Mapping my uncertainties (April 2026)
The scout mindset emphasizes curiosity, unbiased truth-seeking, and facing reality, even if that reality is unexpected. Galef contrasts this with a "soldier mindset", which she says is a natural tendency to use motivated reasoning to defend…
Mapping my uncertainties (March 2025)
When laid up with a minor problem, what do you do? I try to preserve rationality and reason my way out. I try to account for uncertainties. When each variable becomes clearer, so does the path to what I want. But sometimes, the variables ne…
BD+ was the most sophisticated optical-disc DRM ever deployed. SlySoft broke it anyway.
Gene therapy can now restore hearing in children born deaf — what does this mean for Deaf identity and the languages we pass on or lose?
from a conversation over hotpot about why some people are so corporate-pilled...
The last 3 years of my Spotify listening, visualized
to Kru Than, my guitar teacher
Ramblings from the plane
Diary entry from the plane
I explore whether gene-edited malaria-resistant mosquitoes can be an effective method to control malaria