Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Forever Winning!

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Article recommendation : Paul Bloom's  Are women unsuited for the pursuit of truth?  My comment: "The problem seems to be the assum...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Two bits (health and wealth and pigs)

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 This has been making the rounds and it is pretty illuminating: And a follow-up to this ("Broiler mortality has increased from 3.7% to...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Just skip. You don't want to read about someone else winning the lottery.

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I am happier than the average person (and way happier than Matt 33+ years ago) in part because I have, for over 12,000 days, marveled at my ...
Monday, October 20, 2025

This is neither rational nor objective

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Autumn in Arizona   To be an EA is to find out, again and again and again, that what you thought was the best thing to do was wrong. You thi...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

We don't have to choose the Doom perspective (aka Don't Read The Comments)

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Hannah Ritchie recently blogged about the miracle of modern agriculture . In the comments, I thanked her for sharing straightforward facts. ...
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Monday, October 13, 2025

Notes on Love, Luck, Bedbugs, etc.

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Arizona autumnal color, north of Flagstaff  1. In Losing , I say: “I have a simple definition of love: The happiness of a person I love is m...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Too Good (Sunday Comic)

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Maybe God meant to be benevolent :  
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Magical: Yosemite High Country and Tahoe Region

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One of the three most mind-blowing facts:  On one of these hikes, we were marveling that there was once a bunch of energy. Then a bunch of h...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

I come not to praise Claude but to bury....

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Eagle Lake, California Thinking, intelligence, and actions are morally irrelevant Claude, the Large Language Model (LLM) by the AI company A...