Title: Days Gone By
Date: 2011-12-31 06:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: new year
Slug: happy-new-year-2012
Title: A "Knock, Knock" Joke
Date: 2012-07-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: humor, morality
Slug: a-knock-knock-joke
Title: A Philosophy of Education
Date: 2012-12-03 20:03
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: schooling
Slug: a-philosophy-of-education
Title: Advice for a Moment of Emotional Vulnerability
Date: 2012-11-06 12:17
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: advice-for-a-moment-of-emotional-vulnerability
Don't panic; keep it together; silently lower your estimate of your general competence.
Title: Ambition
Date: 2012-11-10 20:42
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: ambition
I will not be rich; I will not be famous; who can say but that in a year's time, my desiccated corpse will be found abandoned in the most desolate of wastelands?—but! By the stars which may one day yet still be ours, _I will understand!_
Title: Audacious Resumé Lines
Date: 2012-12-31 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: audacious-resume-lines
__Short-Term Career Objective__: _make money_ and _help people_ by means of using computers to _solve problems_
Title: Book Notes I
Date: 2012-10-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Slug: book-notes-i
Did you know that putting [adorable foxes on the cover of your book](http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Game-Theory-Computer-Scientists/dp/0521198666) will make it sell more copies??
Title: Cached Remark for When My Prediction of Abject Failure Comes True
Date: 2012-09-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: cached speech
Slug: cached-remark-for-when-my-prediction-of-abject-failure-comes-true
Title: Cached Reply Upon Being Told That I'm an Idiot
Date: 2012-09-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: cached speech
Slug: cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot
Title: Can't Break Clean
Date: 2012-12-09 15:49
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: cant-break-clean
For five years I've known that at some point I need to stop shouting, "the Authorities _lied_ to me; _why why why why did they lie to me?!_" and start saying, "Okay, so extant social institutions are flawed in knowable ways, and my parents and teachers didn't tell me. Given my current state of information, this shouldn't actually be surprising, so let's stop crying about it and get on with the whole world optimization thing."
Title: Character Entity Reference
Date: 2012-09-25 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Friendship Is Magic
Slug: character-entity-reference
Title: Contemporary
Date: 2012-08-07 00:23
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: contemporary
I've been taking a summer course at a university which I won't name, because whenever I do, I'm always tempted to replace one of the words with an obscenity that starts with the same letter, which is _probably_ a bad habit. The topic is contemporary sexuality, which seemed like a fine choice for knocking out one of my remaining so-called "general education" requirements, and maybe even learning something relevant to my interests.
Title: Desultory Fluttering Between Subjects
Date: 2012-08-16 09:29
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: desultory-fluttering-between-subjects
She's a dilettante; you're a dabbler; I'm executing a breadth-first search.
Title: Dialogue on Weird Social Movements
Date: 2012-12-14 19:55
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: dialogue-on-weird-social-movements
"Some of my Facebook 'friends'—that is, distant acquaintances—are political radicals: here's a picture of the words 'KILL COPS' spraypainted on the ground, with five 'Likes.' It would be psychologically interesting to know what that feels like."
Title: Dice
Date: 2012-10-23 16:14
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: mathematics
Tags: polytopes
Slug: dice
Title: Don't Resent That No One Cares
Date: 2012-10-08 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: improvement
Slug: dont-resent-that-no-one-cares
Title: Evening Routine
Date: 2012-12-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: evening-routine
"Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?"
Title: Facial Hair Is Gross
Date: 2012-10-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: facial-hair-is-gross
I often go a couple days without bothering to shave, but never much longer, because the stubble quickly becomes intolerable: I end up compulsively touching my face out of what I want to describe as a mildly horrified perverse fascination, perhaps of the same kind that would motivate picking at a scab, or poking a tumor.
Title: Friendship Deficits
Date: 2012-10-19 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: friendship-deficits
I'm not sure, but I _suspect_ that I'm running a friendship deficit—that I need my friends more than they need me.
Title: I Feel Sorry for People Who Work in Capital-Intensive Fields
Date: 2012-11-24 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: i-feel-sorry-for-people-who-work-in-capital-intensive-fields
Writers and mathematicians and programmers (_&c._) can work on whatever they want with equipment that's easy for individuals to purchase. Architects and particle physicists and psychologists (_&c._) need to hustle for clients or fill out a dozen grant applications just to be allowed to breathe—how do they bear it?
Title: I Just Want Outrage Season to Be Over Already
Date: 2012-11-05 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Tags: politics
Slug: i-just-want-outrage-season-to-be-over-already
Title: Idiot or Alien? Incompetence or Evil?
Date: 2012-10-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: rationality
Slug: idiot-or-alien-incompetence-or-evil
Title: "It's Not That"
Date: 2012-10-25 08:41
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: its-not-that
Oftentimes I initially want to write "It's not that X, but rather Y" to mean "You might think I'm implying that X is true, so I want to emphasize that X is false; Y is true, and that's what explains my position," but I worry that this idiom is ambiguous; someone is likely to interpret it as meaning, "X might be true, but it's not the relevant consideration; my position is actually explained by Y (which does not necessarily contradict X)", which doesn't mean the same thing.
Title: It's Not Whether You Win or Lose
Date: 2012-09-21 00:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: morality
Slug: its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose
Title: Library Fines
Date: 2012-11-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: library-fines
Title: "Life Is Worth Protecting Now"
Date: 2012-12-05 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: life-is-worth-protecting-now
What makes a true story _inspirational_? I think people usually use that word to describe happy stories, stories that make us think that the world is a better place than we previously thought. But sometimes I want to use it to describe sad stories that remind us that the world is far worse than just the parts of it we're used to seeing firsthand, stories about innocent people being hurt by arbitrary causes. It's inspirational in the sense of a call to action, a reminder that there's still important work to be done in the world: I can't solve this particular problem, but there's a reference class of people containing me (reasonably intelligent, reasonably ambitious people, striving to become more effective) who can help fix a reference class of problems including this one—and that is a sacred responsibility that must not be betrayed. Or however you translate folderol like "sacred responsibility" and "must not be betrayed" into something more basic (Bayes-ic?).
Title: Missing Words I
Date: 2012-12-04 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-i
Title: Missing Words II
Date: 2012-12-15 01:10
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-ii
Title: Missing Words III
Date: 2012-12-27 00:04
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-iii
Title: Movie Tagline
Date: 2012-12-06 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: intelligence explosion
Slug: movie-tagline
Title: My Favorite Mnemonic
Date: 2012-10-10 22:28
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: mathematics
Tags: calculus
Slug: my-favorite-mnemonic
Title: Narrative Fallacy
Date: 2012-12-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: narrative-fallacy
I agree that it would be wildly out of character to learn JavaScript before Haskell, but _life is not a story_.
