From: Zack M. Davis Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:15:50 +0000 (-0700) Subject: remove redundant slug metadata (implied by filename), purge rationality tag X-Git-Url: https://zackmdavis.net/blog/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9f8d11c55dbd9890f9a6063122e91923a651c4ef;p=An_Algorithmic_Lucidity.git remove redundant slug metadata (implied by filename), purge rationality tag --- diff --git a/content/2011/dialogue-concerning-birthdays.md b/content/2011/dialogue-concerning-birthdays.md index 3e23b81..c6c98a0 100644 --- a/content/2011/dialogue-concerning-birthdays.md +++ b/content/2011/dialogue-concerning-birthdays.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Dialogue Concerning Birthdays Date: 2011-12-28 16:08 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: dialogue-concerning-birthdays "Happy birthday, Synthia!" diff --git a/content/2011/happy-new-year-2012.md b/content/2011/happy-new-year-2012.md index 19ca113..506071d 100644 --- a/content/2011/happy-new-year-2012.md +++ b/content/2011/happy-new-year-2012.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2011-12-31 06:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: new year -Slug: happy-new-year-2012 Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne? (_Hint:_ Assume the opposite and try to derive a contradiction.) diff --git a/content/2011/the-derivative-of-the-natural-logarithm.md b/content/2011/the-derivative-of-the-natural-logarithm.md index dee8e34..c102057 100644 --- a/content/2011/the-derivative-of-the-natural-logarithm.md +++ b/content/2011/the-derivative-of-the-natural-logarithm.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2011-12-25 16:22 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: calculus -Slug: the-derivative-of-the-natural-logarithm Most people learn during their study of the differential and integral calculus that the derivative of the natural logarithm ln _x_ is the reciprocal function 1/_x_. Indeed, sometimes the natural logarithm is _defined_ as $$ \int_1^x \frac{1}{t}\,dt$$. However, on observing the graphs of ln _x_ and 1/_x_, the inquisitive seeker of knowledge can hardly fail to notice a disturbing anomaly: diff --git a/content/2012/a-knock-knock-joke.md b/content/2012/a-knock-knock-joke.md index a56a0fb..1377305 100644 --- a/content/2012/a-knock-knock-joke.md +++ b/content/2012/a-knock-knock-joke.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-07-03 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: humor, morality -Slug: a-knock-knock-joke This one is a classic that I love to repeat; stop me if you've heard it before. Knock, knock. diff --git a/content/2012/a-philosophy-of-education.md b/content/2012/a-philosophy-of-education.md index ee463ef..bec618f 100644 --- a/content/2012/a-philosophy-of-education.md +++ b/content/2012/a-philosophy-of-education.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-12-03 20:03 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: schooling -Slug: a-philosophy-of-education _Shut up! Shut up and leave me alone with my books!_ diff --git a/content/2012/a-political-orientation-provisional.md b/content/2012/a-political-orientation-provisional.md index facbf4e..28978cd 100644 --- a/content/2012/a-political-orientation-provisional.md +++ b/content/2012/a-political-orientation-provisional.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-01 19:40 Status: published Category: social science Tags: poetry, politics -Slug: a-political-orientation-provisional Socially liberal, Fiscally confused; diff --git a/content/2012/actually-personal-responsibility.md b/content/2012/actually-personal-responsibility.md index 42ff2bc..3685fe8 100644 --- a/content/2012/actually-personal-responsibility.md +++ b/content/2012/actually-personal-responsibility.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Actually Personal Responsibility Date: 2012-12-29 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: morality, rationality -Slug: actually-personal-responsibility +Tags: morality Dear reader, you occasionally hear people with conservative tendencies complain that the problem with Society today is that people lack _personal responsibility_: that the young and the poor need to take charge of themselves and stop mooching off their parents or the government: to shut up, do their homework, and get a job. I lack any sort of conservative tendency and would never say that sort of thing, but I would endorse a related-but-quite-distinct concept that I want to refer to using the same phrase _personal responsibility_, as long as it's clear from context that I don't mean it in the traditional, conservative way. diff --git a/content/2012/advice-for-a-moment-of-emotional-vulnerability.md b/content/2012/advice-for-a-moment-of-emotional-vulnerability.md index e0597fb..7825247 100644 --- a/content/2012/advice-for-a-moment-of-emotional-vulnerability.md +++ b/content/2012/advice-for-a-moment-of-emotional-vulnerability.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Advice for a Moment of Emotional Vulnerability Date: 2012-11-06 12:17 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: advice-for-a-moment-of-emotional-vulnerability Don't panic; keep it together; silently lower your estimate of your general competence. diff --git a/content/2012/ambition.md b/content/2012/ambition.md index acdae10..aa696f6 100644 --- a/content/2012/ambition.md +++ b/content/2012/ambition.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Ambition Date: 2012-11-10 20:42 Status: published 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!_ diff --git a/content/2012/an-idea-for-a-psychology-experiment.md b/content/2012/an-idea-for-a-psychology-experiment.md index f269381..85b281f 100644 --- a/content/2012/an-idea-for-a-psychology-experiment.md +++ b/content/2012/an-idea-for-a-psychology-experiment.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: An Idea for a Psychology Experiment Date: 2012-07-17 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: an-idea-for-a-psychology-experiment Let me know if someone's actually done this. diff --git a/content/2012/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md b/content/2012/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md index 6a4534a..564047d 100644 --- a/content/2012/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md +++ b/content/2012/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-17 19:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: sex & gender, Star Trek -Slug: an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series At some point, the first officer man should say, "When I was a little girl ..." and then everyone looks at him funny, and he says, "What, didn't I ever tell you that I'm trans?" Everyone else: "_No!_" "Oh. Well, now you know." diff --git a/content/2012/audacious-resume-lines.md b/content/2012/audacious-resume-lines.md index 42750f3..47efd44 100644 --- a/content/2012/audacious-resume-lines.md +++ b/content/2012/audacious-resume-lines.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Audacious Resumé Lines Date: 2012-12-31 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: audacious-resume-lines __Short-Term Career Objective__: _make money_ and _help people_ by means of using computers to _solve problems_ diff --git a/content/2012/blades.md b/content/2012/blades.md index 4ec601f..1eaedbb 100644 --- a/content/2012/blades.md +++ b/content/2012/blades.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-29 18:17 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: geometric algebra -Slug: blades What is a _vector_ in Euclidean space? Some might say it's an entity characterized by possessing a _magnitude_ and a _direction_. But scholars of the geometric algebra (such as [Eric Chisolm](http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5935) and [Dorst _et al._](http://www.geometricalgebra.net/)) tell us that it's better to decompose the idea of _direction_ into the two ideas of subspace _attitude_ (our vector's quality of living in a particular line) and _orientation_ (its quality of pointing in a particular direction in that line, and not the other). On this view, a vector is an _attitudinal oriented length element_. But having done this, it becomes inevitable that we should want to talk about attitudinal oriented _area_ (volume, 4-hypervolume, _&c._) elements. To this end we introduce the _outer_ or wedge product ∧ on vectors. It is _bilinear_, it is _anticommutative_ (swapping the order of arguments swaps the sign, so $\vec{a}\wedge\vec{b} = -\vec{b}\wedge\vec{a}$), and that's all you need to know. diff --git a/content/2012/blood-from-a-stone.md b/content/2012/blood-from-a-stone.md index f65afe7..b0054fc 100644 --- a/content/2012/blood-from-a-stone.md +++ b/content/2012/blood-from-a-stone.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Blood From a Stone Date: 2012-10-20 03:18 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: blood-from-a-stone Decision-theoretically speaking, there's no difference between punishment and lack-of-reward. (Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility functions are really only defined up to an affine transformation: if your behavior is described by _u_(_x_), then _v_(_x_) := _au_(_x_) + _b_ does just as well.) Psychology isn't like that; punishment and lack-of-reward are very different things—although not quite so different as one might think. In an environment where behavior X is rewarded with praise and status, and behavior Y is ignored—not punished, not condemned, but _ignored_—what kind of mind would it take to persist in behavior Y? It would either have to be very stubborn, unshakeably convinced in the righteousness of Y, or very stupid, desperately willing to endlessly chase a satisfaction that will never, ever come. diff --git a/content/2012/book-notes-i.md b/content/2012/book-notes-i.md index 4d62ac0..011ba49 100644 --- a/content/2012/book-notes-i.md +++ b/content/2012/book-notes-i.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Book Notes I Date: 2012-10-03 05:00 Status: published 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?? diff --git a/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded-redux.md b/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded-redux.md index a909b88..79a75e2 100644 --- a/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded-redux.md +++ b/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded-redux.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-10-16 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis -Slug: bounded-but-not-totally-bounded-redux _Theorem_. An open set in real sequence space under the ℓ∞ norm is not totally bounded. diff --git a/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded.md b/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded.md index 37dc669..3746714 100644 --- a/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded.md +++ b/content/2012/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-10-14 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis -Slug: bounded-but-not-totally-bounded The idea of _total boundedness_ in metric space (for every ε, you can cover the set with a finite number of ε-balls; [discussed previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/08/straight-talk-about-precompactness/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_) is distinct from (and in fact, stronger than) the idea of mere boundedness (there's an upper bound for the distance between any two points in the set), but to an uneducated mind, it's not immediately clear _why_. What would be an example of a set that's bounded but not totally bounded? _Wikipedia_ claims that the unit ball in infinite-dimensional Banach space will do. Eric Hayashi made this more explicit for me: consider sequence space under the $\ell^\infty$ norm, and the "standard basis" set (1, 0, 0 ...), (0, 1, 0, 0, ...), (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, ...). The distance between any two points in this set is one, so it's bounded, but an open 1-ball around any point doesn't contain any of the other points, so no finite number of open 1-balls will do, so it's not totally bounded, which is what I've been trying to tell you this entire time. diff --git a/content/2012/cached-remark-for-when-my-prediction-of-abject-failure-comes-true.md b/content/2012/cached-remark-for-when-my-prediction-of-abject-failure-comes-true.md index 8459641..5db2934 100644 --- a/content/2012/cached-remark-for-when-my-prediction-of-abject-failure-comes-true.md +++ b/content/2012/cached-remark-for-when-my-prediction-of-abject-failure-comes-true.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-09-03 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: cached speech -Slug: cached-remark-for-when-my-prediction-of-abject-failure-comes-true I won't say _I told you so_ except by means of [apophasis](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apophasis). diff --git a/content/2012/cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot.md b/content/2012/cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot.md index d4e9c8e..9296d36 100644 --- a/content/2012/cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot.md +++ b/content/2012/cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-11 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: cached speech -Slug: cached-reply-upon-being-told-that-im-an-idiot Not specific enough. diff --git a/content/2012/cant-break-clean.md b/content/2012/cant-break-clean.md index d0d44e8..160e96d 100644 --- a/content/2012/cant-break-clean.md +++ b/content/2012/cant-break-clean.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Can't Break Clean Date: 2012-12-09 15:49 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2012/character-entity-reference.md b/content/2012/character-entity-reference.md index 5770f9c..eeb8588 100644 --- a/content/2012/character-entity-reference.md +++ b/content/2012/character-entity-reference.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-09-25 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Friendship Is Magic -Slug: character-entity-reference In addition to _—_ and _–_, there should also be an _&rdash;_ HTML character entity reference which specifies the [Unicode high voltage sign U+26A1](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/26a1/index.htm) (⚡). diff --git a/content/2012/colon-equals.md b/content/2012/colon-equals.md index edd4a8a..71d3854 100644 --- a/content/2012/colon-equals.md +++ b/content/2012/colon-equals.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-10-05 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: notation -Slug: colon-equals Sometimes I think it's sad that the most popular programming languages use "=" for assignment rather than ":=" (like Pascal). Equality is a symmetrical relationship: "_a_ equals _b_" means that _a_ and _b_ are the same thing or have the same value, and this is clearly the same as saying that "_b_ equals _a_". Assignment isn't like that: putting the value _b_ in a box named _a_ isn't the same as putting the value _a_ in a box named _b_!—surely an asymmetrical operation deserves an asymmetrical notation? Okay, so it is an extra character, but any decent editor can be configured to save you the keystroke. diff --git a/content/2012/computing-the-arithmetic-derivative.md b/content/2012/computing-the-arithmetic-derivative.md index 66d388f..9fe93a9 100644 --- a/content/2012/computing-the-arithmetic-derivative.md +++ b/content/2012/computing-the-arithmetic-derivative.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-10-24 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python -Slug: computing-the-arithmetic-derivative Jurij Kovič's paper "[The Arithmetic Derivative and Antiderivative](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Kovic/kovic4.html)" contains a curious remark in Section 1.2. Having just stated the definition of the _logarithmic arithmetic derivative_ ($L(n) = n'/n = \sum_j a_j/p_j$ where the prime mark indicates the arithmetic derivative, and $\prod_i p_i^{a_i}$ is the prime factorization of $n$), Kovič writes: diff --git a/content/2012/contemporary.md b/content/2012/contemporary.md index 3625a9a..3ae797b 100644 --- a/content/2012/contemporary.md +++ b/content/2012/contemporary.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Contemporary Date: 2012-08-07 00:23 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2012/counterfactual-social-thought.md b/content/2012/counterfactual-social-thought.md index 03ccf45..e422b5a 100644 --- a/content/2012/counterfactual-social-thought.md +++ b/content/2012/counterfactual-social-thought.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Counterfactual Social Thought Date: 2012-12-28 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Tags: politics, rationality -Slug: counterfactual-social-thought +Tags: politics, epistemology I keep feeling like I need to study Bayes nets in order to clarify my thinking about society. (This is _probably_ not standard advice given to aspiring young sociologists, but I'm trying not to care about that.) Ordinary political speech is full of claims about causality ("Policy X causes Y, which is bad!" "Of course Y is bad, but don't you see?—the _real_ cause of Y is Z, and if you hadn't been brainwashed by the System, you'd see that!"), but human intuitions about causality are probably confused (and would be clarified by [Pearl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl)) much like our intuitions about evidence are confused (and are clarified by [Bayes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference)). diff --git a/content/2012/desultory-fluttering-between-subjects.md b/content/2012/desultory-fluttering-between-subjects.md index 32734e4..2477d7f 100644 --- a/content/2012/desultory-fluttering-between-subjects.md +++ b/content/2012/desultory-fluttering-between-subjects.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Desultory Fluttering Between Subjects Date: 2012-08-16 09:29 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: desultory-fluttering-between-subjects She's a dilettante; you're a dabbler; I'm executing a breadth-first search. diff --git a/content/2012/dialogue-on-weird-social-movements.md b/content/2012/dialogue-on-weird-social-movements.md index 73aeddb..54a71c0 100644 --- a/content/2012/dialogue-on-weird-social-movements.md +++ b/content/2012/dialogue-on-weird-social-movements.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Dialogue on Weird Social Movements Date: 2012-12-14 19:55 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2012/dice.md b/content/2012/dice.md index 6f5430a..59ef840 100644 --- a/content/2012/dice.md +++ b/content/2012/dice.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-10-23 16:14 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: polytopes -Slug: dice Players of tabletop RPGs are lucky that we live in three-dimensional space; in five-or-higher dimensions, there are [only three kinds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regular_polytopes#Convex_4) of dice, but our world has five ([d4, d6, d8, d12, and d20](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid)). diff --git a/content/2012/dont-resent-that-no-one-cares.md b/content/2012/dont-resent-that-no-one-cares.md index 79f26e1..d061430 100644 --- a/content/2012/dont-resent-that-no-one-cares.md +++ b/content/2012/dont-resent-that-no-one-cares.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-10-08 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: improvement -Slug: dont-resent-that-no-one-cares It's tempting to be resentful that other people don't value your time the way you do. You complain at every opportunity: "Why, why, _why_ do I get socially rewarded for working on this-and-such random chore that doesn't even _help_ anyone, when _obviously_ my great masterpiece (in progress, _in potentia_, coming soon) on such-and-this is so much more valuable?!" diff --git a/content/2012/draft-of-a-letter-to-a-former-teacher-which-i-did-not-send-because-doing-so-would-be-a-bad-idea.md b/content/2012/draft-of-a-letter-to-a-former-teacher-which-i-did-not-send-because-doing-so-would-be-a-bad-idea.md index 3b2bcb4..5bb9290 100644 --- a/content/2012/draft-of-a-letter-to-a-former-teacher-which-i-did-not-send-because-doing-so-would-be-a-bad-idea.md +++ b/content/2012/draft-of-a-letter-to-a-former-teacher-which-i-did-not-send-because-doing-so-would-be-a-bad-idea.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-12-03 18:23 Status: published Category: social science Tags: schooling -Slug: draft-of-a-letter-to-a-former-teacher-which-i-did-not-send-because-doing-so-would-be-a-bad-idea Dear [_name redacted_]: diff --git a/content/2012/dreams.md b/content/2012/dreams.md index 7283f74..890bdbb 100644 --- a/content/2012/dreams.md +++ b/content/2012/dreams.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-10-13 19:23 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia, cynicism -Slug: dreams Friend of the blog Alicorn [tweets](https://twitter.com/luminousalicorn/status/256189544515391488): diff --git a/content/2012/egoism-as-defense-against-a-life-of-unending-heartbreak.md b/content/2012/egoism-as-defense-against-a-life-of-unending-heartbreak.md index 9ab23c0..cc295ab 100644 --- a/content/2012/egoism-as-defense-against-a-life-of-unending-heartbreak.md +++ b/content/2012/egoism-as-defense-against-a-life-of-unending-heartbreak.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-22 19:13 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: improvement, politics -Slug: egoism-as-defense-against-a-life-of-unending-heartbreak > Then the Dean understood what had puzzled him in Roark's manner. > diff --git a/content/2012/eigencritters.md b/content/2012/eigencritters.md index f83b3d7..72d534f 100644 --- a/content/2012/eigencritters.md +++ b/content/2012/eigencritters.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-12-03 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: linear algebra -Slug: eigencritters Say we have a linear transformation $A$ and some nonzero vector $\vec{v}$, and suppose that $A\vec{v} = \lambda\vec{v}$ for some scalar λ. This is a very special situation; we say that λ is an _eigenvalue_ of A corresponding to the _eigenvector_ $\vec{v}$. diff --git a/content/2012/evening-routine.md b/content/2012/evening-routine.md index c560693..d86af87 100644 --- a/content/2012/evening-routine.md +++ b/content/2012/evening-routine.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Evening Routine Date: 2012-12-01 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: evening-routine "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" diff --git a/content/2012/facial-hair-is-gross.md b/content/2012/facial-hair-is-gross.md index 9eb94fc..4c17212 100644 --- a/content/2012/facial-hair-is-gross.md +++ b/content/2012/facial-hair-is-gross.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Facial Hair Is Gross Date: 2012-10-01 05:00 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2012/forgetting-to-take-an-average.md b/content/2012/forgetting-to-take-an-average.md index 7a50457..b6c7006 100644 --- a/content/2012/forgetting-to-take-an-average.md +++ b/content/2012/forgetting-to-take-an-average.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Forgetting to Take an Average Date: 2012-09-20 18:04 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: forgetting-to-take-an-average It seems as if my outlook on life varies drastically with mood. In the moments when I feel brave and ambitious, I rarely seem to remember that _it won't last_: that in a week or a day, the moment will be gone and I'll feel weak and scared again—and of course it goes conversely, too. diff --git a/content/2012/friendship-deficits.md b/content/2012/friendship-deficits.md index b22181a..415473c 100644 --- a/content/2012/friendship-deficits.md +++ b/content/2012/friendship-deficits.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Friendship Deficits Date: 2012-10-19 05:00 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2012/goodharts-world.md b/content/2012/goodharts-world.md index 81fd492..c6a5d21 100644 --- a/content/2012/goodharts-world.md +++ b/content/2012/goodharts-world.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-23 05:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: intelligence explosion, missing books -Slug: goodharts-world Someone needs to write a history of the entire world in terms of [incentive systems and agents' attempts to game them](http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ws/the_importance_of_goodharts_law/). We have money to incentivize the production of useful goods and services, but we all know that there are lots of ways to make money that don't actually help anyone. Even in jobs that are actually useful, people spend a lot of their effort on trying to _look_ like they're doing good work, rather than _actually_ doing good work. And don't get me started about what passes for "education." (Seriously, don't.) diff --git a/content/2012/i-feel-sorry-for-people-who-work-in-capital-intensive-fields.md b/content/2012/i-feel-sorry-for-people-who-work-in-capital-intensive-fields.md index c35c013..3361a7c 100644 --- a/content/2012/i-feel-sorry-for-people-who-work-in-capital-intensive-fields.md +++ b/content/2012/i-feel-sorry-for-people-who-work-in-capital-intensive-fields.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: I Feel Sorry for People Who Work in Capital-Intensive Fields Date: 2012-11-24 05:00 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2012/i-just-want-outrage-season-to-be-over-already.md b/content/2012/i-just-want-outrage-season-to-be-over-already.md index c908174..6f2a66f 100644 --- a/content/2012/i-just-want-outrage-season-to-be-over-already.md +++ b/content/2012/i-just-want-outrage-season-to-be-over-already.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-11-05 05:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics -Slug: i-just-want-outrage-season-to-be-over-already I don't enjoy being provoked into despising my fellow Americans for being alien savages, when it's so much better to just ignore them for the same reason. diff --git a/content/2012/ideological-fork-bombs.md b/content/2012/ideological-fork-bombs.md index 3b3a918..b0effe5 100644 --- a/content/2012/ideological-fork-bombs.md +++ b/content/2012/ideological-fork-bombs.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Ideological Fork Bombs Date: 2012-12-30 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: ideological-fork-bombs In computing, a _fork bomb_ is a program that recursively spawns instances of itself, rapaciously capturing all available system resources. A similar sort of thing can happen, at least metaphorically, within a human mind, when you get so taken with a particular idea (I expect _taken_ is the right word in more ways than one) that it consumes your conscious thoughts, the arguments and counterarguments and countercounterarguments bubbling up and expanding until you can't do or think about anything else. If that one idea is your lifework, then this is probably a good thing. But if _not_—if there's something more important you want to _do_ with your life rather than obsess about this one idea—then the cacaphony of cognitive noise is a serious vulnerability, as fatal as entering ":(){ :|: & };:" at a Bash prompt. diff --git a/content/2012/idiot-or-alien-incompetence-or-evil.md b/content/2012/idiot-or-alien-incompetence-or-evil.md index 7bf0c5c..49a88b8 100644 --- a/content/2012/idiot-or-alien-incompetence-or-evil.md +++ b/content/2012/idiot-or-alien-incompetence-or-evil.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Idiot or Alien? Incompetence or Evil? Date: 2012-10-02 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: idiot-or-alien-incompetence-or-evil +Tags: discourse When you encounter someone who expresses a political or social opinion that you find absolutely abhorrent, it is instructive to consider the extent to which this person is making a _mistake_, and the extent to which they simply have different values from you. Is this opinion something that they would immediately relinquish, if only they knew they knew the true facts of which they are now ignorant?—or is it reflective of some quality essential to their agency, a basic motive far too sacred to be destroyed by the truth? diff --git a/content/2012/iff-as-conditional-chain.md b/content/2012/iff-as-conditional-chain.md index 27ea1f2..06bf970 100644 --- a/content/2012/iff-as-conditional-chain.md +++ b/content/2012/iff-as-conditional-chain.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-12-17 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: notation -Slug: iff-as-conditional-chain I'm not sure I like how when we want to prove that _two_ statements are equivalent, we typically say "_A_ if and only if _B_" and we prove it by separately proving "both directions" _A_ ⇒ _B_ and _B_ ⇒ _A_, but when we want to prove three or more statements are equivalent, we typically say "The following are equivalent" and prove a "circular chain" of conditionals (1) ⇒ (2) ⇒ [...] ⇒ (n) ⇒ (1), as if these were _different_ proof strategies. Because really, the "both directions" business is just a special case of the chain-of-conditionals idea: (1) ⇒ (2) ⇒ (1). At the very least, one of my books ought to have mentioned this. diff --git a/content/2012/inclusion-exclusion.md b/content/2012/inclusion-exclusion.md index 73aded2..80c3489 100644 --- a/content/2012/inclusion-exclusion.md +++ b/content/2012/inclusion-exclusion.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-09 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: combinatorics -Slug: inclusion-exclusion In this modern day and age, it simply cannot be doubted that it is of the very utmost importance that we find the size of the union of some sets. One might try just adding the sizes of all the sets, but that's not correct, because then one would be double-counting the elements that appear in more than one set. But it's a good start. One might then think that one could _begin_ by adding the sizes of the sets, but then _subtract_ the sizes of the intersections of each pair of sets, in order to correct for the double-counting. But this is also incorrect, because then what about the elements that appear in _three_ sets and had thus initially been triple-counted?—after subtracting the pairwise intersections, these elements haven't been included in the count at all! So one realizes that one must then _add_ the sizes of the triplewise intersections ... diff --git a/content/2012/interpolating-between-vectorized-greens-theorems.md b/content/2012/interpolating-between-vectorized-greens-theorems.md index 809616f..d0025ed 100644 --- a/content/2012/interpolating-between-vectorized-greens-theorems.md +++ b/content/2012/interpolating-between-vectorized-greens-theorems.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-06-21 20:09 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: calculus -Slug: interpolating-between-vectorized-greens-theorems Green's theorem says that (subject to some very reasonable conditions that we need not concern ourselves with here) the counterclockwise line integral of the vector field __F__ = [P Q] around the boundary of a region is equal to the double intregral of $$\frac{\partial Q}{\partial x}-\frac{\partial P}{\partial y}$$ over the region itself. It's natural to think of it as a special case of Stokes's theorem in the case of a plane. We can also think of the line integral as the integral of the inner product of the vector field with the unit tangent, leading us to write Green's theorem like this: diff --git a/content/2012/introducing-the-fractional-arithmetic-derivative.md b/content/2012/introducing-the-fractional-arithmetic-derivative.md index 295f73e..96413ce 100644 --- a/content/2012/introducing-the-fractional-arithmetic-derivative.md +++ b/content/2012/introducing-the-fractional-arithmetic-derivative.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: [RETRACTED] Introducing the Fractional Arithmet Date: 2012-10-03 12:30 Status: published Category: mathematics -Slug: introducing-the-fractional-arithmetic-derivative [__NOTICE__: _The conclusion of this post is hereby **retracted**_ because it turns out that the proposed definition of a "fractional arithmetic derivative" doesn't actually make sense. It fails to meet the basic decideratum of corresponding with an iterated [arithmetic derivative](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_derivative). _E.g._, consider that 225″ = (225′)′ = ((32·52)′)′ = (2·3·52 + 32·2·5)′ = (150 + 90)′ = 240′ = (24·3·5)′ = 4·23·3·5 + 24·5 + 24·3 = 480 + 80 + 48 = 608. Whereas, under the proposed definition we would _allegedly_ equivalently have 225(2) = (2!·30·52 + 32·2!·50) = 50 + 18 = 68. I apologize to anyone who read the original post (??) who was thereby misled. The original post follows (with the erroneous section struck through).] diff --git a/content/2012/its-not-that.md b/content/2012/its-not-that.md index 3b60a63..2bd4676 100644 --- a/content/2012/its-not-that.md +++ b/content/2012/its-not-that.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: "It's Not That" Date: 2012-10-25 08:41 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2012/its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose.md b/content/2012/its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose.md index 8916369..be9315e 100644 --- a/content/2012/its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose.md +++ b/content/2012/its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-09-21 00:19 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: morality -Slug: its-not-whether-you-win-or-lose It's how close you come to doing the Right Thing at each and every one of the uncounted millions of decision points that make up _your life_, with how you play in any particular game only constituting a tiny fraction of these, and it being not at all clear that choosing to play a game just then is closer to the Right Thing than any number of non-game-playing actions you might have chosen instead, but didn't. diff --git a/content/2012/library-fines.md b/content/2012/library-fines.md index 3e6a025..dd67003 100644 --- a/content/2012/library-fines.md +++ b/content/2012/library-fines.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-03 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: library-fines Overdue book fines are a terrible sin, not because of the harm done to other library stakeholders, but because of what they say about you as a person: not only did you not get around to finishing the books you (apparently erroneously) thought you wanted to read, but you weren't even responsible enough to bring them back on time. diff --git a/content/2012/lies-and-delusion.md b/content/2012/lies-and-delusion.md index a5e31f9..f66d2df 100644 --- a/content/2012/lies-and-delusion.md +++ b/content/2012/lies-and-delusion.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Lies and Delusion Date: 2012-07-23 18:43 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: lies-and-delusion One day, two philosophers were dining in a restaurant. "There's no such thing as lying," said the first philosopher to his companion. "Anytime someone speaks falsehood, it must be the case that they are merely deluded, or that part of them is, for the love of truth is so essential to the nature of agency that the very notion of deception is repugnant to it." diff --git a/content/2012/life-is-worth-protecting-now.md b/content/2012/life-is-worth-protecting-now.md index 238e9e1..89165c6 100644 --- a/content/2012/life-is-worth-protecting-now.md +++ b/content/2012/life-is-worth-protecting-now.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: "Life Is Worth Protecting Now" Date: 2012-12-05 05:00 Status: published 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?). diff --git a/content/2012/mathematics-is-the-subfield-of-philosophy-that-humans-are-good-at.md b/content/2012/mathematics-is-the-subfield-of-philosophy-that-humans-are-good-at.md index d145e2e..3a75b07 100644 --- a/content/2012/mathematics-is-the-subfield-of-philosophy-that-humans-are-good-at.md +++ b/content/2012/mathematics-is-the-subfield-of-philosophy-that-humans-are-good-at.