Who Killed Common Law?
Who Killed Common Law?
Compass Rose
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Telescopes Need Good Lenses
Telescopes Need Good Lenses
The Corner-Stone
The Corner-Stone
Socrates is Mortal
Socrates is Mortal
Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?
Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?
Does Hebrew Have Verbs?
Does Hebrew Have Verbs?
Compradorization
Compradorization
Ideologies Embed Taboos Against Common Knowledge Formation: a Case Study with LLMs
Ideologies Embed Taboos Against Common Knowledge Formation: a Case Study with LLMs
Statisticism: How Cluster-Thinking About Data Creates Blind Spots
Statisticism: How Cluster-Thinking About Data Creates Blind Spots
Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?
Have Americans Become Less Violent Since 1980?
Is GDP a Kind of Factory?
Is GDP a Kind of Factory?
Steelmanning the Eruv
Steelmanning the Eruv
If there were no journalism, how would we find out?
If there were no journalism, how would we find out?
The Domestic Product
The Domestic Product
PTSD vs Moral Injury
PTSD vs Moral Injury
DOGE in context
DOGE in context
The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government
The Administrative Procedures Act Reconstituted the US Government
Si No Se Puede
Si No Se Puede
Predation as Payment for Criticism
Predation as Payment for Criticism
Ethical Veganism is Wrong
Ethical Veganism is Wrong
Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?
Can Techno-Saints help us cooperate with Cathars?
Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism
Marxism as Priestly Strategy, Communism as National Calvinism
The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic
The Drama of the Hegelian Dialectic
Parliamentary and Other Powers
Parliamentary and Other Powers
Levels of Republicanism
Levels of Republicanism
Systems of Bullshit Work
Systems of Bullshit Work
Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency
Calvinism as a Theory of Recovered High-Trust Agency
LLMs for language learning
LLMs for language learning
Gentrification and Nationalism
Gentrification and Nationalism
Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation
Discursive Warfare and Faction Formation
Why I am no longer anti-Trump
Why I am no longer anti-Trump
Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir
Happy Birthday to My Firstborn Baby Boy: A Memoir
Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library
Some casual thoughts on forming an educational library
There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.
There seems to be a market failure in cultivating children's agency.
What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.
What is a republic? A Roman aristocratic perspective.
Guilt, Shame, and Depravity
Guilt, Shame, and Depravity
It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.
It is immoral to condemn the player but decline to investigate the game.
Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.
Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.
Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics
Parkinson's Law and the Ideology of Statistics
Preference Inversion
Preference Inversion
The Debtors' Revolt
The Debtors' Revolt
How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers
How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers
Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X
Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X
Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis
Ivermectin Looks Good for COVID-19 Prophylaxis
Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva
Dr Fauci as Machiavellian Boddhisattva
Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?
Should I Double Dip on Vaccines?
Normies vs Statistical Normality
Normies vs Statistical Normality
Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama
Debt, Submission, and a Technical Definition of Drama
Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment
Moral Mazes as Transformative Treatment
Suffering as Cybernetic Failure
Suffering as Cybernetic Failure