Title: Nothing Good in Life Scales
Date: 2012-12-08 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: nothing-good-in-life-scales
The other day while rehearsing my arguments about how currently-existing social institutions are obviously insane, it became more salient that there's also no clear way to fix anything on a large scale. My perspective on How to Do Things Better is the idiosyncratic result of five years of my thinking; even if my vision is in the 99th percentile of Arbitrary People's Idiosyncratic Visions of How to Do Things Better (and everyone thinks that about herself, so don't take _my_ word for it), it's not very _transferable_.
Title: Notice of Policy Regarding Consistency
Date: 2012-07-16 13:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: improvement, rationality
Slug: notice-of-policy-regarding-consistency
Title: On an Image Macro
Date: 2012-11-04 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: Friendship Is Magic, poetry
+Category: verse
+Tags: Friendship Is Magic
Slug: on-an-image-macro
For the haters are going to hate,
Title: On Arc Length
Date: 2012-08-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: calculus, poetry
+Category: verse
+Tags: calculus
Slug: on-arc-length
Zeno knew, but did not know enough; a minute is divided
Title: On the Usefulness of Boats
Date: 2012-09-02 11:51
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: boats
Slug: on-the-usefulness-of-boats
Title: Periphery Demographic
Date: 2012-09-12 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: periphery-demographic
Judging by the comment moderation queue, this blog is wildly popular among a certain niche audience.
Title: Role Tension
Date: 2012-12-10 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: role-tension
Do you ever have trouble reconciling your social role of "ordinary college student at a mediocre state university" with your secret identity as junior member of an elite conspiracy to take over the world?
Title: Seasonal Drink
Date: 2012-12-25 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Less Wrong
Slug: seasonal-drink
Title: Self-Esteem Is Overrated
Date: 2012-12-16 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: self-esteem-is-overrated
Maybe self-esteem makes sense for deontologists who think that being a good person is a matter of obeying some knowable set of rules, but I think that the goodness of a person is a real number, [probably bounded](http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4318) but with no known upper bound. Saying "I'm a good enough person just the way I am; I deserve self-esteem" isn't bad so much as it is _meaningless_: once you know what you've done and how close the results were to (your current estimate of) what the results should have been, then there's nothing left to describe, no further question to be answered.
Title: Seriously Now
Date: 2012-12-09 16:27
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: morality
Slug: seriously-now
Title: Speculative Etymology I
Date: 2012-10-21 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: speculative etymology
Slug: speculative-etymology-i
Title: Supermarket Notes I
Date: 2012-09-10 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Friendship Is Magic, shopping
Slug: supermarket-notes-i
Title: Supermarket Notes II
Date: 2012-09-22 20:56
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: shopping, Star Trek
Slug: supermarket-notes-ii
Title: Text From an Analyst to a Friend
Date: 2012-12-07 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: analysis
Slug: text-from-an-analyst-to-a-friend
Title: The Quieted Scare Convention
Date: 2012-10-15 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: the-quieted-scare-convention
Everyone knows ("everyone knows") about "scare quotes," where you enclose a phrase in quotation marks to indicate that the literal interpretation of the words should be regarded with skepticism, but sometimes I do this thing where I'll use a phrase normally and then _repeat_ it in scare quotes _and_ parentheses, as if to say, "I do partially intend this sincerely, but also with some irony or skepticism, although not so much as to justify outright scare quotes."
Title: The Sliding False Dichotomy of Idealism and Cynicism
Date: 2012-10-06 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: cynicism, Less Wrong
Slug: the-sliding-false-dichotomhy-of-idealism-and-cynicism
Title: The So-Called "Euclidean Plane"
Date: 2012-10-28 17:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: the-so-called-euclidean-plane
I'm skeptical; I think it's actually just a really big torus.
Title: The Word <em>Melancholy</em>
Date: 2012-10-07 18:08
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: the-word-melancholy
It sounds like a kind of dog bred to harvest _Cucurbitaceae_-family fruits.
Title: Things That Are Hard to Quit (Non-exhaustive List)
Date: 2012-11-07 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia, lists
Slug: things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list
Title: Untitled
Date: 2012-06-21 20:06
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: akrasia
Slug: untitled
Title: Vast Expanses of Imperfection
Date: 2012-12-09 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: vast-expanses-of-imperfection
_Hard Truths from Soft Cats_ [opines that](http://hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com/post/31974112077)
Title: You Know What They Say
Date: 2012-12-10 16:06
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: you-know-what-they-say
If you shouldn't make lemonade, then life hasn't given you lemons.
Title: A Possible Future
Date: 2013-03-04 13:58
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: a-possible-future
I just saw a film first conceived near the kiln
Title: Acronyms for Defending Actions that Would Otherwise Appear Dubious (Non-exhaustive List)
Date: 2013-09-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: lists
Slug: acronyms-for-defending-actions-that-would-otherwise-appear-dubious-non-exhaustive-list
Title: Actually Trying
Date: 2013-03-17 18:01
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: actually-trying
Title: After an Epiphany
Date: 2013-01-09 19:18
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: improvement
Slug: after-an-epiphany
Title: All Vows
Date: 2013-09-14 11:56
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: morality
Slug: all-vows
Title: An Unauthorized Use of Ms. Gunnison's Secret Time Machine
Date: 2013-12-09 13:29
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: an-unauthorized-use-of-ms-gunnisons-secret-time-machine
Gunni told her not to touch it;
Title: Being Myself
Date: 2013-02-20 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: being-myself
"Don't worry, I'm sure it'll all go fine. Just be yourself."
Title: Cached Remark for When Someone Asks How You Knew an Obscure Fact
Date: 2013-08-26 16:03
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: cached speech
Slug: cached-remark-for-when-someone-asks-how-you-knew-an-obscure-fact
Title: Cascading Stable Strategies
Date: 2013-11-12 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: cascading-stable-strategies
"What do you think of my website's new look? I designed it with ESS."
Title: Childlike
Date: 2013-03-03 21:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: childlike
Title: Classification
Date: 2013-12-26 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: classification
"So, what do you think it—"
Title: Clearness
Date: 2013-01-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: clearness
"I somehow feel less bitter today."
Title: Compensation
Date: 2013-07-07 18:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: cryonics
Slug: compensation
Title: Concreteness
Date: 2013-01-12 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: concreteness
"I'm not sure that I'm happy that _concrete_ is used as a sort of metonym for anything definite and fixed; there are lots of other hard substances, too, like diamond, steel, or topaz."
Title: Cover Letter
Date: 2013-12-14 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: cover-letter
Beset by nights of torment,
Title: Cryonics as Memoir
Date: 2013-08-19 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: cryonics
Slug: cryonics-as-memoir
Title: Dimensionality
Date: 2013-05-06 11:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: humor
Slug: dimensionality
Title: Don't Try to Be Clever
Date: 2013-01-18 11:45
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: rationality
Slug: dont-try-to-be-clever
Title: "&c."
