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Book Review: Too Like the Lightning

Ada Palmer's novel made me study the French enlightenment, sympathize with Trump voters, and write my first book review.

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Book Reviews: Zoolitude and the Void

How to deal with a world gone crazy? Triple book review of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Zoo City, and The Mark and the Void.

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Scientist Fiction

Annihilation and Three-Body Problem are two novels that focus on scientist characters, but give radically different answers to "what makes a scientist?" One fictional scientist made me frustrated, and...

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Sex, Lies, and Dexamethasone

A review of Galileo's Middle Finger: a flawed book, a fascinating memoir, and an important manual on defense against the Dark Arts.

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The State of Affairs

A book about rethinking infidelity offers an opportunity to rethink modern marriage and the paradox at the heart of it.

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PlayStation Odysseys

Three millennia apart, the greatest works of narrative art are dominated by the character of the antihero father. Why are Odysseuses so compelling?

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The Player Character

Video games are a massively popular story art form, but there is little good writing about them online. Well, here's some writing about video games and the stories they tell.

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The Origin of Consciousness Reading Companion Part 1

Summary of the book club discussion and my many thoughts on the first part of Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind".

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Sex, Lies, and Canaanites

Hunting for subjective consciousness in the Old Testament.

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LessWrong Best of 2018 – Epistemology

Review of the LessWrong 2018 essay collection on epistemology, from how it smells to what it says about the state of the Rationality community in 2020.

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What’s Not Our Problem

A review of what is in Tim Urban's book on politics, and what very conspicuously isn't.

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Seth Explains Consciousness

Philosophers have long explained why science could never explain consciousness. Thankfully, science didn't listen.

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