Defender’s Corner
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Brent Dill - FAQ
Live document - currently being updated/shared internally. This is v1, as of May 15, 2026.
Brent Dill didn’t do anything wrong.
Well, ok, back up. Brent Dill did something wrong, obviously. Something happened that triggered...
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In May 2025, Piers Morgan hosted a debate between two scientists1 where one was engaging in good faith, and the other was not. I described it back then as:
[…] physicist Sean Carroll kept making a stupid curricular argument like "of cour...
IRL Anatomy of an Internet Argument
I’m checking out at Staples, an old woman skips the line.
🗂️ “Hey lady, you gotta wait back there!” says the checkout man.
👵 “I was here first!” says the lady.
🗂️ The man knows this is not the case - he points to me and says “the line...
Epistemic Fences - Theory & Practice
In What is an Epistemic Firewall? (Aug 2025), described the concept as a “[porous/selective] boundary in the flow of knowledge [at the end of the pipe, on the receiver side]”1.
An “epistemic fence” is the same thing (receiver side filter...
On the Origin of Lying
Today’s piece is part of a first series I wanted to do when I started this blog in 2024, where I identify my “formative memories”. These are memories that are emotionally salient, that I remember very vividly, and often exist on a “memory i...
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