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Sense of Meaning
In the last post, I noted that giving an abstract response to a general question about the meaning of life is different from giving someone a personal sense of meaning. This is first because “how does life make sense, in general?” is a different question from “how does
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Two Meanings of Life
A first meaning Robin Hanson remarks on the relationship between evolution and values: Biological evolution selects roughly for creatures that do…
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Jul 31
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
In Chapter 25 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams makes fun of questions about the meaning of life: There are of course many problems…
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Jul 30
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A New Beginning
Migrating my blog to Substack
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Jul 28
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How to Build an Artificial Human
I was going to use "Artificial Intelligence" in the title here but realized after thinking about it that the idea is really more specific than that. I…
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Jun 19, 2021
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Prayer and Probability
The reader might wonder about the relation between the previous post and my discussion of Arman Razaali. If I could say it is more likely that he was…
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Jun 15, 2021
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Might People on the Internet Sometimes Tell the Truth?
Lies and Scott Alexander Scott Alexander wrote a very good post called Might People on the Internet Sometimes Lie, which I have linked to several times…
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Jun 9, 2021
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The Debunkers
Why are they all blurry? In a recent article, Michael Shermer says about UFOs: UFOlogists claim that extraordinary evidence exists in the form of tens…
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Jun 9, 2021
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