“When disagreements persist despite lengthy good-faith communication, it may not just be about factual disagreements – it could be due to people operating in entirely different frames — different ways of seeing, thinking and/or communicating.”

or: Co-Star, rendered intelligible for the rationalist

“Why are we talking about hatred? It's epiphenomenal.” —Aimee Terese

causal modeling and thick description

tell me about it

or: a dematerialized economy marketizes personality disorders, interesting power agglomerations ensue. A world in microcosm.

genetic isolation intensifies genetic drift. a higher quantity of small, genetically isolated populations may be more likely than fewer non-isolated ones to produce intellectual revolutions.

or: “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

or: against compulsive demands for coherence

or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the fake news