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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Who Killed Common Law?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/who-killed-common-law/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/who-killed-common-law/"/>
        <updated>2026-04-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Who Killed Common Law?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Telescopes Need Good Lenses]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/telescopes-need-good-lenses/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/telescopes-need-good-lenses/"/>
        <updated>2026-04-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Telescopes Need Good Lenses]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Corner-Stone]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/corner-stone/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/corner-stone/"/>
        <updated>2026-04-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Corner-Stone]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Socrates is Mortal]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/socrates-is-mortal/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/socrates-is-mortal/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Socrates is Mortal]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/fever-symptom-glycine-deficiency/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/fever-symptom-glycine-deficiency/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Does Hebrew Have Verbs?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/spinoza-grammar/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/spinoza-grammar/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Does Hebrew Have Verbs?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Compradorization]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/compradorization/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/compradorization/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Compradorization]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ideologies Embed Taboos Against Common Knowledge Formation: a Case Study with LLMs]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/taboo-common-knowledge/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/taboo-common-knowledge/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ideologies Embed Taboos Against Common Knowledge Formation: a Case Study with LLMs]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Statisticism: How Cluster-Thinking About Data Creates Blind Spots]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/statisticism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/statisticism/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Statisticism: How Cluster-Thinking About Data Creates Blind Spots]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/murder-medicine-post/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/murder-medicine-post/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Is GDP a Kind of Factory?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/solow-convergence-land-capital/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/solow-convergence-land-capital/"/>
        <updated>2026-03-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Is GDP a Kind of Factory?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Steelmanning the Eruv]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/steelmanning-the-eruv/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/steelmanning-the-eruv/"/>
        <updated>2025-07-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Steelmanning the Eruv]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[If there were no journalism, how would we find out?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/if-there-were-no-journalism-how-would-we-find-out/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/if-there-were-no-journalism-how-would-we-find-out/"/>
        <updated>2025-06-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[If there were no journalism, how would we find out?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Domestic Product]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-domestic-product/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-domestic-product/"/>
        <updated>2025-04-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Domestic Product]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[PTSD vs Moral Injury]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ptsd-vs-moral-injury/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ptsd-vs-moral-injury/"/>
        <updated>2025-04-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[PTSD vs Moral Injury]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[DOGE in context]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/doge-in-context/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/doge-in-context/"/>
        <updated>2025-03-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[DOGE in context]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-administrative-procedures-act-reconstituted-the-us-government/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-administrative-procedures-act-reconstituted-the-us-government/"/>
        <updated>2025-02-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Si No Se Puede]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/si-no-se-puede/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/si-no-se-puede/"/>
        <updated>2025-02-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Si No Se Puede]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Predation as Payment for Criticism]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/predation-as-payment-for-criticism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/predation-as-payment-for-criticism/"/>
        <updated>2025-01-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Predation as Payment for Criticism]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ethical Veganism is Wrong]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ethical-veganism-is-wrong/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ethical-veganism-is-wrong/"/>
        <updated>2025-01-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ethical Veganism is Wrong]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-techno-saints-help-us-cooperate-with-cathars/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-techno-saints-help-us-cooperate-with-cathars/"/>
        <updated>2025-01-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/marxism-as-priestly-strategy-communism-as-national-calvinism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/marxism-as-priestly-strategy-communism-as-national-calvinism/"/>
        <updated>2025-01-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-drama-of-the-hegelian-dialectic/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-drama-of-the-hegelian-dialectic/"/>
        <updated>2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Parliamentary and Other Powers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/parliamentary-and-other-powers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/parliamentary-and-other-powers/"/>
        <updated>2024-11-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Parliamentary and Other Powers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Levels of Republicanism]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/levels-of-republicanism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/levels-of-republicanism/"/>
        <updated>2024-09-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Levels of Republicanism]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Systems of Bullshit Work]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/many-jobs-are-wasteful-in-aggregate/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/many-jobs-are-wasteful-in-aggregate/"/>
        <updated>2024-08-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Systems of Bullshit Work]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/calvinism-as-a-theory-of-recovered-high-trust-agency/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/calvinism-as-a-theory-of-recovered-high-trust-agency/"/>
        <updated>2024-08-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[LLMs for language learning]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/llms-for-language-learning/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/llms-for-language-learning/"/>
        <updated>2024-05-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[LLMs for language learning]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Gentrification and Nationalism]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/gentrification-and-nationalism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/gentrification-and-nationalism/"/>
        <updated>2024-05-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Gentrification and Nationalism]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/discursive-warfare-and-faction-formation/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/discursive-warfare-and-faction-formation/"/>
        <updated>2023-12-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why I am no longer anti-Trump]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-no-longer-anti-trump/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-no-longer-anti-trump/"/>
        <updated>2023-12-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why I am no longer anti-Trump]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/happy-birthday-to-my-firstborn-baby-boy-a-memoir/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/happy-birthday-to-my-firstborn-baby-boy-a-memoir/"/>
        <updated>2023-10-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/some-casual-thoughts-on-forming-an-educational-library/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/some-casual-thoughts-on-forming-an-educational-library/"/>
        <updated>2023-09-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-seems-to-be-a-market-failure-in-cultivating-childrens-agency/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-seems-to-be-a-market-failure-in-cultivating-childrens-agency/"/>
        <updated>2023-08-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-is-a-republic-a-roman-aristocratic-perspective/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-is-a-republic-a-roman-aristocratic-perspective/"/>
        <updated>2023-07-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Guilt, Shame, and Depravity]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/guilt-shame-and-depravity/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/guilt-shame-and-depravity/"/>
        <updated>2022-12-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Guilt, Shame, and Depravity]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/it-is-immoral-to-hate-the-player-but-decline-to-investigate-the-game/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/it-is-immoral-to-hate-the-player-but-decline-to-investigate-the-game/"/>
        <updated>2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oppression-and-production-are-competing-explanations-for-wealth-inequality/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oppression-and-production-are-competing-explanations-for-wealth-inequality/"/>
        <updated>2022-07-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/parkinsons-law-ideology-statistics/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/parkinsons-law-ideology-statistics/"/>
        <updated>2022-06-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Preference Inversion]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/preference-inversion/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/preference-inversion/"/>
        <updated>2022-05-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Preference Inversion]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Debtors' Revolt]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-debtors-revolt/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-debtors-revolt/"/>
        <updated>2021-12-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Debtors' Revolt]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-interpret-vitamin-d-dosage-using-numbers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-interpret-vitamin-d-dosage-using-numbers/"/>
        <updated>2021-11-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/notes-on-the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x-2/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/notes-on-the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x-2/"/>
        <updated>2021-08-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ivermectin-looks-good-for-covid-19-prophylaxis/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ivermectin-looks-good-for-covid-19-prophylaxis/"/>
        <updated>2021-08-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dr-fauci-as-machiavellian-boddhisattva/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dr-fauci-as-machiavellian-boddhisattva/"/>
        <updated>2021-07-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-double-dip-vaccines/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-double-dip-vaccines/"/>
        <updated>2021-07-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Normies vs Statistical Normality]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/normies-vs-statistical-normality/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/normies-vs-statistical-normality/"/>
        <updated>2021-05-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Normies vs Statistical Normality]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/debt-submission-and-the-technical-definition-of-drama/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/debt-submission-and-the-technical-definition-of-drama/"/>
