"All life is dragon-slaying." ~Fantastical Karl Popper youtube.com/watch?si=m4mje… cc: Arjun Khemani Tom Hyde

Brilliant stuff from Aaron Stupple .

Electricity is a menace. We should go back to candles and whale hunting.

Announcement: I’m doing one-on-one tutoring in AGI/epistemology. Beginners welcome! DM me with your situation, and if I think I can help you, we’ll schedule a time! (If not, I’ll say so.) It’s $50/hr. I’ll make 20-40 hours available between Sep. 10 - Sep. 20.

These are just great.

The word "evil" is not descriptive enough for Hamas. They murdered in cold blood six people they had taken hostage almost a year ago, including an American, just days ago -- all in an attempt to sow seeds of political chaos. A few points: 1. Hamas must be extirpated. It is the

Some of the right's favorite figures seem to be happily exploiting both their listeners' general distrust of authority and their own reputations as bold truth-tellers to breathe new life into outrageous conspiracies and revisionist history. We need moral clarity right now, not

I have been invited to speak on Non-Coercive, Collaborative Parenting at this Philosophy conference. I'm very looking forward to it!

The world is not “going to shit.” We live in the best time in human history by most measures.

There are many sound arguments for going to Mars, and more generally pushing space colonisation forward. 🚀 One is simply that the Earth is *full*. Not of people—there are woefully few people and the trend is not in the right direction, currently!—but societies. Polities.

Relativism kills.

Had a chat with Christian Dean about his experience at Rat Fest 2023 organized by Logan — 1 of 2 clips: #ratfest2024

1. Pick something you don't like about modernity 2. Blame whichever historical figure/event/ideology suits your narrative, regardless of whether or not it makes any sense to do so 3. Repeat until you get the policies you want

The Deutsch Files IV. Chapter 2

Logan Ofc! 🫡 Thanks for Econ pilling me 🦍

Regulations cannot guarantee safe houses, but they *do* guarantee a higher barrier to entry for builders.