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An overview of Putanumonit for new readers.

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Genders Discrimination

Whales are queering the fish-mammal binary

May 2, 20229 Comments
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Tarnished Guy Who Puts A Num On It

Why Elden Ring is great, and how not to die binomially.

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022video games2 Comments
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Midwit Monogamy

A relationship must sacrifice exclusivity or sacrifice for the sake of exclusivity. Simply feeling entitled to it is a recipe for failure.

April 13, 2022podcast, polyamory12 Comments
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Between the Blog and the Birdsite

Looking for a middle ground between the hard upsides of blogging and the easy downsides of tweeting.

April 11, 20227 Comments
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Artificial Wordcels

Humans think in concepts and perceive ourselves living in physical reality, but babies aren't born doing either. We learn these things slowly, and not by reading. So who will teach them to GPT?

February 23, 2022developmental psychology5 Comments
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Selfless Dating

What if you just modeled your partner well enough to do what they would want without needing to ask? And what if you tried this from the first date?

January 2, 2022selfless dating15 Comments
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10 Reasons You’re Lazy About Dating

Everyone complains that dating isn't working, but no one want to put the work into dating. Here are 10 reasons why.

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021selfless dating21 Comments
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Consensual Hostility

In a world of conflict between men and women, consent negotiation is required. But the focus on consent to the exclusion of everything else is what brought this world about.

October 11, 2021selfless dating3 Comments
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Sex Versus

The NYT calls an end to sex-positivity blaming the patriarchy, and the trads agree while blaming the women. But I wouldn't give up on the opposite sex just yet.

October 6, 2021October 12, 2021selfless dating16 Comments
consciousness and the brain, model agency

Rules for Noobs

Beginners need explicit rules, masters need to forget them. I propose a general model of learning, ask you not to "be yourself", speculate on AI, and teach you how to crush it on Twitter.

September 10, 2021September 13, 2021writing10 Comments
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Chopek and Apchik Have Lunch

In which inflation is indicated, Spaniards are perverted, nerve is lost, and units are standardized.

August 22, 2021August 23, 2021humor5 Comments
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Money Stuff

My worst financial investment was not buying vodka, but everyone else is ever crazier on the subject of money.

July 25, 2021July 26, 202115 Comments
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The Anxious Philosopher King

A conversation with anonymous about emotions, billionaires, submission, Plato, and why individual identity is a mistake.

June 17, 2021June 20, 20217 Comments
love, memoir

Easily Top 20%

All the dating stories from my previous life that somehow managed not to crush my optimism about romance.

May 30, 2021May 31, 202120 Comments
link post, love

Sex Positivity Is Counter-Cultural

My Quillette article on sex negativity and follow-up thoughts on fuckability, why sex is bad so often, the preservation of ambiguity, and the value of blogs.

May 14, 202116 Comments
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Monastery and Throne

Thinking about the impact of my writing upon finding out that it may have been much greater than I thought.

April 3, 2021April 7, 2021COVID, politics, social reality16 Comments
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Don’t Sell Your Soul

Rationality is knowing better than to sell your soul for a few dollars, even if you don't believe you have one.

March 11, 2021March 12, 202126 Comments
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Podcasts and Hangouts

A roundup of podcasts and upcoming online chats.

February 26, 20212 Comments
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Above the Narrative

Follow ups on The Narrative and Its Discontents: journalists, nerds, politicians, and trolls.

February 22, 2021March 17, 202110 Comments
consciousness and the brain, rationality

Confirmation Bias in Action

Confirmation bias is the biggest obstacle to Rationality, and often the least understood. We need to rethink it through the lens of brains evolved in bodies and made for action, not argument.

January 23, 2021October 26, 2021predictive processing16 Comments

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