        <updated>2021-04-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/moral-mazes-as-transformative-treatment/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/moral-mazes-as-transformative-treatment/"/>
        <updated>2021-04-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Suffering as Cybernetic Failure]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/suffering-as-cybernetic-failure/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/suffering-as-cybernetic-failure/"/>
        <updated>2021-03-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Suffering as Cybernetic Failure]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On Some Buddhist Teachings]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-some-buddhist-teachings/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-some-buddhist-teachings/"/>
        <updated>2021-03-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Some Buddhist Teachings]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[CPTSD and Attachment]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cptsd-and-attachment/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cptsd-and-attachment/"/>
        <updated>2021-03-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[CPTSD and Attachment]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Jargon and Attachment]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/jargon-and-attachment/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/jargon-and-attachment/"/>
        <updated>2021-03-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Jargon and Attachment]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Honey Butter and the Grain War]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honey-butter-grain-war/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honey-butter-grain-war/"/>
        <updated>2021-03-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Honey Butter and the Grain War]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pete-walkers-model-of-cptsd/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pete-walkers-model-of-cptsd/"/>
        <updated>2021-03-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Pete Walker's Model of CPTSD]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Self-Criticism vs Self-Blame]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/self-criticism-vs-self-blame/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/self-criticism-vs-self-blame/"/>
        <updated>2021-02-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Self-Criticism vs Self-Blame]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Inner Ring as Adversary]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/inner-ring-as-adversary/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/inner-ring-as-adversary/"/>
        <updated>2021-02-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Inner Ring as Adversary]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Floating into Awareness]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/floating-into-consciousness/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/floating-into-consciousness/"/>
        <updated>2021-02-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Floating into Awareness]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Who controls the vertical? Who controls the horizontal?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/who-controls-the-vertical-who-controls-the-horizontal/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/who-controls-the-vertical-who-controls-the-horizontal/"/>
        <updated>2021-02-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Who controls the vertical? Who controls the horizontal?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Language, Power, and the Categorical Imperative]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/language-power-and-the-categorical-imperative/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/language-power-and-the-categorical-imperative/"/>
        <updated>2021-02-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Language, Power, and the Categorical Imperative]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Trauma Coup]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-trauma-coup/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-trauma-coup/"/>
        <updated>2021-02-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Trauma Coup]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Civil Law and Political Drama]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/civil-law-and-political-drama/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/civil-law-and-political-drama/"/>
        <updated>2020-12-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Civil Law and Political Drama]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Childhood Memory]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/childhood-memory/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/childhood-memory/"/>
        <updated>2020-12-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Childhood Memory]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[D is for COVID]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/d-is-for-covid/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/d-is-for-covid/"/>
        <updated>2020-09-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[D is for COVID]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Logic of Pol Pot]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-logic-of-pol-pot/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-logic-of-pol-pot/"/>
        <updated>2020-09-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Logic of Pol Pot]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/compassionate-defetishization-by-mindfully-viewing-pornography/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/compassionate-defetishization-by-mindfully-viewing-pornography/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-31T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Compassionate Defetishization by Mindfully Viewing Pornography]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[To-Do Stress]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/to-do-stress/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/to-do-stress/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[To-Do Stress]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On Transgressive Coordination]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-transgressive-coordination/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-transgressive-coordination/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Transgressive Coordination]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On Straussian Esoteric Readings]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-straussian-esoteric-readings/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-straussian-esoteric-readings/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Straussian Esoteric Readings]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[What is Stockholm Syndrome?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-is-stockholm-syndrome/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-is-stockholm-syndrome/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What is Stockholm Syndrome?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Against Conservative Liberalism]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-conservative-liberalism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-conservative-liberalism/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Against Conservative Liberalism]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Aphorisms from Twitter]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/aphorisms-from-twitter/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/aphorisms-from-twitter/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Aphorisms from Twitter]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Reason as an Identity Group]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reason-as-a-faction/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reason-as-a-faction/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Reason as an Identity Group]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bob-the-builder-and-the-neo-puritan-deal/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bob-the-builder-and-the-neo-puritan-deal/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bob the Builder, and the Neo-Puritan Deal]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The motivation to write]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-motivation-to-write/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-motivation-to-write/"/>
        <updated>2020-08-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The motivation to write]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/estimating-covid-19-mortality-rates/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/estimating-covid-19-mortality-rates/"/>
        <updated>2020-06-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Can crimes be discussed literally?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-crimes-be-discussed-literally/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-crimes-be-discussed-literally/"/>
        <updated>2020-03-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Can crimes be discussed literally?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-the-equity-premium-help-us-identify-stock-market-bubbles/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-the-equity-premium-help-us-identify-stock-market-bubbles/"/>
        <updated>2020-03-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Can the equity premium help us identify stock market bubbles?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/when-to-reverse-quarantine-and-other-covid-19-considerations/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/when-to-reverse-quarantine-and-other-covid-19-considerations/"/>
        <updated>2020-03-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[When to Reverse Quarantine and Other COVID-19 Considerations]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Simulacra and Subjectivity]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/simulacra-subjectivity/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/simulacra-subjectivity/"/>
        <updated>2020-03-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Simulacra and Subjectivity]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Approval Extraction Advertised as Production]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/approval-extraction-advertised-as-production/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/approval-extraction-advertised-as-production/"/>
        <updated>2019-12-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Approval Extraction Advertised as Production]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/judgment-punishment-and-the-information-suppression-field/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/judgment-punishment-and-the-information-suppression-field/"/>
        <updated>2019-10-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Judgment, Punishment, and the Information-Suppression Field]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/alarm-fatigue-systematic-critique/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/alarm-fatigue-systematic-critique/"/>
        <updated>2019-07-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Alarm fatigue vs systematic critique]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On street violence]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-street-violence/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-street-violence/"/>
        <updated>2019-07-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On street violence]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Blatant lies are the best kind!]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blatant-lies-best-kind/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blatant-lies-best-kind/"/>
        <updated>2019-07-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Blatant lies are the best kind!]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Reason isn't magic]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reason-isnt-magic/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reason-isnt-magic/"/>
