ozymandias

The second time Vellam uncovers the conspiracy underlying all of society, he approaches a Keeper. Some of the difference is convenience. Since Vellam reported that he’d found out about the first conspiracy, he’s lived in the secret AI research laboratory at the Basement of the World, and Keepers are much...

I wrote a survey about social influences on people's level of altruism. Please take it! (I am deliberately oversampling extremely altruistic people because they are an interesting demographic for my research question.) I will report my findings on the Effective Altruism Forum and LessWrong when I am done.

Hello! I'm looking for community members to read speeches at the Bay Winter Solstice event this year. If you're interested, please email me at ozybrennan@gmail.com by the end of November 17 with the speeches you're potentially interested in. I'll ask you to record yourself reading it (no need to be...

Imagine that life is a choose-your-own adventure game. In any moment, you have literally millions of options. At the moment I’m typing this, I could change the tab to innumerable websites, I could read any of the hundreds of books in my house, I could make myself a snack of...

I’ve recently become addicted to the self-care virtual pet game Amaru, and it’s sufficiently rare for me to become addicted to an app that I thought I would write up a review, for the benefit of my fellow non-app-users. Amaru is a virtual pet game with a twist. In addition...

[Spoiler note: I have used only examples from relatively early on in the new Thrawn Trilogy and ones which I believe won’t spoil your enjoyment of the story; however, if you’d like to go in with absolutely no knowledge, this will tell you some things about the trilogy.] I’ve recently...

Many people talk about wild-animal suffering as if it is completely intractable, or as if it is inherently opposed to environmental conservation, or as if it’s impossible to know what effects our actions could possibly have on wild animals. But, in fact, there is one simple action any cat or...