deep Free Will Free will is a contradiction in itself, your will is only yours in so far as it is predictable.
psychology Aphantasia Aphants are those who have Aphantasia. They have mindblindness. They can't visualize, their way of imagining is closer to conceptualizing. Are you a aphant? let's find out.
book review Ze Tian Ji Ze Tian Ji is a brilliant Chinese novel. In this post I talk about the themes that the novel touches on and present my fav excerpts.
explainer Lies Lying can be ordered on the scale of morality - White lies, lies to protect privacy, redirecting conversation topics, learning in a biased way to reinforce beliefs, lying by omission, misrepresentation, falsehoods. That's how I see the spectrum.
philosophy Tradeoffs Broadly there seem to be patterns of dependence between concepts which I try to explore.
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.
philosophy Those who can't, teach What did Bernard mean when he said “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches", I would like to believe it was said in a plaintive tone.
book review The Fifth Science "The Fifth Science" is a collection of 12 stories. This is my review of the book where I try to highlight my main takeaways.