Date: 2013-12-18 21:15
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: etc
Is it wrong that I feel more positively disposed towards [Etsy](http://www.etsy.com/) after figuring out where it must have (_must_ have) gotten its name?
Title: Fortune
Date: 2013-12-15 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: fortune
"They're going to pay you _X_ dollars a year? But that's fantastic! You're rich!"
Title: Genre
Date: 2013-12-27 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Slug: genre
"I didn't _intend_ for my blog to become a compendium of very short dialogues! It's just—it's just—"
Title: Good Works
Date: 2013-05-24 17:39
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: good-works
"And _you_, you louse! How do you justify your existence?"
Title: Group Introduction
Date: 2013-01-31 00:47
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: group-introduction
"Hey, I'm Kevin. I'm a junior majoring in marketing. I live in San Leandro, and my favorite teacher was my high school English teacher Mr. Wheeler."
Title: Growing Up
Date: 2013-02-14 19:50
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: growing-up
"I miss being a human."
Title: Guns
Date: 2013-07-05 11:22
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: guns
Title: Haiku for Euler's Number
Date: 2013-03-03 20:21
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: calculus, poetry
+Category: verse
+Tags: calculus
Slug: haiku-for-eulers-number
Two point seven one
Title: Highball
Date: 2013-12-12 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: highball
"Now remember: when you're negotiating salary and they press you for a number, do _not_ reveal your BATNA. Give them an unrealistically high estimate and make them negotiate down. Now practice on me."
Title: Humans Are Mysterious
Date: 2013-01-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: humans-are-mysterious
"You are mysterious."
Title: Hustle
Date: 2013-01-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: hustle
"I'm entertaining this daydream of standing in a coffeeshop with a sign saying, 'BUSINESSPEOPLE: TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS; I WILL BUY YOU COFFEE' in the hopes that some of their pain points could be easily solved in software for money. I don't know if this would actually work."
Title: Identity Secrets
Date: 2013-01-17 22:22
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: identity-secrets
"You know secrets."
Title: I'm a Moron
Date: 2013-08-30 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: im-a-moron
It's always tempting to make excuses for our past selves, to tell a story about how, despite the appearance of continual failure and waste, we were actually in the right all along.
Title: Insight Porn
Date: 2013-03-16 15:04
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: insight-porn
Title: Levels
Date: 2013-10-26 12:26
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: levels
Specific is terrific,
Title: Lyrics to the Song About Having Sinned
Date: 2013-09-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-having-sinned
_I'm going to do it the dark way
Title: Lyrics to the Song About Matt Reeves
Date: 2013-05-22 15:58
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-matt-reeves
_Dead kid gets a bench
Title: Lyrics to the Song About My Hair
Date: 2013-02-21 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-my-hair
_How frizzy is my hair
Title: Lyrics to the Song About Truthseekers
Date: 2013-08-18 07:50
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-truthseekers
_Yesterday my sister won the Nobel prize
Title: Missing Books I
Date: 2013-01-13 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: analysis, missing books
Slug: missing-books-i
Title: Missing Words IV
Date: 2013-10-15 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-iv
Title: Numbers Between 0 and 1 (Non-exhaustive List)
Date: 2013-12-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: lists
Slug: numbers-between-0-and-1-non-exhaustive-list
Title: O Glorious Day
Date: 2013-08-28 13:41
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: o-glorious-day
Books arrived in the post! Including [the book about counterfactuals and causal inference in the social sciences](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521671930/), which is _really important_ because everyone and her dog has political opinions, but it's [rather less common](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/12/counterfactual-social-thought/) to have a theory about how to reason about which interventions will lead to which outcomes!
Title: Online Dating Profile, First Draft
Date: 2013-08-31 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: online-dating-profile-first-draft
25 / M / Straight / Single
Title: Optimal Last Words Before the Intelligence Explosion
Date: 2013-09-04 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: intelligence explosion
Slug: optimal-last-words-before-the-intelligence-explosion
Title: Personhood
Date: 2013-08-05 13:16
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: personhood
"Did you hear that India has recognized dolphins as nonhuman persons with rights to life and liberty?"
Title: Plurals of Coinflip Outcomes
Date: 2013-08-28 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: grammar
Slug: plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes
Title: Prodrome
Date: 2013-04-01 13:57
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: prodrome
Title: Quotations I
Date: 2013-07-21 11:17
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: quotations
Slug: quotations-i
Title: Quotations II
Date: 2013-09-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: quotations
Slug: quotations-ii
Title: Quotations III
Date: 2013-11-18 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: quotations
Slug: quotations-iii
Title: Rankings
Date: 2013-05-28 11:33
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: population ethics
Slug: rankings
Title: Reasons and Persons for Which the Bell Tolls
Date: 2013-09-09 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: reasons-and-persons-for-which-the-bell-tolls
So, did John Donne actually take a reductionist view of personal identity, or was that "[No man is an island [...] therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls](http://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/island.html)" business just ordinary empathy and stuff?
Title: Relevance
Date: 2013-05-15 13:01
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: relevance
Title: Religious
Date: 2013-03-04 21:46
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: Less Wrong, madness
Slug: religious
Title: Remembering
Date: 2013-06-06 11:36
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: remembering
Title: Retirement
Date: 2013-05-16 20:18
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: retirement
Title: Revisionist History I
Date: 2013-06-22 19:09
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: cryonics
Slug: revisionist-history-i
Title: Serenity
Date: 2013-10-08 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: serenity
"I shall seek the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Title: Silent Theories
Date: 2013-01-14 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: silent-theories
"I _like_ adherents of Ideology X; I really do. Wonderful people with noble goals. It's just genuinely hard to communicate with most of them, because I assign a fairly high probability to hypotheses that they consider unthinkable—not even that; the problem with unthinkable hypotheses is that you _can't_ consider them."
Title: Skeptical Hypotheses
Date: 2013-04-30 20:41
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: skeptical-hypotheses
"I think Popper said something about the power of scientific reasoning: that our hypotheses can die instead of us."
Title: Speculative Etymology II
Date: 2013-10-13 11:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: speculative etymology
Slug: speculative-etymology-ii
Title: Strategy Overhaul
Date: 2013-03-28 22:08
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness, schooling
Slug: strategy-overhaul
Title: Strategy
Date: 2013-09-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: strategy
"Oh, I'm so nervous! What if I ... ? What if _they_ ... ? Oh, what ever shall I do?"
Title: Talking Too Much
Date: 2013-08-18 07:52
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: talking-too-much
"Sorry, have I been dominating our conversations too much?"
