Okay, my minimalistic experiment with studying languages consistently but in bite-sized chunks of time continues. Currently, I’ve worked through ChineseSkill, up to Intermediate on ChinesePod,…
So, it’s been a while since I posted on here. Is that a sign that I haven’t been thinking? That I haven’t thought anything ‘worthy’…
There is a glaring flaw in popular conceptions of definitions. One word. How much information can be contained in one word? “Red” tells you the…
Since 2011 a significant portion of my personal philosophies have been grounded in values, which, wondrously and frustratingly, do not seem readily reducible. However, values can…
I usually try to actually fulfill my NYRs. I’ve managed to for the past few years, even with vague things like “get a gf” or…
Making cute and interesting digital life. We’ve decomposed the problem of intelligence into two broad fields Individual and System intelligence, i.e. that of humans or…
Today I’m going to ramble about ethics. Ethical systems are frameworks for guiding how we interact with others. I suppose this could include our ethics…
For example, a pair of 24$ pants that last 4 months might be .75$ per day of use (if it’s durable and lasts 2 years,…
The Simulation Argument (SA) always seemed pretty cool, but I didn’t realise how sound and quite what a conundrum it is until discussing it with…
They value socialising as an activity in and of itself. Whereas I tend to think about socialising in terms of some purpose :p They expect…