Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva
2021-07-20 Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?
2021-05-10 Normies vs Statistical Normality
2021-04-06 Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama
2021-04-05 Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment
2021-03-08 Suffering as Cybernetic Failure
2021-03-07 On Some Buddhist Teachings
2021-03-04 CPTSD and Attachment
2021-03-03 Jargon and Attachment
2021-03-02 Honey Butter and the Grain War
2021-03-01 Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD
2021-02-28 Self-Criticism vs Self-Blame
2021-02-26 Inner Ring as Adversary
2021-02-24 Floating into Awareness
2021-02-10 Who controls the vertical? Who controls the horizontal?
2021-02-07 Language, Power, and the Categorical Imperative
2021-02-02 The Trauma Coup
2020-12-24 Civil Law and Political Drama
2020-12-12 Childhood Memory
2020-09-13 D is for COVID
2020-09-01 The Logic of Pol Pot
2020-08-31 Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography
2020-08-30 To-Do Stress
2020-08-28 On Transgressive Coordination
2020-08-27 On Straussian Esoteric Readings
2020-08-26 What is Stockholm Syndrome?
2020-08-25 Against Conservative Liberalism
2020-08-24 Aphorisms from Twitter
2020-08-23 Reason as an Identity Group
2020-08-21 Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal
2020-08-20 The motivation to write
2020-06-07 Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates
2020-03-22 Can crimes be discussed literally?
2020-03-17 Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?
2020-03-10 When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations
2020-03-05 Simulacra and Subjectivity
2019-12-15 Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
2019-10-26 Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field
2019-07-12 Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique
2019-07-06 On street violence
2019-07-03 Blatant lies are the best kind!
2019-06-18 Reason isn't magic
2019-05-28 A drowning child is hard to find
2019-05-22 Xanadu riffs
2019-05-21 A War of Ants and Grasshoppers
2019-05-07 Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game
2019-05-06 Pecking Order and wings
2019-05-05 Blame games
2019-05-04 Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?
2019-05-03 Authoritarian empiricism
2019-05-03 Totalitarian ethical systems
2019-04-17 Commentary on Philosophy War
2019-04-10 Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra
2019-03-14 Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy
2018-11-19 MeToo is good
2018-11-15 Why I am no longer supporting REACH
2018-09-25 Moral differences in mediocristan
2018-09-20 Financial investment is just a symbolic representation of investment projected onto a low-dimensional space inside a control system run by the US government
2018-09-17 On proofs of the existence of God
2018-08-26 Zetetic explanation
2018-08-19 More on personal archaeology and archives
2018-07-26 Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room
2018-07-24 Model-building and scapegoating
2018-05-24 There is a war.
2018-05-18 Talents
2018-04-20 Oops Prize update
2018-04-19 Humans need places
2018-03-01 Kidneys, trade, sacredness, and space travel
2018-01-15 What strange and ancient things might we find beneath the ice?
2017-12-01 Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers
2017-12-01 Explicit content
2017-11-02 Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled
2017-10-24 Poets are intelligence assets
2017-10-18 Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis
2017-10-17 Defense against discourse
2017-10-16 On the construction of beacons
2017-09-29 Some things I learned about camping and other solitude-seeking activities
2017-09-28 On the fetishization of money in Galt’s Gulch
2017-09-26 Sabbath hard and go home
2017-09-23 Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)
2017-08-18 Request: Cabin [RESOLVED]
2017-08-05 Thank you for listening
2017-07-26 Taking integrity literally
2017-07-21 I'll pretend to ask, and you'll pretend to answer
2017-07-19 The order of the soul
2017-07-17 Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence
2017-06-24 Oops Prize
2017-05-23 Is Silicon Valley real?
2017-04-30 Bad intent is a disposition, not a feeling
2017-04-26 Actors and scribes, words and deeds
2017-04-21 Effective Altruism is self-recommending
2017-04-19 An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive
2017-04-03 OpenAI makes humanity less safe
2017-03-31 Against responsibility
2017-03-29 Dominance, care, and social touch
2017-03-15 New York culture
2017-03-14 Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science
2017-03-13 Bindings and assurances
2017-02-26 Humble Charlie
2017-02-24 Against neglectedness considerations
2017-02-14 GiveWell and the problem of partial funding
2017-02-03 The humility argument for honesty
2017-01-20 The Quaker and the Parselmouth
2017-01-13 Between honesty and perjury
2017-01-11 Guess culture screens for trying to cooperate
2017-01-06 Honesty, magic, and science
2017-01-04 Exploitation as a Turing test
2016-12-31 Automemorial
2016-12-30 Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale
2016-12-27 The engineer and the diplomat
2016-12-20 Improve comments by tagging claims
2016-12-13 Canons (What are they good for?)
