2024  14

November  3

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

September  1

Consciousness During Dreamless Sleep: References

September 26, 2024

July  1

Lessons from the 100 most influential scientists in history

July 5, 2024

May  1

Planarian notes

May 1, 2024

April  5

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

March  2

How to save your friends

March 25, 2024

Give your friends a chance to abandon you

March 18, 2024

January  1

Real Life

January 24, 2024

2023  29

December  2

You can’t will yourself into okayness

December 25, 2023

Notes on the nature of thought

December 10, 2023

November  2

Tastes of Magic

November 28, 2023

Writing exercises

November 11, 2023

October  1

Push and pull, or, the art of good listening

October 10, 2023

September  1

How to make a lot of friends

September 27, 2023

August  1

Research notes (8/21/2023)

August 21, 2023

July  1

What would a non-nebulous world look like?

July 19, 2023

May  1

Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth

May 10, 2023

April  16

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

March  1

Research Snapshot: March 2023

March 29, 2023

January  3

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

2022  6

December  1

Notes: David Deutsch’s misleading definition of rationalism

December 29, 2022

April  2

Even in silence you are loved

April 12, 2022

Subjectivity as a construct

April 1, 2022

March  1

On receiving praise: it’s not about you

March 12, 2022

January  2

Solving the hard problem of consciousness with metaphysics

January 12, 2022

Pausing in the midst of excitement

January 3, 2022

2021  33

December  3

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

November  3

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

September  1

Are there contradictions in reality?

September 23, 2021

August  1

Addenda to consciousness post

August 11, 2021

July  2

A commitment to writing poorly

July 27, 2021

On finding It

July 20, 2021

June  3

Logical impossibility

June 22, 2021

Reject claims of ultimate ruination

June 9, 2021

Self-concept in dreams

June 1, 2021

May  9

On believing you will fail

May 28, 2021

On collections of links

May 27, 2021

Absurdism

May 21, 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

April  3

In praise of reading slowly

April 29, 2021

Facing fears in a dream

April 18, 2021

Salon on knowledge

April 16, 2021

March  1

Things to learn: a journal post

March 3, 2021

February  5

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

January  2

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

2020  1

December  1

40 Books in 2020

December 28, 2020