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UBI For President

Andrew Yang wants to bring Universal Basic Income to America, and he's running for president to do so. After hearing from him directly, I weakly support UBI but strongly endorse Yang 2020.

October 10, 2018October 11, 2018basic income, politics7 Comments
erisology

What the Haters Hate

Ezra Klein thinks that his haters hate progress and equality. I think they mostly just hate him.

September 27, 2018October 1, 2018politics, rationality13 Comments
alignment

Territory and the Maps

Before describing a philosophy of everything, it's important to distinguish between properties of reality and properties of minds.

September 23, 2018September 24, 2018philosophy, rationality8 Comments
defense against the dark arts, math class

The Scent of Bad Psychology

Psychology has long stank of fake results that don't replicate. But it's not hard to sniff out the bad science with a few simple rules, and that gives reason to hope that the field will improve.

September 7, 2018September 17, 2018psychology, science19 Comments
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I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler

I am the very model of a self-recursive modeler My consciousness encompasses itself in many meta layers

August 28, 2018September 12, 2018poetry3 Comments
math class

Player of Games

Things I learned from a game theory party: why prisoner's dilemmas are not what they seem, why being smart is often worse than being the dumbest, and the virtues of trolls.

August 22, 2018August 30, 2018game theory, stock market4 Comments
life

Jobs Inside the API

If someone is worse at their job than a drunk person with Google, why do they still have their job?

August 9, 2018August 21, 201816 Comments
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Colombia in 100 Photos

A photographic journey in Colombia.

July 28, 2018July 28, 2018Colombia, photography1 Comment
model agency, Uncategorized

Top Left Mood

Everything I believe in explained by a single chart I don't understand.

July 9, 2018July 18, 2018predictive processing11 Comments
money

Debt is an Anti-investment

Should you pay off debt or invest the money instead? To answer this it's useful to think of debt as the opposite of a risk-free investment, and to put a number on the risk.

July 3, 2018July 3, 2018investment6 Comments
love

Geoffrey Miller on Polyamory and Mating

The third part of an extensive interview with Dr. Geoffrey Miller covers jealousy, polyamory, marriage, and mating.

June 20, 2018dating, polyamory8 Comments
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Geoffrey Miller on Research and Politics in Psychology

The second part of an extensive interview with Dr. Geoffrey Miller covers troublesome research and troublesome ideology in psychology.

June 17, 2018June 20, 2018psychology6 Comments
interview

Geoffrey Miller on Effective Altruism and Rationality

The first part of an extensive interview with Dr. Geoffrey Miller covers effective altruism, AI, and rationality.

June 13, 2018June 20, 2018AI, effective altruism, Geoffrey Miller, rationality7 Comments
math class, rationality

Monty Hall in the Wild

Monty Hall isn't just a curious probability puzzle. It's a widely applicable demonstration of Bayesian thinking and rationality.

June 3, 2018June 8, 2018Bayes, statistics10 Comments
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[Link] Outgroups, Bias, and the Dark Web (for Quillette magazine)

My first essay for Quillette builds on "The Context is Conflict" to explore the clash between decouplers and contextualizers, why everyone is a hypocrite, who's whose outgroup, how tribalism makes smart people less rational, and what the Intellectual Dark Web can learn about overcoming bias.

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erisology

The context is conflict

Some people think that there's always group conflict, some people don't. When the former meets the latter, there's group conflict.

May 6, 2018May 7, 2018conflict/mistake, decoupling22 Comments
rationality

Don’t Believe Wrong Things

Should we believe what is useful to believe over what it true? I attack this question from various angles: wrong "wrongness", murder-Gandhiism, the Gorilla Channel, and fake glasses.

April 23, 2018April 25, 2018fake frameworks, Sequences8 Comments
Uncategorized

I desire U, grpfrt, but I won’t eat U.

[Caution: experimental].

April 8, 2018April 23, 20185 Comments
life, rationality

Internal Diet Crux

Should I keep trying one diet after another or just accept my figure as it is? I let the voices in my head hash it out.

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018CFAR, diet15 Comments

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