Title: The History of the Universe
Date: 2013-08-06 21:38
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: intelligence explosion
Slug: the-history-of-the-universe
Title: Thinking About Writing
Date: 2013-12-13 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: thinking-about-writing
Title: Tradition
Date: 2013-03-08 14:41
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: gridiron football, madness
Slug: tradition
Title: True Inclusiveness
Date: 2013-09-08 14:40
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: morality
Slug: true-inclusiveness
Title: World's Best
Date: 2013-11-14 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: worlds-best
"We need some sort of slogan to go on our advertisements. Any ideas?"
Title: You Can't Spell X Without Y
Date: 2013-11-16 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: lists
Slug: you-cant-spell-x-without-y
Title: A Line of Code I Haven't Found an Excuse to Use Yet
Date: 2014-07-18 11:04
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Clojure
Slug: a-line-of-code-i-havent-found-an-excuse-to-use-yet
Title: A Short Story
Date: 2014-05-21 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: a-short-story
"Seriously, what kind of _asshole_ writes the phrase _conditional on the hypothesis that_ when the word _if_ would do?"
Title: A Thanksgiving in June
Date: 2014-06-21 20:06
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: a-thanksgiving-in-june
Sitting on the green couch, eating cheese ravioli and sipping an allegedly peach-tea-flavored energy drink, admiring my brand-new wireless router and fresh installation of Xubuntu 14.04, I make a deliberate decision to drop to my knees in a song of praise which says, "God bless America!"—and if some not-yet-forgotten ghost or subroutine of intellectual integrity has me quickly disclaim that _God_ is but a metaphor and _America_ a metonym for concepts much less familar and perhaps slightly sinister, I don't _think_ it makes the prayer any less heartfelt.
Title: An Education News Bulletin
Date: 2014-02-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Tags: politics, schooling
Slug: an-education-news-bulletin
Title: An Exercise for the Writer-Pretendant
Date: 2014-11-15 21:16
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: akrasia
Slug: an-exercise-for-the-writer-pretendant
Title: Behind Schedule
Date: 2014-05-25 17:05
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: behind-schedule
gotta wr8
Title: Cloud Computing in the Small
Date: 2014-10-13 20:44
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: trains
Slug: cloud-computing-in-the-small
Title: Cute
Date: 2014-01-12 13:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: cute
"... so, what do you think?"
Title: Defect
Date: 2014-04-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: defect
[](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/genotype_emacs.png)
Title: Don't Get Your Loyalty Trapped
Date: 2014-07-06 10:59
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: dont-get-your-loyalty-trapped
_Opportunity
Title: Friday Night Lies
Date: 2014-10-03 19:47
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Friendship Is Magic
Slug: friday-night-lies
Title: House Style
Date: 2014-01-31 22:01
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: house-style
it's kind of strange that I think _the internet_ is all-lowercase, when I'm so eager to slap Portentous (Pretentious?) Captial Letters on Fuck Near Everything Else
Title: Last Friday Night
Date: 2014-11-01 12:04
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Git, Python
Slug: last-friday-night
Title: Lethal --force
Date: 2014-03-17 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Git
Slug: lethal-force
Title: Lexicographic
Date: 2014-06-17 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: lexicographic
Title: Lower Decks
Date: 2014-06-13 21:39
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Star Trek
Slug: lower-decks
Title: Missing Words V
Date: 2014-03-30 16:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-v
Title: Missing Words VI
Date: 2014-11-18 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-vi
Title: Native Tongue
Date: 2014-11-28 10:28
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Python
Slug: native-tongue
Title: Ode to Swift
Date: 2014-04-06 15:54
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: OpenStack Swift, poetry
+Category: verse
+Tags: OpenStack Swift
Slug: ode-to-swift
Our users have a need although
Title: On Schedule
Date: 2014-09-27 08:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: on-schedule
gonna get ready for my d8
Title: Proper Outlook
Date: 2014-03-16 12:44
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: improvement, morality
Slug: proper-outlook
Title: Pumpkin Spice!
Date: 2014-09-11 23:36
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: anecdotal, Friendship Is Magic
Slug: pumpkin-spice
Title: Reasons for Seasons
Date: 2014-04-20 07:45
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: reasons-for-seasons
I don't particularly care for Christianity, but my heart went out to the designer of the greeting card with a chocolate cross attached that was on sale at the corner drugstore. _May His Light Shine Upon You_, it said on the front, and _Happy Easter_ inside, as if some foresight-burdened defender of the faith had reasoned, "We know we're powerless to _stop_ the secular commercialization of our holy day, but maybe we can slow it down, just a bit."
Title: Speculative Etymology III
Date: 2014-05-20 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: speculative etymology
Slug: speculative-etymology-iii
Title: Speculative Etymology IV
Date: 2014-11-16 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: speculative etymology
Slug: speculative-etymology-iv
Title: Standard Advice
Date: 2014-06-16 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: standard-advice
"So? What do _you_ think I should do?"
Title: <em>Sub Specie Aeternitatis</em>
Date: 2014-05-11 11:48
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: sub-specie-aeternitatis
_Contrary to popular belief_, it is _not_ the case that all's well that ends well. But it will seem like it, at the end.
Title: The Chocolate Caramel Sea-Salt Betrayal
Date: 2014-01-13 20:13
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: ice-cream
Slug: the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal
Title: The Emissary Who Will Bring Disunity
Date: 2014-06-15 20:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: the-emissary-who-will-bring-disunity
_It's like everyone thinks they belong
Title: The Year of the Em Dash, Not
Date: 2014-12-01 21:44
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Unicode
Slug: the-year-of-the-em-dash-not
Title: Where I Stand
Date: 2014-06-18 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: where-i-stand
(firmly on one side of the fine and yet distinctly perceptible line between "I've got mine; fuck you" and "I've got mine, and I hope that you get yours, but I'm far too ignorant of the relevant sciences to say which interventions would make this more or less likely")
Title: Worth
Date: 2014-09-07 13:07
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: worth
"I still feel bad about being the [worst person at my job](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/06/lower-decks/)."
Title: __pycache__/shibboleth.cpython-34.pyc
Date: 2015-06-22 22:18
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Python
Slug: __pycache__shibboleth-cpython-34-pyc
Title: App Ideas I
Date: 2015-10-13 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: baseball, notation
Slug: app-ideas-i
Title: Apt-Get
Date: 2015-11-30 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: apt-get
Some packages could not be installed.
Title: Back from Running
Date: 2015-10-14 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: akrasia
Slug: back-from-running
Title: Californian Raktajino
Date: 2015-12-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: recipes
Slug: californian-raktajino
Title: Company Loyalty
Date: 2015-10-18 13:07
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: company-loyalty
"My lord. You took a chance on me when I was unknown and unproven, rescued me from the continued degradation of 'college' that the emperor's men would have us believe is the source of life itself. In return for your generosity, I will do everything in my power to make it _not_ have been generosity.
