Fernand0

Epistemic status: the claim is nothing new[1] for LW readers; the framing is what I think is new, and the list at the end is a work in progress. In a social deduction game[2], each player receives a role, which often specifies a goal. Some goals can only be achieved...

TL;DR: Intense things have failure modes that bland things usually lack. Don't let excessive caution make you renounce intensity. (Once you are in a bad intense situation, however, the path towards bland is usually better than trying to fix the badness). The rest of the post hammers this point and...

TL;DR: Unfinished reflections on proverbs as common knowledge and their loss. Nothing to do with Dan Quayle. Epistemic status: Written at Inscribe; after finishing it, I'm skeptical of my claim and think maybe TikTok and memes maybe do play a similar role today? (But I have to publish; I'll improve...

Georg Simmel[1] once wrote, paraphrasing, that negative concepts are attractive because they offer infinity minus a small area of possibilities we don't like anyway: not being married means designing the life you want, without having to constantly reach compromises; not being single means designing the life you want, without having...

Epistemic status: Defining a concept to clarify my stance, which is probably in disagreement with it Some of Kant's thesis on political philosophy are: 1. The tragic disharmony between morality and politics > Libertarians believe (and I think they're right) that there are a significant number of social problems that...

TL;DR: Proposing a term for the political ideology uniting libertarian values and big state. > I think something that confuses people's intuitions here is that a "small government" in the sense of one that restricts things less isn't the same as a small government in the sense of less law...

Epistemic status: False model; looking for feedback in order to improve it. It also needs much more examples. I read Gwern on the hacker mindset: > Here I have a system W, which pretends to be made out of a few Xs; however, it is really made out of many...