I believe that for a group to maintain good epistemic standards it's important for everyone to constantly lie to each other. I heard a story once about a heavyweight wrestling champion who got into a car crash and then went to pick a fight with the other guy. He figured…
Something like four months ago I had this weird revelation that maybe all of ethics was bunk. I've had a couple moments like this in my life and most haven't stuck; I assumed this one also wouldn't. But, well, it's been a few months and I still think maybe ethics…
This will be an unusually mundane post, and probably of no interest to people who don't already know some javascript and occasionally harvest data. But to those who do, it may be truly thrilling. Public service announcement: the browser console is strictly more expressive than everything in the page. It's…
With new eigenvectors coming out every day, it can be hard to know which one should be your favourite. Here are my top picks.…
Through a series of questionable decisions I have written and directed four plays. In that time I learned a small amount about how to write good plays, and far, far more about how to write bad plays. And now I'm going to tell you how. Trap The Audience And Gradually…
What this is not: an exhortation to dig up Von Neumann and clone him What this is: an exhortation to think seriously about how to decide whether to dig up Von Neumann and clone him Having tried to clarify that I am not presently advocating for cloning, and am far…
If you want to interrupt someone else's speech you have to have actually been there when they started speaking. It's not against the rules to leave immediately after interrupting someone, but it is considered 'discourteous'.…
Let me propose a thought experiment with three conditions. First, you're in a simulation, and a really good one at that. Before you went in, the simulators extracted and stored all of your memories, and they went to great lengths to make sure that the simulation is completely faultless. Second,…