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A few rough, random and spicy thoughts on crime, justice and justice systems that I've been chewing over
Even bad people need friends
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Goodbye [A short story]
Introduction: A while ago when I wrote my article on soulmates, I said I was “feeling romantic, and it was either this or write the cringiest imaginable…
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Understanding Luigi Mangione
What I can glean and guess at
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Violence and legitimacy: The assassination of Brian Thompson
Brian Thompson, a health insurance CEO was shot and killed in New York on the 4th of December.
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“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds" - On the naturalistic possibility of soulmates
Towards an analytic philosophy of soulmates
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Of olfactory ethics and oaf-factory hysterics.
Save me from halfwits crying "midwit"
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November 2024

AI makes scientists more productive and less happy
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
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Scott Alexander's "Prison And Crime: Much More Than You Wanted To Know": My Thoughts
I spend many hours a week on this blog and do not charge for its content except through voluntary donations.
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Digital poets
Recently Scott ran an experiment in which people had to try and guess whether or not specific artworks were human or AI.
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I have a question for those supporting Israel's actions (Revisited)
(Some context: This is part of my revisited series, where I go back over stuff I have previously written, add to it, clarify it, and make changes in…
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There are questions about our feelings not even God could determine
I met a guy once.
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Compassion ceilings
Due to the social roles assigned to them, some critically important jobs ‘cap’ the compassion that those who hold them can possess, and this is…
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