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Two ways of doing science
And why ethics should be more like medicine
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Crypto Hippies
Thoughts on reading Michael Lewis’s “Going Infinite”
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Why Hobbes would have thought LLMs were a big deal
Language is one of the most important topics in philosophy and language is what they do
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What is the difference between Morals and Ethics?
And where does the difference come from?
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Brave New World
Upon reading it for the first time since high school
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September 2023

Midgley on our standards of knowledge
The real Cartesian revolution
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Is consciousness consequential?
Only if it includes consciousness of pain and pleasure
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The defense of Temporal Discounting I came here to write
Has already been written
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Spherical Cows and Repugnant Conclusions
Spherical Cows
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