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.