Title: Confection
Date: 2015-05-24 00:01
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: confection
([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/01/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.)
Title: Creature Manipulation
Date: 2015-10-19 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: creature-manipulation
_(marching into the room confidently, carrying copies of Carnegie, Cialdini, and Patterson Grenny_ et al._)_ "I'm going to acquire creature-manipulation technology!"
Title: Down and In
Date: 2015-10-22 22:38
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: down-and-in
With pity towards those who have fall'n off the wagon
Title: Electrolysis
Date: 2015-07-03 11:14
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: electrolysis
Title: Epistolary
Date: 2015-04-14 22:41
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: epistolary
[(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/05/a-short-story/)
Title: Everyday True Crime
Date: 2015-10-10 15:06
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: everyday-true-crime
Title: Getting a Contribution Through the OpenStack Review Process
Date: 2015-10-06 21:40
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: OpenStack Swift
Slug: getting-a-contribution-through-the-openstack-review-process
Title: I Want to Be the One
Date: 2015-12-07 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: intelligence explosion, lyrics
+Category: verse
+Tags: intelligence explosion
Slug: i-want-to-be-the-one
_This life is not to last and it awaits apotheosis
Title: Monthly Favorites, September 2015
Date: 2015-09-30 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Friendship Is Magic, Python, Rust
Slug: monthly-favorites-september-2015
Title: No Award
Date: 2015-08-23 22:54
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: no-award
Nothing should dilute or adulterate the exalted joy of watching the chess engine you've toiled over for the better part of three weekends start to suggest moves (from a basic 3-ply negamax search with a simple [point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece_relative_value)-counting position evaluation heuristic), unless it's the slight(ly overdetermined?) suspicion that you're overcompensating for something, that you've proved your point by now, that bringing yet another moderately-sophisticated side project in a [not-the-most-popular](http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html) programming language over the threshold of "really cool-looking proof-of-concept" isn't going to show Everyone that you are Smart and should be Respected any _more_ than the last seven already did. Some people actually _use_ software for something other than a trophy, to automate some aspect of the world that otherwise would have been done more poorly. So you've heard. If one were to hypothesize, for the sake of argument (but perhaps not _only_ for the sake of argument) that there can exist diminishing marginal returns to some games, that Respect from Everyone is not a real thing that can be won, that there are treasures and masteries you'd never imagine while chasing GitHub stars, much like how _you_ know there are treasures and masteries that you'd never imagine while chasing school marks—what strategies would that imply, now that you know there is such a thing as being strategic? And how would you tell the difference?
Title: October Eleventh
Date: 2015-10-11 23:45
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: october-eleventh
_October eleventh
Title: (1)
Date: 2015-10-12 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: open-paren-one-close-paren
"Could it be? That parenthesized numeral one in the other tab can only mean that a _human_ has sent me _mail_! I wonder what it could be—why, the mind staggers at the sheer number of possibilities! Could it be an old friend writing to regale me with true tales of adventure and mystery on the high seas? A professional acquaintance looking to make a business deal? Or the first of many missives to come from my destined _one true love?_ ...
Title: Permalink or It Didn't Happen
Date: 2015-02-28 09:33
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: permalink-or-it-didnt-happen
Title: Post-Ingress
Date: 2015-04-21 21:57
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: post-ingress
Her tense reaction was contorted,
Title: Running
Date: 2015-08-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: running
Because decreased expected knee health for increased expected cardiovascular health is a great trade!!
Title: Smalltalk
Date: 2015-05-11 20:44
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: compilers
Slug: smalltalk
Title: The Second <em>R</em>
Date: 2015-06-30 21:33
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: the-second-r
Title: The Sin in the Form
Date: 2015-10-20 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: the-sin-in-the-form
Would you like to hang out on the weekend some time
Title: Traffic Koan
Date: 2015-11-09 09:07
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: trains
Slug: traffic-koan
Title: XXX II
Date: 2015-03-21 23:07
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Rust
Slug: xxx-ii
Title: Alpha Gamma Phi
Date: 2016-12-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: alpha-gamma-phi
In the oneiric methodlessness of my daydream, my bros at ΑΓΦ are telling me that E is the best party drug and that I have to try it.
Title: An Element Which Is Nameless
Date: 2016-12-28 20:17
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Friendship Is Magic, rationality
Slug: an-element-which-is-nameless
Title: Apostasy
Date: 2016-07-25 23:21
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: apostasy
_I should have listened to my model of Aaron Burr_, I think in the oneiric methodlessness of my nightmare as the first bullet enters my back. It's _not fair_ that everyone else gets to have all the fun in what they erroneously believe to be their post–involuntary-gender utopia, whereas I'm stuck being _that guy_ pointing out all the cracks in the _papier-mâché_ sky. I never _wanted_ to be—here I hesitate for a moment wondering whether to use an indefinite or the definite article—the guy. No one does. (A second bullet enters my abdomen. A beam of radiation whitens a simple plough.) Why should I be punished for not being delusional about the reason?
Title: Bayesomasochism
Date: 2016-09-22 23:58
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: rationality
Slug: bayesomasochism
Title: Book Recommendations I
Date: 2016-09-18 23:55
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: book-recommendations-i
Title: Code-Switching I
Date: 2016-10-01 07:41
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: code-switching-i
that spectrum from _cis_ to _natal_ to _actual_ depending on whom they're talking to
Title: Colony
Date: 2016-03-07 23:54
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: colony
"I've got to say, from one colony-of-intelligent-information-patterns-in-the-process-of-annexing-a-primate-brain to another, you're a really cool guy."
Title: Components
Date: 2016-06-19 19:52
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: components
Two wrongs can make a right, if you choose the second wrong _very carefully_.
Title: Concerns II
Date: 2016-09-29 11:03
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: concerns-ii
[(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/)
Title: Concerns
Date: 2016-07-10 11:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: concerns
"I'm concerned about the [socially-undesirable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias) implications of a model described by this causal graph."
Title: Correspondence Theory
Date: 2016-05-22 23:02
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: correspondence-theory
"... and that's what I think you should say to my clone. But I could be wrong; my map is not the territory."
Title: Disability
Date: 2016-01-05 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: disability
Title: Ecstasy
Date: 2016-12-29 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: ecstasy
[(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/alpha-gamma-phi/)
Title: Failed Pretense
Date: 2016-03-08 20:09
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: failed-pretense
Evidence is how we rule
Title: Falself
Date: 2016-08-08 22:48
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: falself
Title: Fighting Game Ideas I
Date: 2016-12-06 19:05
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: fighting-game-ideas-i
Évariste Galois _vs._ Aaron Burr
Title: Focusing on the Important Things
Date: 2016-09-24 11:46
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: focusing-on-the-important-things
"Maybe this is already clear, but I think that you're in something of a negative feedback loop where unmet social needs are affecting your interpersonal behavior in ways that are interfere with social needs being met."
