If only they read linch.substack.com/p/the-precocio… before the age of six, they'd have an intuitive understanding of how to avoid these reasoning errors!

Never meet your heroes. When I was in high school I won some state-level awards for short story writing and poetry. The contest had a “special speaker” give a talk. The speaker was a fantasy author that I’ve read before, the type that non-fantasy readers wouldn’t have heard of

My review likely caused a meaningful spike in searches for Ted Chiang yay

Finally, an actually practical moral dilemma in insect welfare!

My therapist said this to me, and it hit me like a brick, “What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity...Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good.”

This is one of the things that frustrates me about a lot of the examples of sell-outs or other ethical abuses I've seen. I'm not surprised by people's willingness to sell their souls ("everybody has their price"), I'm surprised at just how cheaply people's asking prices tend to

Sometimes I type opinions out and then I marvel at the world. Like how did the debate get to this point?

I'm in this odd spot where enough strangers know me from internet projects that I occasionally bump into them at parties & so I don't feel 100% like a normal internet citizen online anymore, but nowhere near enough followers to even be a microcelebrity. It's a weird liminal space