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05
Apr

Cruxing on crime

My views on crime and justice are fairly unusual for my class. I tend to believe that: * crime is a
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11
Feb

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
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06
Jan

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
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20
Dec

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
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07
Dec

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
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04
Nov

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’
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03
Nov

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
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26
Oct

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
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05
Sep

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
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28
Aug

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
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