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02
Sep

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.
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01
Sep

What are collective action problems?

Who's a what now? Two criminals are caught by the police and interrogated in separate rooms. Each woman
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16
Aug

Eternity & Recurrence

Assuming time goes on forever, what shape does the world come to take? Do all possible things come to be?
16
Aug

The impossibility of immortality

What is life? A person is a process. As long as the process runs, as long as it receives data
3 min read
03
Aug

Shallow vs Deep Persuasion

Part of the persuasion sequence ***Bullshit alert: This may well be bullshit. Expect unempirical distinctions, ungrounded assumptions and fuzziness all
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26
Jun

Agreeing with the Greeks: character as the basis of a good life

the more i write, the more i find my writing resembling the Greeks, whom have always despised. The Greeks wrote
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26
Jun

Freedom and Morality and Sacrifice

Few martyrs have families. To sacrifice your own live is brave. To sacrifice that of your children send maniacal. To
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26
Jun

In defense of tribes 2: evolution of systems

separate cultures or units of an organism are likely to be more diverse than a single unit. diversity leads to
26
Jun

In defense of tribes: Group formation as a necessary response to cultural/moral differences

Some moral rules are mutually exclusive. nudists and nakidity-haters cannot coexist. Some differences are not contradictory buy are hard to
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26
Jun

Distance based empathy as mechanism enabling pluralism.

Human empathy drops off over space. Singer and many people think this is bad. If we cared about injustices which