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Why is quality rare?
Why in general is it harder to do things well than badly?
Rats and trads
Two types of intellectual fundamentalism
Why I'm not a philosopher
Philosophy's functions & benefits, and why they aren't real(?)
Comparing up and down
Choosing your reference class for happiness or growth.
Reversals in psychology
A list of exaggerated psychological phenomena
The Worst Game Ever
A true story about model error, noisy decisions, and the birth of tragedy.
Recent posts
A Life Really Worth Living
new version of my class on the meaning of life
Bayesianity
Class on the closest thing to a unified theory of science and reason
Transnormalism
in which human enhancement won without thinking
AI in 2025: gestalt
300 takes in search of an opinion
My politics
Paper AI Tigers
Making sense of current Chinese AI
The jailbreak argument against LLM values
Writeup of a folk argument I didn't come up with