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Why be good?
There’s an old internet quote originally by Lauren Morrill: “I don’t know how to explain that you should care about other people.” I want to give a…
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Iceland, murder and eugenics: A brief response to Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification
A new(ish) argumentative line on crime has become popular: The reason people are civilized now is because during the period 1000 to 1800, 1%-2% of the…
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The channel (a teaser)
A tall, slender, pale, and blond man sits next to a short, barrel-chested, and olive-skinned man with dark hair in ringlets, almost dreadlocks.
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Forgiving everyone everywhere for everything they've done to you, or will do, or might have done
Occasionally, I publish bits and pieces that I had been planning on publishing in a journal before I left academia.
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The standard in poetry is that you have to try to write poetry
I’m caught between two feelings on poetry, which appear contradictory.
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Don't mess with the Zohran
A scandal of admission, admissions, omissions but fortunately no emissions
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June 2025

No War Bot project- looking for a reader who would like to collaborate
I’m looking for a reader interested in helping me build the following.
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A 2x2 matrix theory of personal survival over time (revisited)
Years ago, I published: Carving up the philosophical terrain around personal identity a little differently.
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The soul of an anti-woke intellectual: Jamie Q. Roberts
Who are you, Jamie?
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Reflections on studying Large Language Models
I wanted to give some methodological reflections on studying Large Language Models- not studying how to make them or improve them, but studying how they…
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Hydra
A small sketch of a vital problem, and a brief gesture at a possible solution
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Why the left is right
A philosophical defence of modern partisanship
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