Seeing into the True Nature

Epistemic status: bad and wrong. Not worth reading. Oberstein: The ethical thing to do is to pull the lever. The result is one d...

As Baccano! admirably demonstrates, deciding where to start a story can be a tricky matter. The obvious place to begin a history of Weird S...

When I was a child, I befriended a black kid named Justus. I can't remember much about him, but I remember one time I saw him getting th...

Suppose X and Y are skills, and that Person A has skill X and person B has skill X and skill Y. If A and B are working together, it makes ...

It's common to mock superstitions to display one's Skeptic ™ cred, but it's a mistake, because they are Chesterton fences . I...

See also: The Monster I wish my mind were larger. Certainly it is larger than most people's; during manic episodes it feels like I ca...

Originally posted November 21, 2016   I see a lot of people claiming that jobs are good for people, because jobs give life more meaning. ...

Originally posted October 24, 2016   Look at these fucking buttons: I have to hit these buttons many times per day, always with the...

Originally posted October 23, 2016 You should probably read Scott Aaronson's post Umeshisms before reading this post. Concentrate o...

Originally published July 12, 2016 Lists are really, really appealing for some reason, perhaps because they are so simple and orderly and ...