1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1281+ words) I thought some more about it and I think some of it holds up. But I also think I let myself off easy in a few places and didn't give sufficient weight to some aspects of the argument, so here's…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1056+ words) I keep running into similar arguments online, where people attack "the other" and use the (correct) observation of badness to claim their side is therefore doing well. There's a temptation to correct this by saying that in a dispute between…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (618+ words) First of, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a good book. I like it. It was a bit difficult to read because of Conrad's style, but I don't hold it against him, or the book. It's better for it....

2+ week, 17+ hour ago  (1855+ words) Knowing things is hard, sharing our knowledge accurately is even harder, and it is all too easy to claim more knowledge than we have. Many, when confronted with this, fall back to Epistemic Humility. They err towards being under-confident. This…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1798+ words) I'd like to thank Guy for the conversation we had on 26 November 2025. Late last year, the rationalist community leader and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed that chickens do not have qualia: This caused something of a stir " for what…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (85+ words) This is a crosspost from my blog article. In this post, I will steelman classical utilitarianism by offering my argument for classical utilitarianism, then responding to the best criticisms I can think of against it. I believe that classical utilitarianism…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (724+ words) Today we are going to explore in more details a very important epistemological principle which I've outlined earlier. And, in between, we are also going to disprove every theodicy, just to make things a little more exciting for those of…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1794+ words) It seems to me that'the Hamming problem for'developing a formidable art of rationality is, what to do about problems that systematically fight being solved. And in particular, how to handle bad reasoning that resists being corrected. I propose that each…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago  (756+ words) The purpose of this essay is not to present an academic claim, but to convey my thoughts based entirely on my personal readings. To avoid any confusion, I will begin this section by referring to the thought process I will…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (215+ words) Published on February 10, 2026 1:26 PM GMTI grew up a Mormon, but recently decided that the evidence strongly supports atheism instead of any religious worldview. My motto has become "I'd rather be sad than wrong." Unfortunately, I have indeed become very sad…...