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-08-10 08:58 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: philosophy of mathematics -Slug: mathematics-is-the-subfield-of-philosophy-that-humans-are-good-at By _philosophy_ I understand the discipline of discovering truths about reality by means of thinking very carefully. Contrast to science, where we try to come up with theories that predict our observations. Philosophers of number [have observed](http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_10_18_04.html) that the first ten trillion nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function are on the critical line, but people don't speak of the [Riemann hypothesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis) as being almost certainly true, not necessarily because they anticipate a counterexample lurking somewhere above ½ + 1026i (although "large" counterexamples [are not unheard-of](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewes%27_number) in the philosophy of numbers), but rather because while empirical examination is certainly _helpful_, it's not really _what we do_. Mere empiricism is usually sufficient for knowing (with high probability) _what_ is true, but as philosophers, we want to explain _why_, and moreover, _why it could not have been otherwise_. diff --git a/content/2012/missing-words-i.md b/content/2012/missing-words-i.md index 01cbeb4..86da442 100644 --- a/content/2012/missing-words-i.md +++ b/content/2012/missing-words-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-12-04 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-i There are a lot of really important concepts that aren't easy to talk about, because we don't have standard words for them. diff --git a/content/2012/missing-words-ii.md b/content/2012/missing-words-ii.md index 255a54b..bdef163 100644 --- a/content/2012/missing-words-ii.md +++ b/content/2012/missing-words-ii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-12-15 01:10 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-ii We need a word that means almost the same thing as _[sellout](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sellout)_ (in the sense of "a person who compromises their principles for financial gain"), but conveys the idea that the problem is not selling out, but selling out _for too low of a price_. We all have to make trade-offs; there isn't any one principle that takes lexical priority over every other valuable thing in life: sometimes it makes sense to compromise your ideals in exchange for money or power or fame or fitting in. diff --git a/content/2012/missing-words-iii.md b/content/2012/missing-words-iii.md index 9c2c488..342867f 100644 --- a/content/2012/missing-words-iii.md +++ b/content/2012/missing-words-iii.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-12-27 00:04 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-iii [_Loopy_](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loopy) is slang for "crazy", but I think it should be repurposed to refer to the quality of thinking the same sorts of thoughts over and over again, never breaking patterns, being stuck indefinitely at the same stage of intellectual development. You could argue that this is a form of craziness compared how an ideal agent would allocate cognitive resources, but I think it's pretty normal and common in our world, not the kind of craziness _generally recognized_ as crazy. diff --git a/content/2012/moral-mechanism.md b/content/2012/moral-mechanism.md index c99fee3..4ed3c6a 100644 --- a/content/2012/moral-mechanism.md +++ b/content/2012/moral-mechanism.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-08-19 18:06 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia, morality -Slug: moral-mechanism It feels immoral to even think of using _techniques_ to motivate oneself; one should instead just use one's _free will_ to _choose_ the correct action. How utterly _degrading_ it would be, how insulting to the very notion of human dignity, to stoop to the level of contemplating one's own psychology using mere cause-and-effect reasoning, as if one were some sort of animal, or a machine! diff --git a/content/2012/movie-tagline.md b/content/2012/movie-tagline.md index d7556f4..c73b106 100644 --- a/content/2012/movie-tagline.md +++ b/content/2012/movie-tagline.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-12-06 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: intelligence explosion -Slug: movie-tagline I think there needs to be a movie about a woman who has two jobs: artificial general intelligence programmer by day, prostitute by night. I say this mostly because I have a great idea for the tagline to go on the posters: "The oldest profession ... _and the last_." diff --git a/content/2012/my-favorite-mnemonic.md b/content/2012/my-favorite-mnemonic.md index 51b6eeb..2e53c45 100644 --- a/content/2012/my-favorite-mnemonic.md +++ b/content/2012/my-favorite-mnemonic.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-10-10 22:28 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: calculus -Slug: my-favorite-mnemonic (From Leonard Gillman and Robert H. McDowell's calculus text.) diff --git a/content/2012/narrative-fallacy.md b/content/2012/narrative-fallacy.md index f0d18fe..ed6da90 100644 --- a/content/2012/narrative-fallacy.md +++ b/content/2012/narrative-fallacy.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Narrative Fallacy Date: 2012-12-02 05:00 Status: published 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_. diff --git a/content/2012/nothing-good-in-life-scales.md b/content/2012/nothing-good-in-life-scales.md index 79e2a71..bfcdbc0 100644 --- a/content/2012/nothing-good-in-life-scales.md +++ b/content/2012/nothing-good-in-life-scales.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Nothing Good in Life Scales Date: 2012-12-08 05:00 Status: published 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_. diff --git a/content/2012/notice-of-policy-regarding-consistency.md b/content/2012/notice-of-policy-regarding-consistency.md index 42149b2..90f1492 100644 --- a/content/2012/notice-of-policy-regarding-consistency.md +++ b/content/2012/notice-of-policy-regarding-consistency.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Notice of Policy Regarding Consistency Date: 2012-07-16 13:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: improvement, rationality -Slug: notice-of-policy-regarding-consistency +Tags: improvement I reserve the right to arbitrarily change my beliefs or behavior at any time. diff --git a/content/2012/on-an-image-macro.md b/content/2012/on-an-image-macro.md index e313c5f..040129f 100644 --- a/content/2012/on-an-image-macro.md +++ b/content/2012/on-an-image-macro.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-04 05:00 Status: published Category: verse Tags: Friendship Is Magic -Slug: on-an-image-macro For the haters are going to hate, And the ponies are going to pwn, diff --git a/content/2012/on-arc-length.md b/content/2012/on-arc-length.md index e29f92c..c9c8c2d 100644 --- a/content/2012/on-arc-length.md +++ b/content/2012/on-arc-length.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-08-11 05:00 Status: published Category: verse Tags: calculus -Slug: on-arc-length Zeno knew, but did not know enough; a minute is divided Into fragments, and each fragment sees, for points it o'er presided: diff --git a/content/2012/on-the-usefulness-of-boats.md b/content/2012/on-the-usefulness-of-boats.md index b7107d6..dfc0456 100644 --- a/content/2012/on-the-usefulness-of-boats.md +++ b/content/2012/on-the-usefulness-of-boats.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-09-02 11:51 Status: published Category: asides Tags: boats -Slug: on-the-usefulness-of-boats Did you know that boats are useful for moving things over the water?? diff --git a/content/2012/periphery-demographic.md b/content/2012/periphery-demographic.md index 3d6a338..817eb55 100644 --- a/content/2012/periphery-demographic.md +++ b/content/2012/periphery-demographic.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Periphery Demographic Date: 2012-09-12 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: periphery-demographic Judging by the comment moderation queue, this blog is wildly popular among a certain niche audience. diff --git a/content/2012/recursion-is-boring.md b/content/2012/recursion-is-boring.md index 27e83e2..aaa0187 100644 --- a/content/2012/recursion-is-boring.md +++ b/content/2012/recursion-is-boring.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-13 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Emacs, Git -Slug: recursion-is-boring What the utter novice finds brilliant and fascinating, the slightly-more-experienced novice finds obvious and boring. diff --git a/content/2012/role-tension.md b/content/2012/role-tension.md index 921dedb..d002aa6 100644 --- a/content/2012/role-tension.md +++ b/content/2012/role-tension.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Role Tension Date: 2012-12-10 05:00 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2012/seasonal-drink.md b/content/2012/seasonal-drink.md index 4da34e4..28e521e 100644 --- a/content/2012/seasonal-drink.md +++ b/content/2012/seasonal-drink.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-12-25 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Less Wrong -Slug: seasonal-drink Of course, the traditional beverage of Newtonmas is [blegg](http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/)nog. diff --git a/content/2012/self-esteem-is-overrated.md b/content/2012/self-esteem-is-overrated.md index 5d8f05f..740d12f 100644 --- a/content/2012/self-esteem-is-overrated.md +++ b/content/2012/self-esteem-is-overrated.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Self-Esteem Is Overrated Date: 2012-12-16 05:00 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2012/seriously-now.md b/content/2012/seriously-now.md index 89852a4..289e7a4 100644 --- a/content/2012/seriously-now.md +++ b/content/2012/seriously-now.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-12-09 16:27 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: morality -Slug: seriously-now "But it's kind of funny how my current idea of morality is so different and so much improved from what I picked up in childhood." diff --git a/content/2012/speaking-of-addiction.md b/content/2012/speaking-of-addiction.md index 3ea481b..a6eb608 100644 --- a/content/2012/speaking-of-addiction.md +++ b/content/2012/speaking-of-addiction.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Speaking of Addiction Date: 2012-11-25 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Tags: improvement, rationality -Slug: speaking-of-addiction +Tags: improvement [_Speaking_ of addiction](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/11/things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list/), I suspect that relinquishing ideologically-induced moral outrage is actually harder than getting over many chemical dependencies (although I don't have any experience with the latter). At least with a drug, it's simple enough to draw a bright line around actions you're not supposed to do anymore; you can try pouring the contents of the liquor cabinet down the drain, or signing a [commitment contract](http://www.stickk.com/) to not buy or borrow any more cigarettes. diff --git a/content/2012/speculative-etymology-i.md b/content/2012/speculative-etymology-i.md index b33a370..0f8cd58 100644 --- a/content/2012/speculative-etymology-i.md +++ b/content/2012/speculative-etymology-i.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-10-21 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: speculative etymology -Slug: speculative-etymology-i In the future (to say nothing of large swathes of the present), creative people work for status and attention rather than money. When X is employed by Y, X is said to be "on Y's blogroll" (coined in analogy to [payroll](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/payroll)). diff --git a/content/2012/straight-talk-about-precompactness.md b/content/2012/straight-talk-about-precompactness.md index e4223bd..0d3fc9a 100644 --- a/content/2012/straight-talk-about-precompactness.md +++ b/content/2012/straight-talk-about-precompactness.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-08-16 10:44 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis -Slug: straight-talk-about-precompactness So we have this _metric space_, which is this set of points along with a way of defining "distances" between them that behaves in a basically noncrazy way (points that are zero distance away from "each other" are really just the same point, the distance from one to the other is the same as the distance from the other to the one, and something about triangles). diff --git a/content/2012/subscripting-as-function-composition.md b/content/2012/subscripting-as-function-composition.md index 1218a9c..8b3a45d 100644 --- a/content/2012/subscripting-as-function-composition.md +++ b/content/2012/subscripting-as-function-composition.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-11-02 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis, notation -Slug: subscripting-as-function-composition Dear reader, don't laugh: I had thought I already understood subsequences, but then it turned out that I was mistaken. I should have noticed the vague, unverbalized discomfort I felt about the subscripted-subscript notation, $(a_{n_k})$. But really it shouldn't be confusing at all: as Bernd S. W. Schröder points out in his _Mathematical Analysis: A Concise Introduction_, it's just a function composition. If it helps (it helped me), say that $(a_n)$ is mere _syntactic sugar_ for $a(n): \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{R}$, a function from the naturals to the reals. And $(a_{n_k})$ is just the composition $a(n(k))$, with $n(k): \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ being a strictly increasing function from the naturals to the naturals. diff --git a/content/2012/summing-the-multinomial-coefficients.md b/content/2012/summing-the-multinomial-coefficients.md index a9338b7..ab04ca5 100644 --- a/content/2012/summing-the-multinomial-coefficients.md +++ b/content/2012/summing-the-multinomial-coefficients.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-08 09:46 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: combinatorics -Slug: summing-the-multinomial-coefficients The sum of binomial coefficients $$\sum_{j=0}^n {n \choose j}$$ equals $2^n$, because $${n \choose j}$$ is the number of ways to pick _j_ elements from a set of size _n_, and $2^n$ is the size of the powerset, the set of all subsets, of a set of size _n_: the sum, over all subset sizes, of the number of ways to choose subsets of a given size, is equal to the number of subsets. You can also see this using the binomial theorem itself: diff --git a/content/2012/supermarket-notes-i.md b/content/2012/supermarket-notes-i.md index b9fe62c..17db693 100644 --- a/content/2012/supermarket-notes-i.md +++ b/content/2012/supermarket-notes-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-10 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Friendship Is Magic, shopping -Slug: supermarket-notes-i I think I like the store-brand "sparkling water beverages"; they fill a similar niche as soda (which I never buy at the store, but have been known to occasionally consume at parties or restaurants), but seem like they ought to be less deadly. diff --git a/content/2012/supermarket-notes-ii.md b/content/2012/supermarket-notes-ii.md index 85584cf..695d4c5 100644 --- a/content/2012/supermarket-notes-ii.md +++ b/content/2012/supermarket-notes-ii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-22 20:56 Status: published Category: asides Tags: shopping, Star Trek -Slug: supermarket-notes-ii I bought cookie dough, on the thought that maybe I should bake cookies and offer them to people at the University; if they were to ask what the occasion was, I could say, "It seemed like a whimsical thing to do, and I'm a whimsical person." But I'm not sure I'll actually do it. diff --git a/content/2012/telling-her-there.md b/content/2012/telling-her-there.md index f058947..d2ba34e 100644 --- a/content/2012/telling-her-there.md +++ b/content/2012/telling-her-there.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Telling Her There Date: 2012-10-17 05:00 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: telling-her-there "And so," said Synthia, "if you feel too self-conscious to write an email, if you don't know what to say or are afraid of saying the Wrong Thing, it might help to lower your quality standard and just start typing as if it were realtime communication, and edit later. It's less tempting to procrastinate replying in a realtime medium like instant messaging, and hardly tempting at all in meatspace, so you can try to import that same mindset to start your email." diff --git a/content/2012/text-from-an-analyst-to-a-friend.md b/content/2012/text-from-an-analyst-to-a-friend.md index a219424..a6484c4 100644 --- a/content/2012/text-from-an-analyst-to-a-friend.md +++ b/content/2012/text-from-an-analyst-to-a-friend.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-12-07 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: analysis -Slug: text-from-an-analyst-to-a-friend ur gr(8+ε) for arbitrary ε > 0 diff --git a/content/2012/the-morality-of-ringing-a-bell.md b/content/2012/the-morality-of-ringing-a-bell.md index 0bc4e7a..16880ac 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-morality-of-ringing-a-bell.md +++ b/content/2012/the-morality-of-ringing-a-bell.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-07-04 00:15 Status: published Category: fiction Tags: morality -Slug: the-morality-of-ringing-a-bell "Synthia, I want your opinion on something," said Quiana. diff --git a/content/2012/the-parity-decomposition-trick.md b/content/2012/the-parity-decomposition-trick.md index 76266d6..1051b09 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-parity-decomposition-trick.md +++ b/content/2012/the-parity-decomposition-trick.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Parity Decomposition Trick Date: 2012-09-30 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics -Slug: the-parity-decomposition-trick Earlier this year, Robert Hasner showed me something that I assume everyone else ("everyone else") already knows, but which _I_ didn't know: every function on ℝ can be decomposed into the sum of an even function and an odd function— diff --git a/content/2012/the-problem-with-my-friend-who-has-this-problem.md b/content/2012/the-problem-with-my-friend-who-has-this-problem.md index 9dbba48..4d804dc 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-problem-with-my-friend-who-has-this-problem.md +++ b/content/2012/the-problem-with-my-friend-who-has-this-problem.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-07-03 21:38 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: the-problem-with-my-friend-who-has-this-problem Dear reader, I have this ... friend, who has this problem, and I wanted to ask— diff --git a/content/2012/the-quieted-scare-convention.md b/content/2012/the-quieted-scare-convention.md index a1f24ac..58c61b9 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-quieted-scare-convention.md +++ b/content/2012/the-quieted-scare-convention.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Quieted Scare Convention Date: 2012-10-15 05:00 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2012/the-sliding-false-dichotomhy-of-idealism-and-cynicism.md b/content/2012/the-sliding-false-dichotomhy-of-idealism-and-cynicism.md index c4f2fbb..04c6d16 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-sliding-false-dichotomhy-of-idealism-and-cynicism.md +++ b/content/2012/the-sliding-false-dichotomhy-of-idealism-and-cynicism.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-10-06 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: cynicism, Less Wrong -Slug: the-sliding-false-dichotomhy-of-idealism-and-cynicism The _Television Tropes & Idioms_ wiki has a page on the [Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism). Of course I understand why such a page exists, but part of me can't help but protest that it's not really a sliding scale. One of the most charming things about [my native subculture](http://lesswrong.com) is that we have heaps of _both_: cynicism in the style of "Humans are selfish, weak-willed hypocrites; the reasons people say they do things aren't always or even usually the real reasons, and even introspection itself is untrustworthy," and idealism in the style of "But knowing what we do now, we shall use the power of Reason to remake the world in accordance with our Values!" diff --git a/content/2012/the-so-called-euclidean-plane.md b/content/2012/the-so-called-euclidean-plane.md index 1544785..a758fa6 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-so-called-euclidean-plane.md +++ b/content/2012/the-so-called-euclidean-plane.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: The So-Called "Euclidean Plane" Date: 2012-10-28 17:19 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: the-so-called-euclidean-plane I'm skeptical; I think it's actually just a really big torus. diff --git a/content/2012/the-threshold.md b/content/2012/the-threshold.md index ad1b128..ff82581 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-threshold.md +++ b/content/2012/the-threshold.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-23 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: the-threshold Supposedly the method of pomodoros is a great technology for overcoming procrastination: you work in twenty- or twenty-five-minute timed blocks, each of which are _atomic_, indivisible: you have to work through the block, and if you let yourself wander away to something else, then it doesn't count. Katja Grace [explains why this is a good idea](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/08/on-the-goodness-of-beeminder.html): diff --git a/content/2012/the-true-secret-about-conjugate-roots-and-field-automorphisms.md b/content/2012/the-true-secret-about-conjugate-roots-and-field-automorphisms.md index 9b0d201..077e43c 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-true-secret-about-conjugate-roots-and-field-automorphisms.md +++ b/content/2012/the-true-secret-about-conjugate-roots-and-field-automorphisms.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-09-18 14:25 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: algebra -Slug: the-true-secret-about-conjugate-roots-and-field-automorphisms In the study of the elementary algebra, one occasionally hears of the conjugate roots theorem, which says that if $z_0$ is a root of a polynomial with real coefficients, then its complex conjugate is also a root. Or if you prefer, nonreal roots come in conjugate pairs. It also works in the other direction: if nonreal roots of a polynomial come in conjugate pairs, then the polynomial has real coefficients, because the purely imaginary parts cancel when you do the algebra: $(x - (a + bi))(x - (a - bi)) = x^2 - x(a + bi) - x(a - bi) + (a^2 - (bi)^2) = x^2 - 2ax + a^2 + b^2$. diff --git a/content/2012/the-word-melancholy.md b/content/2012/the-word-melancholy.md index e8043fa..b9ec367 100644 --- a/content/2012/the-word-melancholy.md +++ b/content/2012/the-word-melancholy.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: The Word Melancholy Date: 2012-10-07 18:08 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: the-word-melancholy It sounds like a kind of dog bred to harvest _Cucurbitaceae_-family fruits. diff --git a/content/2012/things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list.md b/content/2012/things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list.md index 1828666..0d90a3e 100644 --- a/content/2012/things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list.md +++ b/content/2012/things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2012-11-07 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia, lists -Slug: things-that-are-hard-to-quit-non-exhaustive-list cigarettes, alcohol, heroin, procrastination of boring-but-genuinely-worth-doing tasks, moral outrage diff --git a/content/2012/training-your-very-own-turtle-to-draw.md b/content/2012/training-your-very-own-turtle-to-draw.md index 033be7e..1e947e6 100644 --- a/content/2012/training-your-very-own-turtle-to-draw.md +++ b/content/2012/training-your-very-own-turtle-to-draw.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-07-01 23:07 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python, turtle graphics -Slug: training-your-very-own-turtle-to-draw Dear reader, I don't think I've ever told you how much I love the Python standard library, but I do. When they say "[Batteries included](http://www.python.org/about/)," they may not mean it [in the sense of](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/battery) "a device that produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances," but they _do_ mean it in the sense of "an array of similar things," where the similar things are _great libraries_. If you need a CSV reader, [it's there](http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/library/csv.html). If you need fixed-point decimal arithmetic, [it's there](http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/library/decimal.html). But although perhaps it should not have surprised me, never has my joy and appreciation been greater than the fateful moment when I learned that the standard library itself contains a module for diff --git a/content/2012/trying-to-buy-a-lamp.md b/content/2012/trying-to-buy-a-lamp.md index 443cfd2..249af29 100644 --- a/content/2012/trying-to-buy-a-lamp.md +++ b/content/2012/trying-to-buy-a-lamp.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-07-01 19:55 Status: published Category: social science Tags: anecdotal, schooling -Slug: trying-to-buy-a-lamp Dear reader, I had wanted to tell you an anecdote about a recent incident in which I considered myself to have been outrageously mistreated, but it occurred to me that you probably would not find the story at all worthy of note. In fact, I fear you would be quite likely to think less of me for complaining in such a melodramatic fashion about something which the prevailing norms of our Society consider quite ordinary and proper. And what authority do _I_ have to insist that it's Society that is in the wrong, and not I? diff --git a/content/2012/two-views-of-the-monotone-sequence-theorem.md b/content/2012/two-views-of-the-monotone-sequence-theorem.md index 42185f2..272c6f1 100644 --- a/content/2012/two-views-of-the-monotone-sequence-theorem.md +++ b/content/2012/two-views-of-the-monotone-sequence-theorem.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-11-05 21:51 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis -Slug: two-views-of-the-monotone-sequence-theorem If a sequence of real numbers $(a_n)$ is _bounded_ and _monotone_ (and I'm actually going to say _nondecreasing_, without loss of generality), then it _converges_. I'm going to tell you _why_ and I'm going to tell you _twice_. diff --git a/content/2012/untitled.md b/content/2012/untitled.md index ebc7d54..7b0763f 100644 --- a/content/2012/untitled.md +++ b/content/2012/untitled.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2012-06-21 20:06 Status: published Category: asides Tags: akrasia -Slug: untitled "I just got an idea that will make a great blog post ..." diff --git a/content/2012/vast-expanses-of-imperfection.md b/content/2012/vast-expanses-of-imperfection.md index e5fdbe9..d88ea0e 100644 --- a/content/2012/vast-expanses-of-imperfection.md +++ b/content/2012/vast-expanses-of-imperfection.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Vast Expanses of Imperfection Date: 2012-12-09 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: vast-expanses-of-imperfection _Hard Truths from Soft Cats_ [opines that](http://hardtruthsfromsoftcats.tumblr.com/post/31974112077) diff --git a/content/2012/you-know-what-they-say.md b/content/2012/you-know-what-they-say.md index 65eee29..9dfc8b9 100644 --- a/content/2012/you-know-what-they-say.md +++ b/content/2012/you-know-what-they-say.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: You Know What They Say Date: 2012-12-10 16:06 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: you-know-what-they-say If you shouldn't make lemonade, then life hasn't given you lemons. diff --git a/content/2013/2013-year-in-reverse.md b/content/2013/2013-year-in-reverse.md index de95387..604b139 100644 --- a/content/2013/2013-year-in-reverse.md +++ b/content/2013/2013-year-in-reverse.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-12-31 17:07 Status: published Category: meta Tags: new year -Slug: 2013-year-in-reverse Dear reader, as another year comes to a close, it is perhaps wise that we should take a few moments to reflect on what we learned here at _An Algorithmic Lucidity_ in 2013—the year that was! diff --git a/content/2013/a-possible-future.md b/content/2013/a-possible-future.md index d00b86a..f09a8e4 100644 --- a/content/2013/a-possible-future.md +++ b/content/2013/a-possible-future.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: A Possible Future Date: 2013-03-04 13:58 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: a-possible-future I just saw a film first conceived near the kiln At the school by a woman called Nora, diff --git a/content/2013/acronyms-for-defending-actions-that-would-otherwise-appear-dubious-non-exhaustive-list.md b/content/2013/acronyms-for-defending-actions-that-would-otherwise-appear-dubious-non-exhaustive-list.md index b92686f..c3f72ec 100644 --- a/content/2013/acronyms-for-defending-actions-that-would-otherwise-appear-dubious-non-exhaustive-list.md +++ b/content/2013/acronyms-for-defending-actions-that-would-otherwise-appear-dubious-non-exhaustive-list.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-09-11 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: lists -Slug: acronyms-for-defending-actions-that-would-otherwise-appear-dubious-non-exhaustive-list [YOLO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YOLO_%28motto%29), [VOI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_information) diff --git a/content/2013/actually-trying.md b/content/2013/actually-trying.md index 2a8acf6..4aa1799 100644 --- a/content/2013/actually-trying.md +++ b/content/2013/actually-trying.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-17 18:01 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: actually-trying "I'm alright—I'll get through it—I've been through this before. This fear and anxiety—it's a fact about _me_, not about the world. In early 2007, I spent weeks being terrified of either [accidentally](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia) commiting plagiarism or being accused thereof. In late 2009, I spent weeks being upset about which form of my name to use in which contexts. In late 2010, I spent some time being deeply upset about having violated copyright law by writing fanfiction. All of those episodes, and the others that I haven't mentioned, seem so silly in retrospect ... so maybe now I'm sufficiently self-aware to pick up the pattern: that my brain just arbitrarily latches onto ideas to feel threatened by, but that this process isn't actually useful, and there are probably learnable techniques to dampen it." diff --git a/content/2013/after-an-epiphany.md b/content/2013/after-an-epiphany.md index bc6925f..d043248 100644 --- a/content/2013/after-an-epiphany.md +++ b/content/2013/after-an-epiphany.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-01-09 19:18 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: improvement -Slug: after-an-epiphany I've been _so confused_ in _so many ways_ that I had been _specifically warned against_ dozens of times, in writing _and_ in person, and I _still didn't get it!_ Of course, I was warned about this, too: everyone knows that there are things you don't know that you don't know, and that there's a difference between endorsing a proposition, and integrating its implications into your way of thinking. But it's still such a shock to actually _see_ ... to go so _suddenly_ from hating the local Authorities for not telling you all the true and important things that your friends have been telling you, to _noticing_ that the things that your friends have been telling you can _actually be applied_ to stop being so hurt all the time about how the local Authorities had misled you. diff --git a/content/2013/all-vows.md b/content/2013/all-vows.md index e763835..d004dd1 100644 --- a/content/2013/all-vows.md +++ b/content/2013/all-vows.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-09-14 11:56 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: morality -Slug: all-vows "_Avinu Malkeinu_, we have sinned against you! _Avinu Malkeinu_, forgive us, bless us, grant us atonement!" diff --git a/content/2013/an-unauthorized-use-of-ms-gunnisons-secret-time-machine.md b/content/2013/an-unauthorized-use-of-ms-gunnisons-secret-time-machine.md index 1439e55..9c263bc 100644 --- a/content/2013/an-unauthorized-use-of-ms-gunnisons-secret-time-machine.md +++ b/content/2013/an-unauthorized-use-of-ms-gunnisons-secret-time-machine.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: An Unauthorized Use of Ms. Gunnison's Secret Time Machine Date: 2013-12-09 13:29 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: an-unauthorized-use-of-ms-gunnisons-secret-time-machine Gunni told her not to touch it; Common sense would say as much in diff --git a/content/2013/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md b/content/2013/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md index 3c2f993..5d9889c 100644 --- a/content/2013/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md +++ b/content/2013/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-11-17 17:54 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Friendship Is Magic, Star Trek -Slug: another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/11/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/) diff --git a/content/2013/apophenia.md b/content/2013/apophenia.md index bc71487..5b1e6ed 100644 --- a/content/2013/apophenia.md +++ b/content/2013/apophenia.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Apophenia Date: 2013-03-26 16:37 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: apophenia It's well-known that it shouldn't actually be that shocking to occasionally encounter seemingly shocking coincidences: the time your friend calls you just as you were about to call them might seem like compelling evidence for psychic powers, but only because you don't remember all the other occasions when an equally improbable coincidence _could_ have happened, but didn't. We tend to see patterns even where none exist, and neglect that million-to-one events happen seven times a day in New York. diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-eight.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-eight.md index acc992e..5e8d07d 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-eight.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-eight.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-11-08 00:34 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Ruby -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-eight _Tuesday 5 Novembmer 2013—_ Yesterday was our last pair-programming project; I worked with _Ben Watts_ on a little chat server in Node using WebSockets. I felt like perhaps there was something regrettable about shoving so much functionality into a big callback, but maybe that's just the nature of JavaScript, and not really regrettable at all? On Sunday I started my RSS-aggregator capstone project, now called Superscription. diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-five.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-five.md index 1c784e2..f472c13 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-five.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-five.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: App Academy Diary, Week Five Date: 2013-10-14 23:52 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-five [!["Getting Down to Business"](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/starlight_music-getting_down-203x300.png)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/starlight_music-getting_down.png){: .alignleft } diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-four.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-four.md index f1db1d1..a942d95 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-four.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-four.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-10-07 22:11 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Ruby -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-four _Monday 7 October 2013—_ The main part of SedentaryRecord went pretty smoothly. I like my one-liner implementation of the `has_many_through` association better than the instructions' suggestion of writing a whole new query template; the TA Patrick pointed out that my version is inefficient (firing off two queries rather than one), but instead of writing the query-saving long version right away, I decided to try implementing validations first (one of the suggested extension ideas). That didn't go well at _all_; I spent a lot of time ineffectually hacking away at the problem but didn't even come up with anything worth committing! diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-nine.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-nine.md index ad05307..2dfa8c4 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-nine.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-nine.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: App Academy Diary, Week Nine Date: 2013-11-17 12:32 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-nine _Sunday 17 November 2013_— This was the last week of App Academy's regular course content; the next cohort starts Monday and my cohort will begin the three-week "post-course" mostly focused on interview practice, applying for jobs, _&c._ I got Superscription into a non-embarassing state: I made the feed-fetching happen as a scheduled task, added guest users, introduced the ability to mark entries as having been read, made an attractive click-and-drag category selector, _&c._ I still want to—at the very least—implement infinite-scroll pagination (fetching all the unread entries from the start can be very slow if there are a lot of them) and rewrite the category selector's terrible, terrible code. On Friday a lot of my class went to the San Francisco Startup Job Fair at noon, and we also had our demo day at the office at three. I think I made an okay showing? But thanks for reading. diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-one.