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This is a follow-up to a previous post, In My Misanthropy Era. In 2025, after getting my intellectual rocks off largely at hardcore rationality meetups for the entirety of the 2020s, I went to a casual philosophy meetup and it ~turned me evil. I wrote a post about this experience,...

Anything in life can be richer and sweeter if you slow down and pay attention, but some things reward attention more than others. The different amount of rewardingness per attention is sometimes socially constructed and thus arbitrary to some degree. But it's genuinely nice, to have others who have also...

At the local AI safety co-working space, there are ~two kinds of regulars. There's the kind of regular who's been thinking seriously about AI safety and alignment since pre-2022, who have passing to intimate familiarity with the funding ecosystem, the Sequences, and various conferences that happen at Lighthaven. Let's call...

Pour more money and effort into them than you think is reasonable. Treasure them, because you can't actually host that many of them and keep expecting everyone to show up, even if they're good friends. Especially if they're good friends. We were wonderfully close friends, and I thought we'd meet...

content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern art Credit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically baller for the Whitney museum to make the exhibit about how a disabled artist wants to fuck their dog the first one that people see when they attend the...

1. If you are reading this post, odds are you are not actually someone who would self-identify as a creative type. But perhaps your way of thinking about the tension between job, career, and the actual work you think is important to do has much in common with the bind...

In The Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset writes (translated from the original Spanish): > The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes that it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly-endowed individuals which the...