        <updated>2019-06-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Reason isn't magic]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A drowning child is hard to find]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/drowning-children-rare/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/drowning-children-rare/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A drowning child is hard to find]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Xanadu riffs]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/xanadu-riffs/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/xanadu-riffs/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Xanadu riffs]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A War of Ants and Grasshoppers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/war-ants-grasshoppers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/war-ants-grasshoppers/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A War of Ants and Grasshoppers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/towards-optimal-play-as-villager-in-a-mixed-game/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/towards-optimal-play-as-villager-in-a-mixed-game/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Towards optimal play as Villager in a mixed game]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Pecking Order and wings]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/hierarchy-wings/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/hierarchy-wings/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Pecking Order and wings]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Blame games]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blame-games/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blame-games/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Blame games]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-effective-altruism-be-at-war-with-north-korea/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-effective-altruism-be-at-war-with-north-korea/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Should Effective Altruism be at war with North Korea?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Authoritarian empiricism]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authoritarian-empiricism/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authoritarian-empiricism/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Authoritarian empiricism]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Totalitarian ethical systems]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/totalitarian-ethical-systems/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/totalitarian-ethical-systems/"/>
        <updated>2019-05-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Totalitarian ethical systems]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Commentary on Philosophy War]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/commentary-on-philosophy-war/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/commentary-on-philosophy-war/"/>
        <updated>2019-04-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Commentary on Philosophy War]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/"/>
        <updated>2019-04-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Excerpts from a larger discussion about simulacra]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blackmailers-are-privateers-in-the-war-on-hypocrisy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/blackmailers-are-privateers-in-the-war-on-hypocrisy/"/>
        <updated>2019-03-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[MeToo is good]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/metoo-is-good/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/metoo-is-good/"/>
        <updated>2018-11-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[MeToo is good]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why I am no longer supporting REACH]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-no-longer-supporting-reach/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-no-longer-supporting-reach/"/>
        <updated>2018-11-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why I am no longer supporting REACH]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Moral differences in mediocristan]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/moral-differences-in-mediocristan/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/moral-differences-in-mediocristan/"/>
        <updated>2018-09-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Moral differences in mediocristan]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Financial investment is just a symbolic representation of investment projected onto a low-dimensional space inside a control system run by the US government]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-barbell-strategy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-barbell-strategy/"/>
        <updated>2018-09-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Financial investment is just a symbolic representation of investment projected onto a low-dimensional space inside a control system run by the US government]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On proofs of the existence of God]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-proofs-of-the-existence-of-god/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-proofs-of-the-existence-of-god/"/>
        <updated>2018-09-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On proofs of the existence of God]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Zetetic explanation]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/zetetic-explanation/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/zetetic-explanation/"/>
        <updated>2018-08-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Zetetic explanation]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[More on personal archaeology and archives]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/more-on-personal-archaeology-and-archives/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/more-on-personal-archaeology-and-archives/"/>
        <updated>2018-08-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[More on personal archaeology and archives]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/culture-interpretive-labor-and-tidying-ones-room/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/culture-interpretive-labor-and-tidying-ones-room/"/>
        <updated>2018-07-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Model-building and scapegoating]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/model-building-and-scapegoating/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/model-building-and-scapegoating/"/>
        <updated>2018-07-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Model-building and scapegoating]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[There is a war.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-is-a-war/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/there-is-a-war/"/>
        <updated>2018-05-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[There is a war.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Talents]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/talents/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/talents/"/>
        <updated>2018-05-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Talents]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Oops Prize update]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oops-prize-update/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oops-prize-update/"/>
        <updated>2018-04-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Oops Prize update]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Humans need places]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humans-need-places/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humans-need-places/"/>
        <updated>2018-04-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Humans need places]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Kidneys, trade, sacredness, and space travel]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/kidneys-trade-sacredness-and-space-travel/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/kidneys-trade-sacredness-and-space-travel/"/>
        <updated>2018-03-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Kidneys, trade, sacredness, and space travel]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[What strange and ancient things might we find beneath the ice?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/beneath-ice/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/beneath-ice/"/>
        <updated>2018-01-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What strange and ancient things might we find beneath the ice?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cash-transfers-are-not-necessarily-wealth-transfers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cash-transfers-are-not-necessarily-wealth-transfers/"/>
        <updated>2017-12-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Explicit content]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/explicit-content/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/explicit-content/"/>
        <updated>2017-12-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Explicit content]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/nightmares-perfectly-principled/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/nightmares-perfectly-principled/"/>
        <updated>2017-11-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Poets are intelligence assets]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/poets-are-intelligence-assets/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/poets-are-intelligence-assets/"/>
        <updated>2017-10-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Poets are intelligence assets]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/seeding-productive-culture/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/seeding-productive-culture/"/>
        <updated>2017-10-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Defense against discourse]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/defense-against-discourse/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/defense-against-discourse/"/>
        <updated>2017-10-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Defense against discourse]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On the construction of beacons]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/construction-beacons/"/>
        <updated>2017-10-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On the construction of beacons]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Some things I learned about camping and other solitude-seeking activities]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/some-things-i-learned-about-camping-and-other-solitude-seeking-activities/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/some-things-i-learned-about-camping-and-other-solitude-seeking-activities/"/>
        <updated>2017-09-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some things I learned about camping and other solitude-seeking activities]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On the fetishization of money in Galt’s Gulch]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-the-fetishization-of-money-in-galts-gulch/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-the-fetishization-of-money-in-galts-gulch/"/>
        <updated>2017-09-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On the fetishization of money in Galt’s Gulch]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sabbath hard and go home]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sabbath-hard-and-go-home/"/>
        <updated>2017-09-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sabbath hard and go home]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-not-a-quaker-even-though-it-often-seems-as-though-i-should-be/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-not-a-quaker-even-though-it-often-seems-as-though-i-should-be/"/>
        <updated>2017-09-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Request: Cabin [RESOLVED]]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/request-cabin/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/request-cabin/"/>
        <updated>2017-08-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Request: Cabin [RESOLVED]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Thank you for listening]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/thank-you-for-listening/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/thank-you-for-listening/"/>
        <updated>2017-08-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thank you for listening]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Taking integrity literally]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/taking-integrity-literally/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/taking-integrity-literally/"/>
        <updated>2017-07-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Taking integrity literally]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[I'll pretend to ask, and you'll pretend to answer]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pretend-ask-answer/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pretend-ask-answer/"/>
        <updated>2017-07-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I'll pretend to ask, and you'll pretend to answer]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The order of the soul]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-order-of-the-soul/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-order-of-the-soul/"/>
        <updated>2017-07-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The order of the soul]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/geometers-scribes-structure-intelligence/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/geometers-scribes-structure-intelligence/"/>
        <updated>2017-07-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Oops Prize]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oops-prize/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/oops-prize/"/>
        <updated>2017-06-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Oops Prize]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Is Silicon Valley real?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-silicon-valley-real/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-silicon-valley-real/"/>
        <updated>2017-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Is Silicon Valley real?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bad intent is a disposition, not a feeling]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bad-faith-behavior-not-feeling/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bad-faith-behavior-not-feeling/"/>
