Crazy philosopher

Epistemic status: an attempt to highlight a harmful implicit model. I. John decided to draw a cute kitten. What he ended up with was a poorly drawn demon with a soul-freezing stare. Disappointed by how far reality fell short of his expectations, John decided he simply had no talent and...

What if the authors used footnotes instead of direct links, and in the footnotes included a direct quote from the source supporting their claim? That way, the reader could just use Ctrl+F to verify that the source actually says what the author claims.

Since childhood, I have been troubled by the following paradox: Suppose that in some country there are several parties. Each of them has its own vision of how to achieve economic and all other kinds of prosperity. Let’s assume they are all driven purely by the desire to help the...

There are two axes along which the anthropic principle can be applied: time and universes. The first one- time- is simple: let's suppose, there is 3 epochs: before humanity, before the 22nd century and after the 22nd century. Before 22nd century, 10^11 humans had lived. After we will colonize universe...

Epistemic status: highly important knowledge, but approximately two-thirds of people on LessWrong already know it. However, I add some new ideas. Today's world is awesome, but some peoples are unhappy anywhere. Why did all the peoples of middle age did not suicided, if their life conditions was so suck in...

Our memory tends to contain less and less information. We forget certain things, and our memory about others become simplified, and a complex article boils down to “X is bad, Y is good, try to do better". One unexpected consequence of this is how it impacts our sense of probability:...

Let's say each person in your community has 1 resource unit. They are 10 peoples in community including you. Each member of the community can either consume 1 resource himself or give it to a fund that distributes resources to those in need in third world countries. Each resource consumed...