2016-12-09 Be secretly wrong
2016-12-07 Mic-Ra-finance and the illusion of control
2016-12-06 On Philosophers Against Malaria
2016-11-30 This is not what the 21st century wanted to be doing with its anxiety.
2016-11-23 GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 6
2016-11-22 It's crying wolf all the way down
2016-11-19 Sample means, how do they work?
2016-11-13 Social vs objective respect
2016-11-11 On just not getting it
2016-11-10 Don't panic. Think.
2016-11-08 Authenticity vs factual accuracy
2016-11-07 2016 election endorsements and decisions
2016-11-04 Matching-donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest
2016-11-03 GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 5
2016-11-02 Vote-trading and personal honor
2016-11-01 On writing more
2016-10-31 GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 4
2016-10-28 Costs are not benefits
2016-10-27 GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 3
2016-10-22 GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 2
2016-10-18 It is not a scandal that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child onstage.
2016-10-13 GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 1
2016-10-12 Locker room talk
2016-10-05 Six principles of a truth-friendly discourse
2016-09-19 Frank Loesser and corruption in America
2016-09-08 Increase bottleneck throughput by shortening queues?
2016-08-31 Puppy love and cattachment theory.
2016-08-29 Minimum viable impact purchases
2016-08-17 Some excerpts from Catistotle's Kittycatean Ethics
2016-08-04 Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration
2016-08-03 Yell at Mars to call swans
2016-07-30 Why have my parents gotten wiser as I have gotten older?
2016-07-29 Effective Altruism is not a no-brainer
2016-07-26 Modeling intelligence as a project-specific factor of production
2016-06-29 PSA on outing
2016-06-27 Copernican revolutions, lordship, and bondage
2016-06-24 Group cognition
2016-06-22 Projects of philosophers
2016-06-20 Backwards and in feels
2016-06-17 Solve your problems by fantasizing
2016-06-15 Emotional qualia are mediated by somatic responses
2016-06-13 Reading, writing, and thinking, with your brain
2016-06-10 Exploding the sociability binary
2016-06-08 Admonition
2016-06-06 Review: Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat
2016-06-03 Physical empathy and channels of communication
2016-06-01 Fixin' my fiction addiction
2016-05-30 Skipping developmental levels
2016-05-27 Extraversion, object permanence, and investing in relationships
2016-05-25 On the display of negative emotions
2016-05-24 Paths to singleton: a hierarchical conceptual framework
2016-05-23 Confutatis and cold comfort
2016-05-20 Shape the query
2016-05-18 What is a conceptual hierarchy?
2016-05-17 Update 8: Prioritization, finishing, inventories, and working memory
2016-05-16 Make more disjunctions explicit
2016-04-29 Authenticity and instant readouts
2016-04-29 Update 7: conceptual vocabulary, writing, feedback, lit review
2016-04-27 Safety in numbers
2016-04-25 My life so far: motives and morals
2016-04-22 Idolatry taboo as integrity constraint
2016-04-20 Heterosociality hypotheses
2016-04-18 Boundaries
2016-04-08 Update 6: Working on a research hierarchy
2016-04-06 Update 5: writing, organizing my research
2016-03-30 Update 4: Refining the two-factor economic model of AI takeoff
2016-03-30 On purpose alone
2016-03-29 Update 3: Diligence vs obsession, and a long (overdue) update
2016-03-28 Lego my Ego
2016-03-22 Steve Jobs and the Impossibility of Parents
2016-03-20 A still small voice: a method for integrity
2016-03-15 Update 1: Research Agenda, Paths to AI
2016-03-15 Update 2: Shortest paths, Arrogance
2016-03-14 My new project: model the world
2016-03-10 Nature and Nature's Bod: Attachment, Desire, Empathy Overload, and Embodiment
2016-01-26 Anxiety, heart attack, or stroke?
