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05
Jan

2019: Year 2 in Review

Posts Total Posts this year: 39 (+1 vs 2018) Decent posts this the year: * Roughly Book Reviews * Against Bryan Caplan
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25
Dec

Minimizing slack is not a good long term strategy

TheViz has a post on slack, the concept not the app. Slack as applied to organizations and teams is interesting.
15
Dec

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
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02
Dec

Empirical facts can falsify moral beliefs.

I've usually assumed that moral beliefs cannot be disproved by empirical facts. That's not really true.
18
Nov

Two sides of rationality.

One approach to rationality is to seek nirvana. To be free from all desires, for one side or the other.
10
Nov

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.
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10
Nov

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
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29
Oct

Regulatory Experimentation

Late night thoughts. In England, when the government passes regulations those regulations almost always apply across the country. There are
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05
Oct

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
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22
Sep

Normalizing Dissent

One strange thing in the corporate world is how abnormal open dissent is. Almost never do I hear someone say
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