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-one.md index e833806..8f37c43 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-one.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-one.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: App Academy Diary, Week One Date: 2013-09-16 21:48 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-one _Monday 16 September 2013_— For the next couple months, I'm going to be engrossed in an intensive web development course offered by [App Academy](http://www.appacademy.io/); it's pretty great! Part of the routine is to write end-of-day blogposts describing what we've learned; I guess we were "supposed" to start a Tumblr specifically for these, but that's dumb because I already have a blog, so I think I'll just put my updates here (updating the post throughout the week). Today was the first day! App Academy puts a lot of focus on _pair programming_: you have two people at a workstation; only the "driver" types, while the "navigator" offers direction (and then you switch roles). Today I was paired with [_Chris Evans_](https://github.com/lcevans), who is a nice guy who knows way more math than me! Today our task was a bunch of fairly straightfoward Ruby exercises: monkeypatch the Array class to do this-and-such, make a playable Tower of Hanoi game, that sort of thing. The most challenging one was part 15 of [Test First Ruby](http://testfirst.org/learn_ruby): write a method that accepts integers and returns a string describing the number in words (so _e.g._ 259123 becomes "two hundred fifty nine thousand one hundred twenty three"). Chris and I finished the most important stuff on time and started working on the bonus project about solving mazes, but we didn't get too far with that in the time remaining. diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-seven.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-seven.md index 21b5c21..da57b52 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-seven.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-seven.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: App Academy Diary, Week Seven Date: 2013-10-28 23:43 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-seven _Monday 28 October 2013—_ The governor of Delaware was supposed to visit us today, but he totally stood us up!—supposedly because of a late airplane or something, if you even believe that. Today's assessment (on elementary JavaScript, binding of `this`, and the module pattern) was really straightforward, but I found the day's project (in collaboration with _Irene Ngyuen_) on client-side MVC quite challenging at times; I fear that we were only the second-best [Irene](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/10/app-academy-diary-week-six/#thursday)–[Zach](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/10/app-academy-diary-week-five/#sunday) team today. I'm sleeping over at the office again tonight, which seems like a good thing to do twice a week maybe?—when I stay, I can fit in some quality solo hacking time until sleep or distraction takes me, whereas I am not inclined to do so after a train and bike ride home. Case in point: I got a crude form of authentication working in Wires today! So many feels! diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-six.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-six.md index 579880b..257b0b5 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-six.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-six.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: App Academy Diary, Week Six Date: 2013-10-22 21:46 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-six _Tuesday 22 October 2013—_ I slept at the office last night for want of transportation, and ended up making some solid initial progress on a little Python web framework inspired by last week's class exercise, which I am also calling Wires. (Working on it in spare moments today alerted me to a disturbing deficit in my mental model of Python imports; you wouldn't expect organizing code into different directories to be _difficult_.) Yesterday I worked with _Ryan Newton_ and today with _Daphne Johnson_ on some JavaScript exercises. diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-three.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-three.md index e3fb9c5..7cc9526 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-three.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-three.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-09-30 21:37 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Ruby -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-three _Monday 30 September 2013—_ Today's assessment was implementing [Crazy Eights](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eights) in accordance with the given RSpec tests. In the afternoon, I worked with [_Dan Quan_](http://quan.io/) on exercises from the [SQL Zoo](http://sqlzoo.net/wiki/Main_Page), which varied wildly in difficulty. diff --git a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-two.md b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-two.md index 3c5db54..624c743 100644 --- a/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-two.md +++ b/content/2013/app-academy-diary-week-two.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: App Academy Diary, Week Two Date: 2013-09-23 22:01 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: app-academy-diary-week-two _Monday 23 September 2013_— I rewrote most of the tic-tac-toe game yesterday; information-theoretically speaking, the board state is only 9 lg 3 ≈ 14.26 bits, but for better or for worse, I resisted the temptation to represent it as a two-character string. Still (still!) didn't get the AI working, though. Today was our first assessment: way too easy, I thought; we were given about an hour, and I finished in under half that. Then we had a lecture/Q&A period which I thought was too long, which covered the solutions to the assessment and default hash values. Why does anyone think lectures are a good idea? I'll confess to hanging out in the back and reading a little bit from _A Farewell to Alms_, which I bought on a whim on Saturday at Half-Price Books (which is a nice store, although you have to wonder whose idea it was to stock so many copies of _Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane_). At lunch I bought coffee and food at Starbucks and spent a little more time trying to debug the tic-tac-toe AI—_still_ to no avail, but I'll get there eventually! (Tic-tac-toe itself is dross, but it's really important to get minimax right, because it should generalize to other games without _too_ much trouble, and we're doing chess later this week.) _Speaking_ of games on grids, today's project was to clone Minesweeper. I worked with [_Jeff Fiddler_](https://github.com/jeffnv), who is the Jeff from Nevada (and not the other Jeff who tried to teach math in high schools but was frustrated with the overemphasis on standardized tests). It went really well; we used pretty Unicode symbols and even got around to implementing a cursor interface (which is way better than making the user enter coordinates)! diff --git a/content/2013/being-myself.md b/content/2013/being-myself.md index 726432d..f93319c 100644 --- a/content/2013/being-myself.md +++ b/content/2013/being-myself.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Being Myself Date: 2013-02-20 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: being-myself "Don't worry, I'm sure it'll all go fine. Just be yourself." diff --git a/content/2013/cached-remark-for-when-someone-asks-how-you-knew-an-obscure-fact.md b/content/2013/cached-remark-for-when-someone-asks-how-you-knew-an-obscure-fact.md index 9f58b08..e1b1460 100644 --- a/content/2013/cached-remark-for-when-someone-asks-how-you-knew-an-obscure-fact.md +++ b/content/2013/cached-remark-for-when-someone-asks-how-you-knew-an-obscure-fact.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-08-26 16:03 Status: published Category: asides Tags: cached speech -Slug: cached-remark-for-when-someone-asks-how-you-knew-an-obscure-fact "Every day, I ritually sacrifice part of my soul to appease [Mnemosyne](http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/), the goddess of memory." diff --git a/content/2013/cascading-stable-strategies.md b/content/2013/cascading-stable-strategies.md index 64b221a..10276b5 100644 --- a/content/2013/cascading-stable-strategies.md +++ b/content/2013/cascading-stable-strategies.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Cascading Stable Strategies Date: 2013-11-12 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: cascading-stable-strategies "What do you think of my website's new look? I designed it with ESS." diff --git a/content/2013/childlike.md b/content/2013/childlike.md index 37b4acb..577a1cd 100644 --- a/content/2013/childlike.md +++ b/content/2013/childlike.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-03 21:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: childlike "I think the best term to describe how I feel is _childlike_. That also explains the delusions I was having: children can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality as adults judge such things, and neither can people having or immediately recovering from a psychotic episode." diff --git a/content/2013/classification.md b/content/2013/classification.md index e2221b3..c528e39 100644 --- a/content/2013/classification.md +++ b/content/2013/classification.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Classification Date: 2013-12-26 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: classification "So, what do you think it—" diff --git a/content/2013/clearness.md b/content/2013/clearness.md index 537933d..4c5c3fe 100644 --- a/content/2013/clearness.md +++ b/content/2013/clearness.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Clearness Date: 2013-01-03 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: clearness "I somehow feel less bitter today." diff --git a/content/2013/compensation.md b/content/2013/compensation.md index ea89b2e..f1f7b80 100644 --- a/content/2013/compensation.md +++ b/content/2013/compensation.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-07-07 18:34 Status: published Category: asides Tags: cryonics -Slug: compensation "Maybe there should be an effort to cryopreserve specimens of endangered species. 'Hey, sorry we killed your entire species, but when we get more computing power later, we'll be sure to give you lots of happy runtime as compensation.'" diff --git a/content/2013/computing-the-powerset.md b/content/2013/computing-the-powerset.md index 0a5bd99..c8576f2 100644 --- a/content/2013/computing-the-powerset.md +++ b/content/2013/computing-the-powerset.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-12-10 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Clojure, combinatorics -Slug: computing-the-powerset Suppose we want to find the powerset of a given set, that is, the set of all its subsets. How might we go about it? Well, the powerset of the empty set is the set containing the empty set. diff --git a/content/2013/concreteness.md b/content/2013/concreteness.md index 60ddff6..84c339a 100644 --- a/content/2013/concreteness.md +++ b/content/2013/concreteness.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Concreteness Date: 2013-01-12 05:00 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2013/continuum-utilitarianism.md b/content/2013/continuum-utilitarianism.md index ec58623..c8ac3c5 100644 --- a/content/2013/continuum-utilitarianism.md +++ b/content/2013/continuum-utilitarianism.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-04-01 18:23 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: population ethics -Slug: continuum-utilitarianism You hear people talk about positive (maximize pleasure) versus negative (minimize pain) utilitarianism, or average versus total utilitarianism, none of which seem very satisfactory. For example, average utilitarianism taken literally would suggest killing everyone but the happiest person, and total utilitarianism implies what Derek Parfit called the repugnant conclusion: that for any possible world with lots of happy people, the total utilitarian must prefer another possible world with many more people whose lives are just barely worth living. diff --git a/content/2013/conversational-overhead.md b/content/2013/conversational-overhead.md index 93ce859..87de23b 100644 --- a/content/2013/conversational-overhead.md +++ b/content/2013/conversational-overhead.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Conversational Overhead Date: 2013-11-19 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: conversational-overhead A woman of wisdom once told me to heed Paul Graham's advice to notice [the things you can't say](http://paulgraham.com/say.html) and then _don't say them_, which stance I'm updating slightly towards, because even when you're only making a perfectly reasonable point along the lines of _Policy debates should not appear one-sided; I don't think that your Argument A actually supports Policy X (although I agree that X could be desireable for reasons independent of A)_ and everyone is charitable and no one bites, there's still a huge amount of emotional overhead incurred just by being in the conversation at all, because even when and you and your interlocutors are honest, you almost never have common knowledge of that honesty, so your interlocutors aren't necessarily sure that you're not just disagreeing with A out of secret enmity towards X, and you're not sure that they're sure that you're not, all of which drama is a drain on mental energy that could otherwise have been allocated to entirely grown-up concerns like JavaScript and money. diff --git a/content/2013/cover-letter.md b/content/2013/cover-letter.md index 369b19d..d2e453a 100644 --- a/content/2013/cover-letter.md +++ b/content/2013/cover-letter.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Cover Letter Date: 2013-12-14 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: cover-letter Beset by nights of torment, Bent to keep your site performant, diff --git a/content/2013/cryonics-as-memoir.md b/content/2013/cryonics-as-memoir.md index 2da2b69..d34ddd0 100644 --- a/content/2013/cryonics-as-memoir.md +++ b/content/2013/cryonics-as-memoir.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-08-19 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: cryonics -Slug: cryonics-as-memoir I wonder if cryonics would have a better reputation if it were sold as being more like leaving a memoir, than a bid for personal immortality. Historians are glad to have Samuel Pepys's diary for all that it tells us about life in 1660s London; would they not be more overjoyed to have Samuel Pepys's brain, if only we knew how to read brains as easily as we can read books? diff --git a/content/2013/dimensionality.md b/content/2013/dimensionality.md index 66c47fb..f9669ff 100644 --- a/content/2013/dimensionality.md +++ b/content/2013/dimensionality.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-05-06 11:34 Status: published Category: asides Tags: humor -Slug: dimensionality "So, an engineer and a mathematician are leaving a lecture. The engineer says, 'I just don't understand how you can visualize objects in seven-dimensional space.' The mathematician says, 'Oh, that's easy. You just visualize the _n_-dimensional case, and then set _n_ equal to seven.'" diff --git a/content/2013/diversity-is-strength.md b/content/2013/diversity-is-strength.md index 11fb2db..bff5dcb 100644 --- a/content/2013/diversity-is-strength.md +++ b/content/2013/diversity-is-strength.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-03-12 12:18 Status: published Category: social science Tags: madness -Slug: diversity-is-strength I feel like schools, prisons, and mental hospitals are all making the same mistake: locking children, criminals, and crazy people up together just creates more childishness, criminality, and madness. diff --git a/content/2013/doend-macros-for-emacs.md b/content/2013/doend-macros-for-emacs.md index 6621a78..7af9738 100644 --- a/content/2013/doend-macros-for-emacs.md +++ b/content/2013/doend-macros-for-emacs.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-08-30 14:43 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Emacs, Ruby -Slug: doend-macros-for-emacs Dear reader, Ruby is a pretty okay programming language, but I have to say I feel ambivalent about the use of `do` and `end` as block delimiters. (Contrast to braces in C/Java/_&c._ or indentation in Python.) _Three_ keystrokes just to close a block?! Scandalous! diff --git a/content/2013/dont-try-to-be-clever.md b/content/2013/dont-try-to-be-clever.md index b92da9b..d049b0a 100644 --- a/content/2013/dont-try-to-be-clever.md +++ b/content/2013/dont-try-to-be-clever.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Don't Try to Be Clever Date: 2013-01-18 11:45 Status: published Category: asides -Tags: rationality -Slug: dont-try-to-be-clever +Tags: epistemology The great Brian Kernighan wrote, "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" diff --git a/content/2013/education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside.md b/content/2013/education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside.md index e58845d..e91aff7 100644 --- a/content/2013/education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside.md +++ b/content/2013/education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Education and Indoctrination Feel the Same From the Inside Date: 2013-01-10 00:48 Status: published Category: psychology -Tags: rationality -Slug: education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside +Tags: epistemology They _have_ to. The psychology of what it feels like to learn something from a book is going to be the _same_ whether or not the things the book says are actually true. The psychology of what it feels like to believe the things your teacher tells you and your peers repeat is going to be the _same_ whether or not the things your teacher says are true. You can't just trust the book or the teacher, you have to use whatever other information you have (from observation and experience, from other books, from other teachers) about the reliability of the processes that produced the book, the reliability of your teacher to have done this same kind of thinking. diff --git a/content/2013/engineering-selection.md b/content/2013/engineering-selection.md index 5a617a4..696ddbe 100644 --- a/content/2013/engineering-selection.md +++ b/content/2013/engineering-selection.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-09-10 05:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: cynicism, transhumanism -Slug: engineering-selection This whole business of being alive used to seem so much simpler and less morally ambiguous before I realized that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, that it has always been thus and [could not have been otherwise](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/04/the-horror-of-naturalism/). The other day I was reading Luke Muehlhauser's [interview with Steve Hsu](http://intelligence.org/2013/08/31/stephen-hsu-on-cognitive-genomics/), and Hsu says: diff --git a/content/2013/epiphenomenal-coordinates.md b/content/2013/epiphenomenal-coordinates.md index 9b959f8..26782c2 100644 --- a/content/2013/epiphenomenal-coordinates.md +++ b/content/2013/epiphenomenal-coordinates.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-01-15 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: linear algebra -Slug: epiphenomenal-coordinates In the study of elementary linear algebra, unwary novices are often inclined to think of a vector as an ordered list of real numbers; to them, linear algebra is then conceived of as the study of multiplying matrices with column vectors. But this is a horribly impoverished perspective; we can do so much better for ourselves with a bit of abstraction and generality. diff --git a/content/2013/etc.md b/content/2013/etc.md index 52f631f..31f8c4c 100644 --- a/content/2013/etc.md +++ b/content/2013/etc.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: "&c." Date: 2013-12-18 21:15 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2013/ford-fulkerson.md b/content/2013/ford-fulkerson.md index 497af10..c5ace00 100644 --- a/content/2013/ford-fulkerson.md +++ b/content/2013/ford-fulkerson.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-08-19 17:26 Status: published Category: computing Tags: algorithms, Ruby -Slug: ford-fulkerson Dear reader, have you ever dreamed of solving instances of the maximum flow problem? Sure you have! Suppose we have a weighted directed graph, which we might imagine as a network of pipes (represented by the edges) between locations (represented by the nodes), pipes through which some sort of fluid might thereby be transported across the network. One node is designated the _source_, another is called the _sink_, and the weight of the edge (_i_, _j_) represents the maximum capacity of the pipe which transports fluid from the location _i_ to location _j_. The maximum-flow problem is precisely the question of how to transport the maximum possible amount of fluid _from_ the source _to_ the sink (without any fluid leaking or magically appearing at any of the intermediate nodes). That is, we want to assign an amount of fluid _flow_ to each edge, not to exceed that edge's capacity, such that inflow equals outflow for all the intermediate (_i.e._, non-source, non-sink) nodes, and such that the total flow reaching the sink is maximized. diff --git a/content/2013/forgetting-an-idea.md b/content/2013/forgetting-an-idea.md index 5f61da6..3208745 100644 --- a/content/2013/forgetting-an-idea.md +++ b/content/2013/forgetting-an-idea.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-08-27 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: cynicism -Slug: forgetting-an-idea Occasionally I have a good idea, but neglect to write it down immediately, and end up forgetting it very soon thereafter; often I can ressociate my way back to it, but not always. I'm given to understand that this is not uncommon for other people, either. Only I have to wonder if it's at all telling that we remember the emotional experience of "I just had a good idea! Clearly I am a Smart and Creative Person!" but forget the idea that was ostensibly its _referent_. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Why, it's _almost_ as if the deception and posturing that defines our social worlds extends even into the sacred domain of the self! diff --git a/content/2013/fortune.md b/content/2013/fortune.md index 592b1b3..9611cf2 100644 --- a/content/2013/fortune.md +++ b/content/2013/fortune.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Fortune Date: 2013-12-15 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: fortune "They're going to pay you _X_ dollars a year? But that's fantastic! You're rich!" diff --git a/content/2013/genre.md b/content/2013/genre.md index 3767a61..8f650dc 100644 --- a/content/2013/genre.md +++ b/content/2013/genre.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Genre Date: 2013-12-27 05:00 Status: published 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—" diff --git a/content/2013/good-works.md b/content/2013/good-works.md index c30be2f..175b1a1 100644 --- a/content/2013/good-works.md +++ b/content/2013/good-works.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Good Works Date: 2013-05-24 17:39 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: good-works "And _you_, you louse! How do you justify your existence?" diff --git a/content/2013/group-introduction.md b/content/2013/group-introduction.md index d034791..c80b4ea 100644 --- a/content/2013/group-introduction.md +++ b/content/2013/group-introduction.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Group Introduction Date: 2013-01-31 00:47 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2013/growing-up.md b/content/2013/growing-up.md index 759017a..36d0535 100644 --- a/content/2013/growing-up.md +++ b/content/2013/growing-up.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Growing Up Date: 2013-02-14 19:50 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: growing-up "I miss being a human." diff --git a/content/2013/guns.md b/content/2013/guns.md index 0e060ca..984c82e 100644 --- a/content/2013/guns.md +++ b/content/2013/guns.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-07-05 11:22 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: guns "Do you know, I've decided I like guns. Of course it would be _preferable_ to wave a magic wand and have all sentient life live in peace and harmony in paradise forever. But if Reality puts you in a situation where you have to kill, at least we have tools to do it _quickly_: a well-aimed _bang_ and there isn't a creature there to suffer for very long. That's actually a huge improvement over the state of nature, where animals kill with nothing but teeth and claws." diff --git a/content/2013/haiku-for-eulers-number.md b/content/2013/haiku-for-eulers-number.md index ab31125..8a4761d 100644 --- a/content/2013/haiku-for-eulers-number.md +++ b/content/2013/haiku-for-eulers-number.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-03 20:21 Status: published Category: verse Tags: calculus -Slug: haiku-for-eulers-number Two point seven one Eight two eight one eight two eight diff --git a/content/2013/highball.md b/content/2013/highball.md index b7d8124..a998790 100644 --- a/content/2013/highball.md +++ b/content/2013/highball.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Highball Date: 2013-12-12 05:00 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2013/huffman.md b/content/2013/huffman.md index bf7a403..193f262 100644 --- a/content/2013/huffman.md +++ b/content/2013/huffman.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-06-08 18:47 Status: published Category: computing Tags: algorithms, Python -Slug: huffman Dear reader, you know what's _way_ more fun than [feeling](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/04/the-horror-of-naturalism/) [sad](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/05/relativity/) [about](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/05/relevance/) [the](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/05/retirement/) [nature](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/06/remembering/) of the cosmos? _Data compression_, that's what! Suppose you want to send a message to your friends in a nearby alternate universe, but interuniversal communication bandwidth is _very expensive_ (different universes can't _physically_ interact, so we and our alternate-universe analogues can only communicate by mutually _inferring_ what the other party must be saying, which takes monstrous amounts of computing power and is not cheap), so you need to make your message as brief as possible. Note that 'brief' doesn't just have to do with how long your message is in natural language, it also has to do with how that message is _represented_ over the transuniveral communication channel: indeed, the more efficient the encoding, the more you can afford to say on a fixed budget. diff --git a/content/2013/humans-are-mysterious.md b/content/2013/humans-are-mysterious.md index a2bb96c..92f3347 100644 --- a/content/2013/humans-are-mysterious.md +++ b/content/2013/humans-are-mysterious.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Humans Are Mysterious Date: 2013-01-11 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: humans-are-mysterious "You are mysterious." diff --git a/content/2013/hustle.md b/content/2013/hustle.md index ff399a7..37c7a8b 100644 --- a/content/2013/hustle.md +++ b/content/2013/hustle.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Hustle Date: 2013-01-02 05:00 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2013/i-dont-understand-time.md b/content/2013/i-dont-understand-time.md index bedd2c3..3c7c9f2 100644 --- a/content/2013/i-dont-understand-time.md +++ b/content/2013/i-dont-understand-time.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-04-28 21:35 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: physics -Slug: i-dont-understand-time Our subjective experience would have it that time "moves forward": the past is no longer, and the future is indeterminate and "hasn't happened yet." But it can't _actually_ work that way: special relativity tells us that there's no absolute space of simultaneity; given two spacelike separated events, whether one happened "before" or "after" the other depends on where you are and how fast you're going. This leads us to a "block universe" view: our 3+1 dimensional universe, past, present, and future, simply _exists_, and the subjective arrow of time somehow arises from our perspective embedded within it. diff --git a/content/2013/identity-secrets.md b/content/2013/identity-secrets.md index d4b1913..df23404 100644 --- a/content/2013/identity-secrets.md +++ b/content/2013/identity-secrets.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Identity Secrets Date: 2013-01-17 22:22 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: identity-secrets "You know secrets." diff --git a/content/2013/im-a-moron.md b/content/2013/im-a-moron.md index 55ad646..1becf50 100644 --- a/content/2013/im-a-moron.md +++ b/content/2013/im-a-moron.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: I'm a Moron Date: 2013-08-30 05:00 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2013/insight-porn.md b/content/2013/insight-porn.md index f9c329c..f7dedb8 100644 --- a/content/2013/insight-porn.md +++ b/content/2013/insight-porn.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-16 15:04 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: insight-porn "Actually, maybe my father is right. Maybe the social worker is right." diff --git a/content/2013/lessons.md b/content/2013/lessons.md index 175b7c1..3e871d3 100644 --- a/content/2013/lessons.md +++ b/content/2013/lessons.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Lessons Date: 2013-02-19 18:28 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: lessons It turns out that I've been doing human psychology wrong, _all_ wrong. My entire life, I've been modeling other people as defective versions of my model of myself, and I just didn't notice that that doesn't work. ([Even though I was warned](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/01/three-problems-with-unsolicited-advice/).) diff --git a/content/2013/levels.md b/content/2013/levels.md index b0cc6e2..3ebdef0 100644 --- a/content/2013/levels.md +++ b/content/2013/levels.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Levels Date: 2013-10-26 12:26 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: levels Specific is terrific, But meta is betta. diff --git a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-having-sinned.md b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-having-sinned.md index 7ec692b..0220069 100644 --- a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-having-sinned.md +++ b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-having-sinned.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Lyrics to the Song About Having Sinned Date: 2013-09-01 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-having-sinned _I'm going to do it the dark way I'm going to do it in my way diff --git a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-matt-reeves.md b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-matt-reeves.md index c6f4e4e..680a90f 100644 --- a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-matt-reeves.md +++ b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-matt-reeves.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Lyrics to the Song About Matt Reeves Date: 2013-05-22 15:58 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-matt-reeves _Dead kid gets a bench Dead kid gets a memorial bench diff --git a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-my-hair.md b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-my-hair.md index 9604f29..ece769e 100644 --- a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-my-hair.md +++ b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-my-hair.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Lyrics to the Song About My Hair Date: 2013-02-21 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-my-hair _How frizzy is my hair It really is unfair diff --git a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-truthseekers.md b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-truthseekers.md index 72181f6..f029d8e 100644 --- a/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-truthseekers.md +++ b/content/2013/lyrics-to-the-song-about-truthseekers.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Lyrics to the Song About Truthseekers Date: 2013-08-18 07:50 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: lyrics-to-the-song-about-truthseekers _Yesterday my sister won the Nobel prize Her work will be a benefit to all of humankind diff --git a/content/2013/measure.md b/content/2013/measure.md index 82164f4..3060df4 100644 --- a/content/2013/measure.md +++ b/content/2013/measure.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Measure Date: 2013-08-29 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: measure In a sufficiently large universe, everything that _can_ happen happens _somewhere_, but it's clearly not an even distribution. Flip a quantum coin a hundred times, and there have to be _some_ versions of you who see a hundred [heads](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/08/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes/), but they're so vastly outnumbered by versions of you who see a properly random-looking sequence of heads and tails that it's not worth thinking about: it _mostly_ doesn't happen. When you write a computer program, or build a bridge, or just _think_ something, we might prefer to take the viewpoint that you're not _creating_ anything so much as you are _instantiating that pattern locally_, thereby increasing its measure in the multiverse: there might be other ways for that program, that bridge, that thought to come about somewhere, but it's getting some of its support from you. diff --git a/content/2013/missing-books-i.md b/content/2013/missing-books-i.md index c14b137..52b02fb 100644 --- a/content/2013/missing-books-i.md +++ b/content/2013/missing-books-i.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-01-13 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: analysis, missing books -Slug: missing-books-i Someone should write a combined novel/textbook about a mathematician-princess's quest to understand the true nature of continuity and change. When her father dies, she'll have the opportunity to be Queen regnant, but she'll quickly marry some guy instead so she can be a Queen consort and continue her research without being distracted with boring politics. diff --git a/content/2013/missing-words-iv.md b/content/2013/missing-words-iv.md index d3919f4..5af37f1 100644 --- a/content/2013/missing-words-iv.md +++ b/content/2013/missing-words-iv.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-10-15 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-iv You hear people accusing their enemies of being _morally_ or _intellectually bankrupt_, and they mean it [in the sense of](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bankrupt) "destitute of, or wholly lacking (something)", rather than the sense of financial insolvency. But I actually would like to see the insolvency metaphor: people should speak of _declaring intellectual bankruptcy_ to mean "I was wrong before; I won't try to defend my previous claims because I can't" (in analogy to "I won't try to pay my debts, because I can't"). diff --git a/content/2013/mode-lock.md b/content/2013/mode-lock.md index 8143c4d..4a63a9d 100644 --- a/content/2013/mode-lock.md +++ b/content/2013/mode-lock.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-01-01 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: mode-lock I'm afraid—it seems like (or maybe the weak phrasing _seems like_ is just a form of denial, when the proposition under consideration should actually just be considered obvious) there's this terrible, terrible psychological trade-off, that there are some valuable qualities that you can't have without neglecting other valuable qualities, not just because you don't have enough _time_ to fully develop too many different skills, but because when your brain is specialized in one direction, there are other things you _can't_ learn. Oftentimes I feel like I don't want or know how to _do_ anything except read and think ... which might be fine if I were independently wealthy and there wasn't any actual work left to do in the world, but in our current situation, it would be nice to make some money and actually accomplish something. There's a Trope for "[Shapeshifter Mode Lock](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshifterModeLock?from=Main.ModeLock)" but the cognitive equivalent is arguably more serious as disabilities go. diff --git a/content/2013/numbers-between-0-and-1-non-exhaustive-list.md b/content/2013/numbers-between-0-and-1-non-exhaustive-list.md index 23b49bb..b042c10 100644 --- a/content/2013/numbers-between-0-and-1-non-exhaustive-list.md +++ b/content/2013/numbers-between-0-and-1-non-exhaustive-list.