        <updated>2017-04-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bad intent is a disposition, not a feeling]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Actors and scribes, words and deeds]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/actors-and-scribes-words-and-deeds/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/actors-and-scribes-words-and-deeds/"/>
        <updated>2017-04-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Actors and scribes, words and deeds]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is self-recommending]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/effective-altruism-is-self-recommending/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/effective-altruism-is-self-recommending/"/>
        <updated>2017-04-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is self-recommending]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-openai-board-seat-is-surprisingly-expensive/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-openai-board-seat-is-surprisingly-expensive/"/>
        <updated>2017-04-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[OpenAI makes humanity less safe]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/openai-makes-humanity-less-safe/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/openai-makes-humanity-less-safe/"/>
        <updated>2017-04-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[OpenAI makes humanity less safe]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Against responsibility]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-responsibility/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-responsibility/"/>
        <updated>2017-03-31T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Against responsibility]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Dominance, care, and social touch]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dominance-care-social-touch/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dominance-care-social-touch/"/>
        <updated>2017-03-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Dominance, care, and social touch]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[New York culture]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/new-york-culture/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/new-york-culture/"/>
        <updated>2017-03-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[New York culture]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sincere-confirmation-bias-indistinguishable-science/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sincere-confirmation-bias-indistinguishable-science/"/>
        <updated>2017-03-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bindings and assurances]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bindings-and-assurances/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bindings-and-assurances/"/>
        <updated>2017-03-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bindings and assurances]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Humble Charlie]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humble-charlie/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humble-charlie/"/>
        <updated>2017-02-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Humble Charlie]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Against neglectedness considerations]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-neglectedness/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-neglectedness/"/>
        <updated>2017-02-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Against neglectedness considerations]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell and the problem of partial funding]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-and-partial-funding/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-and-partial-funding/"/>
        <updated>2017-02-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell and the problem of partial funding]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The humility argument for honesty]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humility-argument-honesty/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/humility-argument-honesty/"/>
        <updated>2017-02-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The humility argument for honesty]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Quaker and the Parselmouth]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-quaker-and-the-parselmouth/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-quaker-and-the-parselmouth/"/>
        <updated>2017-01-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Quaker and the Parselmouth]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Between honesty and perjury]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honesty-and-perjury/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honesty-and-perjury/"/>
        <updated>2017-01-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Between honesty and perjury]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Guess culture screens for trying to cooperate]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/guess-culture-screens-for-trying-to-cooperate/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/guess-culture-screens-for-trying-to-cooperate/"/>
        <updated>2017-01-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Guess culture screens for trying to cooperate]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Honesty, magic, and science]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honesty-magic-science/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/honesty-magic-science/"/>
        <updated>2017-01-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Honesty, magic, and science]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Exploitation as a Turing test]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/exploitation-as-a-turing-test/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/exploitation-as-a-turing-test/"/>
        <updated>2017-01-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Exploitation as a Turing test]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Automemorial]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/automemorial/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/automemorial/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-31T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Automemorial]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/claim-explainer-returns-to-scale/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/claim-explainer-returns-to-scale/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The engineer and the diplomat]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/engineer-diplomat/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/engineer-diplomat/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The engineer and the diplomat]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Improve comments by tagging claims]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/improve-comments-by-tagging-claims/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/improve-comments-by-tagging-claims/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Improve comments by tagging claims]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Canons (What are they good for?)]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/canons-what-for/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/canons-what-for/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Canons (What are they good for?)]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Be secretly wrong]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/be-secretly-wrong/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/be-secretly-wrong/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Be secretly wrong]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Mic-Ra-finance and the illusion of control]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/mic-ra-finance-and-the-illusion-of-control/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/mic-ra-finance-and-the-illusion-of-control/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mic-Ra-finance and the illusion of control]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On Philosophers Against Malaria]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-philosophers-against-malaria/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-philosophers-against-malaria/"/>
        <updated>2016-12-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Philosophers Against Malaria]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[This is not what the 21st century wanted to be doing with its anxiety.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/trump-yudkowsky-tweetmashup/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/trump-yudkowsky-tweetmashup/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This is not what the 21st century wanted to be doing with its anxiety.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 6]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-6/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-6/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 6]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[It's crying wolf all the way down]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/its-crying-wolf-all-the-way-down/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/its-crying-wolf-all-the-way-down/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's crying wolf all the way down]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sample means, how do they work?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sample-means-how-work/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sample-means-how-work/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sample means, how do they work?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Social vs objective respect]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/respect-status-ability-character/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/respect-status-ability-character/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Social vs objective respect]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On just not getting it]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-just-not-getting-it/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-just-not-getting-it/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On just not getting it]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Don't panic. Think.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dont-panic-think/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dont-panic-think/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Don't panic. Think.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Authenticity vs factual accuracy]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authenticity-vs-factual-accuracy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authenticity-vs-factual-accuracy/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Authenticity vs factual accuracy]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[2016 election endorsements and decisions]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/2016-election-endorsements-decisions/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/2016-election-endorsements-decisions/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[2016 election endorsements and decisions]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Matching-donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/matching-donation-fundraisers-can-be-harmfully-dishonest/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/matching-donation-fundraisers-can-be-harmfully-dishonest/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Matching-donation fundraisers can be harmfully dishonest]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 5]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-5/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-5/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 5]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Vote-trading and personal honor]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/vote-trading-and-personal-honor/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/vote-trading-and-personal-honor/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Vote-trading and personal honor]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On writing more]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-writing-more/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-writing-more/"/>
