10
Mar
Killing Babies Is Not Especially Bad
(N.B: This is much more about personhood than abortion or anything culture war-y)
There’s this weird thing in
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24
Feb
Privacy may matter due to compromat
When I was growing up there was a scandal around Snowden and mass surveillance programs run by democratic countries against
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17
Feb
Freedom Of Conscience & Work: Part 1
Over the years I’ve thought a fair bit about political discrimination, especially in the economic sphere. I always found
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13
Jan
Pre-commitment vs Akrasia
In engineering a thing you learn very early is that solving problems is okay but not having them in the
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13
Jan
Wake Up
When I was a child I noticed that I would find more physically attractive girls smarter and more interesting, even
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23
Dec
I'm Skeptical of and Confused About The Multiplier in Macroeconomics
The multiplier is how much econ activity results from a unit of government spending. E.g: GDP change = M * G.
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09
Dec
Common Assumptions in Western Stories
Stories matter quite a bit. I think the many people, myself included growing up, get more training data from the
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02
Dec
Does working for the government carry a higher moral burden?
I have a thought that goes something like this. If I want to work in the private sector, I search
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18
Nov
Some thought on Sci-Fi I like and Peter Watts.
Sci-fi is my favourite genre. Why? I think a few reasons:
* good sci-fi touches on the human condition, morality and
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04
Nov
It's hard to know which development economics theories to buy
Scott Summer recently published a fairly long blog post on development economics. It’s very good. His conclusions are similar
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