Essays and fiction on human cognition, rationality, and social dynamics. Previous work findable at: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/deactivated-duncan-sabien https://medium.com/@ThingMaker https://archiveofourown.org/users/WhatWouldEnderDo/works
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Optimization is often immoral.
If you run a business like a grocery store or a small restaurant, you often can find people who will work for less and less and less money, trading on the desperation of the poor and downtrodden. You’ve got a guy stocking your shelves for $...
The Road to Hell
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One of my pet projects that I probably won’t manage to finish before Silicon Valley kills us all is a little book that teaches a bunch of concepts from the made-up culture of the made-up land of Agor (the home culture of Duncan and t...
Is it more unusual to have written a book, or to have killed someone?
I.
In 2010, Google tried to estimate how many books there are in the world (i.e. unique strings of words and pictures, not individual physical objects), and came up with an estimate of 130 million.
UNESCO estimates that, these days, a...
Panic and Precedent
It’s a pretty well-established fact that intermittent reinforcement—
(Where you reward some behavior sporadically rather than literally every time.)
—produces a stronger training effect than consistent reinforcement.
This is at least in...
Culture is Endothermic
If you have an ice cube sitting in a cup in a room at room temperature, the ice will melt.
You can in fact keep the ice cube an ice cube, if you do something like “blast it constantly with very cold air.”
You can also keep the ice cube an...
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