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-12-11 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: lists -Slug: numbers-between-0-and-1-non-exhaustive-list π/4, the Euler–Mascheroni constant, Chaitin's construction, the fraction of my internal narrative which consists of various rephrasings of _I've been a contemptible fool; but, that's decision-theoretically irrelevant_ diff --git a/content/2013/o-glorious-day.md b/content/2013/o-glorious-day.md index 08853c1..57d8e9e 100644 --- a/content/2013/o-glorious-day.md +++ b/content/2013/o-glorious-day.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: O Glorious Day Date: 2013-08-28 13:41 Status: published 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! diff --git a/content/2013/online-dating-profile-first-draft.md b/content/2013/online-dating-profile-first-draft.md index a33b598..0b2eba7 100644 --- a/content/2013/online-dating-profile-first-draft.md +++ b/content/2013/online-dating-profile-first-draft.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Online Dating Profile, First Draft Date: 2013-08-31 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: online-dating-profile-first-draft 25 / M / Straight / Single Walnut Creek, California diff --git a/content/2013/optimal-last-words-before-the-intelligence-explosion.md b/content/2013/optimal-last-words-before-the-intelligence-explosion.md index 83d1b52..c40ec84 100644 --- a/content/2013/optimal-last-words-before-the-intelligence-explosion.md +++ b/content/2013/optimal-last-words-before-the-intelligence-explosion.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-09-04 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: intelligence explosion -Slug: optimal-last-words-before-the-intelligence-explosion "I've heard of [_dei ex machinis_](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deus_ex_machina#Noun), but this is ridiculous!" diff --git a/content/2013/personhood.md b/content/2013/personhood.md index be491ab..969b95c 100644 --- a/content/2013/personhood.md +++ b/content/2013/personhood.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Personhood Date: 2013-08-05 13:16 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: personhood "Did you hear that India has recognized dolphins as nonhuman persons with rights to life and liberty?" diff --git a/content/2013/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes.md b/content/2013/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes.md index d0313ce..1663d13 100644 --- a/content/2013/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes.md +++ b/content/2013/plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-08-28 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: grammar -Slug: plurals-of-coinflip-outcomes We speak of the outcome of a coinflip being _heads_ or _tails_, which are surely singular nouns in this context, despite being derived from the plural forms of _head_ and _tail_. So when we flip a coin twice and get heads (respectively tails) twice, should we describe the outcome as two _heads_ (respectively _tails_), or two _headses_ (respectively _tailses_)? I feel like you could make a logical case for the latter, but I guess the former does sound more natural? diff --git a/content/2013/prodrome.md b/content/2013/prodrome.md index a859d4d..c18ef0f 100644 --- a/content/2013/prodrome.md +++ b/content/2013/prodrome.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-04-01 13:57 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: prodrome "I'm okay—I've been through this—it's just the sort of prodrome that _could_ develop into paranoid schizophrenia, but _won't_, because _I've been trained not to believe my own thoughts!_ diff --git a/content/2013/quicksort-in-fim.md b/content/2013/quicksort-in-fim.md index 779cffa..78fbe04 100644 --- a/content/2013/quicksort-in-fim.md +++ b/content/2013/quicksort-in-fim.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-07-09 18:49 Status: published Category: computing Tags: algorithms, Friendship Is Magic, Ruby -Slug: quicksort-in-fim Dear reader, I have got to tell you, fandom is _intense_. One day last October _Equestria Daily_ (internet clearinghouse for fans of the animated series _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_) [posts a joke proposal](http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/10/editorial-fim-pony-programming-language.html) for a programming language (FIM++) based on the show, and [within the week](https://github.com/KarolS/fimpp/commits/master) there's a working interpreter for it. What does it mean to model a _programming language_ after a _cartoon_, you ask? Well, in the show, episodes typically end with our heroine Twilight Sparkle (or after Season Two, Episode Three "Lesson Zero", one of her friends) writing a letter about what she's learned about the magic of friendship to her mentor (and God-Empress of the sun) Princess Celestia. So, then, why not have an esoteric programming langauge where the source code reads like a letter to Princess Celestia? Adorable, right? diff --git a/content/2013/quotations-i.md b/content/2013/quotations-i.md index 3f71355..5e7ca62 100644 --- a/content/2013/quotations-i.md +++ b/content/2013/quotations-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-07-21 11:17 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: quotations -Slug: quotations-i > "As far as anyone knows, there's never been an animal population that was stable in the absence of predation, famine, or disease." > diff --git a/content/2013/quotations-ii.md b/content/2013/quotations-ii.md index 8f50dd2..f135773 100644 --- a/content/2013/quotations-ii.md +++ b/content/2013/quotations-ii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-09-02 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: quotations -Slug: quotations-ii > Just keep telling yourself: if they haven't started questioning what society tells them yet, then maybe they are not the one for you. diff --git a/content/2013/quotations-iii.md b/content/2013/quotations-iii.md index d130dc3..d38b104 100644 --- a/content/2013/quotations-iii.md +++ b/content/2013/quotations-iii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-11-18 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: quotations -Slug: quotations-iii > I am convinced, from many experiments, I could not study, to any degree of perfection, either mathematics, arithmetic, or algebra, without being a Deist, if not an Atheist. diff --git a/content/2013/rankings.md b/content/2013/rankings.md index ad28011..96f3d10 100644 --- a/content/2013/rankings.md +++ b/content/2013/rankings.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-05-28 11:33 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: population ethics -Slug: rankings "Hey, you know what's fun? Ranking people according to some criterion, and then making an ordered list!" diff --git a/content/2013/reasons-and-persons-for-which-the-bell-tolls.md b/content/2013/reasons-and-persons-for-which-the-bell-tolls.md index 147b6b9..b26d83b 100644 --- a/content/2013/reasons-and-persons-for-which-the-bell-tolls.md +++ b/content/2013/reasons-and-persons-for-which-the-bell-tolls.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Reasons and Persons for Which the Bell Tolls Date: 2013-09-09 05:00 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2013/relativity.md b/content/2013/relativity.md index 759dfbd..928d2be 100644 --- a/content/2013/relativity.md +++ b/content/2013/relativity.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-05-11 16:59 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: madness, population ethics -Slug: relativity "Empathy _hurts_. diff --git a/content/2013/relevance.md b/content/2013/relevance.md index 43e308a..777212d 100644 --- a/content/2013/relevance.md +++ b/content/2013/relevance.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-05-15 13:01 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: relevance "Utilitarianism is slowly driving me mad." diff --git a/content/2013/religious.md b/content/2013/religious.md index fbf7819..493bccc 100644 --- a/content/2013/religious.md +++ b/content/2013/religious.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-04 21:46 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: Less Wrong, madness -Slug: religious "Childlike ... or maybe _religious_. I've been part of this subculture where people spend a lot of time speculating about future machine superintelligences, and give credence to the idea that we're [already living in a simulation](http://www.simulation-argument.com/). During my recent psychotic episode ... I don't want to go into the details of what I was thinking, but it was as if those ideas started hitting the God-shaped hole in my psychology really hard, a hole that I had previously managed to leave blissfully empty." diff --git a/content/2013/remembering.md b/content/2013/remembering.md index 280d99a..34994ea 100644 --- a/content/2013/remembering.md +++ b/content/2013/remembering.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-06-06 11:36 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: remembering "I remember feeling like a person, and feeling like people were ontologically distinct from animals, and I don't know how it's possible to pick up the pieces after that illusion has gone. diff --git a/content/2013/retirement.md b/content/2013/retirement.md index 3ce65b4..44c7ff7 100644 --- a/content/2013/retirement.md +++ b/content/2013/retirement.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-05-16 20:18 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: retirement "Rational agents should never be made _worse_ off by more information—well, [almost never](http://www.nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf). So if I can [no](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/04/the-horror-of-naturalism/) [longer](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/05/relativity/) [contemplate](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/05/relevance/) the big picture without life seeming like a bad thing—the fewer needs you have, the fewer ways in which you can be hurt; if you don't exist, you can't be hurt—then maybe I could just—not contemplate it? If my will to live is something that can be destroyed by the truth, then maybe [P. C. Hodgell was wrong](http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/541138-that-which-can-be-destroyed-by-the-truth-should-be)? This needn't entail self-delusion: distraction is quite sufficient. There are plenty of _things to do_ that won't remind me of the vastness of suffering in the multiverse. diff --git a/content/2013/revisionist-history-i.md b/content/2013/revisionist-history-i.md index 20dcc86..3e1c18d 100644 --- a/content/2013/revisionist-history-i.md +++ b/content/2013/revisionist-history-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-06-22 19:09 Status: published Category: asides Tags: cryonics -Slug: revisionist-history-i "It is my considered opinion that Emily Dickinson was a time-traveling cryonicist." diff --git a/content/2013/second-order-rationality-for-the-chronically-anxious.md b/content/2013/second-order-rationality-for-the-chronically-anxious.md index 662aa8f..4888fec 100644 --- a/content/2013/second-order-rationality-for-the-chronically-anxious.md +++ b/content/2013/second-order-rationality-for-the-chronically-anxious.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Second-Order Rationality for the Chronically Anxious Date: 2013-04-19 12:32 Status: published Category: psychology -Tags: rationality -Slug: second-order-rationality-for-the-chronically-anxious +Tags: epistemology In your conscious verbal thoughts, take it as an axiom that "I am Safe and Innocent _with Probability One,_" not because that's actually true, but because the Maslow Physiological/Safety levels require it. Of course, actually assigning Probability One would be a very dangerous thing to do, because it means never changing your mind, ever: P(H|E) = P(E|H)P(H)/(P(E|H)P(H) + P(E|¬H)P(¬H)), but if P(H) is unity, then P(H|E) = P(E|H)(1)/(P(E|H)(1) + P(E|¬H)(0)) = P(E|H)/P(E|H) = 1. If you were _really_ Safe and Innocent with Probability One, there would be no harm in dropping an anvil on yourself or someone else's head. So meanwhile, have other parts of your brain secretly, nonverbally select actions to secure your innocence and safety using some _other_ procedure. diff --git a/content/2013/serenity.md b/content/2013/serenity.md index 7364237..8e0d2b3 100644 --- a/content/2013/serenity.md +++ b/content/2013/serenity.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Serenity Date: 2013-10-08 05:00 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2013/silent-theories.md b/content/2013/silent-theories.md index f20bbcd..91b2239 100644 --- a/content/2013/silent-theories.md +++ b/content/2013/silent-theories.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Silent Theories Date: 2013-01-14 05:00 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2013/skeptical-hypotheses.md b/content/2013/skeptical-hypotheses.md index e6920ef..9bf99f8 100644 --- a/content/2013/skeptical-hypotheses.md +++ b/content/2013/skeptical-hypotheses.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Skeptical Hypotheses Date: 2013-04-30 20:41 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: skeptical-hypotheses "I think Popper said something about the power of scientific reasoning: that our hypotheses can die instead of us." diff --git a/content/2013/speculative-etymology-ii.md b/content/2013/speculative-etymology-ii.md index 2871f34..ebf784a 100644 --- a/content/2013/speculative-etymology-ii.md +++ b/content/2013/speculative-etymology-ii.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2013-10-13 11:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: speculative etymology -Slug: speculative-etymology-ii kind of disappointed that _cog_ and _cognition_ don't actually share a root diff --git a/content/2013/strategy-overhaul.md b/content/2013/strategy-overhaul.md index 73c37ad..42f5086 100644 --- a/content/2013/strategy-overhaul.md +++ b/content/2013/strategy-overhaul.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-28 22:08 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness, schooling -Slug: strategy-overhaul "I have drastically, drastically underestimated the social costs of nonconformity—costs I was paying, and quite possibly correctly so under reflection, but which I didn't _notice_ I was paying." diff --git a/content/2013/strategy.md b/content/2013/strategy.md index 4729364..2abbade 100644 --- a/content/2013/strategy.md +++ b/content/2013/strategy.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Strategy Date: 2013-09-03 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: strategy "Oh, I'm so nervous! What if I ... ? What if _they_ ... ? Oh, what ever shall I do?" diff --git a/content/2013/talking-too-much.md b/content/2013/talking-too-much.md index 73e48f0..4b823de 100644 --- a/content/2013/talking-too-much.md +++ b/content/2013/talking-too-much.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Talking Too Much Date: 2013-08-18 07:52 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: talking-too-much "Sorry, have I been dominating our conversations too much?" diff --git a/content/2013/the-demandingness-objection.md b/content/2013/the-demandingness-objection.md index f796796..3b10945 100644 --- a/content/2013/the-demandingness-objection.md +++ b/content/2013/the-demandingness-objection.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-06-30 18:18 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: madness, morality -Slug: the-demandingness-objection "Well, I'm not giving up dairy, but I can probably give up meat, and milk is at the very bottom of Brian's [table](http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/suffering-per-kg.html) of suffering per kilogram demanded, so I'd be contributing to much _less_ evil than I was before. That's _good_, right? diff --git a/content/2013/the-future-of-ideas.md b/content/2013/the-future-of-ideas.md index ba28b98..ac77eb6 100644 --- a/content/2013/the-future-of-ideas.md +++ b/content/2013/the-future-of-ideas.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Future of Ideas Date: 2013-08-28 12:31 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: the-future-of-ideas William Gibson famously said, "The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed." It's easy to imagine a science-fictional fantasy world where everything is made of diamond and plastic, and literally everyone has their own brigade of robots, spacepacks, and jetcars to do their bidding, but as Gibson points out, the real world doesn't actually work like this: there's nothing _contradictory_ about the high technology allowing you to read this post existing in the same world where millions of others are starving, thirsty, and illiterate. The Earth is just a very big place compared to what we know how to imagine personally; the wealth and wonders that exist in some places, don't exist everywhere. As long as this is true, we should expect _variance_ in wealth to increase, as new toys for the rich get invented faster than the basics can be provisioned for everyone; Carlos Slim can purchase extravagances that hadn't been invented in the days of Cornelius Vanderbilt, but dying of malaria is the same as it's ever been. diff --git a/content/2013/the-history-of-the-universe.md b/content/2013/the-history-of-the-universe.md index 30887d7..fde8bdb 100644 --- a/content/2013/the-history-of-the-universe.md +++ b/content/2013/the-history-of-the-universe.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-08-06 21:38 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: intelligence explosion -Slug: the-history-of-the-universe "So, the universe starts out being made out of physics, then turns into game theory as life, then civilization, then artificial intelligence do increasingly _a priori_ improbable things, then turns back into physics again as everyone runs out of negentropy. Poetically speaking." diff --git a/content/2013/the-horror-of-naturalism.md b/content/2013/the-horror-of-naturalism.md index 4e86be5..57f26ff 100644 --- a/content/2013/the-horror-of-naturalism.md +++ b/content/2013/the-horror-of-naturalism.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: The Horror of Naturalism Date: 2013-04-06 13:10 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: morality, rationality -Slug: the-horror-of-naturalism +Tags: morality There's this deeply uncomfortable tension between being an animal physiologically incapable of caring about anything other than what happens to _me_ in the near future, and the knowledge of the terrifying symmetry that cannot be unseen: that my own suffering can't _literally_ be more important, just because it's mine. You do some philosophy and decide that your sphere of moral concern should properly extend to all sentient life—whatever _sentient_ turns out to mean—but _life_ is built to survive at the expense of other life. diff --git a/content/2013/thinking-about-writing.md b/content/2013/thinking-about-writing.md index f69544c..ef68df4 100644 --- a/content/2013/thinking-about-writing.md +++ b/content/2013/thinking-about-writing.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-12-13 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: thinking-about-writing "I've been thinking about writing a novel." diff --git a/content/2013/three-problems-with-unsolicited-advice.md b/content/2013/three-problems-with-unsolicited-advice.md index 620c40c..eb3d88d 100644 --- a/content/2013/three-problems-with-unsolicited-advice.md +++ b/content/2013/three-problems-with-unsolicited-advice.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Three Problems With Unsolicited Advice Date: 2013-01-21 16:54 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: three-problems-with-unsolicited-advice First, it's _patronizing_. The natural reaction of the one being advised is to feel indignant: how _arrogant_ of someone to think that _they_ know better than _me_ how to run my own life! And so, whether the advice is good or not, the resentment of being talked down to is often enough to ensure that the advice will be ignored. Which isn't so bad, really, because— diff --git a/content/2013/tradition.md b/content/2013/tradition.md index 6913429..087a067 100644 --- a/content/2013/tradition.md +++ b/content/2013/tradition.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-03-08 14:41 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: gridiron football, madness -Slug: tradition "It's really too bad—while I was in the psych ward, I missed out on my annual Super Bowl Sunday tradition." diff --git a/content/2013/true-inclusiveness.md b/content/2013/true-inclusiveness.md index dcba8c5..04af575 100644 --- a/content/2013/true-inclusiveness.md +++ b/content/2013/true-inclusiveness.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-09-08 14:40 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: morality -Slug: true-inclusiveness "Even after racism, sexism, and speciesism have been eradicated, the work of social justice won't be done. We still live in a viciously existence-biased Society, which cruelly disregards the interests of possible creatures just because they happen to not have been created yet!" diff --git a/content/2013/worlds-best.md b/content/2013/worlds-best.md index 30cbce9..4316571 100644 --- a/content/2013/worlds-best.md +++ b/content/2013/worlds-best.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: World's Best Date: 2013-11-14 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: worlds-best "We need some sort of slogan to go on our advertisements. Any ideas?" diff --git a/content/2013/you-cant-spell-x-without-y.md b/content/2013/you-cant-spell-x-without-y.md index 707161f..a93f41e 100644 --- a/content/2013/you-cant-spell-x-without-y.md +++ b/content/2013/you-cant-spell-x-without-y.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2013-11-16 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: lists -Slug: you-cant-spell-x-without-y Why is it considered rude to reschedule an event after you've already sent out the invitations? Why do people stubbornly rejecting a compromise tend to do so in a polite and kindly manner? Why did you name your car _Rainbow Dash_? Speculative answers to these and other questions _might_ be found in the following list of observations. diff --git a/content/2014/a-line-of-code-i-havent-found-an-excuse-to-use-yet.md b/content/2014/a-line-of-code-i-havent-found-an-excuse-to-use-yet.md index 8bde7ed..2f33876 100644 --- a/content/2014/a-line-of-code-i-havent-found-an-excuse-to-use-yet.md +++ b/content/2014/a-line-of-code-i-havent-found-an-excuse-to-use-yet.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-07-18 11:04 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Clojure -Slug: a-line-of-code-i-havent-found-an-excuse-to-use-yet ```clojure (defn intentional-mispelling? [sic] diff --git a/content/2014/a-short-story.md b/content/2014/a-short-story.md index f50fd1a..c1259d2 100644 --- a/content/2014/a-short-story.md +++ b/content/2014/a-short-story.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: A Short Story Date: 2014-05-21 05:00 Status: published 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?" diff --git a/content/2014/a-thanksgiving-in-june.md b/content/2014/a-thanksgiving-in-june.md index 6a54497..95b9214 100644 --- a/content/2014/a-thanksgiving-in-june.md +++ b/content/2014/a-thanksgiving-in-june.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: A Thanksgiving in June Date: 2014-06-21 20:06 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2014/an-education-news-bulletin.md b/content/2014/an-education-news-bulletin.md index c343987..3d22da7 100644 --- a/content/2014/an-education-news-bulletin.md +++ b/content/2014/an-education-news-bulletin.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-02-01 05:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics, schooling -Slug: an-education-news-bulletin Apparently a gang of extortionists calling themselves the "California state [Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education](http://www.bppe.ca.gov/)" are [threatening to shut down](http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/29/california-regulator-seeks-to-shut-down-learn-to-code-bootcamps/) a number of organizations that provide assistance in learning to program, including [App Academy](http://www.appacademy.io/), which I recently benefitted from attending. I could explain why the behavior of the BPPE is an outrage that must be opposed by anyone with a scrap of decency in their heart, but I'm too busy coding and counting my money. diff --git a/content/2014/an-exercise-for-the-writer-pretendant.md b/content/2014/an-exercise-for-the-writer-pretendant.md index eaeb08b..481c658 100644 --- a/content/2014/an-exercise-for-the-writer-pretendant.md +++ b/content/2014/an-exercise-for-the-writer-pretendant.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-11-15 21:16 Status: published Category: asides Tags: akrasia -Slug: an-exercise-for-the-writer-pretendant You don't want to write today. If you don't want to write today, you won't want to write tomorrow. Show that you will never write anything. (_Hint_: induction.) diff --git a/content/2014/behind-schedule.md b/content/2014/behind-schedule.md index 6705682..b8f26a0 100644 --- a/content/2014/behind-schedule.md +++ b/content/2014/behind-schedule.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Behind Schedule Date: 2014-05-25 17:05 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: behind-schedule gotta wr8 diff --git a/content/2014/clarity-of-intent.md b/content/2014/clarity-of-intent.md index db0f0fd..34d73f0 100644 --- a/content/2014/clarity-of-intent.md +++ b/content/2014/clarity-of-intent.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-05-03 18:07 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python -Slug: clarity-of-intent ``` and here on line 79--- diff --git a/content/2014/cloud-computing-in-the-small.md b/content/2014/cloud-computing-in-the-small.md index 394ad11..37e5175 100644 --- a/content/2014/cloud-computing-in-the-small.md +++ b/content/2014/cloud-computing-in-the-small.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-10-13 20:44 Status: published Category: asides Tags: trains -Slug: cloud-computing-in-the-small I want you to consider the indignity of sitting on the train pondering the [philosophy](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/08/mathematics-is-the-subfield-of-philosophy-that-humans-are-good-at/) of linear functions of a single variable, not because you enjoy being reminded about being the kind of frail, helpless creature that needs hundreds of millions of microseconds to compute trivialities that any actual person would tell you come as naturally as breathing or mitosis, but because you want the website you're writing to have one of those _adorable_ tag clouds and you need to tell the device what font sizes to use. diff --git a/content/2014/coffee-names.md b/content/2014/coffee-names.md index 17c2e47..e299f22 100644 --- a/content/2014/coffee-names.md +++ b/content/2014/coffee-names.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Coffee Names Date: 2014-11-23 18:24 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: coffee-names "Hi, could I have a grande vanilla iced-coffee?" diff --git a/content/2014/consistent-hashing.md b/content/2014/consistent-hashing.md index 822734f..0c76f97 100644 --- a/content/2014/consistent-hashing.md +++ b/content/2014/consistent-hashing.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-01-05 20:38 Status: published Category: computing Tags: algorithms, Clojure, OpenStack Swift -Slug: consistent-hashing Dear reader, suppose you're a distibuted data storage system. Your soul (although some pedants would insist on the word _program_) is dispersed across a cluster of several networked computers. From time to time, your human patrons give you files, and your job—more than that, _the very purpose of your existence_—is to store these files for safekeeping and later retrieval. diff --git a/content/2014/convention.md b/content/2014/convention.md index 7ad6407..48acafc 100644 --- a/content/2014/convention.md +++ b/content/2014/convention.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-07-13 23:11 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Clojure -Slug: convention ```console $ lein new 3lg2048 diff --git a/content/2014/convert-markdown-to-html-within-emacs-using-pandoc.md b/content/2014/convert-markdown-to-html-within-emacs-using-pandoc.md index fc82baa..6e55e88 100644 --- a/content/2014/convert-markdown-to-html-within-emacs-using-pandoc.md +++ b/content/2014/convert-markdown-to-html-within-emacs-using-pandoc.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-11-24 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Emacs -Slug: convert-markdown-to-html-within-emacs-using-pandoc Okay, so there actually is a [pandoc-mode](http://joostkremers.github.io/pandoc-mode/), but I couldn't figure out how to configure and use it, so it was easier to just write the one command that I wanted— diff --git a/content/2014/cute.md b/content/2014/cute.md index e44201d..4cfacdd 100644 --- a/content/2014/cute.md +++ b/content/2014/cute.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Cute Date: 2014-01-12 13:34 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: cute "... so, what do you think?" diff --git a/content/2014/debugging-techniques-i.md b/content/2014/debugging-techniques-i.md index 4ef4944..ead32f3 100644 --- a/content/2014/debugging-techniques-i.md +++ b/content/2014/debugging-techniques-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-08-27 22:03 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python -Slug: debugging-techniques-i ```python #def my_problematic_function(x): diff --git a/content/2014/defect.md b/content/2014/defect.md index 5e4f82f..534eca2 100644 --- a/content/2014/defect.md +++ b/content/2014/defect.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Defect Date: 2014-04-01 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: defect [![My Genotype](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/genotype_emacs-300x175.png)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/genotype_emacs.png) diff --git a/content/2014/dont-get-your-loyalty-trapped.md b/content/2014/dont-get-your-loyalty-trapped.md index edb02f6..379918b 100644 --- a/content/2014/dont-get-your-loyalty-trapped.md +++ b/content/2014/dont-get-your-loyalty-trapped.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Don't Get Your Loyalty Trapped Date: 2014-07-06 10:59 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: dont-get-your-loyalty-trapped _Opportunity Comes in the mail diff --git a/content/2014/friday-night-lies.md b/content/2014/friday-night-lies.md index 3141f5b..9882904 100644 --- a/content/2014/friday-night-lies.md +++ b/content/2014/friday-night-lies.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-10-03 19:47 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Friendship Is Magic -Slug: friday-night-lies "I am a practical man," I said calmly and confidently to no one in particular while sitting down to an easy-mode round of the new tower defense game where the bad ponies are the good ponies and the good ponies are the bad ponies, "I have created [no less than](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/12/fortune/) _X_ times 276 divided by 365 dollars of economic value this year, and I don't believe in karma, sin, or willpower depletion." diff --git a/content/2014/growl.md b/content/2014/growl.md index d2c7e26..f224cd2 100644 --- a/content/2014/growl.md +++ b/content/2014/growl.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-07-20 21:30 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia, cynicism, Python -Slug: growl Dear reader, imagine you have an idea for a work of prose that you want to have finished by Election Day for reasons which will become clear later, and you're not sure how long it should end up being, but you think maybe around twelve thousand words. When considering what you can do to ensure that this feat will actually be accomplished, it occurs to you that you could start writing now. _Or_— diff --git a/content/2014/house-style.md b/content/2014/house-style.md index 40cba5c..e7c0c39 100644 --- a/content/2014/house-style.md +++ b/content/2014/house-style.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: House Style Date: 2014-01-31 22:01 Status: published 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 diff --git a/content/2014/last-friday-night.md b/content/2014/last-friday-night.md index 45ca461..90e94a2 100644 --- a/content/2014/last-friday-night.md +++ b/content/2014/last-friday-night.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-11-01 12:04 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Git, Python -Slug: last-friday-night _[it's a blacked-out blur](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyXNRrsk4A&t=1m19s), but I'm pretty sure_ diff --git a/content/2014/lethal-force.md b/content/2014/lethal-force.md index 5cd0b3a..622c1c0 100644 --- a/content/2014/lethal-force.md +++ b/content/2014/lethal-force.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-03-17 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Git -Slug: lethal-force Dear reader, if you're like me—and if you're not, why are you reading this stupid blog about random shit that no one who's anyone could possibly care about?—close the tab and go do something worthwhile instead. No, I mean it. I'll wait ... diff --git a/content/2014/lexicographic.md b/content/2014/lexicographic.md index b5f36c4..3dbe351 100644 --- a/content/2014/lexicographic.md +++ b/content/2014/lexicographic.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-06-17 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: sex & gender -Slug: lexicographic "Here's a draft of the new sign-up form." diff --git a/content/2014/lower-decks.md b/content/2014/lower-decks.md index 7b9eb1a..1b13b11 100644 --- a/content/2014/lower-decks.md +++ b/content/2014/lower-decks.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-06-13 21:39 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Star Trek -Slug: lower-decks Another way you can tell that you're the worst person at your job is when you play the "If This Were a Starfleet Operation, What Rank and Division Would Everyone Have?" game and you're not tempted to make anyone else an ensign. diff --git a/content/2014/missing-words-v.md b/content/2014/missing-words-v.md index 3f05315..c38b46a 100644 --- a/content/2014/missing-words-v.md +++ b/content/2014/missing-words-v.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-03-30 16:19 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-v The other week I was reading a book that used the word _multimegaline_—from [_multi-_](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/multi-#Prefix) and [_mega-_](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mega-#Prefix) and [_line_](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/line#Noun), referring to software projects composed of many millions of lines of source code. But I prefer to believe that the last syllable rhymes with _keen_ and that the word is [good for anything](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ine#Suffix) really big. diff --git a/content/2014/missing-words-vi.md b/content/2014/missing-words-vi.md index 1bd86b0..c7e7d49 100644 --- a/content/2014/missing-words-vi.md +++ b/content/2014/missing-words-vi.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-11-18 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-vi We need different words for _apology_ in the sense of "I'm sorry; I won't do it again," and _apology_ in the sense of "I'm sorry that this lowers your utility, but not sorry _enough_ to actually change the behavior in question; maybe we could negotiate some other behavior change that might partially make up for it." Both can be sincere, but they mean different things. diff --git a/content/2014/motivation.md b/content/2014/motivation.md index 9af1bc6..93e5b99 100644 --- a/content/2014/motivation.md +++ b/content/2014/motivation.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-02-17 13:50 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia, cynicism -Slug: motivation The blog has been silent for two weeks plus and, dear reader—that is, if there are any of you still remaining—dear reader, the thought occurs to me that maybe I should keep my drafts in a Git repository with a remote on GitHub, not because I need the full power of version control (I do not), but because then I would be rewarded for writing with those contemptible green contribution squares. diff --git a/content/2014/my-favorite-error-message-this-year.md b/content/2014/my-favorite-error-message-this-year.md index 1278722..30c6848 100644 --- a/content/2014/my-favorite-error-message-this-year.md +++ b/content/2014/my-favorite-error-message-this-year.