why I left nyc
November 26, 2024
Maintaining sanity during the quadrennial extravaganza
November 16, 2024
How to not get bamboozled by the question of ‘what exists’
November 2, 2024
Consciousness During Dreamless Sleep: References
September 26, 2024
Lessons from the 100 most influential scientists in history
July 5, 2024
Planarian notes
May 1, 2024
At night I feel alive
April 24, 2024
The city of juxtapositions
April 18, 2024
Create the social spaces you want to see in the world
April 10, 2024
That time there was a giant black hole in the sky
April 9, 2024
Parasocial Friends
April 2, 2024
How to save your friends
March 25, 2024
Give your friends a chance to abandon you
March 18, 2024
Real Life
January 24, 2024
You can’t will yourself into okayness
December 25, 2023
Notes on the nature of thought
December 10, 2023
Tastes of Magic
November 28, 2023
Writing exercises
November 11, 2023
Push and pull, or, the art of good listening
October 10, 2023
How to make a lot of friends
September 27, 2023
Research notes (8/21/2023)
August 21, 2023
What would a non-nebulous world look like?
July 19, 2023
Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth
May 10, 2023
Nihilism and dogmatism are not the only two options
April 24, 2023
How to succeed: don’t take things for granted
April 18, 2023
The myth of perfect execution
April 16, 2023
A slice of my mind
April 14, 2023
What would a “robust” theory of the mind give us?
April 13, 2023
Neuro research: questions, ideas, and motivations
April 12, 2023
“You have to be weird”
April 11, 2023
Life is a pen
April 10, 2023
How I use social media mindfully
April 9, 2023
Life as a core path with a bunch of detours
April 8, 2023
Notes on AGI risk
April 6, 2023
How to save your friends
April 5, 2023
You will never have an answer for how hard to push yourself
April 4, 2023
No bitterness, no sneering, no cynicism
April 3, 2023
Being honest about the struggle of writing
April 2, 2023
Comprehending art (daily blog 1 of 30)
April 1, 2023
Research Snapshot: March 2023
March 29, 2023
Abstractions as regularities in the world
January 6, 2023
Updated thoughts on non-coercion and the fun criterion
January 3, 2023
Contra Harris contra Hoel on consequentialism
January 2, 2023
Notes: David Deutsch’s misleading definition of rationalism
December 29, 2022
Even in silence you are loved
April 12, 2022
Subjectivity as a construct
April 1, 2022
On receiving praise: it’s not about you
March 12, 2022
Solving the hard problem of consciousness with metaphysics
January 12, 2022
Pausing in the midst of excitement
January 3, 2022
Questions to ask in the midst of a setback
December 29, 2021
Microscopes, vision, and nebulosity
December 28, 2021
In praise of unconscious subroutines
December 25, 2021
Do we experience anything directly?
November 28, 2021
On whether brains are embodied
November 13, 2021
A first pass at David Chapman’s metarationality
November 13, 2021
Are there contradictions in reality?
September 23, 2021
Addenda to consciousness post
August 11, 2021
A commitment to writing poorly
July 27, 2021
On finding It
July 20, 2021
Logical impossibility
June 22, 2021
Reject claims of ultimate ruination
June 9, 2021
Self-concept in dreams
June 1, 2021
On believing you will fail
May 28, 2021
On collections of links
May 27, 2021
Problems I’m thinking about
May 20, 2021
Life as problem-solving
May 19, 2021
Objective morality
May 18, 2021
The importance of documenting (and subsequently sharing) your ideas
May 12, 2021
The relative primacy of contemplative and scientific truths
May 9, 2021
Some thoughts on causality
May 3, 2021
In praise of reading slowly
April 29, 2021
Facing fears in a dream
April 18, 2021
Salon on knowledge
April 16, 2021
Things to learn: a journal post
March 3, 2021
Measures of my wellbeing
February 28, 2021
Meditation: everyone in ten years
February 21, 2021
Homing in on Consciousness: Notes
February 10, 2021
In Love With the World: Notes
February 8, 2021
If Beale Street Could Talk: Notes
February 8, 2021
What they don’t tell you when you’re applying to college
January 31, 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: Notes
January 17, 2021
40 Books in 2020
December 28, 2020