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An overview of Putanumonit for new readers.

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Predictable Identities – A Ribbonfarm Blogchain

I'm excited to announce Predictable Identities, a weekly blogchain I am writing for Ribbonfarm.

February 20, 2019March 2, 20191 Comment
life

Cooperation is for Winners

Competition can often be bad, but competing well is often the only path to cooperating well.

February 12, 2019February 15, 2019competition6 Comments
sports

The Super Bowl Prop Gambling Game 2019

Spice up your Super Bowl party with Putanumonit's annual prop gambling game.

February 2, 2019February 2, 2019gamblingLeave a comment
life, sports

Masculine Virtues

Gillette and Roger Federer demonstrate the difference between traditional and toxic masculinity, who hates hierarchies and why, and the virtues learned by watching sports.

January 26, 2019January 30, 2019masculinity26 Comments
hedgehog alert

Curing the World of Men

The American Psychological Association has declared that masculinity is a disease, and they will cure you.

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019feminism, psychology15 Comments
money, Nonsense, policy and economics

Finance Followups

A few thoughts on how finance improves and why it sometimes sucks.

January 1, 2019finance9 Comments
model agency, policy and economics

In Defense of Finance

People hate the financial industry and are confident they know how to fix it, in proportion with how ignorant they are of the basic facts about it. This post will at least help with the latter.

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018finance45 Comments
interview, life

Peanut Butter

Exploring materialism, Buddhism, demons, suffering, and monogamy with deluks917 and a jar of peanut butter.

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018Buddhism, lifestyle, mindfulness6 Comments
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deluks917 on Online Communities

Part 1 of a transcribed interview with deluks917, which covers online communities, weirdos, freethinkers, and Uyghurs.

November 20, 2018November 20, 2018internet, politics6 Comments
erisology

Mandatory Obsessions

Even when I agree with people on an issue, I'm judged for not being as obsessed with it as they are. What's up with that?

November 7, 2018November 14, 20189 Comments
Nonsense

In the Valley of Bad Mindfulness

I write Putanumonit on a 7-14 day cycle of satisfaction and anxiety. When a post is done, I publish it with a mixed sense of relief and giddy expectation. Over the next week, I share links on LessWrong, Twitter and Facebook, and enjoy the rush of the views and comments rolling in. After a week … Continue reading In the Valley of Bad Mindfulness

October 19, 201822 Comments
policy and economics

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, politics11 Comments
erisology, hedgehog alert

What the Haters Hate

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

September 27, 2018November 1, 2018politics, rationality15 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, 2018November 14, 2018psychology, science20 Comments
Nonsense

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, 201817 Comments
travel

Colombia in 100 Photos

A photographic journey in Colombia.

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

Top Left Mood

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

July 9, 2018July 18, 2018predictive processing14 Comments

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