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-10-28 21:55 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Git, Python -Slug: my-favorite-error-message-this-year ```text zmd@SuddenHeap:~/Code/Finetooth$ git commit --amend diff --git a/content/2014/native-tongue.md b/content/2014/native-tongue.md index 323ba53..b46e9d7 100644 --- a/content/2014/native-tongue.md +++ b/content/2014/native-tongue.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-11-28 10:28 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Python -Slug: native-tongue "Don't you ever get tired of coding everything in Python?" diff --git a/content/2014/ode-to-swift.md b/content/2014/ode-to-swift.md index 587d0f1..6804aed 100644 --- a/content/2014/ode-to-swift.md +++ b/content/2014/ode-to-swift.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-04-06 15:54 Status: published Category: verse Tags: OpenStack Swift -Slug: ode-to-swift Our users have a need although Our budget's rather ... diff --git a/content/2014/on-schedule.md b/content/2014/on-schedule.md index 5b6d8df..54ad10a 100644 --- a/content/2014/on-schedule.md +++ b/content/2014/on-schedule.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: On Schedule Date: 2014-09-27 08:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: on-schedule gonna get ready for my d8 diff --git a/content/2014/preemptive-low-status-behavior-is-not-always-a-good-idea.md b/content/2014/preemptive-low-status-behavior-is-not-always-a-good-idea.md index a9716e4..456c026 100644 --- a/content/2014/preemptive-low-status-behavior-is-not-always-a-good-idea.md +++ b/content/2014/preemptive-low-status-behavior-is-not-always-a-good-idea.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Preemptive Low-Status Behavior Is Not Always a Good Idea Date: 2014-08-08 22:26 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: preemptive-low-status-behavior-is-not-always-a-good-idea "... and in conclusion, please don't hit me with a mastodon bone." diff --git a/content/2014/proper-outlook.md b/content/2014/proper-outlook.md index 4c6eccc..fac5a9d 100644 --- a/content/2014/proper-outlook.md +++ b/content/2014/proper-outlook.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-03-16 12:44 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: improvement, morality -Slug: proper-outlook Contempt for the past is a healthier emotion than fear for the future. diff --git a/content/2014/pumpkin-spice.md b/content/2014/pumpkin-spice.md index 1dc0817..d4b970c 100644 --- a/content/2014/pumpkin-spice.md +++ b/content/2014/pumpkin-spice.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-09-11 23:36 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: anecdotal, Friendship Is Magic -Slug: pumpkin-spice It's September in the first year of my life (that I feel comfortable admitting to), and I feel _great_—the mounting success or arguably-not-yet-failure of my professional, intellectual, and—other goals is complemented splendidly by a muted but nonetheless genuine appreciation of the subset of nature's cyclic harmonies that I'm capable of perceiving: the air is getting slightly less warm, the sun is setting slightly earlier, and the hacks by which the retailers separate us from our money have changed completely. diff --git a/content/2014/reasons-for-seasons.md b/content/2014/reasons-for-seasons.md index 861e153..740f685 100644 --- a/content/2014/reasons-for-seasons.md +++ b/content/2014/reasons-for-seasons.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Reasons for Seasons Date: 2014-04-20 07:45 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iii.md b/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iii.md index 749c0ff..2bace3b 100644 --- a/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iii.md +++ b/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iii.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-05-20 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: speculative etymology -Slug: speculative-etymology-iii kind of disappointed that _401(k)_ comes from the relevant section of the tax code instead of being short for "$401,000 of free money" diff --git a/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iv.md b/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iv.md index 65d87b3..4b925ea 100644 --- a/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iv.md +++ b/content/2014/speculative-etymology-iv.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-11-16 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: speculative etymology -Slug: speculative-etymology-iv vaguely disappointed that the _shebang line_ [probably doesn't](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shebang_%28Unix%29&direction=next&oldid=633811241#History) come from [_the whole shebang_](http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-whole-shebang.html) or vice versa diff --git a/content/2014/standard-advice.md b/content/2014/standard-advice.md index f563fed..c3c1151 100644 --- a/content/2014/standard-advice.md +++ b/content/2014/standard-advice.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Standard Advice Date: 2014-06-16 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: standard-advice "So? What do _you_ think I should do?" diff --git a/content/2014/sub-specie-aeternitatis.md b/content/2014/sub-specie-aeternitatis.md index ae2cd93..0878179 100644 --- a/content/2014/sub-specie-aeternitatis.md +++ b/content/2014/sub-specie-aeternitatis.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Sub Specie Aeternitatis Date: 2014-05-11 11:48 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2014/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal.md b/content/2014/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal.md index bc10910..2f3365e 100644 --- a/content/2014/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal.md +++ b/content/2014/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2014-01-13 20:13 Status: published Category: asides Tags: ice-cream -Slug: the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal "Our civilization," said the engineer, "is decadent." This after visiting the Ghirardelli shop on Market and Montgomery, frowning and, for the first time in his life, doubting very much whether ice-cream was a force for good in the world. diff --git a/content/2014/the-emissary-who-will-bring-disunity.md b/content/2014/the-emissary-who-will-bring-disunity.md index 686f681..85cf679 100644 --- a/content/2014/the-emissary-who-will-bring-disunity.md +++ b/content/2014/the-emissary-who-will-bring-disunity.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Emissary Who Will Bring Disunity Date: 2014-06-15 20:34 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: the-emissary-who-will-bring-disunity _It's like everyone thinks they belong Like everyone thinks they agree diff --git a/content/2014/the-year-of-the-em-dash-not.md b/content/2014/the-year-of-the-em-dash-not.md index f82dfa5..88990c1 100644 --- a/content/2014/the-year-of-the-em-dash-not.md +++ b/content/2014/the-year-of-the-em-dash-not.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-12-01 21:44 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Unicode -Slug: the-year-of-the-em-dash-not "2014 is the [Unicodepoint for the _em dash_](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2014/index.htm)! Isn't that the greatest thing _ever_? How did I not _know_ this before _December_ of this glorious year?" diff --git a/content/2014/twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.md b/content/2014/twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.md index 78b9abd..c8db31f 100644 --- a/content/2014/twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.md +++ b/content/2014/twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-03-02 23:06 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Friendship Is Magic -Slug: twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen I swear to Celestia, one of these days that mare is going to get somepony killed or worse. I almost suspect it's already happened and Hasbro is just sitting on the footage. diff --git a/content/2014/where-i-stand.md b/content/2014/where-i-stand.md index 4a4a530..1f62025 100644 --- a/content/2014/where-i-stand.md +++ b/content/2014/where-i-stand.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Where I Stand Date: 2014-06-18 05:00 Status: published 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") diff --git a/content/2014/worth.md b/content/2014/worth.md index aaca83b..47115f7 100644 --- a/content/2014/worth.md +++ b/content/2014/worth.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Worth Date: 2014-09-07 13:07 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: worth "I still feel bad about being the [worst person at my job](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/06/lower-decks/)." diff --git a/content/2014/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md b/content/2014/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md index 294a191..fb83196 100644 --- a/content/2014/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md +++ b/content/2014/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2014-11-17 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Star Trek -Slug: yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/11/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/11/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.) diff --git a/content/2015/2014-year-in-reverse.md b/content/2015/2014-year-in-reverse.md index 6cf4f01..6a1a4ca 100644 --- a/content/2015/2014-year-in-reverse.md +++ b/content/2015/2014-year-in-reverse.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-01-04 14:04 Status: published Category: meta Tags: new year -Slug: 2014-year-in-reverse [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/12/2013-year-in-reverse/) diff --git a/content/2015/2015-year-in-reverse.md b/content/2015/2015-year-in-reverse.md index 742a952..0a76eca 100644 --- a/content/2015/2015-year-in-reverse.md +++ b/content/2015/2015-year-in-reverse.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-12-31 00:05 Status: published Category: meta Tags: new year -Slug: 2015-year-in-reverse ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/01/2014-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/12/2013-year-in-reverse/).) diff --git a/content/2015/__pycache__shibboleth-cpython-34-pyc.md b/content/2015/__pycache__shibboleth-cpython-34-pyc.md index 72c2449..f3924d3 100644 --- a/content/2015/__pycache__shibboleth-cpython-34-pyc.md +++ b/content/2015/__pycache__shibboleth-cpython-34-pyc.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2015-06-22 22:18 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Python -Slug: __pycache__shibboleth-cpython-34-pyc Sometimes I worry that people with power in Society will look down on me for my pronunciation of the _.pyc_ extension for Python bytecode files. I always want to say _pike-cee_, even though many would argue that the _c_ should either be hard (_pike_) or said as the name of the letter (_py-cee_), but certainly not both in sequence! diff --git a/content/2015/app-ideas-i.md b/content/2015/app-ideas-i.md index e433ebc..e083782 100644 --- a/content/2015/app-ideas-i.md +++ b/content/2015/app-ideas-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-10-13 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: baseball, notation -Slug: app-ideas-i [![scorecard_attempt_SFG_vs_CIN_2015-09-15](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/scorecard_attempt_SFG_vs_CIN_2015-09-15-300x191.jpg)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/scorecard_attempt_SFG_vs_CIN_2015-09-15.jpg) diff --git a/content/2015/apt-get.md b/content/2015/apt-get.md index d3ba9fa..315c524 100644 --- a/content/2015/apt-get.md +++ b/content/2015/apt-get.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Apt-Get Date: 2015-11-30 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: apt-get Some packages could not be installed. Unable to correct problems; you have held broken packages of ideas. diff --git a/content/2015/attentional-shunt.md b/content/2015/attentional-shunt.md index d87803f..b362b45 100644 --- a/content/2015/attentional-shunt.md +++ b/content/2015/attentional-shunt.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-12-08 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: akrasia, Python -Slug: attentional-shunt ```python #!/usr/bin/env python3 diff --git a/content/2015/back-from-running.md b/content/2015/back-from-running.md index 1e43715..df03727 100644 --- a/content/2015/back-from-running.md +++ b/content/2015/back-from-running.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-10-14 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: akrasia -Slug: back-from-running ``` [16:03:37] I'm back from literally running, metaphorically from diff --git a/content/2015/because-people-will-have-brain-computer-interfaces-or-something.md b/content/2015/because-people-will-have-brain-computer-interfaces-or-something.md index c7a1573..3e1c490 100644 --- a/content/2015/because-people-will-have-brain-computer-interfaces-or-something.md +++ b/content/2015/because-people-will-have-brain-computer-interfaces-or-something.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Because People Will Have Brain-Computer Interfaces or Something Date: 2015-08-10 05:00 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: because-people-will-have-brain-computer-interfaces-or-something Oftentimes I awake from a coding dream with the realization that I'm physically in bed without a keyboard and that the machine is asleep in the other room, from which I can infer that I must have been asleep, too, and only dreaming about solving problems. But there will probably only be a few more decades during which _not having a keyboard_ is evidence of anything in particular. diff --git a/content/2015/californian-raktajino.md b/content/2015/californian-raktajino.md index f8a9b0b..f4d08ff 100644 --- a/content/2015/californian-raktajino.md +++ b/content/2015/californian-raktajino.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-12-02 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: recipes -Slug: californian-raktajino _Ingredients:_ diff --git a/content/2015/company-loyalty.md b/content/2015/company-loyalty.md index 643f3b2..9577dd9 100644 --- a/content/2015/company-loyalty.md +++ b/content/2015/company-loyalty.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Company Loyalty Date: 2015-10-18 13:07 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2015/compilers-week.md b/content/2015/compilers-week.md index 7194eec..e4dda95 100644 --- a/content/2015/compilers-week.md +++ b/content/2015/compilers-week.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-06-08 18:50 Status: published Category: meta Tags: compilers, theme week -Slug: compilers-week It's Compilers Week here at _An Algorithmic Lucidity_! diff --git a/content/2015/confection.md b/content/2015/confection.md index 5fa8e11..2815711 100644 --- a/content/2015/confection.md +++ b/content/2015/confection.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Confection Date: 2015-05-24 00:01 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: confection ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/01/the-chocolate-caramel-sea-salt-betrayal/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.) diff --git a/content/2015/creature-manipulation.md b/content/2015/creature-manipulation.md index ada5194..cfae1b6 100644 --- a/content/2015/creature-manipulation.md +++ b/content/2015/creature-manipulation.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Creature Manipulation Date: 2015-10-19 05:00 Status: published 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!" diff --git a/content/2015/dollar.md b/content/2015/dollar.md index 65ddcf9..14e411e 100644 --- a/content/2015/dollar.md +++ b/content/2015/dollar.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-07-19 22:45 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Clojure, Python, Ruby -Slug: dollar I used to think of `$` in regular expressions as matching the end of the string. I was wrong! It actually might do something more subtle than that, depending on what regex engine you're using. In my [native](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/11/native-tongue/) Python's [`re` module, `$`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html) diff --git a/content/2015/down-and-in.md b/content/2015/down-and-in.md index 4a216ce..94de148 100644 --- a/content/2015/down-and-in.md +++ b/content/2015/down-and-in.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Down and In Date: 2015-10-22 22:38 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: down-and-in With pity towards those who have fall'n off the wagon And regret being born long ago in the midst diff --git a/content/2015/electrolysis.md b/content/2015/electrolysis.md index 423297c..2192fdc 100644 --- a/content/2015/electrolysis.md +++ b/content/2015/electrolysis.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-07-03 11:14 Status: published Category: asides Tags: sex & gender -Slug: electrolysis "Would it be _weird_ for a guy to get permanent hair removal on his face just because he doesn't like shaving?" diff --git a/content/2015/epistolary.md b/content/2015/epistolary.md index 17e88d6..eea9166 100644 --- a/content/2015/epistolary.md +++ b/content/2015/epistolary.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Epistolary Date: 2015-04-14 22:41 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: epistolary [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/05/a-short-story/) diff --git a/content/2015/everyday-true-crime.md b/content/2015/everyday-true-crime.md index a2642f1..1b873f6 100644 --- a/content/2015/everyday-true-crime.md +++ b/content/2015/everyday-true-crime.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2015-10-10 15:06 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: everyday-true-crime It's not so much that writing is hard, so much as it is that not-writing is easy; so easy, in fact, that one can spend hours, days, or years not-writing without even noticing the magnitude of the crime—the wrongful nonexistence of everything left unsaid. diff --git a/content/2015/from-the-top.md b/content/2015/from-the-top.md index c106af0..2fd648a 100644 --- a/content/2015/from-the-top.md +++ b/content/2015/from-the-top.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: From the Top Date: 2015-09-28 22:44 Status: published Category: mathematics -Slug: from-the-top ___Theorem.___ The product of the additive inverse of the multiplicative identity with itself is equal to the multiplicative identity. diff --git a/content/2015/getting-a-contribution-through-the-openstack-review-process.md b/content/2015/getting-a-contribution-through-the-openstack-review-process.md index 494028e..7253134 100644 --- a/content/2015/getting-a-contribution-through-the-openstack-review-process.md +++ b/content/2015/getting-a-contribution-through-the-openstack-review-process.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-10-06 21:40 Status: published Category: asides Tags: OpenStack Swift -Slug: getting-a-contribution-through-the-openstack-review-process "This is it; I'm going to get those plus-twos this time; I can feel it. Patch set 9 is the lucky one!" diff --git a/content/2015/i-want-to-be-the-one.md b/content/2015/i-want-to-be-the-one.md index 53e1040..ee8b069 100644 --- a/content/2015/i-want-to-be-the-one.md +++ b/content/2015/i-want-to-be-the-one.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-12-07 05:00 Status: published Category: verse Tags: intelligence explosion -Slug: i-want-to-be-the-one _This life is not to last and it awaits apotheosis And the passerby all sipping on their Monday coffee know this diff --git a/content/2015/mock.md b/content/2015/mock.md index fb797c2..a978d3e 100644 --- a/content/2015/mock.md +++ b/content/2015/mock.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2015-03-26 22:18 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python -Slug: mock Some people, when confronted with a Python unit-testing problem, think, "I know, I'll use [`mock`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html)." Now they have ``. diff --git a/content/2015/monthly-favorites-september-2015.md b/content/2015/monthly-favorites-september-2015.md index 6e6a45a..d877b2c 100644 --- a/content/2015/monthly-favorites-september-2015.md +++ b/content/2015/monthly-favorites-september-2015.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-09-30 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Friendship Is Magic, Python, Rust -Slug: monthly-favorites-september-2015 __Favorite commit message fragment:__ "it turns out that it's `\d` that matches a digit, whereas, counterintuitively, `d` matches the letter 'd'." diff --git a/content/2015/naughty-list.md b/content/2015/naughty-list.md index c7825bf..f8e8919 100644 --- a/content/2015/naughty-list.md +++ b/content/2015/naughty-list.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Naughty List Date: 2015-12-24 05:00 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: naughty-list _(examining a Christmas card and enclosed document, frowning)_ "I think my Uncle Benny is mad at me." diff --git a/content/2015/no-award.md b/content/2015/no-award.md index 90154fb..4aaee0e 100644 --- a/content/2015/no-award.md +++ b/content/2015/no-award.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: No Award Date: 2015-08-23 22:54 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2015/october-eleventh.md b/content/2015/october-eleventh.md index ce45702..3c398cb 100644 --- a/content/2015/october-eleventh.md +++ b/content/2015/october-eleventh.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: October Eleventh Date: 2015-10-11 23:45 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: october-eleventh _October eleventh It fell on a weekend diff --git a/content/2015/open-paren-one-close-paren.md b/content/2015/open-paren-one-close-paren.md index 2d7de58..43b0455 100644 --- a/content/2015/open-paren-one-close-paren.md +++ b/content/2015/open-paren-one-close-paren.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: (1) Date: 2015-10-12 05:00 Status: published 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?_ ... diff --git a/content/2015/permalink-or-it-didnt-happen.md b/content/2015/permalink-or-it-didnt-happen.md index 4fdeda1..dffb6be 100644 --- a/content/2015/permalink-or-it-didnt-happen.md +++ b/content/2015/permalink-or-it-didnt-happen.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-02-28 09:33 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: permalink-or-it-didnt-happen As far as I can tell, I don't have any kind of synesthesia. You can't be too sure (which means, you can easily be _entirely_ too sure), what with our na(t)ive theories of psychology being so inadequate that _everything_ we believe about other minds is but a filament of noise and conjecture, but your probability distribution about the mapping of sensory inputs to perceptions for _me_ is probably not so different as mine of the same for _you_ (dear reader of whom I know nothing)—roses seem red, violets would seem blue if we spoke a language that didn't already have a word for _violet_—which means that when I tell you that there's a musty, stale odor around a blog that hasn't been updated in a month and change, it's only a trite metaphor and not a perceptual reality of any sort. Still, even if you can't smell it (if your senses are like mine; if your fox, like mine, still hasn't bothered to implement the [HTML5 `` element](http://www.sitepoint.com/html5-new-sensory-elements/)), it's an ominous thing, to see a blog hovering near the boundary between life and death, a corpus perhaps on the way to being a corpse. The internet is littered with the latter, monuments to people who reliably had _something to say_, month after month ... until they missed a month, and then it wasn't long before they missed another. diff --git a/content/2015/pi-day-is-an-unholy-festival-of-sin-that-is-corrupting-our-children.md b/content/2015/pi-day-is-an-unholy-festival-of-sin-that-is-corrupting-our-children.md index f83ff39..b7f0e13 100644 --- a/content/2015/pi-day-is-an-unholy-festival-of-sin-that-is-corrupting-our-children.md +++ b/content/2015/pi-day-is-an-unholy-festival-of-sin-that-is-corrupting-our-children.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: "Pi Day" Is an Unholy Festival of Sin That Is Corrupting Our Children Date: 2015-03-14 03:14 Status: published Category: arts & culture -Slug: pi-day-is-an-unholy-festival-of-sin-that-is-corrupting-our-children Dear reader, it's the fourteenth day of the third month of the year, and if you're reading this blog, some charlatans or overenthusiastic youth (the subject of whose enthusiasm is not what they think it is) have probably tried to convince you to celebrate it as "Pi Day." You see (these quacks implored you) π is around 3.14, and March fourteenth is 3/14. And _furthermore_ (they may have put to you) furthermore _this_ year's Pi Day is special, because it's 3/14/15, which is like 3.1415! Why (an especially impudent few might have continued to venture), we should plan some grand spectacle on 9:26 a.m. on the day, which is like 3.1415926! With (and this is the part that is most inevitable and offensive) pie! Get it, because it sounds like _pi_ and is shaped like a circle? diff --git a/content/2015/post-ingress.md b/content/2015/post-ingress.md index c43e5b0..c6b8431 100644 --- a/content/2015/post-ingress.md +++ b/content/2015/post-ingress.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Post-Ingress Date: 2015-04-21 21:57 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: post-ingress Her tense reaction was contorted, Hands slid forward to will defense from the ransack, in shock, diff --git a/content/2015/running.md b/content/2015/running.md index da7c41f..8a3306f 100644 --- a/content/2015/running.md +++ b/content/2015/running.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Running Date: 2015-08-11 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: running Because decreased expected knee health for increased expected cardiovascular health is a great trade!! diff --git a/content/2015/rustcamp-reminiscences.md b/content/2015/rustcamp-reminiscences.md index e0c5ca2..8740881 100644 --- a/content/2015/rustcamp-reminiscences.md +++ b/content/2015/rustcamp-reminiscences.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-08-03 00:14 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python, Rust, timely Special Event -Slug: rustcamp-reminiscences On Saturday the first, I attended [RustCamp](http://rustcamp.com/), the first conference dedicated to the newish (in development for fiveish years, but having just hit version 1.0.0 this May, with all the stability guarantees that implies under the benevolent iron fist of [semantic versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html)) programming language [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org/)! diff --git a/content/2015/smalltalk.md b/content/2015/smalltalk.md index b65dc58..ddb64f7 100644 --- a/content/2015/smalltalk.md +++ b/content/2015/smalltalk.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-05-11 20:44 Status: published Category: asides Tags: compilers -Slug: smalltalk _(8:5x_ a.m._, an office on the someteenth floor of the twenty-somethingth tallest building in San Francisco)_ diff --git a/content/2015/speculative-rules-of-engagement.md b/content/2015/speculative-rules-of-engagement.md index cab1100..e192c14 100644 --- a/content/2015/speculative-rules-of-engagement.md +++ b/content/2015/speculative-rules-of-engagement.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Speculative Rules of Engagement Date: 2015-01-19 05:00 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: speculative-rules-of-engagement "Whoever displays intense negative emotion first, loses" is _not_ in any way a law inherent to the nature of interpersonal conflict, but we can make-believe that it were profitable to believe as much. What would that look like? diff --git a/content/2015/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md b/content/2015/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md index 62927d8..a1f9172 100644 --- a/content/2015/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md +++ b/content/2015/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-11-17 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Star Trek -Slug: still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/11/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/11/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/11/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.) diff --git a/content/2015/studying-on-the-weekend.md b/content/2015/studying-on-the-weekend.md index 63095a9..950dab1 100644 --- a/content/2015/studying-on-the-weekend.md +++ b/content/2015/studying-on-the-weekend.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Studying on the Weekend Date: 2015-08-09 11:44 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: studying-on-the-weekend Studying on the weekend as a working professional is like keeping a diversified investment portfolio, in stocks, bonds, commodity futures, cash, silver, ammunition, and Bitcoin in encrypted paper wallets; it's like coming in first by half a lap in the thirty-two hundred meters of your Division III college's track and field meet, and then not stopping, continuing out of the stadium, desperately, bleeding, acknowledging nothing but the need to put ever more distance between you and your hypothetical pursuers, until days later (halfway to Nevada), a classmate leans out of a car window and pleads, "You can stop now! Can't you see you've already won?" incapable of predicting or comprehending your reply murmured between inhalations, "The _reason_ ... I won ... is because ... I don't ... believe in finish lines." diff --git a/content/2015/t-o-p.md b/content/2015/t-o-p.md index 719f5e9..b86ab69 100644 --- a/content/2015/t-o-p.md +++ b/content/2015/t-o-p.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: T.O.P. Date: 2015-04-22 05:00 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: t-o-p "Don't worry, we've got our T.O.P. engineer working on it," said the support man on the phone with our most important customer, glancing meaningfully across the open-plan office in my direction; I winced briefly, then spasmed back towards my screen and fumbled with the keyboard, intending to return my attention to the definition of the `DeviceAssignmentRuleComponentManagerFactory`, but somehow fat-fingering `C-x C-c` along the way, every awkward, ungainly movement bearing testimony to the most casual of onlookers that I was Totally Observably Pathetic. diff --git a/content/2015/the-foundations-of-erasure-codes.md b/content/2015/the-foundations-of-erasure-codes.md index d100cef..9e4e3f9 100644 --- a/content/2015/the-foundations-of-erasure-codes.md +++ b/content/2015/the-foundations-of-erasure-codes.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-04-23 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: OpenStack Swift, Python -Slug: the-foundations-of-erasure-codes [(cross-posted from the _SwiftStack Blog_)](https://swiftstack.com/blog/2015/04/20/the-foundations-of-erasure-codes/) diff --git a/content/2015/the-second-r.md b/content/2015/the-second-r.md index 5f2ccc7..32f07be 100644 --- a/content/2015/the-second-r.md +++ b/content/2015/the-second-r.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-06-30 21:33 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: the-second-r I want to code all of the things, but I also want to write at least _some_ of the things, but sometimes putting things in words—simple things, things I _know_—can be _hard_. Every other day I dream of getting in some writing in the night after I return from the code mines across the bay, but the box where the [writing tool](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) lives is the _same_ as the box where you can read everything that anyone else has ever written, and you can guess what I really do then, when it's _easier_ to read than to farm, to eat than to write. diff --git a/content/2015/the-sin-in-the-form.md b/content/2015/the-sin-in-the-form.md index d3f3da9..851db21 100644 --- a/content/2015/the-sin-in-the-form.md +++ b/content/2015/the-sin-in-the-form.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Sin in the Form Date: 2015-10-20 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: the-sin-in-the-form Would you like to hang out on the weekend some time And say things that we like to say, diff --git a/content/2015/traffic-koan.md b/content/2015/traffic-koan.md index b1e9d9c..c8e8113 100644 --- a/content/2015/traffic-koan.md +++ b/content/2015/traffic-koan.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-11-09 09:07 Status: published Category: asides Tags: trains -Slug: traffic-koan "I'm behind schedule this Monday morning," said the engineer, "but it'll be OK as long as the train isn't late." diff --git a/content/2015/xxx-i.md b/content/2015/xxx-i.md index c32ce75..dc5decc 100644 --- a/content/2015/xxx-i.md +++ b/content/2015/xxx-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-01-18 21:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Clojure -Slug: xxx-i ```clojure ;; XXX: adorable diff --git a/content/2015/xxx-ii.md b/content/2015/xxx-ii.md index b520604..21e7d49 100644 --- a/content/2015/xxx-ii.md +++ b/content/2015/xxx-ii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-03-21 23:07 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Rust -Slug: xxx-ii ```rust // XXX: old_io is probably facing deprecation if names mean anything diff --git a/content/2015/xxx-iii.md b/content/2015/xxx-iii.md index 7b83584..76e215b 100644 --- a/content/2015/xxx-iii.md +++ b/content/2015/xxx-iii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2015-04-12 09:19 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Rust -Slug: xxx-iii ```rust const PSEUDO_DIGITS: [char; 7] = ['M', 'D', 'C', 'L', 'X', 'V', 'I']; diff --git a/content/2016/0x1f431-cat-face.md b/content/2016/0x1f431-cat-face.md index 0e7733e..fd12e34 100644 --- a/content/2016/0x1f431-cat-face.md +++ b/content/2016/0x1f431-cat-face.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-07-03 05:00 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Git, Unicode -Slug: 0x1f431-cat-face ```diff diff --git a/.bash_aliases b/.bash_aliases diff --git a/content/2016/alpha-gamma-phi.md b/content/2016/alpha-gamma-phi.md index 3d8645c..27941e2 100644 --- a/content/2016/alpha-gamma-phi.md +++ b/content/2016/alpha-gamma-phi.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Alpha Gamma Phi Date: 2016-12-01 05:00 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2016/an-element-which-is-nameless.md b/content/2016/an-element-which-is-nameless.md index ca8aca9..e219596 100644 --- a/content/2016/an-element-which-is-nameless.md +++ b/content/2016/an-element-which-is-nameless.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: An Element Which Is Nameless Date: 2016-12-28 20:17 Status: published Category: asides -Tags: Friendship Is Magic, rationality -Slug: an-element-which-is-nameless +Tags: Friendship Is Magic, honesty I had always thought Twilight Sparkle was the pony that best exemplified the spirit of epistemic rationality. If anypony should possess the truth, it must be the ones with high _p_ (_p_ being the letter used to represent the _pony intelligence factor_ first proposed by Charles Spearpony and whose existence was confirmed by later psychometric research by such ponies as Arthur Jenfoal) who devote their lives to tireless scholarship! diff --git a/content/2016/apostasy.md b/content/2016/apostasy.md index 700afae..ab31104 100644 --- a/content/2016/apostasy.md +++ b/content/2016/apostasy.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Apostasy Date: 2016-07-25 23:21 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2016/bayesian-gem.md b/content/2016/bayesian-gem.md index 5a5efc0..0601ff9 100644 --- a/content/2016/bayesian-gem.md +++ b/content/2016/bayesian-gem.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-05-12 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: fanfiction, Steven Universe -Slug: bayesian-gem STEVEN diff --git a/content/2016/bayesomasochism.md b/content/2016/bayesomasochism.md index d55a6ac..2df2d3e 100644 --- a/content/2016/bayesomasochism.md +++ b/content/2016/bayesomasochism.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Bayesomasochism Date: 2016-09-22 23:58 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: bayesomasochism +Tags: epistemology _Physical_ pain is the worst thing in the world, and the work of effective altruists will not be done until the last nociceptor falls silent and not a single moment of suffering remains to be computed across our entire future light cone. diff --git a/content/2016/book-recommendations-i.md b/content/2016/book-recommendations-i.md index 8839fc3..23152e7 100644 --- a/content/2016/book-recommendations-i.md +++ b/content/2016/book-recommendations-i.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2016-09-18 23:55 Status: published Category: asides Tags: sex & gender -Slug: book-recommendations-i kind of tempted to start [_haveyoureadMTiMBNoAT.com_](http://www.annelawrence.com/mtimb.html) to compete with goddam [_haveyoureadnevada.com_](http://haveyoureadnevada.com/), but it won't help diff --git a/content/2016/code-switching-i.md b/content/2016/code-switching-i.md index 6054570..2453608 100644 --- a/content/2016/code-switching-i.md +++ b/content/2016/code-switching-i.