Srdjan Miletic

London
30
Nov

Avoiding problems is easier than fixing them

I think a lot about character, virtue and how to be a better person. One observation is that it'
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30
Nov

How far is technological progress deterministic?

Imagine an alternate 21's century. Say the world diverged around 1900. Assume the same rough overall rate of
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22
Nov

Fears and thoughts on humanity moving towards a singleton

Robin Hanson writes about rot as a potential concern as humanity moves more towards a global government. I've
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18
Oct

Against Honouring Allied Bomber Crews

I saw a post today commemorating Bomber Command. British aircrews who flew raids primarily over German cities during the second
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03
Oct

Thoughts on the 80k podcast with Mushtaq Khan

I recently listened to a podcast with Mushtaq Khan. He's a development economics expert. He argued that productivity
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14
Sep

Startup Idea: Children as a Service

We generally hold that people have the right to have children and that neither the state nor society can stop
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29
Jul

Inefficient writing systems

A phonemic language is one where how you write is very similar to how things sound. Essentially, if you know
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05
Jul

Low intelligence is a problem we should care about more

In the past many things we today consider very bad were normal. Slavery, war, starvation, dirty water, oppressive governments. Many
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29
Jun

Ideas flow easily into empty vessels

I remember a few events in college. I went to a small liberal arts college in the Netherlands. The students
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06
Jun

Unrefined thoughts on some things rationalism is missing vs religions

Rationalism seems somewhat like a proto-religion to me. It has norms of behavior very different from society at large. It
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