Compass Rose

Moral differences in mediocristan

Financial investment is just a symbolic representation of investment projected onto a low-dimensional space inside a control system run by the US government

On proofs of the existence of God

Zetetic explanation

More on personal archaeology and archives

Culture, interpretive labor, and tidying one's room

Model-building and scapegoating

There is a war.

Talents

Oops Prize update

Humans need places

Kidneys, trade, sacredness, and space travel

What strange and ancient things might we find beneath the ice?

Explicit content

Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers

Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled

Poets are intelligence assets

Seeding a productive culture: a working hypothesis

Defense against discourse

On the construction of beacons

Some things I learned about camping and other solitude-seeking activities

On the fetishization of money in Galt’s Gulch

Sabbath hard and go home

Why I am not a Quaker (even though it often seems as though I should be)

Request: Cabin [RESOLVED]

Thank you for listening

Taking integrity literally

I'll pretend to ask, and you'll pretend to answer

The order of the soul

Geometers, Scribes, and the structure of intelligence

Oops Prize

Is Silicon Valley real?

Bad intent is a disposition, not a feeling

Actors and scribes, words and deeds

Effective Altruism is self-recommending

An OpenAI board seat is surprisingly expensive

OpenAI makes humanity less safe

Against responsibility

Dominance, care, and social touch

New York culture

Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science

Bindings and assurances

Humble Charlie

Against neglectedness considerations

GiveWell and the problem of partial funding

The humility argument for honesty

The Quaker and the Parselmouth

Between honesty and perjury

Guess culture screens for trying to cooperate

Honesty, magic, and science