Asian parents love to compare the heights of kids and adults alike by laying their hands flat across the tops of their heads. I am Asian, and want to be a parent. (My wife and I are trying.) Read this as a wish fulfillment story; or as a roundabout description...
Or, to say less with more: The belief in the personhood of an entity, human or otherwise, is analogous to the “religious” belief of non-human minds beyond or encompassing our own. All sections below, disjointed and scattered as they are, try to show what I mean. I have a relationship...
“Do you love the sunrise?” Beautiful stories. Perfect lies. Goal: a new esthetic for words. I write, play piano, and make low-spec indie games. Having lurked rationalist spaces for many years and promoted its values to friends, I now wish to speak directly with rationalists about the many questions on...