Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Every Cause Wants To Be A Cult

Misc Meta

The Rob­bers Cave Experiment

When None Dare Urge Restraint

Eva­po­ra­tive Cool­ing of Group Beliefs

Fake Utility Functions

Fake Fake Utility Functions

Un­crit­i­cal Supercriticality

Re­sist the Happy Death Spiral

Affec­tive Death Spirals

Mere Messiahs

Su­per­hero Bias

The Halo Effect

Un­bounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism

Evalua­bil­ity (And Cheap Holi­day Shop­ping)

The Affect Heuristic

Pur­pose and Pragmatism

Lost Purposes

The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes

Leaky Generalizations

Not for the Sake of Hap­piness (Alone)

Truly Part Of You

Ar­tifi­cial Addition

Con­jur­ing An Evolu­tion To Serve You

The Sim­ple Math of Everything

No Evolu­tions for Cor­po­ra­tions or Nanodevices

Evolv­ing to Extinction

Ter­mi­nal Values and In­stru­men­tal Values

Thou Art Godshatter

Protein Re­in­force­ment and DNA Consequentialism

Evolu­tion­ary Psychology

Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

Fake Op­ti­miza­tion Criteria

Why aren’t our prop­erty rights over one an­other more trans­fer­able?

Fake Morality

Fake Selfishness

The Tragedy of Group Selectionism

Be­ware of Stephen J. Gould

Nat­u­ral Selec­tion’s Speed Limit and Com­plex­ity Bound

Cor­po­rate ecology

Evolu­tions Are Stupid (But Work Any­way)

Draw­ing lines and tigers

A way to be more open minded (an ex­per­i­men­tal thought)

The Won­der of Evolution

Some half-se­ri­ous, half-formed thoughts on ex­ist­ing and so on

An Alien God

Fake Justification

A Ter­rify­ing Hal­loween Costume

A Case Study of Mo­ti­vated Continuation