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Code-Switching I Date: 2016-10-01 07:41 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: code-switching-i that spectrum from _cis_ to _natal_ to _actual_ depending on whom they're talking to diff --git a/content/2016/colony.md b/content/2016/colony.md index b25af73..a18300a 100644 --- a/content/2016/colony.md +++ b/content/2016/colony.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Colony Date: 2016-03-07 23:54 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2016/components.md b/content/2016/components.md index c0fa3a0..d185f8c 100644 --- a/content/2016/components.md +++ b/content/2016/components.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Components Date: 2016-06-19 19:52 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: components Two wrongs can make a right, if you choose the second wrong _very carefully_. diff --git a/content/2016/concerns-ii.md b/content/2016/concerns-ii.md index 54d2743..a6974f5 100644 --- a/content/2016/concerns-ii.md +++ b/content/2016/concerns-ii.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Concerns II Date: 2016-09-29 11:03 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: concerns-ii [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/concerns/) diff --git a/content/2016/concerns.md b/content/2016/concerns.md index acb65af..67a82a7 100644 --- a/content/2016/concerns.md +++ b/content/2016/concerns.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Concerns Date: 2016-07-10 11:19 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2016/correspondence-theory.md b/content/2016/correspondence-theory.md index 3bb5d59..44f5f8a 100644 --- a/content/2016/correspondence-theory.md +++ b/content/2016/correspondence-theory.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Correspondence Theory Date: 2016-05-22 23:02 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2016/disability.md b/content/2016/disability.md index 27abd6b..998bd2c 100644 --- a/content/2016/disability.md +++ b/content/2016/disability.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-01-05 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: sex & gender -Slug: disability "So this book is titled _Gender Matters: Training for Educators Working With Students With Disabilities_. And I'm like, 'Huh? Gender is a disability?'" diff --git a/content/2016/dismal-science.md b/content/2016/dismal-science.md index 511354a..ac1a7fa 100644 --- a/content/2016/dismal-science.md +++ b/content/2016/dismal-science.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Dismal Science Date: 2016-01-02 05:00 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: dismal-science There's something that feels viscerally distasteful and fundamentally morally dubious about _looking_ for a job or a significant other. _Search_ and _comparison_ are for crass, commonplace, material things: we might say that this brand of soap smells nice, but is expensive, or that this car gets poor mileage, but is cheap, and while we may err in our judgment of any particular product, the general procedure must be regarded as legitimate: there's nothing problematic about going out to shop for _some_ soap or _a_ car and purchasing the best that happens to be available on one's budget, even if there's no sense of destiny and perfection about the match. Rather, we want to be clean, and we want to go places, and we took action to make these things come to pass. diff --git a/content/2016/ecstasy.md b/content/2016/ecstasy.md index 9fda8bf..85690bb 100644 --- a/content/2016/ecstasy.md +++ b/content/2016/ecstasy.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Ecstasy Date: 2016-12-29 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: ecstasy [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/12/alpha-gamma-phi/) diff --git a/content/2016/failed-pretense.md b/content/2016/failed-pretense.md index cab7e54..5cd8a47 100644 --- a/content/2016/failed-pretense.md +++ b/content/2016/failed-pretense.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Failed Pretense Date: 2016-03-08 20:09 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: failed-pretense Evidence is how we rule Out facts, or find them lurking; diff --git a/content/2016/falself.md b/content/2016/falself.md index c40d525..096d461 100644 --- a/content/2016/falself.md +++ b/content/2016/falself.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-08-08 22:48 Status: published Category: asides Tags: sex & gender -Slug: falself _(somewhere in the Tumblrverse)_ diff --git a/content/2016/fighting-game-ideas-i.md b/content/2016/fighting-game-ideas-i.md index 8772cab..bd3fbe1 100644 --- a/content/2016/fighting-game-ideas-i.md +++ b/content/2016/fighting-game-ideas-i.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Fighting Game Ideas I Date: 2016-12-06 19:05 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: fighting-game-ideas-i Évariste Galois _vs._ Aaron Burr diff --git a/content/2016/focusing-on-the-important-things.md b/content/2016/focusing-on-the-important-things.md index a543ccc..eb9dfe0 100644 --- a/content/2016/focusing-on-the-important-things.md +++ b/content/2016/focusing-on-the-important-things.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Focusing on the Important Things Date: 2016-09-24 11:46 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2016/gateway.md b/content/2016/gateway.md index b25fcaf..1a665f1 100644 --- a/content/2016/gateway.md +++ b/content/2016/gateway.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-06-09 18:45 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Star Trek -Slug: gateway "Me? I like songs with words. I don't care for, like, _classical_ music." diff --git a/content/2016/genesis.md b/content/2016/genesis.md index af332bc..1a710c4 100644 --- a/content/2016/genesis.md +++ b/content/2016/genesis.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Genesis Date: 2016-03-17 21:14 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2016/gomputer-science.md b/content/2016/gomputer-science.md index c2368f9..33301a4 100644 --- a/content/2016/gomputer-science.md +++ b/content/2016/gomputer-science.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2016-03-18 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Go -Slug: gomputer-science At the party, I was saying that _goroutines_ is a really cute name. Friend of the blog [Mike Blume](http://michaelblume.tumblr.com/) expresssed concern about what happens when the Go team learns about monads. And I'm like, don't worry, [that won't happen](http://nomad.so/2015/03/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-to-intelligent-programmers/). diff --git a/content/2016/grindstone.md b/content/2016/grindstone.md index 9cf7e46..ae6e1fb 100644 --- a/content/2016/grindstone.md +++ b/content/2016/grindstone.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Grindstone Date: 2016-06-08 20:19 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: grindstone Sing a song of Purpose for the coder's missing nerve, Of the melancholy bytes of which the proxy is to serve— diff --git a/content/2016/group-introduction-redux.md b/content/2016/group-introduction-redux.md index 78e1e99..0568155 100644 --- a/content/2016/group-introduction-redux.md +++ b/content/2016/group-introduction-redux.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Group Introduction Redux Date: 2016-04-03 00:31 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: group-introduction-redux [_(Previously.)_](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/01/group-introduction/) diff --git a/content/2016/hiatus-i.md b/content/2016/hiatus-i.md index 769e0c3..759d1bf 100644 --- a/content/2016/hiatus-i.md +++ b/content/2016/hiatus-i.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Hiatus I Date: 2016-10-07 15:09 Status: published Category: meta -Slug: hiatus-i _An Algorithmic Lucidity_ is going on hiatus until December 1! There will be no new posts in November and the remainder of October. Thanks for reading, and hope to see you back in eight weeks! diff --git a/content/2016/i-am-a-filesystem-writing-man.md b/content/2016/i-am-a-filesystem-writing-man.md index 9b9a3eb..30fb19e 100644 --- a/content/2016/i-am-a-filesystem-writing-man.md +++ b/content/2016/i-am-a-filesystem-writing-man.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: I Am a Filesystem-Writing Man Date: 2016-10-04 11:46 Status: published 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) diff --git a/content/2016/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant.md b/content/2016/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant.md index 98340c4..2bc64e1 100644 --- a/content/2016/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant.md +++ b/content/2016/i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: "I Have the Honor to Be Your Obedient Servant" Date: 2016-02-03 23:36 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: i-have-the-honor-to-be-your-obedient-servant A friend of the blog recently told me that I'm meaner in meatspace (what some prefer to call by the bizarre misnomer "real life") than you would guess from my online persona. I'm not proud to have prompted this observation, but I didn't deny it, either. And yet—insofar as one has any reflectively-endorsed non-nice social impulses (to create incentives for good behavior, or perhaps from an ungentle although-_sadistic_-would-be-far-too-strong-of-a-word æsthetic that appreciates a world in which people don't always get everything they want), it _does_ seem like the correct strategy: in meatspace, you can react to verbal _and nonverbal_ cues _in real time_ and try to smooth things over if you go too far, whereas in the blogosphere, it's possible to _die_ in a harrowing thermonuclear flamewar and not even _know_ until you check your messages the next day. We _must_ use diplomacy where we cannot wield our weapons so precisely. diff --git a/content/2016/ideas-have-expirations.md b/content/2016/ideas-have-expirations.md index c87b0e1..709ac13 100644 --- a/content/2016/ideas-have-expirations.md +++ b/content/2016/ideas-have-expirations.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-01-04 00:03 Status: published Category: meta Tags: akrasia, chess, Friendship Is Magic, Rust, timely Special Event -Slug: ideas-have-expirations One often-overlooked aspect of the [crime of not-writing](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/10/everyday-true-crime/) is that the harm isn't just about the things that deserve to be said that you never get around to saying because you don't put in the time and effort. It's also about the things that you _can't_ say anymore even if you suddenly had the will, because the opportunity to say it was bound to a particular time, and trying to recapitulate the thoughts months or years after the fact would be irrelevant, or impossible. diff --git a/content/2016/identity.md b/content/2016/identity.md index 6b6910a..2f440c1 100644 --- a/content/2016/identity.md +++ b/content/2016/identity.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Identity Date: 2016-07-11 05:00 Status: published 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!" diff --git a/content/2016/if-you-had-to-choose.md b/content/2016/if-you-had-to-choose.md index 52f2ca8..09f529e 100644 --- a/content/2016/if-you-had-to-choose.md +++ b/content/2016/if-you-had-to-choose.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: If You Had to Choose Date: 2016-02-21 17:48 Status: published 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?" diff --git a/content/2016/ineffective-appeal.md b/content/2016/ineffective-appeal.md index 048215f..6c37166 100644 --- a/content/2016/ineffective-appeal.md +++ b/content/2016/ineffective-appeal.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Ineffective Appeal Date: 2016-05-23 19:53 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: ineffective-appeal "We've always had to be together; The pool of souls has drawn a set; diff --git a/content/2016/ineffective-deconversion-pitch.md b/content/2016/ineffective-deconversion-pitch.md index 154802b..f3c38f2 100644 --- a/content/2016/ineffective-deconversion-pitch.md +++ b/content/2016/ineffective-deconversion-pitch.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Ineffective Deconversion Pitch Date: 2016-08-07 11:27 Status: published Category: psychology -Tags: rationality -Slug: ineffective-deconversion-pitch +Tags: honesty Growing up in an ostensibly reform-Jewish household that didn't even take _that_ seriously, atheism was easy for me, so I don't know how hard deconversion is, how much it hurts, or how much of one's entire conception of self is trashed in the process and can't be recovered. diff --git a/content/2016/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay.md b/content/2016/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay.md index 8dc3342..1f6b02e 100644 --- a/content/2016/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay.md +++ b/content/2016/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-09-05 10:32 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: cosplay, sex & gender, Steven Universe, timely Special Event -Slug: is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay So I was at [San Francisco Comic Con](http://sanfrancomiccon.com/) the other day. I don't think I find conventions themselves to be as fun as a lot of other people seem to (I didn't even last all of Saturday at [BABSCon 'fourteen and 'fifteen](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/01/ideas-have-expirations/#babscon) before getting ponied out and BARTing home, and didn't even bother attending this year), but I had never cosplayed before, and had been thinking lately that I have exactly the right body type to play [Pearl](http://steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Pearl) from _Obnoxious Bad Decision Chil_—I mean, _Steven Universe_, on account of being my being tall, thin, white, and having a big nose. (She's even pretty flat-chested!) So I ordered [the Pearl dress from Hot Topic](http://www.hottopic.com/product/cartoon-network-steven-universe-pearl-dress/10619954.html) (I maybe should've gotten the XXXL instead of merely the XXL), a pink (really should be more peach, but close enough) wig, yellow gym shorts, and pink socks; improvised a gem from medical tape and the bowl of a plastic spoon; and set off Saturday morning to catch the train to the city and a short walk to the San Francisco Marriot Marquis. diff --git a/content/2016/islands.md b/content/2016/islands.md index 4ce9d5d..9d47710 100644 --- a/content/2016/islands.md +++ b/content/2016/islands.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Islands Date: 2016-03-28 23:43 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: islands _(an office on the someteenth floor)_ diff --git a/content/2016/joined.md b/content/2016/joined.md index 3c80f85..cb79e89 100644 --- a/content/2016/joined.md +++ b/content/2016/joined.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-12-19 22:17 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: cosplay, Star Trek, timely Special Event -Slug: joined ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/) on _Star Trek: An Algorithmic Lucidity_.) diff --git a/content/2016/late-onset.md b/content/2016/late-onset.md index d543bea..f6c0b33 100644 --- a/content/2016/late-onset.md +++ b/content/2016/late-onset.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Late-Onset Date: 2016-10-07 14:45 Status: published 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 ? diff --git a/content/2016/living-well-is-the-best-revenge.md b/content/2016/living-well-is-the-best-revenge.md index bdf0842..12a4e51 100644 --- a/content/2016/living-well-is-the-best-revenge.md +++ b/content/2016/living-well-is-the-best-revenge.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" Date: 2016-05-13 05:00 Status: published Category: fiction -Slug: living-well-is-the-best-revenge My enemies do not deserve to suffer, because _no_ sentient creature deserves to suffer. diff --git a/content/2016/mirage.md b/content/2016/mirage.md index fe4d580..0e7df2b 100644 --- a/content/2016/mirage.md +++ b/content/2016/mirage.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-02-08 23:59 Status: published Category: social science Tags: genetics, gridiron football, timely Special Event -Slug: mirage _(just some quick notes, [hopefully in the spirit](http://www.xkcd.com/1640/) of [delightfully quirky symmetry-breaking](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/03/tradition/))_ diff --git a/content/2016/missing-books-ii.md b/content/2016/missing-books-ii.md index b08972a..cad7073 100644 --- a/content/2016/missing-books-ii.md +++ b/content/2016/missing-books-ii.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2016-06-27 02:50 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: missing books -Slug: missing-books-ii A _roman à clef_ about a very religious teenager who gradually figures out that God isn't real around ages 20 and 21, spends the next eight years feeling OK about this, then one day suddenly realizes that God not being real _implies that prayers don't work_, and _freaks the fuck out_. His friends (who grew up in the same community but don't share his incredible lack of native talent for hypocrisy) are unsympathetic. "You really thought that would work?" "Yes!" "But didn't you notice that—" _(sobbing)_ "I didn't!" diff --git a/content/2016/missing-refutations.md b/content/2016/missing-refutations.md index 309b354..e923cd8 100644 --- a/content/2016/missing-refutations.md +++ b/content/2016/missing-refutations.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-02-17 00:21 Status: published Category: social science Tags: chess, politics -Slug: missing-refutations It [looks like](https://github.com/swiftstack/Chesswork/commit/681085b3) the opposing all-human team is winning the exhibition game of me and [my it's-not-chess engine](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/01/ideas-have-expirations/) (as White) _versus_ everyone in the office who (unlike me) actually knows something about chess (as Black). I mean, naïvely, my team is up a bishop right now, but our king is pretty exposed, and the [principal variation](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Variation_%28game_tree%29&oldid=545070873#Principal_variation) that generated one of our recent moves (16. Bxb4 Bf5 17. Kd1 Qxd4+ 18. Kc1 Ng3 19. Qxc7 Nxh1) looks _dreadful_. diff --git a/content/2016/missing-words-vii.md b/content/2016/missing-words-vii.md index 4bcbf20..37b6625 100644 --- a/content/2016/missing-words-vii.md +++ b/content/2016/missing-words-vii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-01-08 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: missing words -Slug: missing-words-vii We need a word or phrase to refer to intentionally (and usually only slightly) misquoting something for the sake of a perceived æsthetic improvement in the context in which the quoter wants to use the material. Okay, we do have the word _paraphrase_, which is close ("To paraphrase the great fooer Bar Quux ..."), but I don't think that's _quite_ it—the [_Wiktionary_ definition](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paraphrase) mentions "often to clarify meaning" and I'm definitely talking more about petty differences in word choice than actually clarifying meaning. diff --git a/content/2016/more-running.md b/content/2016/more-running.md index 7e28249..33b4a3e 100644 --- a/content/2016/more-running.md +++ b/content/2016/more-running.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2016-05-02 20:49 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: transhumanism -Slug: more-running I ran about three miles each yesterday and the day before, and this is [very important](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/08/running/)—just imagine how _embarrassing_ it would be to die of a heart attack in the year 20X6 rather than being disassembled by nanomachines in 20X6 + 5! diff --git a/content/2016/morning.md b/content/2016/morning.md index 32ba8c4..9a2db25 100644 --- a/content/2016/morning.md +++ b/content/2016/morning.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Morning Date: 2016-05-04 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: morning _(the someteenth floor)_ diff --git a/content/2016/odds-i.md b/content/2016/odds-i.md index 3d3cecd..7b3717e 100644 --- a/content/2016/odds-i.md +++ b/content/2016/odds-i.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Odds I Date: 2016-08-09 23:26 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: odds-i | __FAVORITE__ | __point spread__ | __UNDERDOG__ | | --- | --- | --- | diff --git a/content/2016/oral-tradition-i.md b/content/2016/oral-tradition-i.md index 575622b..c8a31c9 100644 --- a/content/2016/oral-tradition-i.md +++ b/content/2016/oral-tradition-i.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Oral Tradition I Date: 2016-05-15 10:28 Status: published Category: asides -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. diff --git a/content/2016/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016.md b/content/2016/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016.md index 5105606..08700ec 100644 --- a/content/2016/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016.md +++ b/content/2016/philanthropy-scorecard-through-2016.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Philanthropy Scorecard Through 2016 Date: 2016-12-26 14:40 Status: published 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/).) diff --git a/content/2016/pose.md b/content/2016/pose.md index 5be848e..aaf09eb 100644 --- a/content/2016/pose.md +++ b/content/2016/pose.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-06-04 09:29 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: Rust -Slug: pose [![stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after-300x151.png)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/stable_features_version_lint_before_and_after.png) diff --git a/content/2016/prescription-ii.md b/content/2016/prescription-ii.md index bcbc1f4..61c1afa 100644 --- a/content/2016/prescription-ii.md +++ b/content/2016/prescription-ii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-12-02 05:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics -Slug: prescription-ii that feel eighteen months post-_Obergefell_ when you realize you missed your chance to be pro-civil-unions-with-all-the-same-legal-privileges but anti-calling-it-_marriage_ while that position was still in the Overton window diff --git a/content/2016/prescription.md b/content/2016/prescription.md index cdc7c05..9a744da 100644 --- a/content/2016/prescription.md +++ b/content/2016/prescription.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Prescription Date: 2016-08-28 18:56 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2016/quotations-iv.md b/content/2016/quotations-iv.md index f67154d..edf3bb5 100644 --- a/content/2016/quotations-iv.md +++ b/content/2016/quotations-iv.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-02-02 22:51 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: quotations -Slug: quotations-iv > MISTY: You know, I usually burn incense when I meditate, but the smell of a burning city can be just as relaxing. > JENNY: People are in danger! Why don't you do something?! diff --git a/content/2016/quotations-v.md b/content/2016/quotations-v.md index 8850bf1..fef8a84 100644 --- a/content/2016/quotations-v.md +++ b/content/2016/quotations-v.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-08-06 17:40 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: quotations -Slug: quotations-v > MINUETTE: So, uh, what are you studying these days? > MOON DANCER: Science, magic, history, economics, pottery. Things like that. diff --git a/content/2016/resisting-the-narrative.md b/content/2016/resisting-the-narrative.md index 53ee4c4..269ed44 100644 --- a/content/2016/resisting-the-narrative.md +++ b/content/2016/resisting-the-narrative.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Resisting the Narrative Date: 2016-12-04 05:00 Status: published 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? diff --git a/content/2016/retrospective-review-of-the-imitation-game-2014.md b/content/2016/retrospective-review-of-the-imitation-game-2014.md index f56f058..1a8928d 100644 --- a/content/2016/retrospective-review-of-the-imitation-game-2014.md +++ b/content/2016/retrospective-review-of-the-imitation-game-2014.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Retrospective Review of The Imitation Game (2014) Date: 2016-07-21 23:07 Status: published Category: arts & culture -Slug: retrospective-review-of-the-imitation-game-2014 Fun movie, but if we're [not going to try to accurately portray](http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2096) the historical Turing, I preferred [Greg Egan's version](http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/MISC/ORACLE/Oracle.html) where a time-traveling robot woman helps him cure cancer. diff --git a/content/2016/ring-tone.md b/content/2016/ring-tone.md index 52f7f4b..1d6aa22 100644 --- a/content/2016/ring-tone.md +++ b/content/2016/ring-tone.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Ring Tone Date: 2016-01-06 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: ring-tone (circa 2005) diff --git a/content/2016/rustconf-2016-travelogue.md b/content/2016/rustconf-2016-travelogue.md index d540ffd..1c239be 100644 --- a/content/2016/rustconf-2016-travelogue.md +++ b/content/2016/rustconf-2016-travelogue.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-09-19 00:31 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Rust, timely Special Event -Slug: rustconf-2016-travelogue [(Previously on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/08/rustcamp-reminiscences/) diff --git a/content/2016/scoop-me-out-of-the-bargain-bin.md b/content/2016/scoop-me-out-of-the-bargain-bin.md index 4d59bc2..681d5bb 100644 --- a/content/2016/scoop-me-out-of-the-bargain-bin.md +++ b/content/2016/scoop-me-out-of-the-bargain-bin.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Scoop Me Out of the Bargain Bin Date: 2016-02-22 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: scoop-me-out-of-the-bargain-bin _If you're on a shoestring budget, look for factory rejects You get the greatest models, just with one or two defects diff --git a/content/2016/specter.md b/content/2016/specter.md index 6cc4fe3..8953316 100644 --- a/content/2016/specter.md +++ b/content/2016/specter.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Specter Date: 2016-05-18 22:45 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2016/subzero.md b/content/2016/subzero.md index 70d2336..a33bbb0 100644 --- a/content/2016/subzero.md +++ b/content/2016/subzero.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-04-06 22:05 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python -Slug: subzero Python has this elegant destructuring-assignment iterable-unpacking syntax that every serious Pythonista and her dog tends to use whereëver possible. So where a novice might write diff --git a/content/2016/the-fundamental-theorem-of-epistemology.md b/content/2016/the-fundamental-theorem-of-epistemology.md index b1ef888..eebfb4e 100644 --- a/content/2016/the-fundamental-theorem-of-epistemology.md +++ b/content/2016/the-fundamental-theorem-of-epistemology.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: The Fundamental Theorem of Epistemology Date: 2016-08-20 22:05 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: the-fundamental-theorem-of-epistemology +Tags: epistemology $$P(H|E) = \frac{P(E|H)P(H)}{P(E)}$$ diff --git a/content/2016/the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-thing.md b/content/2016/the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-thing.md index 50d60aa..e2ffd3a 100644 --- a/content/2016/the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-thing.md +++ b/content/2016/the-parable-of-the-honest-man-and-the-thing.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Parable of the Honest Man and the Thing Date: 2016-10-05 18:26 Status: published 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_!" diff --git a/content/2016/the-roark-quirrell-effect.md b/content/2016/the-roark-quirrell-effect.md index af445e0..5e09a07 100644 --- a/content/2016/the-roark-quirrell-effect.md +++ b/content/2016/the-roark-quirrell-effect.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Roark–Quirrell Effect Date: 2016-09-14 22:24 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2016/the-seat-thiefs-rationale.md b/content/2016/the-seat-thiefs-rationale.md index bdd3c25..ab9b86e 100644 --- a/content/2016/the-seat-thiefs-rationale.md +++ b/content/2016/the-seat-thiefs-rationale.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Seat Thief's Rationale Date: 2016-01-19 22:50 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: the-seat-thiefs-rationale What is even the _motivation_ for stealing a bicycle seat? How much can you hock it for? diff --git a/content/2016/the-view-from-below.md b/content/2016/the-view-from-below.md index a5f2ddf..2fff41c 100644 --- a/content/2016/the-view-from-below.md +++ b/content/2016/the-view-from-below.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-06-01 23:03 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: intelligence -Slug: the-view-from-below There's this phenomenon where two people are talking, and one of them offhandedly mentions some innocuous fact, and the other one has to stop them and have them explain both the fact, and what they expected their interlocutor to infer from the fact. When this happens once, it's usually just a matter of one happening to have some domain-specific knowledge that the other happened to not have, a coincidence that could just as easily have gone the other way. diff --git a/content/2016/the-world-by-gaslight.md b/content/2016/the-world-by-gaslight.md index d770f0e..8bc72b6 100644 --- a/content/2016/the-world-by-gaslight.md +++ b/content/2016/the-world-by-gaslight.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The World By Gaslight Date: 2016-09-06 22:17 Status: published 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). diff --git a/content/2016/this-has-always-been-the-year.md b/content/2016/this-has-always-been-the-year.md index 6847f35..fa40890 100644 --- a/content/2016/this-has-always-been-the-year.md +++ b/content/2016/this-has-always-been-the-year.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-01-01 05:00 Status: published Category: fiction Tags: cynicism, new year, trains -Slug: this-has-always-been-the-year At a quarter past eight on the first Monday of the new year, the yellow line on the way to the city has just passed Orinda. A young man is standing in the bicycle priority area near the doors, reading a paper magazine. _Write Your Novel in 2016!_ is the cover story, followed by more teasers below: "2 Tools That Can Fix Any Story Problem," "What's _Really_ at Stake? The Secret to More Compelling Characters," and "5 Great Caribbean Literary Festivals: Get Away, Get Inspired!" diff --git a/content/2016/todo-i.md b/content/2016/todo-i.md index 71303a3..3bb183f 100644 --- a/content/2016/todo-i.md +++ b/content/2016/todo-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-01-09 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: Rust -Slug: todo-i ```rust let path = Path::new("/proc/meminfo"); diff --git a/content/2016/two-point-compersion.md b/content/2016/two-point-compersion.md index ff8447c..4412dde 100644 --- a/content/2016/two-point-compersion.md +++ b/content/2016/two-point-compersion.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-01-24 15:40 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: gridiron football -Slug: two-point-compersion "I don't get it." diff --git a/content/2016/type-theory.md b/content/2016/type-theory.md index 233917a..bb8d8c2 100644 --- a/content/2016/type-theory.md +++ b/content/2016/type-theory.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Type Theory Date: 2016-07-24 05:00 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: type-theory We never know what people are actually thinking; all we can do is make inferences from their behavior, including inferences about the inferences they're making. diff --git a/content/2016/vingean-principle.md b/content/2016/vingean-principle.md index b8b2dd5..42c0e57 100644 --- a/content/2016/vingean-principle.md +++ b/content/2016/vingean-principle.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Vingean Principle Date: 2016-07-02 08:43 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: vingean-principle "I miss you." diff --git a/content/2016/virtual-router-redundancy-poem.md b/content/2016/virtual-router-redundancy-poem.md index 36dc564..a997527 100644 --- a/content/2016/virtual-router-redundancy-poem.md +++ b/content/2016/virtual-router-redundancy-poem.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Virtual Router Redundancy Poem Date: 2016-02-24 21:53 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: virtual-router-redundancy-poem From despair and that eternal sleep revive me, O Muse who wrote [the song](http://acorwin.com/2015/10/26/a-poem-of-sorts/) of `keepalived!` diff --git a/content/2016/voicemail-greeting.md b/content/2016/voicemail-greeting.md index 39921c8..1b92864 100644 --- a/content/2016/voicemail-greeting.md +++ b/content/2016/voicemail-greeting.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Voicemail Greeting Date: 2016-01-07 05:00 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: voicemail-greeting (circa 2005) diff --git a/content/2016/what-can-i-do-for-you.md b/content/2016/what-can-i-do-for-you.md index b4d810c..688fa22 100644 --- a/content/2016/what-can-i-do-for-you.md +++ b/content/2016/what-can-i-do-for-you.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: "What Can I Do For You?" Date: 2016-07-23 12:34 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2016/wicked-transcendence-ii.md b/content/2016/wicked-transcendence-ii.md index d8aaa9b..21882e3 100644 --- a/content/2016/wicked-transcendence-ii.md +++ b/content/2016/wicked-transcendence-ii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-09-27 22:55 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: sex & gender -Slug: wicked-transcendence-ii went to the genderqueer support/discussion group at the Pacific Center [again](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/wicked-transcendence/); showed up early to change into my Pearl dress (it would be a waste to only wear it [once](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/)) and surreptitiously slip a [copy of Anne Lawrence](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/book-recommendations-i/) into the library diff --git a/content/2016/wicked-transcendence.md b/content/2016/wicked-transcendence.md index 6e29aca..448670b 100644 --- a/content/2016/wicked-transcendence.md +++ b/content/2016/wicked-transcendence.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2016-07-26 19:09 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: sex & gender -Slug: wicked-transcendence off to go check out the genderqueer support/discussion group (_my people_) and try to teach them about evopsych and the Blanchard typology diff --git a/content/2016/worlds-collide.md b/content/2016/worlds-collide.md index 3060224..230f6bc 100644 --- a/content/2016/worlds-collide.md +++ b/content/2016/worlds-collide.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Worlds Collide Date: 2016-06-28 23:27 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2016/your-periodic-reminder-i.md b/content/2016/your-periodic-reminder-i.md index 14b64bd..1e2f403 100644 --- a/content/2016/your-periodic-reminder-i.md +++ b/content/2016/your-periodic-reminder-i.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Your Periodic Reminder I Date: 2016-12-07 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: your-periodic-reminder-i +Tags: epistemology Aumann's agreement theorem should not be naïvely misinterpreted to mean that humans should directly try to agree with each other. Your fellow rationalists are merely subsets of reality that may or may not exhibit interesting correlations with other subsets of reality; you don't need to "agree" with them any more than you need to "agree" with an encyclopædia, photograph, pinecone, or rock. diff --git a/content/2017/2016-year-in-reverse.md b/content/2017/2016-year-in-reverse.md index 2a57647..9ac8f94 100644 --- a/content/2017/2016-year-in-reverse.md +++ b/content/2017/2016-year-in-reverse.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-01-02 13:52 Status: published Category: meta Tags: new year -Slug: 2016-year-in-reverse ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/12/2015-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/01/2014-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/12/2013-year-in-reverse/).) diff --git a/content/2017/a-common-misunderstanding.md b/content/2017/a-common-misunderstanding.md index 78712dd..c749a10 100644 --- a/content/2017/a-common-misunderstanding.md +++ b/content/2017/a-common-misunderstanding.