Title: Gateway
Date: 2016-06-09 18:45
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Star Trek
Slug: gateway
Title: Genesis
Date: 2016-03-17 21:14
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: genesis
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was void and formless, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God floated over the waters.
Title: Gomputer Science
Date: 2016-03-18 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Go
Slug: gomputer-science
Title: Grindstone
Date: 2016-06-08 20:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: grindstone
Sing a song of Purpose for the coder's missing nerve,
Title: Group Introduction Redux
Date: 2016-04-03 00:31
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: group-introduction-redux
[_(Previously.)_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/01/group-introduction/)
Title: I Am a Filesystem-Writing Man
Date: 2016-10-04 11:46
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: i-am-a-filesystem-writing-man
[(Previously, elsewhere.)](http://lesswrong.com/lw/8o6/the_gift_we_give_tomorrow_spoken_word_finished/5d9f?context=1#comments)
Title: Identity
Date: 2016-07-11 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: identity
"You don't get to decide what I am! ... for the same reason that _I_ don't get to decide what I am! 'What I am' is an _empirical question_ to be settled by _evidence_ and _reasoning_, the answer to which I can exert some limited control over in proportion to the strength of the self-modification techniques I have at my disposal!"
Title: If You Had to Choose
Date: 2016-02-21 17:48
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: if-you-had-to-choose
"I just want a guy who's kind, and smart, and handsome, and truly understands the depths of my very soul," she said. "Is that too much to ask?"
Title: Ineffective Appeal
Date: 2016-05-23 19:53
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: ineffective-appeal
"We've always had to be together;
Title: Islands
Date: 2016-03-28 23:43
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: islands
_(an office on the someteenth floor)_
Title: Late-Onset
Date: 2016-10-07 14:45
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: late-onset
the moment of liberating clarity when you resolve the tension between being a good person and the requirement to pretend to be stupid by deciding not to be a good person anymore ?
Title: Missing Books II
Date: 2016-06-27 02:50
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: missing books
Slug: missing-books-ii
Title: Missing Words VII
Date: 2016-01-08 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: missing words
Slug: missing-words-vii
Title: More Running
Date: 2016-05-02 20:49
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: transhumanism
Slug: more-running
Title: Morning
Date: 2016-05-04 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: morning
_(the someteenth floor)_
Title: Odds I
Date: 2016-08-09 23:26
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: odds-i
| __FAVORITE__ | __point spread__ | __UNDERDOG__ |
Title: Oral Tradition I
Date: 2016-05-15 10:28
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: fiction
Slug: oral-tradition-i
The great rabbi Computron-6f61f18b-9ebf-4379-8778-f9e5bda821d5 said: in the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, a match of a very popular strategy board game was arranged between a team of grandmasters, as White, and the best computer program, as Black. White played c4. After thinking for 45 minutes, the computer resigned.
Title: Philanthropy Scorecard Through 2016
Date: 2016-12-26 14:40
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016
(In accordance with ["To Inspire People to Give, Be Public About Your Giving"](http://lesswrong.com/lw/hgj/to_inspire_people_to_give_be_public_about_your/).)
Title: Pose
Date: 2016-06-04 09:29
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: Rust
Slug: pose
Title: Prescription II
Date: 2016-12-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Tags: politics
Slug: prescription-ii
Title: Prescription
Date: 2016-08-28 18:56
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: prescription
"Maybe my real problem is that I take myself too seriously—from my perspective, that other people don't take themselves seriously enough. Like I'm off in my corner going mad, unable to comprehend why, _why_ doesn't the world understand that _words mean things_. But when you actually talk to people, their anticipations of experience are all just about as well-calibrated as mine; they're just _really bizarrely cavalier_ about using words to mean whatever they feel like at the moment."
Title: Quotations IV
Date: 2016-02-02 22:51
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: quotations
Slug: quotations-iv
Title: Quotations V
Date: 2016-08-06 17:40
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: arts & culture
Tags: quotations
Slug: quotations-v
Title: Resisting the Narrative
Date: 2016-12-04 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: resisting-the-narrative
Culture wars are a subtle thing to wage, because they determine everything without being _about_ anything. Explicitly political contests are at least _ostensibly_ about some particular concrete thing: you're fighting for or against a specific law or a specific candidate. But how do you fight a _narrative_, when your enemy is less of a regime and more of a meme? How do you explain to anyone what you're trying to accomplish when you're not trying to get anyone to _do_ anything different in particular, but to renounce their distorted way of thinking and speaking, after which you expect them to make better decisions, even if you can't say in advance what those decisions will be?
Title: Ring Tone
Date: 2016-01-06 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: ring-tone
(circa 2005)
Title: Scoop Me Out of the Bargain Bin
Date: 2016-02-22 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: scoop-me-out-of-the-bargain-bin
_If you're on a shoestring budget, look for factory rejects
Title: Specter
Date: 2016-05-18 22:45
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: specter
In the oneiric methodlessness of my nightmare, I am looking slightly up at a man who wears my face. His shoulders are raised in tension or the middle of a shrug and he is smiling guiltily, as if to say, _It's not what it looks like_, or maybe, _Can't blame me for trying_. I don't know him; if I were to guess who he is or what he wants, I would probably be wrong. But I can blame him, and I do.
Title: The Parable of the Honest Man and the Thing
Date: 2016-10-05 18:26
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: fiction
Slug: the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-thing
"I really want to do the thing! All of my friends who are _just like me_ are doing the thing, and they look like they're having _so much fun_!"
Title: The Roark–Quirrell Effect
Date: 2016-09-14 22:24
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: the-roark-quirrell-effect
Education increases altruism up to a point (as you increasingly understand that other people are real too and have moral value for the same reasons you do even if you don't experience it from the first person), until you accumulate so many seemingly unique insights that the entire rest of the world looks _so abominably stupid_ that you no longer want to waste a single precious dollar or minute on the concerns of these _creatures_ that can't even see the Really Obvious Thing.
Title: The Seat Thief's Rationale
Date: 2016-01-19 22:50
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: the-seat-thiefs-rationale
What is even the _motivation_ for stealing a bicycle seat? How much can you hock it for?
Title: The View From Below
Date: 2016-06-01 23:03
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: intelligence
Slug: the-view-from-below
Title: The World By Gaslight
Date: 2016-09-06 22:17
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: the-world-by-gaslight
In the oneiric methodlessness of my nightmare, I am a lieutenant commander posted to the _Glomar Explorer_; I am pacing the deck while opining that taking the correct, minority position in a scientific controversy [necessarily feels just like](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/01/education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside/) early-onset dementia (which I can't help but notice makes a perfect pairing with a late-onset case of the other _d------ia_ word).
