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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, 202127 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
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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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Seeing The New COVID Variant Smoke

My current probability estimate with regards to the new COVID strain discovered in the UK and the US response. 1 in 3 says we're f***ed.

December 26, 2020December 27, 202019 Comments
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LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology

Review of the LessWrong 2018 essay collection on epistemology, from how it smells to what it says about the state of the Rationality community in 2020.

December 26, 2020January 15, 20215 Comments
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The Good Life Putanumed

What is a good life? What can mere numbers offer on this question? They offer freedom from other people's stories, and insight into yourself.

December 10, 2020December 11, 20205 Comments
Something else

How I Write

Celebrating Putanumonit's 5th birthday with some writing tips I picked up along the way.

November 15, 2020November 15, 20207 Comments
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SubOnlyStackFans

The internet wants to put our self-expression in neat boxes, but there's no reason to play along.

October 25, 20206 Comments
rationality

The Path to Reason

Rationalists did amazingly well with COVID. Will this inspire everyone else to embrace rationality? I see a few obstacles on the way.

October 8, 2020March 31, 202129 Comments
erisology, life

Against Victimhood

Victimhood is a hot product, and many are selling it. But it's not worth the price.

September 12, 2020September 13, 202032 Comments
meta

Working Hardly

Choices, anxiety, and why I haven't written anything in a month.

August 20, 202017 Comments
artificial intelligence

GPuTanumonit-3

A blogging collaboration with the machine that will replace me.

July 22, 2020July 22, 20208 Comments
meta

Why I Write Under My Real Name

Some reasons why I use my real name online, both personal and with regard to the truth.

July 20, 2020July 21, 20207 Comments
life, model agency

Kelly Bet on Everything

"The better you do the more you should bet on yourself" is a lesson from finance you can apply everywhere.

July 4, 2020July 20, 202020 Comments
erisology

Fight the Power

The collapse of authority leads to anxiety. Anxiety leads to outrage. Outrage leads to fear. Fear leads to submission. Don't submit.

June 18, 2020June 22, 202018 Comments
love, research

Do Women Like Assholes?

Results from my research project on personality traits and mating success.

June 11, 2020May 26, 2021dating, Nice Guys33 Comments
erisology

Fnords of the Times

Tesla wealth hypocrisy billionaire.
Trump Musk Trump Musk COVID.
Misogynist racist Silicon Valley.

May 20, 2020February 19, 202125 Comments
Something else

Please fill out my survey on personality and relationships

Please fill out my research survey by 5/18. The results will be published on Putanumonit soon!

May 10, 2020May 10, 202017 Comments
life

TFW No Incels

Do incels exist? A psychography of memes, suffering, community, and radical acceptance.

May 1, 2020May 1, 202036 Comments

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