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- [marginalium] On the value of reading dead philosophers — 9 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] A fun enough comparison of the new LoTR series and Western (US) culture — 8 Nov 2022
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The colour of the inhuman world
— 7 Nov 2022
Humans imagine that there is no other way of being than the way that we conceive of, and all experiences are ultimately relative to ours. This is a practical mistake, but one that leads to astonishing errors of judgement. - [marginalium] On predicting Russian appetite for nuclear escalation — 7 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] Words to describe the heart — 6 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] Kind of disorganised, but interesting comparison between chicken and human intelligence — 5 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] On the accuracy of futurist predictions (usually not very accurate) — 4 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] Mostly good for the overview of fasting (see also this) — 3 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] Slouching toward Utopia — 2 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] Midlife crises are less spectacular and more depressing, now — 1 Nov 2022
- [marginalium] Interview with the “last man standing in the floppy disk business — 31 Oct 2022
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A Science of Discontent
— 31 Oct 2022
We regularly create ‘psychic predators’, choosing to concentrate on the uncontrollability of events or concentrating on events we can’t control. A far better way of approaching this is to exercise our ‘psychic muscles’. - [marginalium] The incredible resources required to build a Greek Temple — 30 Oct 2022
- [marginalium] A plain language AI model tricked into helping plan a drug raid — 29 Oct 2022
- [marginalium] Republicans/Conservatives are not more likely to believe conspiracy theories — 28 Oct 2022