Sitemap - 2018 - We Are Not Saved

Five Stories of Enlightenment and Edification from My Misspent Youth

Fighting Fires the Wrong Way

How Do You Determine the Right Level of Suffering?

The Great Silence (Philosophy and Fermi's Paradox)

Stubborn Attachments vs. The Vulnerable World and Fermi's Paradox

SlateStarCodex and Providing Intellectual Cover

Is the World Coming Together or Splitting Apart?

China and the Strangeness of Civilizations

Jockeying for Control of the Airliner

What Should We Worry About?

Age of Em: Races and Rain

Modern Monetary Theory: It's the Inflation, Stupid

Objectivity: Ford and Kavanaugh

The Founders, Civility, and Godzilla

Is War Necessary?

Burning Man, Dreamtime and Dragons

The Conspiracy Against Gawker: Things Have to Be More Than Just True to Be Newsworthy

How Much Ruin Is in a Nation?

Review: Bad Blood (Theranos)

Pornography and the Time Horizon of Uncertainty

Random Stuff Tossed Together at the Last Minute

Humanity on the Cusp of Eternity

Divorce Is Better Than Murder

Fermi's Paradox: Mistake of Dramatic Timing and Other Errors

The 100th Post

Things We Cannot Get Wrong

Crime in 2018 (Or Why Are There so Many Homeless People?)

Skin in the Game, Survival & Religion

Religion vs. Atheism vs. Transhumanism vs. Apathy

Antinatalism and Happiness vs. Survival

Should All Incels Be Killed Immediately or Just Banished Forever?

Nuclear Power and Winning through Intolerance

Steven Pinker and the Fragility of Enlightenment

Aryans, and Errors, and Indo-Europeans, Oh My!

Mormon Transhumanists, so Close, but yet so Far

Further Lessons in Comparing AI Risk and the Plan of Salvation

More Searching for Narrative in Horrible Child Sex Rings

Ten Child Sex Abuse Rings in Search of a Narrative

Inequality: Is Violence the Great Leveler?

The Trend of Transgender Identity (Part 2)

The Trend of Transgender Identity (Part 1)

The Terrible Power of Tiny Trends

The 2018 Edge Question of the Year

How I Almost Became a Communist

Speech as Censorship

Dispatches from my Death Bed

Commentary on Moloch (Now With More Fermi's Paradox)

Predictions Revisited for 2018