2026
- 1/25 You Are Here: Historical Context for Unprecedented Times
- 01/01 Money Can't Buy the Smile on a Child's Face As They Look at A Beautiful Sunset... but it also can't buy a malaria free world: my current understanding of how Effective Altruism has failed
2025
- 09/02 Summary of the early 1900's Progressive Education Agenda
- 08/28 Q&A on the Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy model
- 04/21 The Primary Education Fetich (John Dewey, 1898)
2024
2023
2022
- 08/27 Implication vs Insinuation
- 08/21 A more honest way to argue for the meaning of words
- 07/24 The physical implementation of the Liar's Paradox is a buzzer
- 07/23 Paradoxes come from reifying representations
- 07/18 "Weaponized" words are imbalanced decision rules
- 07/17 Euphemism treadmills and “Communication finds a way”
- 07/13 Disavowed Desire leads to Abstracting Desires, capping your ability to get what you want
- 07/11 The Unspeakable and The Unthinkable: "Intersubjective Support" as the missing link between Language and Thought
- 06/30 The "point" of a mechanistic theory of self-deception
- 06/27 The Ecological Niche(s) of self-deception
- 05/20 An aspect of “manipulation” that not all communication has
- 04/09 The degree to which you are divided is the degree to which you are conquered
- 04/08 Signal privilege vs representation privilege in introspection
- 04/02 Cat couplings are a way to construct and reinforce types
- 03/29 Excerpt from "Self and Others" on Ambiguity, Implication, and Double Binds
- 03/27 "Anti-Anti-Normativity Alliance" Starter Pack
- 02/22 Riffing on "Non-Naive Trust Dancing"
- 02/04 The Game of Mao is a Prototype for Getting Hazed Into a Social Order
- 02/03 Who exactly are you trying to fool?
- 02/01 Cynicism as a Fantasy that Perpetuates Itself Through Mockery
- 01/31 Is Twitter a Lemon Market for Smartypants?
- 01/16 My non-coervice motivation origin story, as told by 20 year old me
2021
- 12/31 Interview with Michael Vassar and Cade Metz
- 11/15 Internal Conflict and Non-Coercion Resources
- 07/14 Intuitionistic Type (of guy) Theory
- 04/26 When Arguing Definitions is Arguing Decisions
- 03/11 The actual assumptions underlying certain "reductionism" or "holism"
- 02/26 Dual Process Theories Bundle Too Much
- 02/05 Ontologies Are Programming Languages for Concepts
- 01/31 How to Absorbe a Shared Success Script (while also thinking you're living without one)
2020
- 07/19 Intention is to Purpose as Meaning is to Affordance
- 06/28 Gödel's Legacy: A game without end
- 06/22 Neural Basis for Global Workspace Theory
- 06/22 A story about how mental imagery works
- 06/15 Research snap-shot: questions about Global Workspace Theory
- 06/07 Legibility: Notes on 'Man as a Rationalist Animal'
- 06/03 Consciousness as Metaphor: What Jaynes Has to Offer
- 04/25 Live and Think with the Full Strength of Your Being
- 04/13 Predictive Categories Make Bad Causal Variables
- 04/11 Causal vs Predictive Models, and the Causal Taboo
2019
- 12/30 Then and Now: Story arcs of the last 4 years
- 12/05 The Actionable Version of "Keep Your Identity Small"
- 07/31 How to Ignore Your Emotions (while also thinking you're awesome at emotions)
- 07/18 Question Substitution
- 07/17 Cognitive Fusion
- 07/10 Magic is Dead, Give Me Attention
- 05/07 Models of Memory and Understanding
2018
- 11/14 Explore/Exploit for Conversation
- 07/26 Thoughts on Tackling Blindspots
- 03/30 Reducing Agents: When Abstractions Break
- 03/24 Diffusing "I can't be that stupid"
- 03/11 Types of Confusion Experiences
2017
- 10/21 Trope Dodging