2016-01-19 Soma: my best friends have bodies
2016-01-15 Model-building about desire - a worked example
2016-01-06 Social trade
2015-12-17 The Apgar of crushes
2015-11-21 Three puzzles
2015-11-17 The predator in the herd
2015-11-16 Lupin around again: responses to the Werewolf model
2015-11-15 Connections and alliances
2015-11-14 Be Faire
2015-11-13 How to ride a skrode
2015-11-12 Un gioco solido che aumenti per l'occasione
2015-11-11 Fragment of an Oz Ymandias
2015-11-10 Melusine
2015-11-09 An offer
2015-11-07 Two free verse poems in the bitter aesthetic
2015-11-04 Tempted to help
2015-11-02 Firestones
2015-10-26 The biggest sensation that I have ever seen
2015-10-18 The cost of cryopreservation
2015-10-17 The performance of pain as a political tactic
2015-10-17 The Phoenix and the Skroderider
2015-10-09 True friendship is being counterfactually hugged by vampires
2015-10-01 Statusphere
2015-09-28 Looking at your story, looking at the world
2015-09-22 Verbal communication
2015-09-20 Vision, Hearing, and Autism-Like Symptoms
2015-09-18 Iterated self-improvement - a worked example
2015-09-14 Werewolf feelings
2015-09-05 Why I ask for feedback
2015-07-08 On doing more good than war is bad
2015-07-06 On Nature
2015-07-05 How I travel
2015-06-01 How to find a job like a privileged person with lots of options
2015-05-30 The Art is Like a Well-Ordered Ship
2015-05-23 Say it wrong first
2015-05-03 The top six reasons why I am procrastinating
2015-02-28 Spock
2015-01-17 Elas, elas, that great city!
2014-11-30 Want to Summon Less Animal Suffering?
2014-11-13 We Tried a Thing to Affect Policy
2014-10-12 Orders of Doom
2014-10-07 Is Veganism Correct?
2014-10-04 An Appointment With Death
2014-10-04 The Meaning of Kol Nidre
2014-09-19 Georg^^^Georg
2014-09-15 Should You Get Therapy?
2014-09-08 doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory
2014-09-06 Is It Unfair that Social Workers are Underpaid?
2014-09-04 For You
2014-09-04 Listening Nonjudgmentally
2014-09-03 Birthday Wish
2014-08-20 Whatever Is Not Best Is Forbidden
2014-08-10 Yay So-Called Redundancy
2014-08-09 Reinforcement
2014-08-08 Nobody Knows What It's Like
2014-08-06 I So Curious
2014-06-15 Communication From Another Dimension
2014-06-14 F-ing Statistics, How Do They Work?
2014-06-13 Gel Culture: No Boots
2014-06-11 National Identities
2014-05-23 Not Enough About Too Much
2014-05-07 Not even a real links post, just a blatant ad
2014-05-07 Why I Am Not Celebrating International Tell Your Crush Day
2014-04-29 Cauliflower Bread, Twice Attempted
2014-04-29 Positive Queries - How Fetching
2014-04-29 Short Pieces - Two Stories and an Inspiration
2014-04-24 A Special Discount Just For You, and The Importance of Lost Opportunities
2014-04-24 Civics and Seamonsters, Calvin and Hobbes
2014-04-19 Cherry Awesomes in the Snow
2014-04-15 A Plus, Is Greedy
2014-04-10 The Appearances and The Things Themselves
2014-03-19 Null Results
2014-02-09 Wasted Talent: Parody
2014-02-03 Ask Ben: Seafood in DC
2014-01-25 Specific Techniques for Inclusion
2014-01-15 Pay It Again, Sam
2014-01-14 Wall, Staircase, Hallway: Obstacles Are Scary
2014-01-13 Don't Worry, Be Canny
2014-01-12 Pay Today or Pay More Tomorrow
2013-12-30 Fire, Telepathy, Bandwidth
2013-12-27 Doubt, Science, and Magical Creatures
2013-12-26 CFAR - Second Impression and a Bleg
2013-12-26 Sharks are Forever
2013-12-16 Bye Grandma
2013-12-13 Give Smart, Help More
2013-12-11 I'm Sorry but I Kant Let You Do That
2013-12-11 Two Tones, One Mouth
2013-12-07 Handshakes. What's New?
2013-12-06 Sacrificial Rituals
2013-11-27 Can God Make a Rock So Big He Can't Pick it Up? Or, Why Does My Calculus Textbook Start With This Chapter About Unions and Intersections?
2013-11-23 Rationality Cocktails
2013-11-08 Words and Techniques
2013-11-07 Wait vs Interrupt Culture
2013-11-05 What Nietzsche Said to Me
2013-11-04 A First Impression Review of the CFAR NY Workshop
2013-09-18 Actually, you haven't adjusted your expectations.
2013-09-17 Dreamloss
2013-07-29 Leveling Up
2013-07-28 Last night I dreamt I lost a tooth.
2013-07-01 Bad at Math
2013-07-01 Why Buy Flowers
2013-06-29 Three Ways Not to Buy a Computer
2013-05-09 Zeugma and Syllepsis