        <updated>2016-11-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On writing more]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 4]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-4/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-4/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-31T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 4]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Costs are not benefits]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/costs-are-not-benefits/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/costs-are-not-benefits/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Costs are not benefits]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 3]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-3/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-3/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 3]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 2]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-2/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-2/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 2]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[It is not a scandal that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child onstage.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/it-is-not-a-scandal-that-donald-trump-sexually-assaulted-a-child-onstage/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/it-is-not-a-scandal-that-donald-trump-sexually-assaulted-a-child-onstage/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It is not a scandal that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a child onstage.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 1]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-1/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/givewell-case-study-effective-altruism-1/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[GiveWell: a case study in effective altruism, part 1]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Locker room talk]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/locker-room-talk/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/locker-room-talk/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Locker room talk]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Six principles of a truth-friendly discourse]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/six-principles-of-a-truth-friendly-discourse/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/six-principles-of-a-truth-friendly-discourse/"/>
        <updated>2016-10-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Six principles of a truth-friendly discourse]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Frank Loesser and corruption in America]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/2138-2/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/2138-2/"/>
        <updated>2016-09-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Frank Loesser and corruption in America]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Increase bottleneck throughput by shortening queues?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/increase-bottleneck-throughput-by-shortening-queues/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/increase-bottleneck-throughput-by-shortening-queues/"/>
        <updated>2016-09-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Increase bottleneck throughput by shortening queues?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Puppy love and cattachment theory.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-cats-best-friend-itself/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-cats-best-friend-itself/"/>
        <updated>2016-08-31T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Puppy love and cattachment theory.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Minimum viable impact purchases]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/minimum-viable-impact-purchases/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/minimum-viable-impact-purchases/"/>
        <updated>2016-08-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Minimum viable impact purchases]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Some excerpts from Catistotle's Kittycatean Ethics]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/some-excerpts-from-catistotles-kittycatean-ethics/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/some-excerpts-from-catistotles-kittycatean-ethics/"/>
        <updated>2016-08-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some excerpts from Catistotle's Kittycatean Ethics]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/lessons-learned-from-modeling-ai-takeoffs-call-for-volunteers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/lessons-learned-from-modeling-ai-takeoffs-call-for-volunteers/"/>
        <updated>2016-08-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Yell at Mars to call swans]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/yell-at-mars-to-call-swans/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/yell-at-mars-to-call-swans/"/>
        <updated>2016-08-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yell at Mars to call swans]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why have my parents gotten wiser as I have gotten older?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-have-my-parents-gotten-wiser-as-i-have-gotten-older/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-have-my-parents-gotten-wiser-as-i-have-gotten-older/"/>
        <updated>2016-07-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why have my parents gotten wiser as I have gotten older?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is not a no-brainer]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/effective-altruism-not-no-brainer/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/effective-altruism-not-no-brainer/"/>
        <updated>2016-07-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Effective Altruism is not a no-brainer]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Modeling intelligence as a project-specific factor of production]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/intelligence-project-specific-factor-production/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/intelligence-project-specific-factor-production/"/>
        <updated>2016-07-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Modeling intelligence as a project-specific factor of production]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[PSA on outing]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/psa-on-outing/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/psa-on-outing/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[PSA on outing]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Copernican revolutions, lordship, and bondage]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/copernican-revolutions-domination-and-bondage/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/copernican-revolutions-domination-and-bondage/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Copernican revolutions, lordship, and bondage]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Group cognition]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/group-cognition/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/group-cognition/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Group cognition]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Projects of philosophers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/projects-philosophers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/projects-philosophers/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Projects of philosophers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Backwards and in feels]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/backwards-and-in-feels/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/backwards-and-in-feels/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Backwards and in feels]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Solve your problems by fantasizing]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/solve-problems-fantasizing/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/solve-problems-fantasizing/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Solve your problems by fantasizing]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Emotional qualia are mediated by somatic responses]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/emotional-qualia-are-mediated-by-somatic-responses/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/emotional-qualia-are-mediated-by-somatic-responses/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Emotional qualia are mediated by somatic responses]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Reading, writing, and thinking, with your brain]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reading-writing-thinking-brain/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reading-writing-thinking-brain/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Reading, writing, and thinking, with your brain]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Exploding the sociability binary]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/exploding-the-sociability-binary/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/exploding-the-sociability-binary/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Exploding the sociability binary]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Admonition]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/admonition/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/admonition/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Admonition]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Review: Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/review-vipassana-center-silent-meditation-retreat/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/review-vipassana-center-silent-meditation-retreat/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Review: Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Physical empathy and channels of communication]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/physical-empathy-and-channels-of-communication/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/physical-empathy-and-channels-of-communication/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Physical empathy and channels of communication]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Fixin' my fiction addiction]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cured-addiction-reading-novels/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cured-addiction-reading-novels/"/>
        <updated>2016-06-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Fixin' my fiction addiction]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Skipping developmental levels]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/skipping-developmental-levels/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/skipping-developmental-levels/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Skipping developmental levels]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Extraversion, object permanence, and investing in relationships]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/extraversion-object-permanence-investing-relationships/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/extraversion-object-permanence-investing-relationships/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Extraversion, object permanence, and investing in relationships]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On the display of negative emotions]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-the-display-of-negative-emotions/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-the-display-of-negative-emotions/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On the display of negative emotions]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Paths to singleton: a hierarchical conceptual framework]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/paths-singleton-hierarchical-conceptual-framework/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/paths-singleton-hierarchical-conceptual-framework/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Paths to singleton: a hierarchical conceptual framework]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Confutatis and cold comfort]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/confutatis-cold-comfort/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/confutatis-cold-comfort/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Confutatis and cold comfort]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Shape the query]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/shape-the-query/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/shape-the-query/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Shape the query]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[What is a conceptual hierarchy?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-is-conceptual-hierarchy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-is-conceptual-hierarchy/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What is a conceptual hierarchy?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 8: Prioritization, finishing, inventories, and working memory]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-8-prioritization-finishing-inventories-and-working-memory/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-8-prioritization-finishing-inventories-and-working-memory/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 8: Prioritization, finishing, inventories, and working memory]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Make more disjunctions explicit]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/make-more-disjunctions-explicit/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/make-more-disjunctions-explicit/"/>
