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All the brains in one vat

The mental gymnastics injury theory

Glass minds in the glass palace

Steel-manning astrology / tarot

Winning the love game (against machines)

"Software" updates to the most important religious and political games

Is the future a male or female superorganism?

How to agree with atheists and believe in God at the same time

Why not write your manifesto?

Should you believe in God, and if so, which religion?

The human side of truth

The woman who shot Andy Warhol shares more in common with Christ's views than anybody would want to admit

29 Banger quotes from the SCUM manifesto

A story about god and coercion

Graded absolutism: the moral framework taught by Jesus, and you probably haven't heard of it

Is it that hard to start a university?

Did you do too much or not enough?

Superorganism

Axiomatic labs as a means of extracting the good out of the crazy

When and how to leave the comfort of the established

Could we make a more beautiful cathedral of glass, steel, and concrete?

Is the Bible really against suicide?

Monasteries as VCs for neurotic crazies

An axiomatic approach to hermeneutics

We don't understand God because we don't understand love, and vice versa

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Racism, Enlightenment, Evolution, and Christianity

Natural explanations for aura-sensing abilities

The physics of morality

Who gets Christ's wrath?

If you were betrayed with a kiss, would you notice?

Why aren’t people having kids?

Layering, commoditizing your compliment, the necessity of weakness, and the path to power

Axioms, frame control, and manipulation

Neither the racing mind nor the racing heart will save us

How I learned to write a lot

Who wins the war — Part II: Why did Christianity get so big, and why is it now failing?

Who wins the war — Part I

Is the rapper Future married to the wrong game?

The future (and even the present) is polygamous

How a double monastery can love the unlovable

Loving the unlovable

Literal heaven

Tower of Babel

Axioms and consequences

My best ideas this week

Can you contribute outside your area of expertise?

Conflicting axioms at the bottom of religion and government

A modular composed faith vs brittle and crystalline one

Should we add the Book of Enoch to the canon? Should we remove the book of Revelation?

Why does the West hate dragons while China nearly worships them?

Of course the right answer is to pull the lever, but why does it feel so wrong?

Posit: If you take an idea seriously enough, it will make you crazy

My best ideas this week

This week's untied thoughts

Magazine themes for a potential project about Game~B, existential risk, virtue, and religion

Christ, Martin Luther, Urbit, crypto, surveillance, and state power

How to build a religion

Game-B, Christianity, and why they're important in my romantic life

A reverie about what this blog is about and its purpose

My most interesting ideas from the last week

Design work on: Christian Mechanism

This week's untied thoughts

Insider optimization vs. outsider invention, and questions to ask of new ideas

Malthusian exploiters first take over institutions, then use them as weapons against society

To cure suicidal ideation, contemplate death, but better?

The desire to be a unique and special snowflake is…good?

What if men are, and women are made?

The culture war as an analogue to the enlightenment?

Are Roman gods just "types of guys"?

They're not using the malaria nets wrong

Did white tablecloths in restaurants disappear for the same reason that public executions have disappeared?

How I used my gut to make a mother’s day gift for my ex

You don’t really want answers

Against making friends and influencing people

The two killers of my writing are pride and fear

Will future universities will look more like dinner parties than classrooms?

It's not the animal that pulls the ox cart

Lilith's Escape

In what ways is your taste in art kiki and in what ways is it bouba?

Everything is about sex, even things that aren't about sex

Banger quotes from Feyerabend's Against Method

Against Method: Galileo didn't follow the scientific method and neither should you

When are you old enough to decide to go trans? A gentle critique of the left's position

Etiquette and rules of engagement for the intellectual vagabond

Approaching nutrition from first principles