July blogging
Iliad; Odyssey; Miéville; Okarafor; Switch games; persuasion. Read here .
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Tech, philosophy, book reviews, and other stuff.
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June blogging
Various reviews and an excessive amount of text about On What Matters volume 3. Read here .
May blogging
Brief travel notes; book and game reviews. Read here .
April blogging
Mostly book and game reviews. Read here .
March blogging
Some reviews and a hand-wavy thought on infinite ethics. Read here .
February blogging
Links; blather; reviews of a cozy game and a punishing game, a Holocaust novel, a lovecraftian sci-fi novel, an unpleasant romance(?) novel, a good dystopian sci-fi novel, an excellent time-travel show, an excellent time-travel movie, an overrated graphic novel, and a graphic novel I liked.
January blogging
Reviews of: a great new sci-fi novel, a classic historical murder mystery, a short book on normative realism, a geopolitics book I read for an upcoming meetup, a repetitive game, and a comic about college students.
a little about my 2025
Annual year-in-review.
December blogging
Thoughts on Pascal's Wager; reviews of books on AI, ethics, other stuff.
October blogging
Some reviews and short essays.
August blogging
Links, reviews, and miscellaneous writing.
On Huemer's argument that determinism is self-refuting
Michael Huemer really knows how to goad a reader into responding to his work.
Review of The Methods of Ethics
piano song: "hedonic expansion"
2024 retrospective
Reports on various aspects of my life in 2024.
Review of Limitarianism
...with detailed notes in the form of a slideshow.
Review of What We Owe to Each Other
...with detailed notes in the form of a slideshow.
OMSCS ✅
Reflections on finishing my master's degree
A disjointed account of my life in 2023
Like a holiday letter, but weird and inappropriately long!
2023 favorites
Some of the books, games, and music I enjoyed most in 2023.
Response to the objections to utilitarianism in Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals
Review of Utilitarianism: For & Against
Strange Loop 2023 highlights
Review of The Myth of Sisyphus
In defense of philosophy
Already so
Against utopianism
2022 navel-gazing
My holiday letter, only one month late!
Review-writing as note-taking
a post about why i wrote so many posts last year
review of Platonic
Review of Marisa G. Franco's book on friendship.
review of The Displaced
A book by and about refugees.
review of The Precipice
A book about existential risks.
review of Gambling on God
Focusing on essays about the many-gods objection and the role of infinities in decision theory.
review of Sitting Pretty
A book about disability and assumptions.
review of Better Never to Have Been
(I have a lot of issues with this book.)
Review of Pathological Altruism
2021: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There are cat pictures at the bottom.
Favorite books 2021
I read another 30,000 pages; some of them were worth it.
Please don't make me eat that
On suicidal thoughts
Some personal reflections on misery.
New piano song: "Sitcom Energy"
New piano song: "Diachronic Deliquium"
Is nonexistence good?
A response to David Benatar's argument as quoted in Suffering-Focused Ethics.
New piano song: "A Not Unwelcome Struggle"
2020: the story of my experiments with whatever
I really hope I never have cause to look back on this year with nostalgia. But it wasn't devoid of good.
Favorite books I read in 2020
At least 2020 didn't find a way to ruin reading (knocks on wood).
New piano song: "Capitulation"
New piano song: "Panglossian Chorus"
Recommended reading
A partial list of books, stories, articles, and courses that I've found particularly memorable or impactful.
Making backup validation easier
A couple strategies to make verifying backups easier.