        <updated>2016-05-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Make more disjunctions explicit]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Authenticity and instant readouts]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authenticity-and-instant-readouts/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/authenticity-and-instant-readouts/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Authenticity and instant readouts]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 7: conceptual vocabulary, writing, feedback, lit review]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-7-conceptual-vocabulary-writing-feedback-lit-review/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-7-conceptual-vocabulary-writing-feedback-lit-review/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 7: conceptual vocabulary, writing, feedback, lit review]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Safety in numbers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/safety-in-numbers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/safety-in-numbers/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Safety in numbers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[My life so far: motives and morals]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/my-life-so-far-motives-and-morals/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/my-life-so-far-motives-and-morals/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[My life so far: motives and morals]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Idolatry taboo as integrity constraint]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/idolatry-taboo-integrity-constraint/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/idolatry-taboo-integrity-constraint/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Idolatry taboo as integrity constraint]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Heterosociality hypotheses]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/heterosociality/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/heterosociality/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Heterosociality hypotheses]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/boundaries/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/boundaries/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Boundaries]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 6: Working on a research hierarchy]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-6-working-on-a-research-hierarchy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-6-working-on-a-research-hierarchy/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 6: Working on a research hierarchy]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 5: writing, organizing my research]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-5-writing-organizing-my-research/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/update-5-writing-organizing-my-research/"/>
        <updated>2016-04-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 5: writing, organizing my research]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 4: Refining the two-factor economic model of AI takeoff]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-4-refinements/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-4-refinements/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 4: Refining the two-factor economic model of AI takeoff]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On purpose alone]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-purpose-alone/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-purpose-alone/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On purpose alone]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 3: Diligence vs obsession, and a long (overdue) update]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-3-diligence-vs-obsession-and-a-long-update/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-3-diligence-vs-obsession-and-a-long-update/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 3: Diligence vs obsession, and a long (overdue) update]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lego my Ego]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/lego-ego/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/lego-ego/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Lego my Ego]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Steve Jobs and the Impossibility of Parents]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/steve-jobs-impossibility-parents/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/steve-jobs-impossibility-parents/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Steve Jobs and the Impossibility of Parents]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A still small voice: a method for integrity]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-still-small-voice-a-method-for-integrity/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-still-small-voice-a-method-for-integrity/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A still small voice: a method for integrity]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 1: Research Agenda, Paths to AI]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-1-research-agenda-paths-to-ai/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-1-research-agenda-paths-to-ai/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 1: Research Agenda, Paths to AI]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Update 2: Shortest paths, Arrogance]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-2-shortest-paths-arrogance/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/day-2-shortest-paths-arrogance/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Update 2: Shortest paths, Arrogance]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[My new project: model the world]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/my-new-project-model-the-world/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/my-new-project-model-the-world/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[My new project: model the world]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Nature and Nature's Bod: Attachment, Desire, Empathy Overload, and Embodiment]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/nature-body-attachment-desire-empathy-overload-embodiment/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/nature-body-attachment-desire-empathy-overload-embodiment/"/>
        <updated>2016-03-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Nature and Nature's Bod: Attachment, Desire, Empathy Overload, and Embodiment]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Anxiety, heart attack, or stroke?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/anxiety-heart-attack-or-stroke/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/anxiety-heart-attack-or-stroke/"/>
        <updated>2016-01-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Anxiety, heart attack, or stroke?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Soma: my best friends have bodies]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/soma-my-best-friends-have-bodies/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/soma-my-best-friends-have-bodies/"/>
        <updated>2016-01-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Soma: my best friends have bodies]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Model-building about desire - a worked example]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/model-building-about-desire-worked-example/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/model-building-about-desire-worked-example/"/>
        <updated>2016-01-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Model-building about desire - a worked example]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Social trade]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/social-trade/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/social-trade/"/>
        <updated>2016-01-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Social trade]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Apgar of crushes]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-apgar-of-crushes/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-apgar-of-crushes/"/>
        <updated>2015-12-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Apgar of crushes]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Three puzzles]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/three-puzzles/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/three-puzzles/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-21T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Three puzzles]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The predator in the herd]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-predator-in-the-herd/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-predator-in-the-herd/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The predator in the herd]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lupin around again: responses to the Werewolf model]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/lupin-around-again-responses-werewolf-model/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/lupin-around-again-responses-werewolf-model/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Lupin around again: responses to the Werewolf model]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Connections and alliances]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/connections-alliances/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/connections-alliances/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Connections and alliances]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Be Faire]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/be-faire/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/be-faire/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Be Faire]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How to ride a skrode]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-ride-a-skrode/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-ride-a-skrode/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[How to ride a skrode]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Un gioco solido che aumenti per l'occasione]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/gioco-solido/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/gioco-solido/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Un gioco solido che aumenti per l'occasione]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Fragment of an Oz Ymandias]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/fragment-ozymandias/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/fragment-ozymandias/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Fragment of an Oz Ymandias]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Melusine]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/melusine/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/melusine/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Melusine]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[An offer]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-offer/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-offer/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[An offer]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Two free verse poems in the bitter aesthetic]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/two-free-verse-poems-in-the-bitter-aesthetic/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/two-free-verse-poems-in-the-bitter-aesthetic/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Two free verse poems in the bitter aesthetic]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Tempted to help]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/tempted-help/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/tempted-help/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Tempted to help]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Firestones]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/firestones/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/firestones/"/>
        <updated>2015-11-02T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Firestones]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The biggest sensation that I have ever seen]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-biggest-sensation-ive-ever-seen/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-biggest-sensation-ive-ever-seen/"/>
        <updated>2015-10-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The biggest sensation that I have ever seen]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The cost of cryopreservation]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-cost-of-cryopreservation/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-cost-of-cryopreservation/"/>
        <updated>2015-10-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The cost of cryopreservation]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The performance of pain as a political tactic]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/performance-pain-political-tactic/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/performance-pain-political-tactic/"/>
        <updated>2015-10-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The performance of pain as a political tactic]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Phoenix and the Skroderider]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-phoenix-and-the-skroderider/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-phoenix-and-the-skroderider/"/>
        <updated>2015-10-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Phoenix and the Skroderider]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[True friendship is being counterfactually hugged by vampires]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/friendship-counterfactually-hugged-vampires/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/friendship-counterfactually-hugged-vampires/"/>
        <updated>2015-10-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[True friendship is being counterfactually hugged by vampires]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Statusphere]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/statusphere/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/statusphere/"/>
        <updated>2015-10-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Statusphere]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Looking at your story, looking at the world]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/looking-at-your-story-the-world/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/looking-at-your-story-the-world/"/>