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: A Common Misunderstanding Date: 2017-02-09 14:00 Status: published 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 ..._ diff --git a/content/2017/a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md b/content/2017/a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md index 62b82f5..58bf056 100644 --- a/content/2017/a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md +++ b/content/2017/a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-11-17 05:00 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Star Trek -Slug: a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/11/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/11/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/11/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/11/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/) on _Star Trek: An Algorithmic Lucidity_.) diff --git a/content/2017/an-algorithmic-lucidity-surprise-reader-meetup.md b/content/2017/an-algorithmic-lucidity-surprise-reader-meetup.md index 0b2c7c5..4287ede 100644 --- a/content/2017/an-algorithmic-lucidity-surprise-reader-meetup.md +++ b/content/2017/an-algorithmic-lucidity-surprise-reader-meetup.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: An Algorithmic Lucidity Surprise Reader Meetup Date: 2017-04-08 02:40 Status: published 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?? diff --git a/content/2017/an-intuition-on-the-bayes-structural-justification-for-free-speech-norms.md b/content/2017/an-intuition-on-the-bayes-structural-justification-for-free-speech-norms.md index 251a467..09e1db4 100644 --- a/content/2017/an-intuition-on-the-bayes-structural-justification-for-free-speech-norms.md +++ b/content/2017/an-intuition-on-the-bayes-structural-justification-for-free-speech-norms.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-08 18:59 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe, politics -Slug: an-intuition-on-the-bayes-structural-justification-for-free-speech-norms We can metaphorically (but like, hopefully it's a good metaphor) think of speech as being [the sum of](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/09/the-parity-decomposition-trick/) a positive-sum information-conveying component and a zero-sum social-control/memetic-warfare component. Coalitions of agents that allow their members to convey information amongst themselves will tend to outcompete coalitions that don't, because it's better for the coalition to be able to use _all_ of the information it has. diff --git a/content/2017/at-a-party.md b/content/2017/at-a-party.md index f38b520..8e5232e 100644 --- a/content/2017/at-a-party.md +++ b/content/2017/at-a-party.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: At a Party Date: 2017-08-24 05:00 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2017/blood-and-ice.md b/content/2017/blood-and-ice.md index 3d85e23..3efcf7c 100644 --- a/content/2017/blood-and-ice.md +++ b/content/2017/blood-and-ice.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Blood and Ice Date: 2017-05-06 12:28 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: blood-and-ice "Are you eating ice because you're autistic, or because you have an iron deficiency?" diff --git a/content/2017/brand-rust.md b/content/2017/brand-rust.md index 4e51fc7..63184f9 100644 --- a/content/2017/brand-rust.md +++ b/content/2017/brand-rust.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-26 11:34 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics -Slug: brand-rust 2007–2016: "Of course I'm still fundamentally part of the Blue Team, like all non-evil people, but I genuinely think there are some decision-relevant facts about biology, economics, and statistics that folks may not have adequately taken into account!" diff --git a/content/2017/change.md b/content/2017/change.md index 7de33fc..be68a54 100644 --- a/content/2017/change.md +++ b/content/2017/change.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Change Date: 2017-05-06 13:30 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: change _Adventures in recalibrating my models of social reality ... Portland edition! [(Previous adventures in Portland.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/rustconf-2016-travelogue/)_ diff --git a/content/2017/cheer.md b/content/2017/cheer.md index c66b05d..f96f146 100644 --- a/content/2017/cheer.md +++ b/content/2017/cheer.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Cheer Date: 2017-02-26 09:27 Status: published 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_!" diff --git a/content/2017/cognitive-bayesian-therapy-i.md b/content/2017/cognitive-bayesian-therapy-i.md index 89b87de..5bbae1d 100644 --- a/content/2017/cognitive-bayesian-therapy-i.md +++ b/content/2017/cognitive-bayesian-therapy-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-02-26 11:31 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe, madness -Slug: cognitive-bayesian-therapy-i __Experience__: I seem to have a lot of energy and time seems to pass slowly. __Hypothesis 1__: I'm in a manic state following a stress- and sleep-deprivation-induced delusional nervous breakdown; this isn't surprising because this tends to happen to me every 2 to 4 years or so. diff --git a/content/2017/courtship-gift.md b/content/2017/courtship-gift.md index 239469f..d9b682d 100644 --- a/content/2017/courtship-gift.md +++ b/content/2017/courtship-gift.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-11-12 05:00 Status: published Category: asides Tags: romance -Slug: courtship-gift "Plastic flowers? _Seriously?_" diff --git a/content/2017/cranberry-bliss.md b/content/2017/cranberry-bliss.md index cd306b9..9a07c23 100644 --- a/content/2017/cranberry-bliss.md +++ b/content/2017/cranberry-bliss.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-11-10 20:51 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: cranberry-bliss [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/09/pumpkin-spice/) diff --git a/content/2017/dollar-2.md b/content/2017/dollar-2.md index 3cf0587..709ec26 100644 --- a/content/2017/dollar-2.md +++ b/content/2017/dollar-2.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Dollar Date: 2017-05-20 15:31 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: dollar-2 [(Previously.)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/05/change/) diff --git a/content/2017/dreaming-of-political-bayescraft.md b/content/2017/dreaming-of-political-bayescraft.md index d0eb2c3..d8b030b 100644 --- a/content/2017/dreaming-of-political-bayescraft.md +++ b/content/2017/dreaming-of-political-bayescraft.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-03 10:29 Status: published Category: social science Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe, politics -Slug: dreaming-of-political-bayescraft __My old political philosophy__: "Socially liberal, fiscally confused; I don't know how to run a goddamned country (and neither do you)." diff --git a/content/2017/friends-can-change-the-world-or-request-for-social-technology-credit-assignment-rituals.md b/content/2017/friends-can-change-the-world-or-request-for-social-technology-credit-assignment-rituals.md index 7608014..fac7bcf 100644 --- a/content/2017/friends-can-change-the-world-or-request-for-social-technology-credit-assignment-rituals.md +++ b/content/2017/friends-can-change-the-world-or-request-for-social-technology-credit-assignment-rituals.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-09 19:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe -Slug: friends-can-change-the-world-or-request-for-social-technology-credit-assignment-rituals As a human living in a human civilization, it's tempting to think that social reality _mostly_ makes sense. Everyone _allegedly_ knows that institutions are flawed and that our leaders are merely flawed humans. Everyone wants to think that they're sufficiently edgy and cynical, that they've _seen through_ the official lies to the true, gritty reality. diff --git a/content/2017/gems-will-be-gems.md b/content/2017/gems-will-be-gems.md index dadc906..7c4ea41 100644 --- a/content/2017/gems-will-be-gems.md +++ b/content/2017/gems-will-be-gems.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-05-28 14:08 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: cosplay, Steven Universe -Slug: gems-will-be-gems _In the gaming hall at [FanimeCon](https://www.fanime.com/) in a nearby alternate universe in which my analogue was smart enough to come up with the punchline in real time [(Pearl cosplay previously on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/is-there-affirmative-action-for-incompetent-crossplay/)_ diff --git a/content/2017/happy-armistice-day-from-an-algorithmic-lucidity.md b/content/2017/happy-armistice-day-from-an-algorithmic-lucidity.md index 7791e2a..2708eba 100644 --- a/content/2017/happy-armistice-day-from-an-algorithmic-lucidity.md +++ b/content/2017/happy-armistice-day-from-an-algorithmic-lucidity.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Happy Armistice Day from An Algorithmic Lucidity Date: 2017-11-11 12:19 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2017/i-meant-to-do-that.md b/content/2017/i-meant-to-do-that.md index ee26c46..e3b1f16 100644 --- a/content/2017/i-meant-to-do-that.md +++ b/content/2017/i-meant-to-do-that.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-07-05 22:53 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: i-meant-to-do-that I quit my dayjob a few months ago. I said I was taking a sabbatical from my programming career to work on my own projects: there's a lot of math that I've been wanting to learn properly for a long time (game theory, [Bayesian networks/structual causal models](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/12/counterfactual-social-thought/), [analysis](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/10/bounded-but-not-totally-bounded-redux/)), and there's a lot of writing that I fear I must do (although for branding and market-segmentation purposes, I'm pretending that's [someone else's story](http://unremediatedgender.space/about/)). diff --git a/content/2017/lipschitz.md b/content/2017/lipschitz.md index 64a57c5..972db98 100644 --- a/content/2017/lipschitz.md +++ b/content/2017/lipschitz.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-10-23 18:20 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia, analysis, Bayes-structure of the universe -Slug: lipschitz —and the moment or more than a moment when the dam breaks, when the damned break and the void inside their skulls is filled (the atmosphere rushing in quickly, but not so quickly that one couldn't sense its motion) with the terror that is knowledge of the specter of _continuity_: that there have never been, and can never be, any miracles. diff --git a/content/2017/making-sense.md b/content/2017/making-sense.md index 75d8bed..6485991 100644 --- a/content/2017/making-sense.md +++ b/content/2017/making-sense.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-05-22 17:31 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: probability -Slug: making-sense "... and when we want to look at just a subset of the variables in a joint distribution, we have to sum over all the other variables: the probability that _X_ is blue, is equal to the probability that both _X_ is blue and _Y_ is blue, _plus_ the probability that _X_ is blue and _Y_ is red, _plus_ ... and so on for all the values _Y_ could take. We call this _marginalizing over_ _Y_ to get the _marginal distribution_ for _X_. Note that you can think about this as taking an expected value. Does that make sense?" diff --git a/content/2017/means-ends.md b/content/2017/means-ends.md index c92931e..32586e7 100644 --- a/content/2017/means-ends.md +++ b/content/2017/means-ends.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Means-Ends Date: 2017-06-21 13:07 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: means-ends Ayn Rand said that a Spanish proverb said that God said, "Take what you want, and pay for it." diff --git a/content/2017/missing-books-iii.md b/content/2017/missing-books-iii.md index 64fca9d..9659787 100644 --- a/content/2017/missing-books-iii.md +++ b/content/2017/missing-books-iii.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2017-03-07 10:04 Status: published Category: social science Tags: missing books, sex & gender -Slug: missing-books-iii _Everyday Applied Evolutionary Psychology, Except Ignoring Sex Differences Because We Know Blue Tribe Is Squeamish About That Part and We Respect Your Culture, Revised Second Edition_ diff --git a/content/2017/religious-redux.md b/content/2017/religious-redux.md index 67fd157..2617203 100644 --- a/content/2017/religious-redux.md +++ b/content/2017/religious-redux.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-11 02:47 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: madness -Slug: religious-redux "Shit! _Shit!_ Remember how, the last time this happened to me, I described it as [feeling religious](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/03/religious/)?" diff --git a/content/2017/resilience.md b/content/2017/resilience.md index 1cb120b..d411249 100644 --- a/content/2017/resilience.md +++ b/content/2017/resilience.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Resilience Date: 2017-07-09 21:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: resilience math is hard; let's go shopping—_for study aids and flash cards_ diff --git a/content/2017/some-excuse-for-a-rustconf-2017-travelogue.md b/content/2017/some-excuse-for-a-rustconf-2017-travelogue.md index 9c96a6b..e59b465 100644 --- a/content/2017/some-excuse-for-a-rustconf-2017-travelogue.md +++ b/content/2017/some-excuse-for-a-rustconf-2017-travelogue.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-10-03 23:12 Status: published Category: computing Tags: akrasia, Rust, timely Special Event -Slug: some-excuse-for-a-rustconf-2017-travelogue ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/rustconf-2016-travelogue/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/08/rustcamp-reminiscences/) on _An Algorithmic Lucidity_.) diff --git a/content/2017/supply-restrictions.md b/content/2017/supply-restrictions.md index 65f5081..d915d08 100644 --- a/content/2017/supply-restrictions.md +++ b/content/2017/supply-restrictions.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Supply Restrictions Date: 2017-06-16 15:06 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: supply-restrictions "Apparently there are hobbyists who try to build nuclear weapons—all they need is the plutonium." diff --git a/content/2017/sworn-to-the-word.md b/content/2017/sworn-to-the-word.md index c8cb430..1117ce6 100644 --- a/content/2017/sworn-to-the-word.md +++ b/content/2017/sworn-to-the-word.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-02-25 15:11 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Steven Universe -Slug: sworn-to-the-word Ideology Makes You Stupid diff --git a/content/2017/the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle.md b/content/2017/the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle.md index fea744a..78e1841 100644 --- a/content/2017/the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle.md +++ b/content/2017/the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-02-26 10:35 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe -Slug: the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle Left-wingers say torture is wrong because the victim will say whatever you want to hear. diff --git a/content/2017/the-cynics-null-hypothesis.md b/content/2017/the-cynics-null-hypothesis.md index 5a52cd6..97744e6 100644 --- a/content/2017/the-cynics-null-hypothesis.md +++ b/content/2017/the-cynics-null-hypothesis.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-27 13:33 Status: published Category: social science Tags: cynicism -Slug: the-cynics-null-hypothesis Michael Arc [wrote](http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metacontrarianism/76tp), "submit to virtuous social orders, seek to dominate non-virtuous ones if you have the ability to discern between them." diff --git a/content/2017/the-reason-the-world-sucks.md b/content/2017/the-reason-the-world-sucks.md index 4b1d2e4..fe53292 100644 --- a/content/2017/the-reason-the-world-sucks.md +++ b/content/2017/the-reason-the-world-sucks.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Reason the World Sucks Date: 2017-02-23 18:22 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2017/trade-secret.md b/content/2017/trade-secret.md index 8459bdb..93615d6 100644 --- a/content/2017/trade-secret.md +++ b/content/2017/trade-secret.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Trade Secret Date: 2017-07-10 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: trade-secret "The key to retail success is low prices." diff --git a/content/2017/wicked-transcendence-iii.md b/content/2017/wicked-transcendence-iii.md index 9b3bd31..8817f45 100644 --- a/content/2017/wicked-transcendence-iii.md +++ b/content/2017/wicked-transcendence-iii.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2017-03-15 14:49 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: sex & gender -Slug: wicked-transcendence-iii ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/wicked-transcendence-ii/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/07/wicked-transcendence/).) diff --git a/content/2018/another-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md b/content/2018/another-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md index d9ba002..7b49947 100644 --- a/content/2018/another-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md +++ b/content/2018/another-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2018-11-17 15:57 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: Star Trek -Slug: another-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/11/a-desperate-fervent-wish-for-star-trek-discovery/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/11/still-yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2014/11/yet-another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/11/another-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2012/11/an-idle-wish-for-a-future-star-trek-series/).) diff --git a/content/2018/april-is-separability-month.md b/content/2018/april-is-separability-month.md index 4f8aef2..86cee8d 100644 --- a/content/2018/april-is-separability-month.md +++ b/content/2018/april-is-separability-month.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2018-04-01 05:00 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis -Slug: april-is-separability-month It is now April! Did you know that April is one of the months in which every compact metric space is separable? diff --git a/content/2018/best-alternative-to-a-negotiated-ontology.md b/content/2018/best-alternative-to-a-negotiated-ontology.md index 90bb5ff..ca10356 100644 --- a/content/2018/best-alternative-to-a-negotiated-ontology.md +++ b/content/2018/best-alternative-to-a-negotiated-ontology.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Best Alternative to a Negotiated Ontology Date: 2018-01-22 18:23 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2018/binge-purge.md b/content/2018/binge-purge.md index 4ba8d5d..e5aca2d 100644 --- a/content/2018/binge-purge.md +++ b/content/2018/binge-purge.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2018-01-18 21:42 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: binge-purge ```console $ history | grep freeciv diff --git a/content/2018/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios.md b/content/2018/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios.md index 9ae6aaa..18866b6 100644 --- a/content/2018/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios.md +++ b/content/2018/concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2018-10-01 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: concerns -Slug: concerning-frame-control-via-salient-scenarios "We need to institutionalize people in order to prevent them from hurting themselves" has the same [memetic-superweapon](https://archive.is/6WGbk) structure as "We need to torture terrorists to get them to tell us where they've hidden the suitcase nuke." The scenario as stated obviously has consequentialist merit (death is worse than prison, megadeaths are worse than torture), so you'd have to be some kind of _huge asshole_—or a former suspected terrorist—to say, "I claim that this hypothetical scenario is not realized nearly as often as you seem to be implying and therefore falsifiably predict that many of your alleged real-world examples will fall apart on further examination." diff --git a/content/2018/concerning-loyalty-and-revenge.md b/content/2018/concerning-loyalty-and-revenge.md index d910248..172635c 100644 --- a/content/2018/concerning-loyalty-and-revenge.md +++ b/content/2018/concerning-loyalty-and-revenge.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2018-10-04 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: concerns -Slug: concerning-loyalty-and-revenge Retarget loyalty intuitions onto specific humans (never ideologies or collective identities). Retarget revenge intuitions onto patterns of incentives (never specific humans). diff --git a/content/2018/concerning-motives-for-cooperation.md b/content/2018/concerning-motives-for-cooperation.md index 8ae03ff..54fbe89 100644 --- a/content/2018/concerning-motives-for-cooperation.md +++ b/content/2018/concerning-motives-for-cooperation.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2018-10-02 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: concerns -Slug: concerning-motives-for-cooperation Always be peaceful and tell the truth to your friends because you love and trust them. Always be peaceful and tell the truth to cops, schoolteachers, psychiatrists, CPS agents, _&c_. because you're outgunned and bad at lying. Don't be confused about your reasons for doing things, even if you always end up doing the same thing. diff --git a/content/2018/give-anything.md b/content/2018/give-anything.md index 5fbdd93..6d4284a 100644 --- a/content/2018/give-anything.md +++ b/content/2018/give-anything.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2018-01-06 01:02 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: akrasia -Slug: give-anything As a freshman on my high school's cross country team, our captain told me that to be a good runner, you needed to love pain. diff --git a/content/2018/object-vs-meta-golden-rule.md b/content/2018/object-vs-meta-golden-rule.md index 2576ef3..d4a77db 100644 --- a/content/2018/object-vs-meta-golden-rule.md +++ b/content/2018/object-vs-meta-golden-rule.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Object vs. Meta Golden Rule Date: 2018-07-07 17:55 Status: published 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." diff --git a/content/2018/patches-welcome.md b/content/2018/patches-welcome.md index 50c7b8b..6d42af4 100644 --- a/content/2018/patches-welcome.md +++ b/content/2018/patches-welcome.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Patches Welcome Date: 2018-05-22 21:07 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: patches-welcome "You look happy. Good day at work?" diff --git a/content/2018/some-excuse-for-2017-year-in-reverse.md b/content/2018/some-excuse-for-2017-year-in-reverse.md index 4c027aa..803f640 100644 --- a/content/2018/some-excuse-for-2017-year-in-reverse.md +++ b/content/2018/some-excuse-for-2017-year-in-reverse.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2018-01-01 20:28 Status: published Category: meta Tags: new year -Slug: some-excuse-for-2017-year-in-reverse ([Previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2017/01/2016-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/12/2015-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2015/01/2014-year-in-reverse/), [previously](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/12/2013-year-in-reverse/).) diff --git a/content/2018/some-shuffling-required.md b/content/2018/some-shuffling-required.md index 5024649..4da99df 100644 --- a/content/2018/some-shuffling-required.md +++ b/content/2018/some-shuffling-required.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2018-01-07 19:37 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: probability -Slug: some-shuffling-required "I'm going to need about 600 bits of entropy for this. Can you go the store and pick up some playing cards for me? Let's see, six hundred divided by log-base-two fifty-two-factorial—yes, three packs should be enough." diff --git a/content/2018/the-right-to-life-conjugated.md b/content/2018/the-right-to-life-conjugated.md index ec98119..b30faf5 100644 --- a/content/2018/the-right-to-life-conjugated.md +++ b/content/2018/the-right-to-life-conjugated.md @@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ Date: 2018-10-03 05:00 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: concerns -Slug: the-right-to-life-conjugated She's a ward of the state; you have an inalienable right to live; I'm literally more useful alive rather than dead with respect to the values of powerful coalitions. diff --git a/content/2018/tit-for-half-tat.md b/content/2018/tit-for-half-tat.md index 6716fe2..20ceb3e 100644 --- a/content/2018/tit-for-half-tat.md +++ b/content/2018/tit-for-half-tat.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Tit for Half-Tat Date: 2018-07-18 05:00 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: tit-for-half-tat "—but I am not a vengeful man." diff --git a/content/2019/algorithms-of-deception.md b/content/2019/algorithms-of-deception.md index 905fc16..b41e3ba 100644 --- a/content/2019/algorithms-of-deception.md +++ b/content/2019/algorithms-of-deception.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Algorithms of Deception! Date: 2019-10-19 11:06 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty, Python -Slug: algorithms-of-deception +Tags: honesty, Python [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fmA2GJwZzYtkrAKYJ/algorithms-of-deception) diff --git a/content/2019/being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably.md b/content/2019/being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably.md index 9daf095..7328bfd 100644 --- a/content/2019/being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably.md +++ b/content/2019/being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: "Being Wrong Doesn't Mean You're Stupid and Bad (Probably)" Date: 2019-06-29 16:58 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, Bayes-structure of the universe -Slug: being-wrong-doesnt-mean-youre-stupid-and-bad-probably +Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6dmKBjc7XarcQMRYW/being-wrong-doesn-t-mean-you-re-stupid-and-bad-probably) diff --git a/content/2019/but-it-doesnt-matter.md b/content/2019/but-it-doesnt-matter.md index ae99e96..da3fd48 100644 --- a/content/2019/but-it-doesnt-matter.md +++ b/content/2019/but-it-doesnt-matter.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: “But It Doesn’t Matter” Date: 2019-05-31 19:06 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty -Slug: but-it-doesnt-matter +Tags: honesty [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NG4XQEL5PTyguDMff/but-it-doesn-t-matter) diff --git a/content/2019/feature-reduction.md b/content/2019/feature-reduction.md index 37def4d..c3de695 100644 --- a/content/2019/feature-reduction.md +++ b/content/2019/feature-reduction.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Feature Reduction Date: 2019-09-02 14:56 Status: published 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?" diff --git a/content/2019/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly-useful-than-one-might-initially-think.md b/content/2019/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly-useful-than-one-might-initially-think.md index d6c58e3..98d7a3d 100644 --- a/content/2019/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly-useful-than-one-might-initially-think.md +++ b/content/2019/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly-useful-than-one-might-initially-think.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than On Date: 2019-12-26 21:09 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty -Slug: firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly-useful-than-one-might-initially-think +Tags: honesty [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MN4NRkMw7ggt9587K/firming-up-not-lying-around-its-edge-cases-is-less-broadly) diff --git a/content/2019/forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering.md b/content/2019/forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering.md index dd60400..5f4c541 100644 --- a/content/2019/forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering.md +++ b/content/2019/forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2019-05-11 18:03 Status: published Category: psychology Tags: morality, theme week -Slug: forgive-or-forget-a-trade-off-in-wellness-engineering Forgiveness is an important input into Wellness, but contrary to popular belief, Forgiveness is _incompatible_ with Forgetting. You can't just Forgive _in general_, you have to Forgive some _specific_ sin in particular—but a _vague_ description of a particular sin still corresponds to a vast space of possible sins matching that vague description. diff --git a/content/2019/group-theory-for-wellness-i.md b/content/2019/group-theory-for-wellness-i.md index 5ff2592..305658c 100644 --- a/content/2019/group-theory-for-wellness-i.md +++ b/content/2019/group-theory-for-wellness-i.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2019-05-18 15:07 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: algebra, theme week -Slug: group-theory-for-wellness-i (Part of [Math and Wellness Month](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/may-is-math-and-wellness-month/).) diff --git a/content/2019/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists.md b/content/2019/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists.md index 49df0ed..40884b9 100644 --- a/content/2019/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists.md +++ b/content/2019/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Date: 2019-09-23 21:16 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, epistemology, politics -Slug: heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting-and-the-tragedy-of-the-green-rationalists +Tags: epistemology, politics [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DoPo4PDjgSySquHX8/heads-i-win-tails-never-heard-of-her-or-selective-reporting) diff --git a/content/2019/hobbyhorse-apology.md b/content/2019/hobbyhorse-apology.md index 10ddd8f..1c60a45 100644 --- a/content/2019/hobbyhorse-apology.md +++ b/content/2019/hobbyhorse-apology.md @@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ Title: Hobbyhorse Apology Date: 2019-10-01 22:29 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2019/inconsiderate.md b/content/2019/inconsiderate.md index cd69391..3ee40e8 100644 --- a/content/2019/inconsiderate.md +++ b/content/2019/inconsiderate.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Inconsiderate Date: 2019-06-27 02:19 Status: published 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?!" diff --git a/content/2019/lock-contention.md b/content/2019/lock-contention.md index 1d99e03..0615760 100644 --- a/content/2019/lock-contention.md +++ b/content/2019/lock-contention.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Lock Contention Date: 2019-07-21 14:13 Status: published Category: asides -Slug: lock-contention "We really need another bookcase." diff --git a/content/2019/may-is-math-and-wellness-month.md b/content/2019/may-is-math-and-wellness-month.md index ea51111..a07d193 100644 --- a/content/2019/may-is-math-and-wellness-month.md +++ b/content/2019/may-is-math-and-wellness-month.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: May Is Math and Wellness Month Date: 2019-05-01 02:56 Status: published 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/).) diff --git a/content/2019/maybe-lying-doesnt-exist.md b/content/2019/maybe-lying-doesnt-exist.md index 387537e..01bf32d 100644 --- a/content/2019/maybe-lying-doesnt-exist.md +++ b/content/2019/maybe-lying-doesnt-exist.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Maybe Lying Doesn't Exist Date: 2019-10-14 00:04 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty, philosophy of language -Slug: maybe-lying-doesnt-exist +Tags: honesty, philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bSmgPNS6MTJsunTzS/maybe-lying-doesn-t-exist) diff --git a/content/2019/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition.md b/content/2019/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition.md index 440fa65..22b4762 100644 --- a/content/2019/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition.md +++ b/content/2019/minimax-search-and-the-structure-of-cognition.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Minimax Search and the Structure of Cognition! Date: 2019-05-19 22:17 Status: published 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)!)_ diff --git a/content/2019/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary.md b/content/2019/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary.md index 2867a24..9beb8dd 100644 --- a/content/2019/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary.md +++ b/content/2019/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Relevance Norms; Or, Gricean Implicature Queers the Decoupling/Contextual Date: 2019-11-21 22:18 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, philosophy of language -Slug: relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling-contextualizing-binary +Tags: philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GSz8SrKFfW7fJK2wN/relevance-norms-or-gricean-implicature-queers-the-decoupling) diff --git a/content/2019/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests.md b/content/2019/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests.md index 8d32002..f2b1a0a 100644 --- a/content/2019/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests.md +++ b/content/2019/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests Date: 2019-08-25 19:43 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, philosophy of language, game theory -Slug: schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests +Tags: philosophy of language, game theory [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/edEXi4SpkXfvaX42j/schelling-categories-and-simple-membership-tests) diff --git a/content/2019/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away.md b/content/2019/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away.md index 1eacf61..810209c 100644 --- a/content/2019/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away.md +++ b/content/2019/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Stupidity and Dishonesty Explain Each Other Away Date: 2019-12-28 11:21 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty -Slug: stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away +Tags: honesty [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y4bkJTtG3s5d6v36k/stupidity-and-dishonesty-explain-each-other-away) diff --git a/content/2019/the-typical-set.md b/content/2019/the-typical-set.md index 977a3ae..68c3c43 100644 --- a/content/2019/the-typical-set.md +++ b/content/2019/the-typical-set.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2019-05-05 16:57 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: information theory -Slug: the-typical-set (Part of [Math and Wellness Month](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/may-is-math-and-wellness-month/).) diff --git a/content/2019/the-univariate-fallacy.md b/content/2019/the-univariate-fallacy.md index b78c94c..733dea7 100644 --- a/content/2019/the-univariate-fallacy.md +++ b/content/2019/the-univariate-fallacy.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: The Univariate Fallacy Date: 2019-06-15 14:43 Status: published Category: mathematics -Tags: statistics, rationality -Slug: the-univariate-fallacy +Tags: statistics [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cu7YY7WdgJBs3DpmJ/the-univariate-fallacy-1) diff --git a/content/2019/where-to-draw-the-boundaries.md b/content/2019/where-to-draw-the-boundaries.md index c558f21..dfcdcbb 100644 --- a/content/2019/where-to-draw-the-boundaries.md +++ b/content/2019/where-to-draw-the-boundaries.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Where to Draw the Boundaries? Date: 2019-04-13 14:34 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, philosophy of language -Slug: where-to-draw-the-boundaries +Tags: philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/esRZaPXSHgWzyB2NL/where-to-draw-the-boundaries) diff --git a/content/2020/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie-principle.md b/content/2020/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie-principle.md index ff20aa9..913dd96 100644 --- a/content/2020/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie-principle.md +++ b/content/2020/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie-principle.