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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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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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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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Migrating my blog to Substack
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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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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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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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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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