        <updated>2015-09-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Looking at your story, looking at the world]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Verbal communication]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/verbal-communication/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/verbal-communication/"/>
        <updated>2015-09-22T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Verbal communication]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Vision, Hearing, and Autism-Like Symptoms]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/vision-hearing-autism-like-symptoms/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/vision-hearing-autism-like-symptoms/"/>
        <updated>2015-09-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Vision, Hearing, and Autism-Like Symptoms]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Iterated self-improvement - a worked example]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/iterated-self-improvement-a-worked-example/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/iterated-self-improvement-a-worked-example/"/>
        <updated>2015-09-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Iterated self-improvement - a worked example]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Werewolf feelings]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/werewolf-feelings/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/werewolf-feelings/"/>
        <updated>2015-09-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Werewolf feelings]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why I ask for feedback]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-ask-for-feedback/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-ask-for-feedback/"/>
        <updated>2015-09-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why I ask for feedback]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On doing more good than war is bad]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-doing-more-good-than-war-is-bad/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-doing-more-good-than-war-is-bad/"/>
        <updated>2015-07-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On doing more good than war is bad]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[On Nature]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-nature/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/on-nature/"/>
        <updated>2015-07-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[On Nature]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How I travel]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-travel/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-travel/"/>
        <updated>2015-07-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[How I travel]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How to find a job like a privileged person with lots of options]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-find-a-job-like-a-privileged-person-with-lots-of-options/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/how-to-find-a-job-like-a-privileged-person-with-lots-of-options/"/>
        <updated>2015-06-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[How to find a job like a privileged person with lots of options]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Art is Like a Well-Ordered Ship]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-art-is-like-a-well-ordered-ship/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-art-is-like-a-well-ordered-ship/"/>
        <updated>2015-05-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Art is Like a Well-Ordered Ship]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Say it wrong first]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/say-it-wrong-first/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/say-it-wrong-first/"/>
        <updated>2015-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Say it wrong first]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The top six reasons why I am procrastinating]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-procrastinating/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-procrastinating/"/>
        <updated>2015-05-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The top six reasons why I am procrastinating]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Spock]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/spock/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/spock/"/>
        <updated>2015-02-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Spock]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Elas, elas, that great city!]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/elas-elas-that-great-city/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/elas-elas-that-great-city/"/>
        <updated>2015-01-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Elas, elas, that great city!]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Want to Summon Less Animal Suffering?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/want-to-summon-less-animal-suffering/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/want-to-summon-less-animal-suffering/"/>
        <updated>2014-11-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Want to Summon Less Animal Suffering?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[We Tried a Thing to Affect Policy]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/we-tried-a-thing-to-affect-policy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/we-tried-a-thing-to-affect-policy/"/>
        <updated>2014-11-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[We Tried a Thing to Affect Policy]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Orders of Doom]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/orders-of-doom/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/orders-of-doom/"/>
        <updated>2014-10-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Orders of Doom]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Is Veganism Correct?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-veganism-correct/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-veganism-correct/"/>
        <updated>2014-10-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Is Veganism Correct?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[An Appointment With Death]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-appointment-with-death/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/an-appointment-with-death/"/>
        <updated>2014-10-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[An Appointment With Death]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Meaning of Kol Nidre]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-meaning-of-kol-nidre/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-meaning-of-kol-nidre/"/>
        <updated>2014-10-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Meaning of Kol Nidre]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Georg^^^Georg]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/georggeorg/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/georggeorg/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Georg^^^Georg]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Should You Get Therapy?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-you-get-therapy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/should-you-get-therapy/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Should You Get Therapy?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/doesnt-match-the-territory/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/doesnt-match-the-territory/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory doesn't match the territory]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Is It Unfair that Social Workers are Underpaid?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-it-unfair-that-social-workers-are-underpaid/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/is-it-unfair-that-social-workers-are-underpaid/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Is It Unfair that Social Workers are Underpaid?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[For You]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/for-you/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/for-you/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[For You]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Listening Nonjudgmentally]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/listening-nonjudgmentally/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/listening-nonjudgmentally/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Listening Nonjudgmentally]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Birthday Wish]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/birthday-wish/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/birthday-wish/"/>
        <updated>2014-09-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Birthday Wish]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Whatever Is Not Best Is Forbidden]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/whatever-is-not-best-is-forbidden/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/whatever-is-not-best-is-forbidden/"/>
        <updated>2014-08-20T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Whatever Is Not Best Is Forbidden]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Yay So-Called Redundancy]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/yay-so-called-redundancy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/yay-so-called-redundancy/"/>
        <updated>2014-08-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Yay So-Called Redundancy]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Reinforcement]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reinforcement/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/reinforcement/"/>
        <updated>2014-08-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Reinforcement]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Nobody Knows What It's Like]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/nobody-knows-what-its-like-to-be-the-batman/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/nobody-knows-what-its-like-to-be-the-batman/"/>
        <updated>2014-08-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Nobody Knows What It's Like]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[I So Curious]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/i-so-curious/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/i-so-curious/"/>
        <updated>2014-08-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I So Curious]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Communication From Another Dimension]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/communication-from-another-dimension/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/communication-from-another-dimension/"/>
        <updated>2014-06-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Communication From Another Dimension]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[F-ing Statistics, How Do They Work?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/f-ing-statistics-how-do-they-work/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/f-ing-statistics-how-do-they-work/"/>
        <updated>2014-06-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[F-ing Statistics, How Do They Work?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Gel Culture: No Boots]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/gel-culture-no-boots/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/gel-culture-no-boots/"/>
        <updated>2014-06-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Gel Culture: No Boots]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[National Identities]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/national-identities/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/national-identities/"/>
        <updated>2014-06-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[National Identities]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Not Enough About Too Much]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/not-enough-about-too-much/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/not-enough-about-too-much/"/>
        <updated>2014-05-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Not Enough About Too Much]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Not even a real links post, just a blatant ad]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/not-even-a-real-links-post-just-a-blatant-ad/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/not-even-a-real-links-post-just-a-blatant-ad/"/>
        <updated>2014-05-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Not even a real links post, just a blatant ad]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why I Am Not Celebrating International Tell Your Crush Day]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-not-celebrating-international-tell-your-crush-day/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-i-am-not-celebrating-international-tell-your-crush-day/"/>
