In defence of extreme tolerance.
Would you rather have a universe in which many different kinds of life thrive, each maximising their own utility function,
The pretence of certainty: Risk, Probability and the Justice System.
Idiots trade in certainties. Wise men in probabilities.
Imagine a hedge fund manager walks down to his risk department, and
Vigilantism in lowsec societies. A social STC for anarchic situation..
The conventional view is that Vigilantism is bad. Why?Because they do a worse job. Why? Because
* Individual vigilantes have
Life after the fall
Most depictions of struggle end stop at the first victory or loss. Movies about politics usually end with the lead
Why you (really) shouldn't judge motion balance by win ratios.
1: Intuition vs Data
There are two ways we determine whether a motion is balanced. One is intuitive. We think
Rumour Mill 2
* The CIA was behind the coup attempt in turkey. The Russians warned Edrogan early enough for him to escape and
Multi-Path Thinking. Against the stranger.
Embrace the Paradox
Be of two minds
You can't know where a path leads until you walk it.
What are collective action problems?
Who's a what now?
Two criminals are caught by the police and interrogated in separate rooms. Each woman
Eternity & Recurrence
Assuming time goes on forever, what shape does the world come to take?
Do all possible things come to be?
The impossibility of immortality
What is life?
A person is a process. As long as the process runs, as long as it receives data