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Solaris has one animating idea and is kind enough to state it directly: “Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded d…

In Consider Phlebas, we learn about a band of humanoid pirates: Tzbalik Odraye roomed with Rava Gamdol, who looked as though he came from the same place as Yalson, judging from his skin and light fur, but he denied this…Lamm was rather below average heigh…

A friend is reading Manacled, already a Romantasy classic, and shared this excerpt: To quote a very different fanfic: “Too many competing objections, that was the problem.”1 But the next day, the excerpt continued nagging at my attention.

It’s https://regressiontothemeat.substack.com/.

In 2023, a Harvard professor was cancelled for having signed a brief for Obergefell stating that states can respect the “equal dignity of all persons” while also promoting “the distinct benefits of a male-female marriage scheme in law and culture,” and for

In the news: White House Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia Columbia Agrees to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped Columbia President Is Replaced as Trump Threatens University’s Funding At my local cafe last week, some i…

In ‘Man in Search of God’, Abraham Heschel writes: The greatest hindrance to knowledge is our adjustment to conventional notions, to mental clichés.

Two minor characters are meeting a third for the first time: ⁠“Let’s hope we can do as well for you this time,” Pétion said, with gallantry.

I recently wrote a date me doc – see here for context.

I am co-author on a new meta-analysis about interventions aimed at reducing consumption of meat and animal products.

It’s a conservative trope that Hollywood hates Trump, Republicans, and all they hold dear.

Of the many, these stick out: Harris got zero votes in 2020 because she has no natural constituency and isn’t good at campaigning.

According to readers of the New York Times, the top four movies of 1999 were The Matrix, Fight Club, Office Space, and American Beauty.

When an I Think You Should Leave skit takes me a long time to warm up to, it’s usually because the situation for which it’s a perfect rejoinder hasn’t come my way yet.

I would have enjoyed this movie a bit more with some tighter editing, less repetition, and more leavening humor.

I have noticed recently that I seem to be part of a distinct demographic group without a name.

Intel recently announced a plan to eliminate 15,000 jobs after historically bad quarterly results.

I saw RJD2 spin a few weeks ago, and I was very pleased to hear him play The Who’s Eminence Front, a great, dance-y track whose keyboards evoke (for me) Steve Reich’s Four Organs or the opening theme to Nausicaä.

Something I wrote for the EA forum.

A new post on the EA forum.

I recently presented an in-progress paper at the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab, where I will be taking a research scientist job starting on July 1st.

Bryan Caplan asks us to think about ending zoning, while Manville, Monkkonen & Lens (2019) advocate for ending single-family zoning.

Some thoughts.

I am a co-author on a new meta-analysis: Preventing Sexual Violence —A Behavioral Problem Without a Behaviorally-Informed Solution, along with Roni Porat, Ana P.

In college I played chamber music and ran track and cross country (XC).

Like many people, I am troubled by my relationship with screens, particularly my phone’s.

I have a soft spot for movies that get away from their creators.1 I don’t think that Tony Scott, for instance, intended Top Gun to be a quintessentially gay movie.

I am reading Lord of the Rings again and, as always, there are many words, phrases and names I don’t know.

When trying to explain a social problem, we might argue any of the following: Those people are bad, e.g. blame the capitalists for global warming, the poor for their predicament, or the Jews for “a whole range of things…from the world war to short skirts…

Now published on the EA forum, aiming to publish in an academic journal next year.

An essay I just wrote for the EA forum.

I have been consuming a lot of SBF content lately, e.g.

I have now worked in marketing and marketing-adjacent jobs at two startups, producing blog posts, social media, and external content under the tutelage of two directors of marketing, a head of growth, and a chief marketing officer.

A lot of writers I like have moved to Substack.

My favorite moment in M3gan comes when Allison Williams says to the title character: “I know you think you’re maximizing your objective function.” it was fun to hear an explicit nod to the language of AI-alignment; someone who worked on this movie reads L…

An essay I wrote in response to GiveWell’s “Change Our Mind Contest.”

An essay about my friend Danny, and our respective journeys on the Appalachian Trail, published in the spring/summer 2022 issue of A.T.

An article in the Wall Street Journal documents LaGuardia Airport’s remarkable turnaround: It’s no longer appalling.

A few years ago, a friend was doing a prestigious postdoc at a prominent law school.

Contagion got a lot of attention these past few years for being eerily predictive and apparently inspiring some aspects of the UK’s pandemic response.

In The Vital Illusion, Jean Baudrillard writes: A sort of anticipation of cloning can be found in nature itself, in the phenomenon of twins and twinship (gemellité).

My favorite Marianne Moore poems are generally the ones I understand right away, because they’re short, they rhyme, and they’re about animals.

I: was a zoomtown-er in Park City in October 2020; left my job to pursue personal projects in April 2021; got an unsanctioned booster shot a few days ago.1 I wonder if the trend of being trendy will continue?

In late summer 2010, I was on a bus one evening in Philadelphia, returning to Swarthmore.

On an episode of Indian Matchmaking, our hero Nadia meets a potential suitor named Vinay at a restaurant and learns that he keeps to a vegan diet.

In An Electronic Soundtrack for Spiritual Awakening, Kelefa Sanneh calls Jon Hopkins “one of the most celebrated electronic musicians of his generation.”

(Spoilers for the whole show) because the show draws so obviously from conservative, christian beliefs about the purpose of life.

An article in the Times reports local opposition to redeveloping Industry City in Brooklyn.

I would like to figure out when and how to engage with artists who are bad people.

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