Sunday, May 18, 2025

Protect Your Slack, Delay Moloch: Why You SHOULD Defend Yourself With Artificial Rents

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Inspired by Behold the Pale Child at Secretorum : "the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards Bakkalon." (or Moloch. ...
Monday, May 12, 2025

On the Good of Young Men Having Their Asses Kicked

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I recently visited a martial arts school for kids, and was immediately impressed by - something. It took me a minute to put my finger on wh...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Integers Are a Useful Fiction, But Math Is Real

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Integers have no existence independent of our brains; they are a useful fiction humans have developed, extending on how our nervous system o...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Is There Such a Thing as Color Harmony?

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Some colors seem to go together; others do not. The same goes, even more strongly, for notes. Some form pleasant harmonies, and others ...

Dimensions of Art

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Above: a catalog of scents from the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents in Berkeley, California, USA. Sometimes, innovations in art oc...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Two Absurd Music Videos and the Importance of Human Connection

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Cult of the Snowman, Doopiidoo (AI), 2025: Hell, Clown Core, 2019: The first one, a sort of silly nightmare, approaches video surrea...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Shocked Pikachu: Gambling Is a Moral Hazard

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Recently Zvi, a smart and principled person whose writing can frequently found in the rationalist blogosphere, wrote an analysis about onlin...