Nov 174 minGetting Better at CriticismLast week, I got to hear Wycliffe Gordon play Amazing Grace live. It was awesome. And then, he pulled out his mute. No recording’s gonna...
Sep 81 minGame Values vs. Real-Life ValuesMy friend Kjell and I noticed there just aren’t enough podcasts, so we decided to help. Our first episode takes an early look at some of...
Aug 254 minThe Politics of Age of Empires III’ve been playing a lot of Stellaris lately, but as a kid, the only computer game I really played much was Age of Empires II (AoE2, as in...
Aug 181 minI got PublishedNeat! You can check out a free version of my paper “Mutual Aid as Effective Altruism” here. (The final, professionally edited and typeset...
Jul 145 minTwilight Imperium and Instrumental ConvergenceI got to play Twilight Imperium last weekend and I was so powerful I didn’t know what to do. I like to describe Twilight Imperium as 8...
Jul 75 minWhy do (some) scientists hate philosophy?My concern here is that the philosophers believe they are actually asking deep questions about nature... It’s not that there can’t be...
Jun 234 minComplexity versus RichnessHere’s some chess jargon: pawns aren’t pieces. Your king, queen, rooks, bishops, and knights are all pieces. But your pawns are just...