The Types Of Candidate You Find In The California Gubernatorial Race
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20 of 1,161 episodesThe Sigmoids Won't Save You
"All exponentials eventually become sigmoids" is an annoying AI talking point. If someone presents a graph like this… ….and points out that...
Nostalgebraist's Hydrogen Jukeboxes
In conclusion , the only good theory of taste is Nostalgebraist's. He wrote a post called Hydrogen Jukeboxes , analyzing the literary output...
Three Model Organisms For Taste
(a continuation of yesterday's post ) Reddit Vexillology Vexillology is the c. elegans of aesthetics - the simplest model organism that lets...
Contra Everyone On Taste
Last year I wrote a piece on artistic taste , which got many good responses from (eg) Ozy , Frank Lantz , and Sympathetic Opposition . I tas...
What Deontological Bars?
Constraint consequentialists believe that you should try to do good things that improve the world, unless those break hard-and-fast rules ("...
Your Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work
As a blogger, I hear about lots of projects to "solve debate", or "disagree better", or "map arguments". Often these are ACX grant applicati...
Links For April 2026
[I haven't independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence that around two or three of the links in e...
Half A Month Of Consolation Writing Advice
This month, rationalist institution Lighthaven is running their second Inkhaven , a bootcamp for aspiring bloggers. Participants have to pub...
Orban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness
Viktor Orban , __________ of Hungary for sixteen years, lost his re-election bid earlier this week. The simplest phrase to put in the blank...
Against The Concept Of Telescopic Altruism
I. "Telescopic altruism" is a supposed tendency for some people to ignore those close to them in favor of those further away. Like its cousi...
A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
In 1917, some Portuguese children started seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin told them she would enact a great miracle on a certa...
How Natural Tradeoff And Failure Components?
Michael Halassa: Did John Nash Really Have Schizophrenia? is a good article on the genetics of psychosis. Previous research found that schiz...
Every Debate On Pausing AI
SUPPORTER: America needs to start talking to China to come up with a bilateral agreement to pause AI. The agreement would need to be transpa...
Being John Rawls
I. John Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, 1921. Not John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher (or, rather, John Rawls t...
Support Your Local Collaborator
Every few weeks, a Trump administration official comes up with an insane plan that would devastate some American industry, region, or demogr...
Shameless Guesses, Not Hallucinations
I hate the term "hallucinations" for when AIs say false things. It's perfectly calculated to mislead the reader - to make them think AIs are...
Last Rights
Guest post by David Speiser The Problem Everyone hates Congress. That poll showing that cockroaches are more popular than Congress is now th...
SEIU Delenda Est
California lets interest groups propose measures for the state ballot. Anyone who gathers enough signatures (currently 874,641) can put thei...
Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day
Having Your Own Government Try To Destroy You Is (At Least Temporarily) Good For Business On Friday, the Pentagon declared AI company Anthro...