Cruxing on crime
My views on crime and justice are fairly unusual for my class. I tend to believe that:
* crime is a
It's tricky to tell what % of the economy the state controls
Let’s say you want to find out roughly how much of a country’s economy is controlled by the
Brief Thoughts on Justifications for Paternalism
Lisa wrote an article on coercion, paternalism and irreversible decisions. I have some thoughts.
The basic groundwork goes something like
Seconds Thoughts About Counterfactual Impact as an Ethical Standard
(Positive Srdjan) An argument I read years ago when first hearing about EA goes something like this.
* many people think
Is the far future inevitably zero-sum?
In this twitter post, Richard argues that in the distant future there will be far more zero or negative sum
Unstructured thoughts on Tech X Risk
Imagine a bag of pebbles. It’s deep. You don’t know how deep. You draw a thousand pebbles. They’
Misunderstanding the St Petersburg Paradox
I talked to Andrea last night. Turns out I misunderstood what the St Petersburg paradox was.
* I thought it was
Startup Idee: On Demand Books
I read a lot of blogs. Around 200 articles per month get streamed to me via RSS. A lot of
Against cardboard cut-out characters
Just like there are rules for writing non fiction, so there are rules for writing fiction. One thing I notice
Anthropic Reasoning #1: I'm Confused
I’m going to start reading a fair bit about anthropics because I suspect that understanding anthropic reasoning is key