Seeing into the True Nature
2017-05-28
A Trolley Problem Dialogue
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Epistemic status: bad and wrong. Not worth reading. Oberstein: The ethical thing to do is to pull the lever. The result is one d...
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2017-03-30
A History of Weird Sun Twitter
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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...
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2017-03-08
Anecdotes from my Past
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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...
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2017-02-11
When Incapacity is an Advantage
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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 ...
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2017-01-09
Superstitions as Evolved Objects
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It's common to mock superstitions to display one's Skeptic ™ cred, but it's a mistake, because they are Chesterton fences . I...
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2016-12-18
the thought to which all thoughts eventually return, as if it were the bottom of the cognitive bowl
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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...
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2016-12-10
reason #21,066 reason to distrust all scientific studies
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Originally posted November 21, 2016 I see a lot of people claiming that jobs are good for people, because jobs give life more meaning. ...
Ergonomics
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Originally posted October 24, 2016 Look at these fucking buttons: I have to hit these buttons many times per day, always with the...
2016-12-09
Umeshism
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Originally posted October 23, 2016 You should probably read Scott Aaronson's post Umeshisms before reading this post. Concentrate o...
Mindlists
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Originally published July 12, 2016 Lists are really, really appealing for some reason, perhaps because they are so simple and orderly and ...
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