Optimizing for learning vs education
There are two competing objectives to education. One is to grow as a person. The other is to gain things
Empirical facts can falsify moral beliefs.
I've usually assumed that moral beliefs cannot be disproved by empirical facts. That's not really true.
Two sides of rationality.
One approach to rationality is to seek nirvana. To be free from all desires, for one side or the other.
Solutions to the problem of suffering.
Assume god exists.
If a just god exists, how is it that evil exists in the world. A better question.
Brief thoughts on Bryan Caplan's "Open Borders"
The book itself is good, but not great. It's good because:
* It presents the standard arguments for open
Regulatory Experimentation
Late night thoughts. In England, when the government passes regulations those regulations almost always apply across the country. There are
The most important part of good writing is not being good at writing
When I did debating, I thought it was funny how most non-debating advice about public speaking focused on style over
Normalizing Dissent
One strange thing in the corporate world is how abnormal open dissent is. Almost never do I hear someone say
Against the social theory of disability
The social theory of disability says that disabled people are made disabled not be their impairments but by barriers in
Against Marx
Marx's argument goes like this:
* The value of a good is defined by the amount of labour that