Title: TODO I
Date: 2016-01-09 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: Rust
Slug: todo-i
Title: Two-Point Compersion
Date: 2016-01-24 15:40
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: gridiron football
Slug: two-point-compersion
Title: Vingean Principle
Date: 2016-07-02 08:43
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: vingean-principle
"I miss you."
Title: Virtual Router Redundancy Poem
Date: 2016-02-24 21:53
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: virtual-router-redundancy-poem
From despair and that eternal sleep revive me,
Title: Voicemail Greeting
Date: 2016-01-07 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: lyrics
+Category: verse
Slug: voicemail-greeting
(circa 2005)
Title: "What Can I Do For You?"
Date: 2016-07-23 12:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: what-can-i-do-for-you
"I think we should set aside some time to discuss how I could provide more value to you."
Title: Wicked Transcendence II
Date: 2016-09-27 22:55
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: wicked-transcendence-ii
Title: Wicked Transcendence
Date: 2016-07-26 19:09
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: wicked-transcendence
Title: Worlds Collide
Date: 2016-06-28 23:27
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: worlds-collide
In the future, instead of the endless runaround war of "I'm offended!" and "I'm offended that you're offended!", our children's children's children will just write down their utility functions and use an off-the-shelf algorithm to merge them and compute the exact, correct tensor of offendedness under the unified consensus social norms.
Title: A Common Misunderstanding
Date: 2017-02-09 14:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: a-common-misunderstanding
_In a series of papers published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Dr. Ray Blanchard proposed that there are two fundamentally different types of rationalists with unrelated etiologies: instrumental rationalists, and epistemic rationalists ..._
Title: An Algorithmic Lucidity Surprise Reader Meetup
Date: 2017-04-08 02:40
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Slug: an-algorithmic-lucidity-surprise-reader-meetup
I'm planning on going to [BABSCon](http://www.babscon.com/2017/) next week! I feel like I don't know how many readers this blog actually has: there's a CPanel counter, but so much software these days is just _so buggy_ (remember, [TheDailyWTF](http://thedailywtf.com/) is not fiction), that I don't know if I can trust it. Maybe I'll see some of you there??
Title: At a Party
Date: 2017-08-24 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: at-a-party
At a party! A party with the empirical cluster in personspace! I used to treasure these nights, which seemed then to sparkle with the promise of another world, back during the golden age. The atmosphere [feels different](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/what-is-rationalist-berkleys-community-culture/) now. The same scene, with much of the same people and operating at what should be the same frequency, but I _can't_ help but feel that what was once the promise of a grander mode of existence has decayed, in a decade, into the familiar rhythms of the human.
Title: Blood and Ice
Date: 2017-05-06 12:28
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: blood-and-ice
"Are you eating ice because you're autistic, or because you have an iron deficiency?"
Title: Brand Rust
Date: 2017-03-26 11:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Tags: politics
Slug: brand-rust
Title: Cheer
Date: 2017-02-26 09:27
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: cheer
Or consider the token male cheerleader performing in the pep rally in the afternoon before Game 2 of the Series for Ancient Earth, shouting, "Blue Tribe Values, Red Tribe _Facts_! Blue Tribe Values, Red Tribe _Facts_!"
Title: Courtship Gift
Date: 2017-11-12 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Tags: romance
Slug: courtship-gift
Title: Cranberry Bliss!
Date: 2017-11-10 20:51
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: cranberry-bliss
Title: Dollar
Date: 2017-05-20 15:31
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: dollar-2
[(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/change/)
Title: Happy Armistice Day from <em>An Algorithmic Lucidity</em>
Date: 2017-11-11 12:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: happy-armistice-day-from-an-algorithmic-lucidity
Today, we celebrate the end of the first of no more than three world wars.
Title: I Meant to Do That
Date: 2017-07-05 22:53
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia
Slug: i-meant-to-do-that
Title: Lipschitz
Date: 2017-10-23 18:20
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: akrasia, analysis, Bayes-structure of the universe
Slug: lipschitz
Title: Making Sense
Date: 2017-05-22 17:31
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: mathematics
Tags: probability
Slug: making-sense
Title: Means-Ends
Date: 2017-06-21 13:07
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: means-ends
Ayn Rand said that a Spanish proverb said that God said, "Take what you want, and pay for it."
Title: Religious, Redux
Date: 2017-03-11 02:47
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: madness
Slug: religious-redux
Title: Resilience
Date: 2017-07-09 21:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: resilience
math is hard; let's go shopping—_for study aids and flash cards_
Title: Some Excuse for a RustConf 2017 Travelogue
Date: 2017-10-03 23:12
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: computing
Tags: akrasia, Rust, timely Special Event
Slug: some-excuse-for-a-rustconf-2017-travelogue
Title: Supply Restrictions
Date: 2017-06-16 15:06
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: supply-restrictions
"Apparently there are hobbyists who try to build nuclear weapons—all they need is the plutonium."
Title: The Bayes-Structure in the Form of a Riddle
Date: 2017-02-26 10:35
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe
Slug: the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle
Title: The Reason the World Sucks
Date: 2017-02-23 18:22
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: the-reason-the-world-sucks
"I think we should perform action A to optimize value V. The reason I think this is because of evidence X, Y, and Z, and prior information I."
Title: Trade Secret
Date: 2017-07-10 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: trade-secret
"The key to retail success is low prices."
Title: Wicked Transcendence III
Date: 2017-03-15 14:49
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: sex & gender
Slug: wicked-transcendence-iii
Title: Best Alternative to a Negotiated Ontology
Date: 2018-01-22 18:23
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: best-alternative-to-a-negotiated-ontology
"I can't stand being apart any longer. You win. Whatever your demands are, I'll meet them."
Title: Concerning Frame Control Via Salient Scenarios
Date: 2018-10-01 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: concerns
Slug: concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios
Title: Concerning Loyalty and Revenge
Date: 2018-10-04 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: concerns
Slug: concerning-loyalty-and-revenge
Title: Concerning Motives for Cooperation
Date: 2018-10-02 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: concerns
Slug: concerning-motives-for-cooperation
Title: Object <em>vs</em>. Meta Golden Rule
Date: 2018-07-07 17:55
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: object-vs-meta-golden-rule
"I know it might seem like a lot to ask, but I wouldn't hesitate to do the same for you if our positions were reversed."
