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Church of Reality: Ernst Mach on Mind, Matter, and the Illusion of Self
"The ego must be given up."
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Contra Ozy Brennan on Ameliatarianism
Constructing an ethical diet is hard. Utilitarian morality isn't the answer.
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The Science of Emergent Phenomena
Why I'm joining the EPRC
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Ayn Rand Will Kill Us All
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Religion is an Ego-modulator
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Causal Explanations Considered Harmful
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Jungian Psychology, Minus the Nonsense
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Time is a Wheel, Time is an Arrow
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Ayn Rand Will Kill Us All
Greed, Logic, and AI Doom in Atlas Shrugged
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You Don't Always Have to be Rational
Really. It's OK. Take a break. You'll feel better.
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The Shapes of Stories with ChatGPT
Investigating classic literature with a Large Language Model
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Taoism, Minus the Nonsense
A beautiful ontology, brilliant semiotics, and practical ethics. Also sex magic.
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Beware the Variable-Maximizers
Optimizing for a single metric is bad, whether it's clicks, shareholder value, or paperclips
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Who will be first AI to earn legal personhood?
Do androids dream of human rights?
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Active Dreaming: Methods, Habits, and Drugs
Ways to improve dream recall, awareness, depth, and engagement
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Jungian Psychology, Minus the Nonsense
Making sense of an esoteric theory of mind
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Church of Reality: Max Planck on Idealism and the Role of Faith in Science
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness."
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