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  • reaing 200 books a year or actually reading a book

    What is wise about reading more books than you can actually think through in a year?
  • Schelling points

    Slippery Slopes and the Alien Explanation
  • Inferential Distances

    Homo sapiens’s environment of evolutionary adaptedness (a.k.a. EEA or “ancestral environment”) consisted of hunter-gatherer bands of at most 200 people, with no writing. All inherited knowledge was passed down by speech and memory.
  • Wierdness Points Analysis

    I’ve heard of the concept of “weirdness points” many times before, but after a bit of searching I can’t find a definitive post describing the concept, so I’ve decided to make one. As a disclaimer, I don’t think the evidence backing this post is all that strong and I am...
  • Comparing Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Knowledge

    This analysis explores the relationship between theoretical reasoning and empirical observation in the pursuit of knowledge.
  • Machiavellian Thought and Modern Interpretation

    As discussed in a previous article, this analysis considers Aristotelian causation and the concept that each creation in the universe embodies its own inherent purpose.
  • Social Media Behavior Analysis

    Inspired by and referencing George Hotz’s work
  • Fourth Aristotelian cause

    SOME IDEAS WERE INSPIRED BY LUKE

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