deep Goodhart's law Goodhart's law says "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" This idea is pervasive across society where you apply pressure on measures for control purposes. I explain how.
deep Featured Abstraction What is an abstraction? a concept? a process? a class? Why is it a powerful idea and how pervasive is it in our lives? I hope to try and provide some food for thought.
book review Axiomatic Axiomatic is a collection of 18 short stories written by Greg Egan between 1989 and 1992. I highly recommend this for any fan of the hard sci fi genre.