Title: Some Shuffling Required
Date: 2018-01-07 19:37
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: mathematics
Tags: probability
Slug: some-shuffling-required
Title: The Right to Life, Conjugated
Date: 2018-10-03 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Tags: concerns
Slug: the-right-to-life-conjugated
Title: Tit for Half-Tat
Date: 2018-07-18 05:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: tit-for-half-tat
"—but I am not a vengeful man."
Title: "Being Wrong Doesn't Mean You're Stupid and Bad (Probably)"
Date: 2019-06-30 23:37
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Slug: being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably
[(new post on _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6dmKBjc7XarcQMRYW/being-wrong-doesn-t-mean-you-re-stupid-and-bad-probably)
Title: Feature Reduction
Date: 2019-09-02 14:56
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: feature-reduction
_(looking at baby/toddler photos a year apart)_ "How does he look so different and yet so the same at the same time?"
Title: Forgive or Forget ("Or", Not "And"): A Trade-Off in Wellness Engineering
Date: 2019-05-11 18:03
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Tags: morality, theme week
Slug: forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering
Title: "Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists"
Date: 2019-09-23 21:16
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Tags: elsewhere
Slug: heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists
Title: Hobbyhorse Apology
Date: 2019-10-01 22:29
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: hobbyhorse-apology
If I sound like a broken record about [school](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/tag/schooling/) or whatever [("or whatever")](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/10/the-quieted-scare-convention/), it's only because the dominant ideological trends of Society are engaging in conceptual gerrymandering that artificially raises the [message length](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f4txACqDWithRi7hs/occam-s-razor) of my existence, such that I _need_ to yell constantly in order to maintain my [measure](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/08/measure/) in social reality.
Title: Inconsiderate
Date: 2019-06-27 02:19
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: inconsiderate
"The sink is full and it's your turn to do the dishes! Ugh, why are you so inconsiderate of others?!"
Title: Lock Contention
Date: 2019-07-21 14:13
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: asides
Slug: lock-contention
"We really need another bookcase."
Title: May Is Math and Wellness Month
Date: 2019-05-01 02:56
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: may-is-math-and-wellness-month
([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2018/04/april-is-separability-month/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/12/role-tension/).)
Title: Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition!
Date: 2019-05-19 22:17
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: computing
Slug: minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition
_(This is a blog post adaptation of [a talk I gave at !!Con West 2019](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EQYVoTcdPk)!)_
Title: "Relevance Norms; Or, Gricean Implicature Queers the Decoupling/Contextualizing Binary"
Date: 2019-11-24 17:56
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Tags: elsewhere
Slug: relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary
Title: "Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests"
Date: 2019-08-25 20:34
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Slug: schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests
[(new post on _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests)
Title: "The Univariate Fallacy"
Date: 2019-06-15 14:53
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Slug: the-univariate-fallacy
[(new post on _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy-1)
Title: "Where to Draw the Boundaries?"
Date: 2019-04-13 16:27
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Slug: where-to-draw-the-boundaries
[(new post on _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries)
Title: And You Take Me the Way I Am
Date: 2020-12-30 21:39
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: philosophy
Slug: and-you-take-me-the-way-i-am
Mark Twain [wrote that](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9131-if-you-tell-the-truth-you-don-t-have-to-remember) honesty means you don't have to remember anything. But it also means you don't have to worry about making mistakes.
Title: Blogging on <em>Less Wrong</em> 2020 (Upper Half)
Date: 2020-07-18 18:46
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Tags: elsewhere
Slug: blogging-on-less-wrong-2020-upper-half
Title: Coffee Is for Coders
Date: 2020-08-06 19:29
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
-Tags: poetry
+Category: verse
Slug: coffee-is-for-coders
No one cares if you're in pain;
Title: December 2019 Blogging on <em>Less Wrong</em>
Date: 2020-01-01 11:16
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Tags: elsewhere
Slug: december-2019-blogging-on-less-wrong
Title: Relationship Outcomes Are Not Particularly Sensitive to Small Variations in Verbal Ability
Date: 2020-02-08 16:28
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability
After a friendship-ending fight, you feel an impulse to push through the pain to do an exhaustive postmortem of everything you did wrong in that last, fatal argument—you could have phrased that more eloquently, could have anticipated that objection, could have not left so much "surface area" open to that class of rhetorical counterattack, could have been more empathetic on that one point, could have chosen a more-fitting epigraph, could have taken more time to compose your reply and squeeze in another pass's worth of optimizations—as if searching for some combination of variables that would have changed the outcome, some nearby possible world where the two of you are still together.
Title: The Parable of the Scorpion and the Fox
Date: 2020-07-26 22:12
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: fiction
Slug: the-parable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-fox
In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, a scorpion was creepy-crawling along a riverbank, wondering how to get to the other side. It came across an animal that could swim: some versions of the tale say it was a fox, others report a [quokka](https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1276138522123161600). I'm going to assume it was a fox.
Title: Blogging on <em>Less Wrong</em> 2020 (Lower Half)
Date: 2021-01-08 13:29
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Tags: elsewhere
Slug: blogging-on-less-wrong-2020-lower-half
Title: January Is Math and Wellness Month
Date: 2021-01-13 19:52
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: psychology
Slug: january-is-math-and-wellness-month
[(Previously)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/may-is-math-and-wellness-month/)
Title: Blogging on <em>Less Wrong</em> 2021
Date: 2022-01-02 15:11
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: meta
Tags: elsewhere
Slug: blogging-on-less-wrong-2021
Title: Should I Finish My Bachelor's Degree?
Date: 2024-05-10 22:14
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: should-i-finish-my-bachelors-degree
To some, it might seem like a strange question. If you think of _being college-educated_ as a marker of class (or personhood), the fact that I don't have a degree at age of thirty-six (!!) probably looks like a scandalous anomaly, which it would be only natural for me to want to remediate at the earliest opportunity.
Title: College Was Not That Terrible Now That I'm Not That Crazy
Date: 2026-01-01 15:00
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Tags: schooling
Slug: college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-im-not-that-crazy
Title: Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Preliminary Injunction Motion Hearing
Date: 2026-03-25 19:54
Status: published
-Category: Uncategorized
+Category: social science
Slug: dispatch-from-anthropic-v-department-of-war-preliminary-injunction-motion-hearing
Dateline SAN FRANCISCO, Ca., 24 March 2026— A hearing was held on a motion for a preliminary injunction in the case of _Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War et al._ in Courtroom 12 on the 19th floor of the Phillip Burton Federal Building, the Hon. Judge Rita F. Lin presiding. About 35 spectators in the gallery (journalists and other members of the public, including the present writer) looked on as Michael Mongan of WilmerHale (lead counsel for the plaintiff) and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton (lead counsel for the defendant) argued before the judge. (The defendant also had another lawyer at their counsel table on the left, and the plaintiff had six more at theirs on the right, but none of those people said anything.)
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