        <updated>2014-05-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why I Am Not Celebrating International Tell Your Crush Day]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Cauliflower Bread, Twice Attempted]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cauliflower-bread-twice-attempted/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cauliflower-bread-twice-attempted/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Cauliflower Bread, Twice Attempted]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Positive Queries - How Fetching]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/positive-queries-how-fetching/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/positive-queries-how-fetching/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Positive Queries - How Fetching]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Short Pieces - Two Stories and an Inspiration]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/short-pieces-two-stories-inspiration/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/short-pieces-two-stories-inspiration/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Short Pieces - Two Stories and an Inspiration]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A Special Discount Just For You, and The Importance of Lost Opportunities]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-special-discount-just-for-you-and-the-importance-of-lost-opportunities/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-special-discount-just-for-you-and-the-importance-of-lost-opportunities/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A Special Discount Just For You, and The Importance of Lost Opportunities]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Civics and Seamonsters, Calvin and Hobbes]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/civics-and-seamonsters-calvin-and-hobbes/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/civics-and-seamonsters-calvin-and-hobbes/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-24T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Civics and Seamonsters, Calvin and Hobbes]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Cherry Awesomes in the Snow]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cherry-awesomes-in-the-snow/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cherry-awesomes-in-the-snow/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Cherry Awesomes in the Snow]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A Plus, Is Greedy]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-plus-is-greedy/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-plus-is-greedy/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A Plus, Is Greedy]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Appearances and The Things Themselves]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-appearances-and-the-things-themselves/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-appearances-and-the-things-themselves/"/>
        <updated>2014-04-10T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Appearances and The Things Themselves]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Null Results]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/null-results/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/null-results/"/>
        <updated>2014-03-19T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Null Results]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Wasted Talent: Parody]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wasted-talent-parody/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wasted-talent-parody/"/>
        <updated>2014-02-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wasted Talent: Parody]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ask Ben: Seafood in DC]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ask-ben-seafood-in-dc/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/ask-ben-seafood-in-dc/"/>
        <updated>2014-02-03T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ask Ben: Seafood in DC]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Specific Techniques for Inclusion]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/specific-techniques-for-inclusion/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/specific-techniques-for-inclusion/"/>
        <updated>2014-01-25T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Specific Techniques for Inclusion]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Pay It Again, Sam]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pay-it-again-sam/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pay-it-again-sam/"/>
        <updated>2014-01-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Pay It Again, Sam]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Wall, Staircase, Hallway: Obstacles Are Scary]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wall-staircase-hallway-obstacles-are-scary/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wall-staircase-hallway-obstacles-are-scary/"/>
        <updated>2014-01-14T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wall, Staircase, Hallway: Obstacles Are Scary]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Don't Worry, Be Canny]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/501/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/501/"/>
        <updated>2014-01-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Don't Worry, Be Canny]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Pay Today or Pay More Tomorrow]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pay-today-or-pay-more-tomorrow/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/pay-today-or-pay-more-tomorrow/"/>
        <updated>2014-01-12T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Pay Today or Pay More Tomorrow]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Fire, Telepathy, Bandwidth]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/fire-telepathy-bandwidth/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/fire-telepathy-bandwidth/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-30T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Fire, Telepathy, Bandwidth]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Doubt, Science, and Magical Creatures]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/doubt-science-and-magical-creatures/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/doubt-science-and-magical-creatures/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Doubt, Science, and Magical Creatures]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[CFAR - Second Impression and a Bleg]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cfar-second-thoughts-and-a-bleg/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/cfar-second-thoughts-and-a-bleg/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[CFAR - Second Impression and a Bleg]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sharks are Forever]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sharks-are-forever/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sharks-are-forever/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-26T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sharks are Forever]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bye Grandma]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bye-grandma/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bye-grandma/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-16T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bye Grandma]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Give Smart, Help More]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/give-smart-help-more/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/give-smart-help-more/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-13T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Give Smart, Help More]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[I'm Sorry but I Kant Let You Do That]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/im-sorry-but-i-kant-let-you-do-that/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/im-sorry-but-i-kant-let-you-do-that/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[I'm Sorry but I Kant Let You Do That]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Two Tones, One Mouth]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/two-tones-one-mouth/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/two-tones-one-mouth/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-11T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Two Tones, One Mouth]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Handshakes. What's New?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/handshakes-whats-new/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/handshakes-whats-new/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Handshakes. What's New?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Sacrificial Rituals]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sacrificial-rituals/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/sacrificial-rituals/"/>
        <updated>2013-12-06T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Sacrificial Rituals]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[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?]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-god-make-a-rock-so-big-he-cant-pick-it-up-or-why-does-my-calculus-textbook-start-with-this-chapter-about-unions-and-intersections/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/can-god-make-a-rock-so-big-he-cant-pick-it-up-or-why-does-my-calculus-textbook-start-with-this-chapter-about-unions-and-intersections/"/>
        <updated>2013-11-27T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[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?]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Rationality Cocktails]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/rationality-cocktails/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/rationality-cocktails/"/>
        <updated>2013-11-23T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Rationality Cocktails]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Words and Techniques]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/94/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/94/"/>
        <updated>2013-11-08T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Words and Techniques]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Wait vs Interrupt Culture]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wait-vs-interrupt-culture/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/wait-vs-interrupt-culture/"/>
        <updated>2013-11-07T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Wait vs Interrupt Culture]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[What Nietzsche Said to Me]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-nietzsche-said-to-me/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/what-nietzsche-said-to-me/"/>
        <updated>2013-11-05T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[What Nietzsche Said to Me]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A First Impression Review of the CFAR NY Workshop]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-first-impression-review-of-the-cfar-ny-workshop/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/a-first-impression-review-of-the-cfar-ny-workshop/"/>
        <updated>2013-11-04T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[A First Impression Review of the CFAR NY Workshop]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Actually, you haven't adjusted your expectations.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/actually-you-havent-adjusted-your-expectations/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/actually-you-havent-adjusted-your-expectations/"/>
        <updated>2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Actually, you haven't adjusted your expectations.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Dreamloss]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dreamloss/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/dreamloss/"/>
        <updated>2013-09-17T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Dreamloss]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Leveling Up]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/leveling-up/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/leveling-up/"/>
        <updated>2013-07-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Leveling Up]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Last night I dreamt I lost a tooth.]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/last-night-i-dreamt-i-lost-a-tooth/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/last-night-i-dreamt-i-lost-a-tooth/"/>
        <updated>2013-07-28T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last night I dreamt I lost a tooth.]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bad at Math]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bad-at-math/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/bad-at-math/"/>
        <updated>2013-07-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bad at Math]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why Buy Flowers]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-buy-flowers/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/why-buy-flowers/"/>
        <updated>2013-07-01T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why Buy Flowers]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Three Ways Not to Buy a Computer]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/three-ways-not-to-buy-a-computer/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/three-ways-not-to-buy-a-computer/"/>
        <updated>2013-06-29T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Three Ways Not to Buy a Computer]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Zeugma and Syllepsis]]></title>
        <id>https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/zeugma-and-syllepsis/</id>
        <link href="https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/zeugma-and-syllepsis/"/>
        <updated>2013-05-09T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
        <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Zeugma and Syllepsis]]></summary>
    </entry>
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