Archive - eigenrobot,s Blog

a postrationalist syllabus

an eternal golden post

Sep 12, 2023 •

November 2022

effective altruism and its future

Nov 17, 2022 •

October 2022

You Are Going to Fuck This Up

making personal decisions is an Impossible-tier task

Oct 11, 2022 •

September 2022

the map is of the territory

Introduction Over the past week or so, I’ve been turning over the relationships between a set of common, historically-recurring concepts dear to our…

Sep 28, 2022 •

June 2022

advice for academic refugees

Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia. Like many, he seemed wounded by the experience. This is his first…

Jun 23, 2022 •

April 2022

Tolerance is Nonbinary

Scott Alexander, in his celebrated post I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup, identified tolerance as “respect and kindness toward members of an…

Apr 16, 2022 •

January 2022

thoughts i had in the bath

Razib just did an E. O. Wilson retrospective podcast, it’s fantastic and worth listening to. As Tyler Cowen used to say, interesting throughout. One…

Jan 15, 2022 •

the numinous bureaucracy

our secret rulers

Jan 13, 2022 •

a story of inheritances

Jan 12, 2022 •

beefing by cutting the social mores of the regency era of britannia were no less subtle than our own. gentlemen of the era—different modes of social…

Jan 11, 2022 •

April 2021

walk backward into hell

I’m writing this because I want people to know that I am not dead (in fact I am fine, I just ate a plain hamburger bun). Because I am a Robot of Very…

Apr 18, 2021 •

February 2021

episode 11: eigenrobot vs sagar

too big to cancel

Feb 12, 2021 •

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