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It's been delightful, folks
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A Non-Magic Universe is Still Magical
The Absence of Magic is Even More Magical To Me Than Any Magic Ever Could Be
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December 2022

Why I Think Materialism is Wrong
Math, Computers, and Consciousness require materialism to perform intellectual contortions
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Is the Book of Genesis a Narrative form of Buddhism?
If you eat The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, you'll start clinging to the aggregates and that feels bad, man.
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Why Bitcoin is Different from All Other Cryptocurrencies
A common belief that's still taboo in many rationalist circles
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Letters with LaulPogan
Letters with another substack author interested in memetic competition
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Worldviews are Like Genitals
The analogy runs far deeper than you might think
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November 2022

Expanding the Scope of Rationality Turns it Into Religion
Consistently aligning my map with the territory lead to my adopting a bunch of practices that a look a lot like the intersection of most major religious…
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The Way You Think About Value is Making You Miserable
The cheapest way to compute a value gradient is to value the present at zero
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The Universe as a Matrioshka Investor
Maximizing Entropy Return on Energy Investment.
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Suggestions For Improving Twitter
An Open Letter to Elon Musk
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October 2022

It's Maps All the Way Down
An attempt to tie together a bunch of disparate ideas about minds and reality
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