nothing is mere

This blog has permanently moved to substack!

My guess is that The Sandman is the best comic yet created.

This is a quick set of excerpts I’m putting together for easy reference.

… in four bullet points. • Institutional failure.

Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education argues that education mostly serves a signaling function—it’s an easy way of proving to prospective employers that you’re a relatively smart, hard-working, mainstream member of society—and only a small part of edu…

A grab bag of interesting links and news: ___________________________________________ The first COVID-19 human challenge trials have been approved… in February 2021, instead of February 2020.

Suppose that American politics decomposed into ~four ‘houses’, representing different perspectives and different sets of virtues (and vices).

Miscellaneous links and discussion from the past month: Brown, Wai, and Chabris – Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good?

The following is a long excerpt from an unpublished paper I wrote in 2012-2013, mostly before I was enmeshed in rationality-community ideas.

_________________________________________________________________________ My co-worker Eliezer Yudkowsky recently made the case on social media that Trump’s candidacy raises national security concerns qualitatively more serious than the sort you see in a…