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To Die Happily Ever After

29 July, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 11 Comments

I'm apprehensive about transhumanism, and have no particular desire to live forever. A big part of the reason is that I believe happiness is precarious, and our chance at achieveing it in radically altered circumstances is not great. Read more (13 min, 2800 words).

Good vs. Good

25 June, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 16 Comments

I use a poor innocent guide book author as a target for complaining about empty consumerism, and explain why features of the Swedish language makes it slightly less unreasonable than it appears. Read more (6 min, 1500 words).

Leftovers from Last Time

22 May, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 17 Comments

I pick up and elaborate on some parts that were cut from my review of "The AI Does Not Hate You", including some riffing on mind dumps, weirdness, tensions between the rationalist community and polite society, my conservatism-free youth, the conservatism of Star Trek and my hopes for AI stagnation. Read more (17 min, 4300 words).

Review: The AI Does Not Hate You

20 March, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 6 Comments

I review Tom Chivers's book The AI Does Not Hate You, about AI risk, the rationalist community and his own process finding out whether he agrees with them. I note that I wanted to hear more about the last part, mostly because of how similar to the author I seem to be. Read more (16 min, 3900 words).

Picking Apart Eugenics

17 February, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 13 Comments

A quick-and-dirty piece on what the hell people mean by "eugenics", promted by the fallout from a tweet by Richard Dawkins. Read more(7 min, 1700 words).

It’s Not So Only

28 January, 202017 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 10 Comments

Are mental illnesses actual illnesses or are they unusual preferences? Or maybe this is a non-issue because it's only about words? Well, that's not so only. Read more (8 min, 1900 words).

The End of 2019

30 December, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 5 Comments

I try to sum up 2019, a year that started out well but took a weird turn about a third of the way through. Read more (6 min, 1400 words.)

Erisology, Round Three

22 November, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 1 Comment

Third attempt at a relatively user-friendly introduction to what "erisology" means. Read more (10 min, 2600 words).

Cat Couplings

30 October, 20196 May, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 15 Comments

"I prefer honest argumentation to dishonest rhetoric." Do I mean that rhetoric is essentially dishonest, or am I talking about the kind of rhetoric that's dishonest? That's a cat coupling. Read more (7 min, 1800 words).

Interpretation Matrix: Free Trade Benefits Everyone

12 September, 201917 January, 2022 ~ John Nerst ~ 8 Comments

Many disagreements are complicated by terms having several meanings. What if a claim is made up of more than one such term? How would we deal with that complexity? I look at an example about the benefits of free trade. Read more (7 min, 1800 words).

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