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Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios
Why are many people so willing to believe evidence of UFOs and Aliens, and so unwilling to believe evidence for God?
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Speculative Attempts to Complicate Throughout History - 2023
When things aren't going well, those in power will sometimes introduce some speculative chaos in the hopes that what emerges on the other side will be…
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The 11 Books I Finished in August
World Beyond Your Head, 4 Thousand Weeks, Generations, When Violence Is the Answer, Ship of Fools, Traction, One More Thing, Animal Farm…
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The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope - 2023
There are many potential apocalypses, and when people imagine them they imagine that everyone will die. On the contrary most people will live, and it…
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R.W. Richey
August 2023
The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items - 2023
Apparently even the "smart" people are finally ready to admit that we should start reducing our annual deficit. In 2017 I was unclear on what the…
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The 9 Books I Finished in July and the One I Didn’t
Some Turchin, some Attia, some Camus, some popsci, and a large dash of obscure science fiction.
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Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli? - 2023
Supernormal stimuli are those things which encourage us to do something that was historically very useful, but in an artificial and supercharged way…
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R.W. Richey
July 2023
Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress
The Siege of Sarajevo killed 20% of the population, a horror most of us can scarcely grasp, yet those who survived it look back on the siege as a period…
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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis as Map to the Future
Expanding on Nick Bostrom's metaphor for technological development — it's like drawing balls of various shades from an urn, and if you ever draw a pure…
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Traditions: Separating the Important from the Inconsequential - 2023
There's significant evidence that traditional practices were beneficial and adaptive. But many reject traditions as relics of a barbarous past. How do…
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The 10 Books I Finished in June
But above all I want to go back to it, not because I know it was the right place but because I think it was the right turning. And the right turning…
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June 2023
The Ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb - 2023
The pithiest explanation of Taleb's philosophy anywhere on the internet.
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