What embryo selection can’t do (yet)
Embryo selection has been in the news lately. I wanted to unpack what we can and can’t do with it today, which I hope will provide a more grounded foundation for discussing its ethics.
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Musings about living life online. Essays sent when I have something to say (usually every couple months).
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Playing tai chi with memetic warfare
I was motivated to write Antimemetics in part because I felt dissatisfied with how we’ve unthinkingly glommed onto memetic warfare as a terminal explanation for why people do what they do.
All the things I've been doing lately
POV: You're a guest at a house party filled with Nadias
Introducing: Antimemetics (my new book!)
It's easier than ever to share ideas.
New report: How altered states shape our minds
When I first pitched a magazine piece about a meditation subculture surrounding the jhanas at the beginning of this year, there hadn’t been any media coverage of the practice yet.
Protecting our attention
I was rather confused when sociologist Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, came out earlier this year, which examines the harmful effects of phone and social media use among children and teenagers.
What is meditation for?
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Dangerous protocols
After the early crypto boom of 2017, I spent a few years dabbling at its edges.
Exploring altered states of consciousness
When researchers were trying to understand the effects of LSD in the early 1960s, a team in Toronto strapped and blindfolded their subjects in sterile rooms before administering a dose and walking away.
Why effective accelerationism matters
Nearly a year ago, an editor reached out to me about writing a piece on effective accelerationism, or e/acc.