Dimensionality
"So, an engineer and a mathematician are leaving a lecture. The engineer says, 'I just don't understand how you can visualize objects in seven-dimensional space.' The mathematician says, 'Oh, that's...
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"Empathy hurts. "I'm grateful for being fantastically, unimaginably rich by world-historical standards—and I'm terrified of it being taken away. I feel bad for all the creatures in the past—and...
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"Utilitarianism is slowly driving me mad." "Really?" "Okay, the part of me that talks wants to self-report that utilitarianism is slowly driving me mad, but what's actually happening is probably better...
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"Rational agents should never be made worse off by more information—well, almost never. So if I can no longer contemplate the big picture without life seeming like a bad thing—the fewer needs you have,...
View ArticleLyrics to the Song About Matt Reeves
Dead kid gets a bench Dead kid gets a memorial bench So now we all know his name Though we don't know who he is Class of nineteen ninety two Though he died in 'ninety one Was he a better friend than...
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"And you, you louse! How do you justify your existence?" "I tutor orphans." "Oh, yeah? What subject?" "Galois theory."
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"Hey, you know what's fun? Ranking people according to some criterion, and then making an ordered list!" "Like what?" "'Thinkers from my native subculture, ranked on a continuum from negative to...
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