Morpheus

In Meditations on Moloch Scott Alexander observes that the arc of progress bends toward Moloch and destroying everything we value. Similar to Nick Land's observations. As opposed to Nick Land, Scott Alexander is a transhumanist who cares about humans. He observes Superintelligence will probably create a singleton that "kills Moloch"...

I used to think foam earplugs suck because they didn't fit into my ear. Turns out you have to roll them! Sadly the first time I encountered foam earplugs in a library they didn't include instructions. Rolling them they get thin and easily fit into your ear. Once I knew...

This small project was a joint effort between Tassilo Neubauer (Morpheus) and Andre Assis. We originally started working on this over a year ago. We ran a ton of experiments, and we want to document what we've done and found. We hope that other people can pick up from where...

Keeping ants is a fun hobby if you like seeing things grow. As a teenager I kept three colonies of ants. To get started with ant-keeping, you do not really need that much material. When I first got started with this hobby, I got a medium-sized formicarium with a water-dispenser...

I am tired, but haven't given up on Halfhaven yet, so I am lowering my standards and will probably just write more unstructured brainstorming exercises. Today I am just posting 25 questions that interested me that I came up with while looking around my room. 1. What advice/concrete instructions would...

Currently, I am a bit unsatisfied with my food options in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. So this post is just me reflecting a bit on some of my favorite meals when I lived in different places and thinking about if I can find something better for my daily routines....

Epistemic Status: Journal There are problem classes that I was bad at fixing where I implicitly judged them as something fixed, that I couldn't change. Followed by learning that actually there was something I could do. That there was a learnable skill involved the skill was just not obvious. I...