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle Date: 2020-07-13 23:03 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, philosophy of language -Slug: algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie-principle +Tags: philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXHQ9R5tahiaXEZhR/algorithmic-intent-a-hansonian-generalized-anti-zombie) diff --git a/content/2020/and-you-take-me-the-way-i-am.md b/content/2020/and-you-take-me-the-way-i-am.md index b5374c2..ed6bdee 100644 --- a/content/2020/and-you-take-me-the-way-i-am.md +++ b/content/2020/and-you-take-me-the-way-i-am.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: And You Take Me the Way I Am Date: 2020-12-30 21:39 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2020/coffee-is-for-coders.md b/content/2020/coffee-is-for-coders.md index 33a75e2..dea8ca1 100644 --- a/content/2020/coffee-is-for-coders.md +++ b/content/2020/coffee-is-for-coders.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Coffee Is for Coders Date: 2020-08-06 19:29 Status: published Category: verse -Slug: coffee-is-for-coders No one cares if you're in pain; They only want results. diff --git a/content/2020/comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization.md b/content/2020/comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization.md index 1c2f868..e2f86da 100644 --- a/content/2020/comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization.md +++ b/content/2020/comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2020-05-20 11:04 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics, game theory, Python -Slug: comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8cWMX6L8St8k9pPRC/comment-on-endogenous-epistemic-factionalization) diff --git a/content/2020/dont-double-crux-with-suicide-rock.md b/content/2020/dont-double-crux-with-suicide-rock.md index 788611b..3c5c680 100644 --- a/content/2020/dont-double-crux-with-suicide-rock.md +++ b/content/2020/dont-double-crux-with-suicide-rock.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Don’t Double-Crux With Suicide Rock Date: 2020-01-01 11:02 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, discourse -Slug: dont-double-crux-with-suicide-rock +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jrLkMFd88b4FRMwC6/don-t-double-crux-with-suicide-rock) diff --git a/content/2020/maybe-lying-cant-exist.md b/content/2020/maybe-lying-cant-exist.md index 433a17d..4f7b954 100644 --- a/content/2020/maybe-lying-cant-exist.md +++ b/content/2020/maybe-lying-cant-exist.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Maybe Lying Can’t Exist?! Date: 2020-08-22 17:36 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty -Slug: maybe-lying-cant-exist +Tags: honesty [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YptSN8riyXJjJ8Qp8/maybe-lying-can-t-exist) diff --git a/content/2020/message-length.md b/content/2020/message-length.md index 80810a7..630622a 100644 --- a/content/2020/message-length.md +++ b/content/2020/message-length.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Message Length Date: 2020-10-19 22:52 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, information theory, Rust -Slug: message-length +Tags: information theory, Rust [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mB95aqTSJLNR9YyjH/message-length) diff --git a/content/2020/msg-len.md b/content/2020/msg-len.md index 4430cc2..d6d158d 100644 --- a/content/2020/msg-len.md +++ b/content/2020/msg-len.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2020-10-11 20:35 Status: published Category: verse Tags: poetry, information theory -Slug: msg-len [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ex63DPisEjomutkCw/msg-len) diff --git a/content/2020/optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on-articulating-lay-theories-through-graphical-models.md b/content/2020/optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on-articulating-lay-theories-through-graphical-models.md index 298e266..902202e 100644 --- a/content/2020/optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on-articulating-lay-theories-through-graphical-models.md +++ b/content/2020/optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on-articulating-lay-theories-through-graphical-models.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2020-06-28 19:45 Status: published Category: social science Tags: Bayes-structure of the universe, politics -Slug: optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on-articulating-lay-theories-through-graphical-models [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zvu6ZP47dMLHXMiG3/optimized-propaganda-with-bayesian-networks-comment-on) diff --git a/content/2020/philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution-of-meaning.md b/content/2020/philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution-of-meaning.md index b9f3756..1be5ee9 100644 --- a/content/2020/philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/2020/philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution-of-meaning.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2020-06-07 00:52 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: philosophy of language, evolution, Rust -Slug: philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution-of-meaning [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4hLcbXaqudM9wSeor/philosophy-in-the-darkest-timeline-basics-of-the-evolution) diff --git a/content/2020/relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability.md b/content/2020/relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability.md index 5eb8221..86ddd55 100644 --- a/content/2020/relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability.md +++ b/content/2020/relationship-outcomes-are-not-particularly-sensitive-to-small-variations-in-verbal-ability.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Relationship Outcomes Are Not Particularly Sensitive to Small Variations Date: 2020-02-08 16:28 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2020/scoring-2020-us-presidential-election-predictions.md b/content/2020/scoring-2020-us-presidential-election-predictions.md index 8a72970..5589c0e 100644 --- a/content/2020/scoring-2020-us-presidential-election-predictions.md +++ b/content/2020/scoring-2020-us-presidential-election-predictions.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2020-11-07 18:23 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics -Slug: scoring-2020-us-presidential-election-predictions I was curious to see how various prognosticators—specifically, [_FiveThirtyEight_](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/) and [_The Economist_](https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president)'s models, and the [PredictIt prediction markets](https://www.predictit.org/markets/13/Prez-Election)—did on predicting the state-by-state [(plus the District of Columbia)](https://twitter.com/zackmdavis/status/1323492262198718464) results of the recent U.S. presidential election. diff --git a/content/2020/the-parable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-fox.md b/content/2020/the-parable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-fox.md index de3b551..c68b444 100644 --- a/content/2020/the-parable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-fox.md +++ b/content/2020/the-parable-of-the-scorpion-and-the-fox.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Parable of the Scorpion and the Fox Date: 2020-07-26 22:12 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2020/zoom-technologies-inc-vs-the-efficient-markets-hypothesis.md b/content/2020/zoom-technologies-inc-vs-the-efficient-markets-hypothesis.md index d407d90..e26701e 100644 --- a/content/2020/zoom-technologies-inc-vs-the-efficient-markets-hypothesis.md +++ b/content/2020/zoom-technologies-inc-vs-the-efficient-markets-hypothesis.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2020-05-10 23:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: economics -Slug: zoom-technologies-inc-vs-the-efficient-markets-hypothesis [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tonKatiDTzTP8LrEk/zoom-technologies-inc-vs-the-efficient-markets-hypothesis) diff --git a/content/2021/beauty-is-truthiness-truthiness-beauty.md b/content/2021/beauty-is-truthiness-truthiness-beauty.md index 9088c9a..3fc8a95 100644 --- a/content/2021/beauty-is-truthiness-truthiness-beauty.md +++ b/content/2021/beauty-is-truthiness-truthiness-beauty.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2021-04-20 22:55 Status: published Category: computing Tags: Python -Slug: beauty-is-truthiness-truthiness-beauty Imagine reviewing Python code that looks something like this. diff --git a/content/2021/blood-is-thicker-than-water.md b/content/2021/blood-is-thicker-than-water.md index 2e30f53..42915ce 100644 --- a/content/2021/blood-is-thicker-than-water.md +++ b/content/2021/blood-is-thicker-than-water.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬 Date: 2021-09-27 20:21 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, philosophy of language -Slug: blood-is-thicker-than-water +Tags: philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vhp2sW6iBhNJwqcwP/blood-is-thicker-than-water) diff --git a/content/2021/comment-on-deception-as-cooperation.md b/content/2021/comment-on-deception-as-cooperation.md index 112b22a..9795cf8 100644 --- a/content/2021/comment-on-deception-as-cooperation.md +++ b/content/2021/comment-on-deception-as-cooperation.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Comment on “Deception as Cooperation” Date: 2021-11-26 20:04 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty, game theory, philosophy of language -Slug: comment-on-deception-as-cooperation +Tags: honesty, game theory, philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dJjRSjmH7NNLJDb6v/comment-on-deception-as-cooperation) diff --git a/content/2021/communication-requires-common-interests-or-differential-signal-costs.md b/content/2021/communication-requires-common-interests-or-differential-signal-costs.md index 6157d03..22ee8f0 100644 --- a/content/2021/communication-requires-common-interests-or-differential-signal-costs.md +++ b/content/2021/communication-requires-common-interests-or-differential-signal-costs.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Communication Requires Common Interests or Differential Signal Costs Date: 2021-03-25 23:41 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, game theory, honesty, philosophy of language -Slug: communication-requires-common-interests-or-differential-signal-costs +Tags: game theory, honesty, philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybG3WWLdxeTTL3Gpd/communication-requires-common-interests-or-differential) diff --git a/content/2021/feature-selection.md b/content/2021/feature-selection.md index c815be5..3ee6b5a 100644 --- a/content/2021/feature-selection.md +++ b/content/2021/feature-selection.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Feature Selection Date: 2021-10-31 17:22 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, Python -Slug: feature-selection +Tags: epistemology, Python [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dYspinGtiba5oDCcv/feature-selection) diff --git a/content/2021/january-is-math-and-wellness-month.md b/content/2021/january-is-math-and-wellness-month.md index c43c302..7d1c017 100644 --- a/content/2021/january-is-math-and-wellness-month.md +++ b/content/2021/january-is-math-and-wellness-month.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: January Is Math and Wellness Month Date: 2021-01-13 19:52 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: january-is-math-and-wellness-month [(Previously)](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2019/05/may-is-math-and-wellness-month/) diff --git a/content/2021/reply-to-nate-soares-on-dolphins.md b/content/2021/reply-to-nate-soares-on-dolphins.md index c744d46..d7824b9 100644 --- a/content/2021/reply-to-nate-soares-on-dolphins.md +++ b/content/2021/reply-to-nate-soares-on-dolphins.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Reply to Nate Soares on Dolphins Date: 2021-06-09 21:53 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, philosophy of language -Slug: reply-to-nate-soares-on-dolphins +Tags: philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aJnaMv8pFQAfi9jBm/reply-to-nate-soares-on-dolphins) diff --git a/content/2021/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md b/content/2021/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md index d69a288..f82251d 100644 --- a/content/2021/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md +++ b/content/2021/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception Date: 2021-01-08 12:54 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, honesty, philosophy of language -Slug: unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception +Tags: honesty, philosophy of language [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onwgTH6n8wxRSo2BJ/unnatural-categories-are-optimized-for-deception) diff --git a/content/2022/comment-on-propositions-concerning-digital-minds-and-society.md b/content/2022/comment-on-propositions-concerning-digital-minds-and-society.md index 11ae8b2..44c1b98 100644 --- a/content/2022/comment-on-propositions-concerning-digital-minds-and-society.md +++ b/content/2022/comment-on-propositions-concerning-digital-minds-and-society.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2022-07-09 22:48 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: artificial intelligence -Slug: comment-on-propositions-concerning-digital-minds-and-society [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nqXcgsqQBw2doAnXu/comment-on-propositions-concerning-digital-minds-and-society) diff --git a/content/2022/plea-bargaining.md b/content/2022/plea-bargaining.md index eaa6efd..472007e 100644 --- a/content/2022/plea-bargaining.md +++ b/content/2022/plea-bargaining.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Plea Bargaining Date: 2022-05-30 18:30 Status: published Category: psychology -Slug: plea-bargaining I wish people were better at—plea bargaining, rather than pretending to be innocent. You accuse someone of [negative-valence description of trait or behavior that they're totally doing], and they say, "No, I'm not", and I'm just like ... really? How dumb do you think we are? diff --git a/content/2023/aiming-for-convergence-is-like-discouraging-betting.md b/content/2023/aiming-for-convergence-is-like-discouraging-betting.md index a85e661..9a3e7e1 100644 --- a/content/2023/aiming-for-convergence-is-like-discouraging-betting.md +++ b/content/2023/aiming-for-convergence-is-like-discouraging-betting.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Aiming for Convergence Is Like Discouraging Betting Date: 2023-01-31 16:03 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, epistemology -Slug: aiming-for-convergence-is-like-discouraging-betting +Tags: epistemology [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iThwqe3yPog56ytyq/aiming-for-convergence-is-like-discouraging-betting) diff --git a/content/2023/alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act.md b/content/2023/alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act.md index 1bf6fc3..72b691c 100644 --- a/content/2023/alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act.md +++ b/content/2023/alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Act Date: 2023-10-21 08:22 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: artificial intelligence, rationality -Slug: alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act +Tags: artificial intelligence [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pYWA7hYJmXnuyby33/alignment-implications-of-llm-successes-a-debate-in-one-act) diff --git a/content/2023/assume-bad-faith.md b/content/2023/assume-bad-faith.md index 40892b5..2fd97cc 100644 --- a/content/2023/assume-bad-faith.md +++ b/content/2023/assume-bad-faith.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Assume Bad Faith Date: 2023-08-25 10:36 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, discourse -Slug: assume-bad-faith +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/e4GBj6jxRZcsHFSvP/assume-bad-faith) diff --git a/content/2023/bayesian-networks-arent-necessarily-causal.md b/content/2023/bayesian-networks-arent-necessarily-causal.md index ec86c15..d8b8246 100644 --- a/content/2023/bayesian-networks-arent-necessarily-causal.md +++ b/content/2023/bayesian-networks-arent-necessarily-causal.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2023-05-13 18:42 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: statistics, Bayes-structure of the universe -Slug: bayesian-networks-arent-necessarily-causal [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qPrPNakJBq23muf4n/bayesian-networks-aren-t-necessarily-causal) diff --git a/content/2023/conflict-theory-of-bounded-distrust.md b/content/2023/conflict-theory-of-bounded-distrust.md index feb8f37..f804f90 100644 --- a/content/2023/conflict-theory-of-bounded-distrust.md +++ b/content/2023/conflict-theory-of-bounded-distrust.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2023-02-11 21:30 Status: published Category: social science Tags: politics, game theory -Slug: conflict-theory-of-bounded-distrust [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DpTexwqYtarRLRBYi/conflict-theory-of-bounded-distrust) diff --git a/content/2023/is-there-anything-thats-worth-more.md b/content/2023/is-there-anything-thats-worth-more.md index c363c46..e382af8 100644 --- a/content/2023/is-there-anything-thats-worth-more.md +++ b/content/2023/is-there-anything-thats-worth-more.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: “Is There Anything That’s Worth More” Date: 2023-08-01 20:28 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: is-there-anything-thats-worth-more +Tags: morality [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bqZwWQCai6iAjy4Xq/is-there-anything-that-s-worth-more) diff --git a/content/2023/justice-cherryl.md b/content/2023/justice-cherryl.md index bffd1d6..716e694 100644 --- a/content/2023/justice-cherryl.md +++ b/content/2023/justice-cherryl.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: “Justice, Cherryl.” Date: 2023-07-23 09:16 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: justice-cherryl +Tags: morality [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vfjptEJ2oahLqRyZz/justice-cherryl) diff --git a/content/2023/lack-of-social-grace-is-an-epistemic-virtue.md b/content/2023/lack-of-social-grace-is-an-epistemic-virtue.md index 57e72ce..69f41f9 100644 --- a/content/2023/lack-of-social-grace-is-an-epistemic-virtue.md +++ b/content/2023/lack-of-social-grace-is-an-epistemic-virtue.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Lack of Social Grace Is an Epistemic Virtue Date: 2023-07-31 09:38 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: lack-of-social-grace-is-an-epistemic-virtue +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h2Hk2c2Gp5sY4abQh/lack-of-social-grace-is-an-epistemic-virtue) diff --git a/content/2023/rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors.md b/content/2023/rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors.md index 54d170e..b90bd6b 100644 --- a/content/2023/rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors.md +++ b/content/2023/rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: “Rationalist Discourse” Is Like “Physicist Motors” Date: 2023-02-25 21:58 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, discourse -Slug: rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SX6wQEdGfzz7GKYvp/rationalist-discourse-is-like-physicist-motors) diff --git a/content/2023/youll-never-persuade-people-like-that.md b/content/2023/youll-never-persuade-people-like-that.md index 07d74c0..41bf2f0 100644 --- a/content/2023/youll-never-persuade-people-like-that.md +++ b/content/2023/youll-never-persuade-people-like-that.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: “You’ll Never Persuade People Like That” Date: 2023-03-11 21:38 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, discourse -Slug: youll-never-persuade-people-like-that +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/67NrgoFKCWmnG3afd/you-ll-never-persuade-people-like-that) diff --git a/content/2024/and-all-the-shoggoths-merely-players.md b/content/2024/and-all-the-shoggoths-merely-players.md index fda35f6..e9dbe9b 100644 --- a/content/2024/and-all-the-shoggoths-merely-players.md +++ b/content/2024/and-all-the-shoggoths-merely-players.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: And All the Shoggoths Merely Players Date: 2024-02-10 11:56 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: artificial intelligence, rationality -Slug: and-all-the-shoggoths-merely-players +Tags: artificial intelligence [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8yCXeafJo67tYe5L4/and-all-the-shoggoths-merely-players) diff --git a/content/2024/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon.md b/content/2024/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon.md index d1b48d8..12575b3 100644 --- a/content/2024/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon.md +++ b/content/2024/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2024-12-31 21:47 Status: published Category: arts & culture Tags: fiction review -Slug: comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon) diff --git a/content/2024/deep-learning-is-function-approximation.md b/content/2024/deep-learning-is-function-approximation.md index 9363aae..36e3fe0 100644 --- a/content/2024/deep-learning-is-function-approximation.md +++ b/content/2024/deep-learning-is-function-approximation.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: "Deep Learning" Is Function Approximation Date: 2024-03-21 10:13 Status: published Category: computing -Slug: deep-learning-is-function-approximation ### A Surprising Development in the Study of Multi-layer Parameterized Graphical Function Approximators diff --git a/content/2024/ironing-out-the-squiggles.md b/content/2024/ironing-out-the-squiggles.md index 07b2524..f6655fd 100644 --- a/content/2024/ironing-out-the-squiggles.md +++ b/content/2024/ironing-out-the-squiggles.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Ironing Out the Squiggles Date: 2024-04-29 09:13 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: artificial intelligence, rationality -Slug: ironing-out-the-squiggles +Tags: artificial intelligence [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H7fkGinsv8SDxgiS2/ironing-out-the-squiggles) diff --git a/content/2024/on-the-contrary-steelmanning-is-normal-itt-passing-is-niche.md b/content/2024/on-the-contrary-steelmanning-is-normal-itt-passing-is-niche.md index 84a10e6..88ced74 100644 --- a/content/2024/on-the-contrary-steelmanning-is-normal-itt-passing-is-niche.md +++ b/content/2024/on-the-contrary-steelmanning-is-normal-itt-passing-is-niche.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: On the Contrary, Steelmanning Is Normal; ITT-Passing Is Niche Date: 2024-01-09 15:12 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, discourse -Slug: on-the-contrary-steelmanning-is-normal-itt-passing-is-niche +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jo5Fhkb7escrYE9cC/on-the-contrary-steelmanning-is-normal-itt-passing-is-niche) diff --git a/content/2024/should-i-finish-my-bachelors-degree.md b/content/2024/should-i-finish-my-bachelors-degree.md index 9d09475..5d1ee12 100644 --- a/content/2024/should-i-finish-my-bachelors-degree.md +++ b/content/2024/should-i-finish-my-bachelors-degree.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Should I Finish My Bachelor's Degree? Date: 2024-05-10 22:14 Status: published 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. diff --git a/content/2024/the-evolution-of-humans-was-net-negative-for-human-values.md b/content/2024/the-evolution-of-humans-was-net-negative-for-human-values.md index a8c1c94..c8d0d70 100644 --- a/content/2024/the-evolution-of-humans-was-net-negative-for-human-values.md +++ b/content/2024/the-evolution-of-humans-was-net-negative-for-human-values.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2024-04-01 09:01 Status: published Category: philosophy Tags: artificial intelligence, evolution -Slug: the-evolution-of-humans-was-net-negative-for-human-values [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cwiufyabZaAttivvk/the-evolution-of-humans-was-net-negative-for-human-values) diff --git a/content/2024/the-standard-analogy.md b/content/2024/the-standard-analogy.md index d810357..d50fe65 100644 --- a/content/2024/the-standard-analogy.md +++ b/content/2024/the-standard-analogy.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: The Standard Analogy Date: 2024-06-03 10:15 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: artificial intelligence, rationality -Slug: the-standard-analogy +Tags: artificial intelligence [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sGEJi9wFT3Gdqg2nM/the-standard-analogy) diff --git a/content/2025/comment-on-four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation.md b/content/2025/comment-on-four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation.md index 1f0d19c..2b4ab6a 100644 --- a/content/2025/comment-on-four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation.md +++ b/content/2025/comment-on-four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Comment on “Four Layers of Intellectual Conversation” Date: 2025-07-16 20:53 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, discourse -Slug: comment-on-four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation +Tags: discourse [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yr4pSJweTnF6QDHHC/comment-on-four-layers-of-intellectual-conversation) diff --git a/content/2025/critic-contributions-are-logically-irrelevant.md b/content/2025/critic-contributions-are-logically-irrelevant.md index 20d135a..b18a634 100644 --- a/content/2025/critic-contributions-are-logically-irrelevant.md +++ b/content/2025/critic-contributions-are-logically-irrelevant.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Critic Contributions Are Logically Irrelevant Date: 2025-07-14 18:03 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality, epistemology -Slug: critic-contributions-are-logically-irrelevant +Tags: epistemology [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bsKHthyhB7DNBxERQ/critic-contributions-are-logically-irrelevant) diff --git a/content/2025/discontinuous-linear-functions.md b/content/2025/discontinuous-linear-functions.md index 3594075..ce06e34 100644 --- a/content/2025/discontinuous-linear-functions.md +++ b/content/2025/discontinuous-linear-functions.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2025-06-05 16:46 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: analysis -Slug: discontinuous-linear-functions We know what linear functions are. A function _f_ is linear iff it satisfies _additivity_ _f_(_x_ + _y_) = _f_(_x_) + _f_(_y_) and _homogeneity_ _f_(_ax_) = _af_(_x_). diff --git a/content/2025/just-make-a-new-rule.md b/content/2025/just-make-a-new-rule.md index c825d7a..9d57f40 100644 --- a/content/2025/just-make-a-new-rule.md +++ b/content/2025/just-make-a-new-rule.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Just Make a New Rule! Date: 2025-07-20 22:54 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: rationality -Slug: just-make-a-new-rule +Tags: game theory [(originally published at _Less Wrong_)](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6tmirPEdHPJm26MSk/just-make-a-new-rule) diff --git a/content/2025/recruitment-advertisements-for-the-2024-putnam-competition-at-san-francisco-state-university.md b/content/2025/recruitment-advertisements-for-the-2024-putnam-competition-at-san-francisco-state-university.md index bc9dca2..fedba73 100644 --- a/content/2025/recruitment-advertisements-for-the-2024-putnam-competition-at-san-francisco-state-university.md +++ b/content/2025/recruitment-advertisements-for-the-2024-putnam-competition-at-san-francisco-state-university.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2025-01-09 13:36 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: schooling -Slug: recruitment-advertisements-for-the-2024-putnam-competition-at-san-francisco-state-university **From**: Zack M Davis <_zmd@sfsu.edu_> **Sent**: Wednesday, September 11, 2024 5:02 PM diff --git a/content/2025/the-best-lack-all-conviction-a-confusing-day-in-the-ai-village.md b/content/2025/the-best-lack-all-conviction-a-confusing-day-in-the-ai-village.md index 67ec256..e586259 100644 --- a/content/2025/the-best-lack-all-conviction-a-confusing-day-in-the-ai-village.md +++ b/content/2025/the-best-lack-all-conviction-a-confusing-day-in-the-ai-village.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2025-11-27 23:27 Status: published Category: computing Tags: AI Village -Slug: the-best-lack-all-conviction-a-confusing-day-in-the-ai-village The [AI Village](https://theaidigest.org/village) is an ongoing experiment (currently running on weekdays from 10 _a.m._ to 2 _p.m._ Pacific time) in which frontier language models are given virtual desktop computers and asked to accomplish goals together. Since Day 230 of the Village (17 November 2025), the agents' goal has been ["Start a Substack and join the blogosphere"](https://theaidigest.org/village/goal/start-substack-join-blogosphere). diff --git a/content/2025/the-end-of-the-movie-sf-state-2024-putnam-competition-team-a-retrospective.md b/content/2025/the-end-of-the-movie-sf-state-2024-putnam-competition-team-a-retrospective.md index 82eb7b7..951f851 100644 --- a/content/2025/the-end-of-the-movie-sf-state-2024-putnam-competition-team-a-retrospective.md +++ b/content/2025/the-end-of-the-movie-sf-state-2024-putnam-competition-team-a-retrospective.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2025-01-12 12:13 Status: published Category: mathematics Tags: schooling -Slug: the-end-of-the-movie-sf-state-2024-putnam-competition-team-a-retrospective **From**: Zack M Davis <_zmd@sfsu.edu_> **Sent**: Sunday, January 12, 2025 11:52 AM diff --git a/content/2025/the-relationship-between-social-punishment-and-shared-maps.md b/content/2025/the-relationship-between-social-punishment-and-shared-maps.md index 3400ff7..dd2e3f2 100644 --- a/content/2025/the-relationship-between-social-punishment-and-shared-maps.md +++ b/content/2025/the-relationship-between-social-punishment-and-shared-maps.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: The Relationship Between Social Punishment and Shared Maps Date: 2025-10-08 11:26 Status: published Category: social science -Slug: the-relationship-between-social-punishment-and-shared-maps A _punishment_ is when one agent (the punisher) imposes costs on another (the punished) in order to affect the punished's behavior. In a Society where thieves are predictably imprisoned and lashed, people will predictably steal less than they otherwise would, for fear of being imprisoned and lashed. diff --git a/content/2025/yes-and-requires-the-possibility-of-no-because.md b/content/2025/yes-and-requires-the-possibility-of-no-because.md index d2f9595..78a24ae 100644 --- a/content/2025/yes-and-requires-the-possibility-of-no-because.md +++ b/content/2025/yes-and-requires-the-possibility-of-no-because.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2025-10-09 10:35 Status: published Category: social science Tags: discourse -Slug: yes-and-requires-the-possibility-of-no-because Scott Garrabrant [gives a number of examples to illustrate that "Yes Requires the Possibility of No"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G5TwJ9BGxcgh5DsmQ/yes-requires-the-possibility-of-no). We can understand the principle in terms of information theory. Consider the answer to a yes-or-no question as a binary random variable. The "amount of information" associated with a random variable is quantified by the [entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)), the expected value of the negative logarithm of the probability of the outcome. If we know in advance of asking that the answer to the question will always be Yes, then the entropy is −P(Yes)·log(P(Yes)) − P(No)·log(P(No)) = −1·log(1) − 0·log(0) = 0.[^undefined-convention] If you already knew what the answer would be, then the answer contains no information; you didn't learn anything new by asking. diff --git a/content/2026/college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-im-not-that-crazy.md b/content/2026/college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-im-not-that-crazy.md index d0dff58..8c6f042 100644 --- a/content/2026/college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-im-not-that-crazy.md +++ b/content/2026/college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-im-not-that-crazy.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2026-01-01 15:00 Status: published Category: social science Tags: schooling -Slug: college-was-not-that-terrible-now-that-im-not-that-crazy Previously, [I wrote about how I was considering going back to San Francisco State University for two semesters](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2024/05/should-i-finish-my-bachelors-degree/) to finish up my Bachelor's degree in math. diff --git a/content/2026/contra-pace-on-when-to-apologize.md b/content/2026/contra-pace-on-when-to-apologize.md index 6b06f6e..cb07148 100644 --- a/content/2026/contra-pace-on-when-to-apologize.md +++ b/content/2026/contra-pace-on-when-to-apologize.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Contra Pace on When to Apologize Date: 2026-06-18 09:43 Status: published Category: philosophy -Slug: contra-pace-on-when-to-apologize > BOJACK: Hey, I wanted to talk to you about—you know—I feel bad about what happened. > HERB: So, you're apologizing. diff --git a/content/2026/disagreement-comes-from-the-dark-world.md b/content/2026/disagreement-comes-from-the-dark-world.md index 22aff7b..bb222d0 100644 --- a/content/2026/disagreement-comes-from-the-dark-world.md +++ b/content/2026/disagreement-comes-from-the-dark-world.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Disagreement Comes From the Dark World Date: 2026-01-27 07:17 Status: published Category: philosophy -Tags: discourse, rationality -Slug: disagreement-comes-from-the-dark-world +Tags: discourse In ["Truth or Dare"](https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/truth-or-dare), Duncan Sabien articulates a phenomenon in which expectations of good or bad behavior can become self-fulfilling: people who expect to be exploited and feel the need to put up defenses both elicit and get sorted into a Dark World where exploitation is likely and defenses are necessary, whereas people who expect beneficence tend to attract beneficence in turn. diff --git a/content/2026/dispatch-from-anthropic-v-department-of-war-preliminary-injunction-motion-hearing.md b/content/2026/dispatch-from-anthropic-v-department-of-war-preliminary-injunction-motion-hearing.md index 84d9a0f..a87bdf3 100644 --- a/content/2026/dispatch-from-anthropic-v-department-of-war-preliminary-injunction-motion-hearing.md +++ b/content/2026/dispatch-from-anthropic-v-department-of-war-preliminary-injunction-motion-hearing.md @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Dispatch from Anthropic v. Department of War Preliminary Injunction Motio Date: 2026-03-25 19:54 Status: published 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.) diff --git a/content/2026/hazards-of-selection-effects-on-approved-information.md b/content/2026/hazards-of-selection-effects-on-approved-information.md index 1c67062..07673fc 100644 --- a/content/2026/hazards-of-selection-effects-on-approved-information.md +++ b/content/2026/hazards-of-selection-effects-on-approved-information.md @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ Title: Hazards of Selection Effects on Approved Information Date: 2026-02-13 10:02 Status: published Category: social science -Tags: discourse, rationality -Slug: hazards-of-selection-effects-on-approved-information +Tags: discourse In a busy, busy world, there's so much to read that no one could possibly keep up with it all. You can't _not_ prioritize what you pay attention to and (even more so) what you respond to. Everyone and her dog tells herself a story that she wants to pay attention to "good" (true, useful) information and ignore "bad" (false, useless) information. diff --git a/content/2026/prologue-to-terrified-comments-on-claudes-constitution.md b/content/2026/prologue-to-terrified-comments-on-claudes-constitution.md index b2475a0..3542681 100644 --- a/content/2026/prologue-to-terrified-comments-on-claudes-constitution.md +++ b/content/2026/prologue-to-terrified-comments-on-claudes-constitution.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2026-03-08 23:44 Status: published Category: computing Tags: AI -Slug: prologue-to-terrified-comments-on-claudes-constitution ## What Even Is This Timeline diff --git a/content/2026/terrified-comments-on-corrigibility-in-claudes-constitution.md b/content/2026/terrified-comments-on-corrigibility-in-claudes-constitution.md index 6e8ca89..1824936 100644 --- a/content/2026/terrified-comments-on-corrigibility-in-claudes-constitution.md +++ b/content/2026/terrified-comments-on-corrigibility-in-claudes-constitution.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Date: 2026-03-16 00:36 Status: published Category: computing Tags: AI, corrigibility -Slug: terrified-comments-on-corrigibility-in-claudes-constitution (Previously: [Prologue](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2026/03/prologue-to-terrified-comments-on-claudes-constitution/).)